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  • March 11, 2024

    March 11, 2024

    FHS Associate Professor João Luiz Bastos and colleagues have won an award for an investigation which demonstrated that access to oral health care in some US states are impacted by social determinants of health, such as racism, sexism, and classism, in addition to individual factors.

  • February 26, 2024

    February 26, 2024

    Alice Mũthoni Mũrage is a PhD candidate with the Faculty of Health Sciences, a Research Fellow with the Pacific Institute of Pathogens, Pandemics and Society (PIPPS) and a Dialogue Associate at SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. She is also the Director of the African Ancestry Project, which she initiated in partnership with the BC Black History Awareness Society in 2020.

  • February 11, 2024

    February 11, 2024

    February 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Sciences. We spoke to 5 women in our Faculty to get their perspectives on two questions.

Featured alumni

I moderated a panel on behalf of youths, spoke with UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, on the subject of global health crises.

Nicola Toffelmire, MPH

Read more about how Nicola’s studies prepared her for a new role at the World Health Organization.

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