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FHS professor Meghan Winters and her REsearch and ACtion for Healthy Cities (REACH-Cities) team consulted with more than 100 Surrey, BC residents during the summer of 2023 to discuss whether 15 minute neighbourhoods would be desirable and functional.

FHS PhD candidate Marina Khonina (they/them) shares why active allyship is pivotal in creating healthy and safe communities for all, and calls on researchers to meaningfully include trans and gender expansive populations in their work

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.

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

FHS Assistant Professor Kimberly Thomson's research focuses on children and youth because it’s one of the earliest opportunities practitioners and policy makers have to address problems and promote mental health and well-being throughout the life of the individual.

For World Cancer Day, FHS PhD candidate Whitney Qualls explains why investigating the differential impacts of cancer on LGBQ and adolescent/young adult people is necessary and urgent

A new study finds that depression-attributable costs paid by patients and their families are between two and 15 times greater than those covered by the health system alone.

The research work of Leslie Diamond Chair in Cancer Survivorship and FHS professor Stuart Peacock is helping cancer survivors thrive and enjoy their healthiest possible lives