2026 News

Faculty of Health Sciences researchers Drs. Naomi Maldonado-Rodriguez and Amanda Rowlands each received a Postdoctoral Fellowship award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

FHS Postdoctoral Fellow Callista Ottoni Health Systems Impact (HSI) fellowship is enabling her to support Vancouver Coastal Health's Healthy Environments and Climate Change (VCH HECC) team in their efforts to improve climate change-related health outcomes for older adults.

Marie-Françoise Malo, a PhD candidate in bioethics in a joint program between Simon Fraser University and Université de Montréal.

FHS alumnus and PhD student Anmol Swaich has won a Vanier Graduate Scholarship, one of Canada's top doctoral studies awards. She will be exploring how immigration policies and labour conditions shape unregulated drug use amongst South Asian men working in trades.

New PhD alumnus Josh Alampi received the Dean of Graduate studies Convocation Medal, an annual award recognizing graduate students who achieve the highest level of academic excellence in their graduate program.

Seven FHS undergrads are recipients of the 2026 FHS Undergraduate Awards.

New BSc alumnus Kirstin Abigail Heath received the Dean's Convocation Medal, an annual award recognizing graduating students that have accomplished outstanding academic achievements.

FHS graduand Sarah Munoz-Violant blended hands-on community work and academic research during her MSc degree to help address structural gaps in the system of care for Vancouver's Downtown East Side residents

“My career counsellor told me: ‘Other programs might focus on treating the person who fell into the river, but Health Sciences will give you the skills to build a stronger bridge that doesn’t let anyone else fall into the river’, and I can confidently say that this is exactly what I got out of my BSc." - Bachelor of Sciences graduand Chloe Goodison

Farhang Ahadzadeh, a Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) Master of Public Health (MPH) graduand, shares that his educational and professional journey has been driven by a single, enduring curiosity: how do system-level interactions, both at the micro and macro scale, shape human health?