2023 News

A study led by SFU researcher and FHS alum Martha Gumprich - in partnership with community organization ANKORS Trans Connect - has found that only 11 per cent of non-binary youth currently participate in team sports. The report recommends solutions to make sports more inclusive for non-binary youth

Stephanie Cleland is interested in how environmental exposures to climate change-related elements - like wildfire smoke - impact human health outcomes, and uses large data sets in creative, integrated ways to find evidence of linkages

Co-operative Education students, Jenny Huang (far left), Prem Gundarah (center), and Tatiana Parrish (far right) supported research lead and FHS associate professor of professional practice Anne-Marie Nicol's (right) indoor air quality knowledge translation project with the Pacific Institute of Pathogens, Pandemics and Society (PIPPS)

First Nations Health Authority Deputy Chief Medical Health Officer and FHS Adjunct Professor Dr. Evan Adams has been appointed as the Acting Associate Dean of Indigenous Health for SFU's forthcoming medical school

Michael Smith Health Research BC announced that FHS postdoctoral fellows, Francis Mwimanzi and Sian Tsuei, were selected to receive Research Trainee awards in 2023. Photos: Blausen Medical; DCStudio.

FHS PhD alumnus, Kate Hosford (center), is shown receiving her award for Best Paper in the Transportation, Land Use and Sustainability topic area at the 2023 gathering of the World Conference on Transportation Research.

FHS assistant professor Chris Buse and PIPPS university research associate Kaylee Byers will be able to pursue projects involving planetary health (Buse) and One Health (Byers) thanks to funding support from Michael Smith Health Resarch BC

The Royal Society of Canada has announced that it is inducting FHS professor Bohdan Nosyk to its College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2023

The Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance held by Faculty of Health Sciences professor Kelley Lee has been renewed for a second seven-year term. Background image: pikisuperstar

FHS assistant professor Krista Stelkia is leading a study to Indigenize health research ethics by co-creating "wise practices" and distinctions-based protocols in BC