2023 News

Natalie Kinloch, a new PhD alumnus, was awarded the 2023 Governor General's Gold Medal, an annual award that recognizes graduating students that have accomplished outstanding academic achievement.

FHS undergraduates Christina Lam and Raven Gonzales created Let’s Be Real, a peer-based program that helps youth connect with themselves, their peers, and the world in authentic ways.

Master of Public Health graduand Logan Burd reflects on how her graduate program provided her with an opportunity to engage with her Métis identity and culture.

“Community grounds us and allows us to find commonality among our unique journeys of life,” says Bachelor of Sciences graduand Precious Akindele, who has been a leader for community engagement opportunities at SFU.

SFU students and friends Muskan Jammu, Ritu Mehra, and Harbir Dhaliwal won a $2,000 grant in the Student-Community Engagement Competition and will be using it to address food security and improve nutritional education in their "Let's Do Breakfast" program for elementary students. Background photo: Freepik

In a new report, Faculty of Health Sciences assistant professor Dr. Hasina Samji and BC UBC Psychiatry professor Dr. Evelyn Stewart are calling for better coordination of BC youth mental health education and prevention resources.

The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health will officially open its Vancouver office on May 2, 2023. The event will be livestreamed on Facebook.

Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions funds multi-partner research to create resilience, reduce emissions and lessen climate impacts.

Investigators from the CHATR Lab at Faculty of Health Sciences have created Canada's first national dataset for bicycling infrastructure. The interactive dataset uses OpenStreetMap to document safety and comfort structures that meet CanBICS standards

FHS BSc first year student Puneet Chhina (second from left, inset) and her Finding Present team co-leads (left to right, inset) Anisha Biswas, Catherine Wong, and SFU Geography student Gabrielle Wong - won a $2,000 grant in the 2022 SFU Student-Community Engagement Competition. The team aims to host Crafting Circles for Langley, BC youth to provide access to art and mentorship, and build community and relationships.

Faculty of Health Sciences student Morgan Karugaba shares his experience for students striving to take the lead in a self-directed Co-op.

Zabrina Brumme, FHS professor and laboratory director for the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, has won the 2023 Excellence in Research Award (Basic Sciences category) from the Canadian Association for HIV Research

Martha Gumprich (left inset) and Nicola Hare (right inset) from Kootenays-based health and community group, Trans Connect, will host two discussions to ask trans and non-binary youth what changes would help make sport more welcoming

SFU conferred the Staff Award for Work Performance on Health Sciences public health programs coordinator Kate Carty in recognition of her tremendous work in navigating FHS through its latest CEPH accreditation cycle, and for her tireless support of the MPH practicum placement process

Team BLUEPRINT, consisting of a group of MPH students, were crowned the champions of the World Evaluation Case Competition.

FHS PhD candidate Alice Mũrage, was awarded the SFU CERi Community-Engaged Partnership Award for her work on the African Ancestry Project, an initiative that is raising awareness of the diversity of Black people in BC

In an era of fake news, misinformation and conspiracy theories, people need trust-worthy, informed and accurate news more than ever. The latest recipients of SFU’s annual Newsmaker awards have been selected for their significant achievements in informing media stories and online communities on a diversity of topics, from humanitarian issues and pandemic restrictions, to building better societies, and for strategic approach to communications.

We interviewed Sarah Chae to learn more about her Co-op journey.

FHS MSc student Anna Appah’s study comprehensively looked at Ghana’s HIV subtype diversity, drug resistance and coreceptor usage.

Judy Wu, a first year FHS PhD candidate, won the Best Podium Presentation Award at a recent symposium for her project "Climate concern, climate anxiety, and eco-anxiety in BC youth: Findings from the Youth Development Instrument (YDI)”

Drs. Darshini Darshini Govindasamy, Angela Kaida, and Nwabisa Shai received Canadian funding to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health, social and economic well-being of South African children and adolescents living with HIV and their unpaid caregivers

The SFU-led Mental Health Climate Change Alliance will be hosting an online conference February 2-3, 2023 to discuss best pathways to take when identifying and addressing mental health impacts of climate change.

FHS professor Scott Lear says those who are most likely to walk more than 150 minutes a week for commuting or leisure purposes reported their neighbourhoods had more desirable features.

Researchers from Simon Fraser University will play a key role in a major initiative aimed addressing biodiversity and health issues through an Indigenous lens.