Health Officers Council and SPPH hold joint Awards Reception to honour public health professionals
On October 19, 2022, the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) co-hosted an awards evening with the Health Officers Council of British Columbia. The reception celebrated the extraordinary work by public health professionals in BC and showcased some pertinent research conducted by newer SPPH faculty members. Over 50 Health Officers Council members and SPPH […]
Cascadia 2023 – Call for Abstracts and Registration Now Open
The Annual Cascadia Symposium on Environmental, Occupational, and Population Health will re-launch January 5-6, 2023 at the Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, WA. The conference will feature four cross-institution, cross-disciplinary themes (precarious work & work organization, climate change, wildfires, and the built environment) as well as presentations from across the fields of environmental, occupational, and population […]
Dr. Aslam Anis receives Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Researcher Award
The School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) is pleased to support such engagement with the initiation of the planning, consultation and approval process of a new and unique curriculum in Global Health.
Professors call for more research into climate-change related threats to civilization
An opinion piece published today in the Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences, urgently calls for more research into the specific pathways by which civilization could potentially collapse due to climate change. “Scientists have warned that climate change threatens the habitability of large regions of […]
2022 Faculty of Medicine Awards
The School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) is pleased to support such engagement with the initiation of the planning, consultation and approval process of a new and unique curriculum in Global Health.