2017 News

20 health sciences students travelled to Durban, South Africa where they spent two weeks with leading HIV researchers, clinicians and advocates at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine.

Health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health that has released a report detailing the adverse effects of pollution on global health.

SFU health sciences alumnus Zakary Zawaduk is immersed in developing policies that address Vancouver’s overdose crisis, one of B.C.’s highest-profile health epidemics.

Health sciences student Nicola Toffelmire graduates on Oct. 5 not only with a Master of Public Health, but with the title of Canada’s Youth Delegate to the World Health Assembly (WHA) and a completed internship with the World Health Organization (WHO).

The Elder-Youth Dialogue, hosted by the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health (IAPH) at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was held during March 12-15, 2017, on the unceded and traditional territories of the Algonquin Peoples.

A recent study led by SFU health sciences PhD candidate Krystyna Adams suggests that dental tourism industry practices in Los Algodones, Mexico—a medical border town—reinforce structural injustices and exploitation.

A follow-up report by CAREX (CARcinogen EXposure) Canada reveals radon testing varies greatly across public schools in Canada.

A new paper by health sciences PhD candidate Allison Carter analyzing research on women living with HIV finds women's sexual wellbeing and rights are overlooked.

A study by health sciences PhD student Milad Parpouchi found low adherence to methadone treatment among homeless people with mental illness and opioid addiction.

Researchers are closer to developing an HIV vaccine by unlocking a key molecule responsible for developing antibodies.