2020 News

Learn more about the latest COVID-19 updates relating to FHS.

We want to wish everyone in the FHS community a safe and happy holiday season!

Masahiro Niikura and Ralph Pantophlet’s COVID-19 projects have both received significant funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s $28 million support fund.

MPH student Manvir Aujla was awarded a bursary to assist him in his public health post-graduate studies.

With help from Movember, a three-year research project with the DUDES Club demonstrated how a grassroots initiative could be mobilized to work by, for and with Indigenous men.

Dr. Zarghoona Wakil, MPH alumnus and internationally trained medical doctor, has received the 2020 Service Recognition Staff Award from AMSSA.

COVID-19 will have significant mental health consequences for B.C. children and youth, a report by SFU's Children’s Health Policy Centre finds.

FHS PhD students Natalie Kinloch and Aniqa Shahid assessed whether rotation of the nasopharyngeal swab improved the quality of the specimen collected.

FHS associate professor Meghan Winters has received the CIHR Trailblazer Award, recognizing her exceptional leadership, mentorship and innovative contributions in the field of population health.

The BC Healthy Connections Project is being led by SFU’s Children’s Health Policy Centre, which is directed by FHS professor Charlotte Waddell and Mowafaghian University Research Associate Nicole Catherine.