2024 News

Eight FHS undergraduate students are recipients of the 2024 FHS Undergraduate Awards.

FHS student Chloe Goodison joined the Entrepreneurship Co-op program to expand the reach of her non-profit society, NaloxHome, into different communities throughout BC.

FHS students Maggie Duncan, Tara Erb, Aayush Sharma and Judy Wu received key funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) that supports their graduate research projects

A new research group based at SFU has received a major funding grant totalling $14.6 million to help support public confidence in and access to vaccines, in preparation for future pandemics.

SFU faculty - including FHS members Senior Lecturer Mark Lechner, Professor Nicole Berry, and Director of Undergraduate Programs and Senior Lecturer Nienke Van Houten - discuss their experiences with Healing From Racism Journey, a program that supports self-research, growth and the development of anti-racist teaching practices

Participants build DIY air filters at a recent workshop at Century House in New Westminster.

FHS PhD candidate Amanda Rowlands won the Phyllis Eveleth Award for outstanding poster presentation at the recent 2024 meeting of the Human Biology Association in Los Angeles

FHS PhD candidate Aniqa Shahid was named the top young HIV basic sciences researcher in Canada by the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) at their 33rd annual conference in London, ON

FHS professor Meghan Winters and her REsearch and ACtion for Healthy Cities (REACH-Cities) team consulted with more than 100 Surrey, BC residents during the summer of 2023 to discuss whether 15 minute neighbourhoods would be desirable and functional.

FHS PhD candidate Marina Khonina (they/them) shares why active allyship is pivotal in creating healthy and safe communities for all, and calls on researchers to meaningfully include trans and gender expansive populations in their work