Alumni and friends

Welcome to your alumni community!

The Faculty of Health is proud of its growing community of alumni, living and making a difference in countries around the world. We are proud of the innovative and inspiring impact you are making to protect and improve health and quality of life for future generations.

17,000+ Faculty of Health alumni

50 countries that Faculty of Health alumni are working in

Events

Connect and engage

We value your involvement as alumni. Whether volunteering, attending events or hiring a co-op student, there are many ways our alumni can connect and engage:

Hire a student
Attend a Faculty alumni event
Become a guest speaker to an alumni or student audience
Refer an outstanding high school student to one of Waterloo's undergraduate programs
Join the Waterloo Alumni E-community
Learn about graduate studies in the Faculty of Health

Cover page of Health Hub 2024, "Preventive health futures", featuring a hand holding an apple with science symbols in the background.

Health Hub 2024 - Alumni Magazine

Read about preventive health futures in the latest issue of our alumni magazine. The Health Hub magazine is published every spring and fall and dedicated to sharing the latest updates about students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Faculty of Health. See past issues of Health Hub (formerly News to You).

Support student learning and research

As a leader in developing strategies that improve well-being across the life course, the Faculty of Health is committed to improving the quality of life for individuals and communities through innovative education and research activities. Please consider supporting the Faculty of Health through one of our priority programs.

Student volunteer helping community member exercise in a gym.

Centre for Community, Clinical and Applied Research Excellence

The Centre for Community, Clinical and Applied Research Excellence (CCCARE) strives to promote health in the community using advanced technology, progressive research and educational events. By supporting CCCARE, you contribute to programs that provide things such as specialized fitness testing and training for those who have received a diagnosis of cancer or motivating and educating clinically obese teens to embrace healthy active lifestyles.

Two women talking to a child colouring at an RLS community event.

Student scholarships and experiential learning

By supporting student scholarships, you help ensure that undergraduate students have adequate financial assistance for their studies, and leverage provincial matching programs to support our graduate students. Our new Student Experiential Learning Fund enables students to gain knowledge and skills through extracurricular opportunities and work experiences with registered charities, not-for-profit organizations, start-ups and other corporations.