Since graduating in 1982, Environmental Studies alumna Toby Jenkins’ distinguished career has included urban planning, banking, and real-estate development, along with dedicated volunteer governance work in the not-for-profit sector.
In 2006 she developed a multi-tenant professional-services building in the David Johnston Research & Technology Park, and in 2012 she and husband Tom (currently serving as our 10th Chancellor) gifted the building to the University. Since then it has provided much-needed space for our growing Faculty.
Today, thanks to the Jenkins’ generosity, projects including the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, the International Tobacco Control Group, and the new Centre for Community, Clinical and Applied Research Excellence (CCCARE) have permanent homes with the space and support needed to expand their work.
To honour this act of generosity, the building has been renamed the Toby Jenkins Applied Health Research Building.
“Toby’s demonstrated commitment to the areas of health and well-being, including championing innovation as critical to the very sustainability of the health and health system of Canadians, makes me pleased to officially enter her name as part of the Applied Health Sciences (AHS) story through the naming of this building,” says AHS Dean James Rush.
