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) is a team of researchers, certified exercise specialists, clinical experts, graduate students and staff that strive to improve the health of individuals in the community through advanced research, educational opportunities, and progressive outreach programs. We offer programs that help people optimize their health, including those who are:

Being treated for, or recovered from cancer with out UW WELL_FIT cancer exercise programs, including START-FIT, or STAY-FIT
Living with the effects of stroke with our STEPS program
Experiencing a form of dementia or mild cognitive impairment and their care partners with our Brain and Body program

Researcher places a head gear eye-tracking camera on a research subject.

Healthy Waterloo Initiative

Through the exciting Healthy Waterloo initiative, the Faculty of Health will turn the University of Waterloo campus community into a living lab and harness our extensive expertise to explore how to measure, implement and sustain real-world solutions that transform health and well-being.

This world-class "lab" will look to develop and scale proven innovations for measuring and monitoring health markers, test solutions that improve physical and mental health and be a hub for health data, pairing technology with AI to gain insights into community health while maintaining privacy.

This scalable initiative will allow us to create a future where health doesn't start at the hospital door, but starts in our homes, our schools, our workplaces and our communities - inspiring a healthier world.