New research shows it is vital to consider pre-existing mental health issues when determining how to treat substance abuse among young people with a chronic physical illness.
What is the mental toll of asking players and staff in major league sports to risk their lives for our entertainment?
Congratulations to Chris Vigna from the Department of Kinesiology for receiving the 2020 Applied Health Sciences (AHS) Teaching Award. He is described as "an enthusiastic, engaging instructor.
A research team led by Ellen MacEachen in the School of Public Health and Health Systems has received COVID-19 Rapid Research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) so they can investigate the role of disease transmission in the gig economy, and how to protect these workers.
Kimberly Lopez, a professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, has received the 2020 Emerging Scholar Award from the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies (CALS).
Congratulations to the more than 450 graduating students of the Class of Spring 2020! The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences is celebrating with you today, our convocation day, and wish you the best in all your future endeavours.
We’ve asked Professor Zahid Butt to help us understand stage 2 re-opening in Ontario: what’s open, what’s closed and why.
You could be forgiven for not knowing where, exactly, we are with guidance on whether to wear a mask in public or not.
The events of the last two weeks have brought to the foreground issues of racism against Black people in a way that we don’t always see. As a Faculty, we have begun to reflect on our own actions, inactions and systemic biases. We acknowledge that we come up short and that we desire to do better. In Applied Health Sciences, we are committed to recognizing and respecting lived experiences and we continue to work toward a world where equity, diversity and inclusion are the norm. Our Faculty prides itself for being ‘people people,’ and we take this commitment to heart.
Faculty members in the Faculty of Health have been commenting on various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.