Health Studies student Rachel Almaw was selected as the Faculty of Health's 2022 Co-op Student of the Year.
Long COVID is associated with reduced brain oxygen levels, worse performance on cognitive tests and increased psychiatric symptoms such as depression and anxiety, according to new research studying the impacts of the disease.
Three Faculty of Health researchers have received grants from the newly created Graham Seed Fund: Dean Lili Liu and Charity Oga-Omenka from Public Health Sciences and Monica Maly from Kinesiology and Health Sciences.
See how researchers in the Faculty of Health tackle problems and create impact in areas such as health technology, aging, brain and body, mental health, environment and communities writ large. Health in 3D is a research impact report that showcases how the Faculty's three academic units work to address physical, mental and social well-being.
Dr. Nikolas Knowles, a researcher in Kinesiology and Health Sciences, is studying a new imaging technology to assess shoulder osteoarthritis.
A University of Waterloo teaching lab is helping the medtech community in southwestern Ontario make great strides in their medical research. The Faculty of Health’s Human Anatomy Laboratory, which is housed in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, offers the perfect location for surgeons to test procedures on cadaver donors.
Engineering and Health experts at the University of Waterloo are collaborating on research that may lead to breakthroughs in preventing a serious, all-too-common injury — broken bones.
High-school students who have a large weekly allowance, friends who smoke and low levels of physical activity are more likely to use multiple substances over time. Conversely, being older, being black and eating breakfast daily were factors associated with a smaller chance of transitioning to multiple use.
Three researchers affiliated with the School of Public Health Sciences – Sharon Kirkpatrick, David Hammond and Geoffrey Fong (cross-appointed from Psychology) – made the
Lora Giangregorio, a researcher in Kinesiology and Health Sciences, has been renewed as Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging. Giangregorio’s research on safe and effective exercises for older adults and on working with health-care providers to give valuable exercise advice has benefitted older adults across Canada.