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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.

Oluwakemi (Kemi) Amodu is dedicated to advancing the reproductive and sexual health of the Hausa women in displaced persons camps in northern Nigeria. After devoting her doctoral research to revealing the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among this population, she has now built on that research as an inaugural recipient of the AMTD Waterloo Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Understanding the ways in which workers in precarious employment react to work injury and claims processes they see as unfair can help employers, legal representatives, physicians and others respond appropriately, according to a new study.

Ron Schlegel, a former health studies professor, is one of two new Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) elected from the University of Waterloo. CAHS brings together Canada’s top-ranked health and biomedical scientists and scholars to make a positive impact on the urgent health concerns of Canadians.