This page serves to recognize some of the extraordinary achievements by our Health faculty members.
For more information about award opportunities specific to Health faculty members, please visit External award opportunities for faculty.
National - Canada Research Chairs
Chair holders improve our depth of knowledge and quality of life, strengthen Canada's international competitiveness, and help train the next generation of highly skilled people through student supervision, teaching, and the coordination of other researchers' work.
Current
Zahid Butt - Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Research for Pandemic Preparedness
Jack P. Callaghan - Canada Research Chair in Spine Biomechanics and Injury Prevention
Clark Dickerson - Canada Research Chair in Shoulder Mechanics
Mark Ferro - Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health
Hannah Neufeld - Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health, Wellbeing and Food Environments
Ken Stark - Canada Research Chair in Nutritional Lipidomics
Past
James W.E. Rush - Canada Research Chair in Integrative Vascular Biology (2003-2013)
Richard Staines - Canada Research Chair in Sensorimotor Control (2005-2015)
National - Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) Fellows
CAHS Fellows are nominated by their institutions and peers and selected in a competitive process based on their internationally recognized leadership, academic performance, scientific creativity and willingness to serve. Induction into the CAHS as a Fellow is considered one of the highest honours within Canada’s academic community.
Recent
Past
National - Selected Prestigious Awards
Member of the Order of Canada (C.M.)
Governor General's Innovation Award
David Hammond, Geoffrey Fong (Psychology), Mary Thompson (Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health
Canadian Association for Leisure Studies
Mark Havitz (Leisure Scholar Award) Bryan Grimwood, Kimberly Lopez (Emerging Leisure Scholar Award)
Canadian Cancer Society William E Rawles Prize
Canada's Premier Young Researcher Award
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Fellow
Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars
National - Public Health Agency of Canada - Applied Chairs in Public Health
The program supports innovative population health research that improves health equity for citizens in Canada and around the world. This can be achieved through interdisciplinary collaborations and mentorship of researchers and decision makers in health and other sectors.
Current
Kelly Skinner - Applied Public Health Chair, Healthy environments for climate change and food security in northern Canada
Past
David Hammond - Applied Public Health Chair, Evaluating Smoking and Healthy Weight Policies
Scott Leatherdale - Applied Public Health Chair, Chronic Disease Prevention and Youth
National - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Awards
Trailblazer Award in Population Health Solutions
The CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer Award in Population Health Solutions is a career achievement award that recognizes exceptional contributions in the area of population and public health research. Applicants must have made substantial impacts on the field of population health and leadership, mentorship, and innovative contributions of the recipients.
New Investigator Award
Provincial - Ontario Early Researcher Awards
The Early Research Awards program provides funding for new researchers to build their research teams.
Recent
Past
United States - Academy of Leisure Sciences Fellows
The Academy of Leisure Sciences Fellows are outstanding performers and recognized leaders in the leisure profession with a minimum of ten years of experience.
Elliott Avedon (Professor Emeritus)
Roger Mannell (Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
Ron McCarville (Professor Emeritus)
Alison Pedlar (Distinguished Professor Emerita)
Sue Shaw (Distinguished Professor Emerita)
Bryan Smale (Professor Emeritus)
Stephen Smith (Professor Emeritus)
Jiri Zuzanek (Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
University of Waterloo - Research Chairs
The University of Waterloo owes much of its reputation and stature to the quality of its professors and their scholarly accomplishments. Waterloo recognizes exceptional achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge through the designation 'University Research Chair'.
University of Waterloo - JW Graham Research Chairs
The title of JW Graham Research Chair in Applied Health is awarded to an exceptional scholar, whose research has be devoted to an area of digital health.
Current
Plinio Morita (Emerging Leader Chair in Applied Health Informatics)
Past
Ian McKillop (Inaugural Chair in Health Information Systems)
Research Institute for Aging; Faculty of Health- Schlegel Research Chairs
Schlegel Research Chairs are experts in their field and lead a team of researchers and students, collaborating with research teams across the country and around the world.