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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been awarded a grant of $8.8 million from the U.S. National Cancer Institute to evaluate the public-health impact of government policies to regulate tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and other vaporized nicotine products.

The CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR) announced this week that Waterloo PhD candidate Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn has received the 2016 CIHR-IHSPR Rising Star Award.

Three times more Canadian teenagers are gambling online than previously thought, according research from the University of Waterloo and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Two University of Waterloo researchers specializing in population health are winners of the prestigiousTrailblazer Award, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) announced today.

A student from the University of Waterloo has won the award for top co-op student in Canada for her work coordinating a radiotherapy program for people in the advanced stages of cancer.

The School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo is one of 48 new institutions committing to train students to address the health impacts of climate change, the White House announced today at the World Climate Summit in Paris.

Congratulations to Matt Stein for receiving the first School of Public Health and Health Systems Teaching Assistant Excellence Award.

Canadian magazines are sending women mixed messages about skin cancer and tanning, according to new University of Waterloo research.

Three professors from the University of Waterloo are among the new members of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists announced today.

Ten years after daily physical activity was mandated in elementary schools, many Ontario teachers report students aren’t getting their 20 minutes of exercise each school day, says a University of Waterloo public health researcher.