More than two of every three Nunavut Inuit smoke daily despite the increased risks to these smokers of developing tuberculosis, lung cancer and other illnesses, along with the high cost of a daily tobacco habit, which can range up to $6,000 a year for an individual smoker.
The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project) has launched a new report on the effectiveness of tobacco control policies in Uruguay.
Kelly Anthony, lecturer in public health and health systems, has been appointed faculty teaching fellow in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences for a two-year term beginning May 1, 2012.
Geoffrey Fong and David Hammond of the School of Public Health and Health Systems and Mary Thompson, Distinguished Professor Emerita in Statistics and Actuarial Science, are the 2012 recipients of the Lise Manchester Award.
A team of University of Waterloo students returned home from Halifax this week as national champions of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Student Case Competition.
With today's launch of the new School of Public Health and Health Systems, the University of Waterloo becomes a world leader in public health research, education and service, specifically focused on addressing the growing health crisis.
A team of four students from the University of Waterloo are off to the final round of the national case competition of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) on May 14 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Discovery Days are unique day-long events that put hundreds of Canadian high school students from rural and urban communities across the country into universities that specialize in health sciences.
Congratulations to Associate Professor and Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair Scott Leatherdale for being chosen by The Record as one of the Region's 40 Under 40 unheralded leaders.
The University of Waterloo is about to embark on what they are calling an extensive study to discover the health effects, if any, of wind turbines on residents living nearby... all in our own backyard.