Researchers are working with community leaders to develop a mobile alert app to help locate missing people with dementia.
Plinio Morita, a professor in the School of Public Health Sciences, has received an Early Researcher Award (ERA) from the Ontario government for his project, Mobilizing IoT-Based Health and Environmental Data for Increased Public Awareness.
MedAtlas, founded by Public Health and Health Systems doctoral student Margaret Mutumba, has won the Concept $5K challenge for Spring 2021.
Joy Hutchinson, a Public Health and Health Systems doctoral student, has been awarded a prestigious 2021 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
A team led by researchers from the University of Waterloo analyzed data from more than 24,000 community-dwelling older adults receiving home care in Ontario who were subsequently admitted into an intensive-care unit (ICU).
Two University of Waterloo Health Studies students are being recognized for exceptional contributions to cancer research during their co-op terms at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
Sharon Kirkpatrick, a professor in the School of Public Health Sciences, is the 2021 winner of the student-nominated Faculty of Health Teaching Award, which celebrates teaching excellence.
A new study finds the majority of students were not certain on future plans until they had a chance to live here and explore life in Canada.
The School of Public Health and Health Systems is pleased to announce that our name has changed to the School of Public Health Sciences. The change will not be fully in effect until later this year, but most instances of the new name should be complete by September 1.
David Hammond, a professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, along with Geoffrey Fong (Psychology) and Mary Thompson (Statistics and Actuarial Science), were jointly awarded a 2021 Governor General’s Innovation Award for the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project.