The lasting impact of emotional intelligence programs
Participating students had higher graduation rates and lower rates of drug use and behaviour problems.
Build bikeways and they will come
Neighbourhoods with biking infrastructure had higher numbers of people cycling to work.
Nizal Sarrafzadegan receives the State of Kuwait’s Non Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention and Control Award
Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Affiliate Professor with the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), was recognized with the State of Kuwait’s Non Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention and Control award for her significant contributions to the field of cardiovascular disease. The award was presented during the 63rd session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Committee for […]
Stephanie Lake awarded 2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship
UBC PhD candidate in the School of Population and Public Health, Stephanie Lake, is one of two recipients of the prestigious 2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship. To date, there are 23 recipients of the scholarship since its inception. Each year, up to 15 Trudeau Scholarships are awarded by the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation to […]
Liam Brunham named one of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40”
Liam Brunham, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and 2008 alumnus of the Faculty of Medicine’s MD/PhD program, has been named one of “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.” Dr. Brunham, a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Heart+Lung Innovation, focuses on understanding how changes in specific genes contribute to differences in drug-response as well as to […]
Six SPPH students win CIHR Master’s awards
Six School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) students have won 2016 – 17 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships. The $17,500 awards are given to students who are involved in excellent health science research. Current Master of Science (M.Sc.) students Tamara Dudley, Angela McLaughlin, Prateek Sharma, […]
Allen Eaves receives the lifetime achievement award from the 2017 BC CEO Awards
Allen Eaves, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has received the Lifetime Achievement award from the 2017 BC CEO Awards. A judging committee chose the honourees by looking at their their vision and strategy, financial performance, people development, innovation, social responsibility and sustainability. Dr. Allen Eaves launched one of the finest […]
UBC finds potential biomarker for a surprising health hazard
The Western red cedar, B.C.’s official tree, causes asthma in some people who cut and mill it.
Drug costs vary by more than 600% in study of 10 high-income countries
Canadians spent an estimated $2.3 billion more than the average of the nine comparator countries.