The following is a list of scheduled meeting dates, agendas and presentation materials for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Faculty of Health Council usually meets on the first Wednesday of each month from September through May from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. Minutes can be found in the agenda packages below.
Sherry Grace is a global advocate for heart disease management, essential to keeping patients alive and optimizing their well-being. A Kinesiology & Health Science professor and a senior scientist with the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute’s Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Program, her research informed the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada’s 2018 Report outlining the inequities women face in […]
Students are eager to make connections in their field. For employers, the creative ideas and fresh energy that students bring can be a huge benefit to their organizations. Realizing these two perspectives, Kinesiology & Health Science Professor Lyndsay Hayhurst decided to bring both sides together in an experiential education collaboration for her International Development and […]
All Faculty of Health students must complete General Education course requirements. General Education courses are designed to expose students to information from outside their chosen degrees that involve the following course content principles: breadth, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, and critical analytical and research skills. For BHS and BA Programs Students must take a minimum of 18 […]
Claire Mallette NURSING NURSING PROFESSOR CLAIRE MALLETTE believes in letting students see for themselves how powerful they can be. Her fourth-year leadership course is all about inspiring them to identify a health issue and create a strategy for positive change that emphasizes compassion in health care. In its first year, when she linked the assignment […]
Lyndsay Hayhurst KINESIOLOGY & HEALTH SCIENCE STUDENTS ARE EAGER to make connections in their field. For employers, the creative ideas and fresh energy that students bring can be a huge benefit to their organizations. Realizing these two perspectives, Kinesiology & Health Science Professor Lyndsay Hayhurst decided to bring both sides together in an experiential education […]
Ali Abdul-Sater KINESIOLOGY & HEALTH SCIENCE INFLAMMATION IS ONE WAY that our bodies sound the alarm about potential attacks to the immune system. But in some cases, our systems overreact, resulting in autoimmune conditions from rheumatoid arthritis to diabetes to heart disease. Inflammation can also happen with intensive exercise, a hindrance for high-level athletes at […]
Shayna Rosenbaum PSYCHOLOGY FOR AS LONG AS Shayna Rosenbaum can remember, the big star in memory research has been the hippocampus, the curved structure of the brain’s limbic system that plays an important role in creating and maintaining short- and long-term memories. Yet, as Rosenbaum has learned, that’s only one part of the story. Along […]
Joel Katz PSYCHOLOGY ABOUT ONE IN 10 PEOPLE experience chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP). This means that of the 400 million people who have operations each year worldwide, about 40 million may develop ongoing moderate to severe pain that interferes with their ability to lead a productive, enjoyable life. But despite these staggering statistics, and their […]
Farah Ahmed HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT THE NOTION THAT WE TRUST PEERS over strangers is long established, and in recent years the impetus for organizations has been to tap peer leaders as a conduit for awareness and information about health issues. Lesser known, however, are the emotional complexities of this role, increasingly important in reaching […]