UVic and UNESCO are working together to create and deliver community-based research training to tackle local and global health and education needs. The initiative is being led by
Budd Hall, professor of community development in UVic's School of Public Administration, and Rajesh Tandon, founding president of Participatory Research in Asia.
Exercise psychologist Ryan Rhodes and palliative care researcher Kelli Stajduhar have been elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), considered the highest honour
for a Canadian health scholar.
Three researchers known for their passion and commitment to some of the most significant issues facing the country and the planet have been named to the Royal Society of Canada
(RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
A UVic researcher studying the epidemic of HIV and sexually transmitted infection in B.C. among men who have sex with men is one of 20 health researchers in the province selected
by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for a 2017 Scholar Award.
A Canadian volunteer leading an aid project and boarding school in Kathmandu for Himalayan children helped transport Dechen Dolma Lama from one of the most impoverished villages in
Nepal to UVic where she graduates this month with a bachelor's degree in child and youth care.
When Kelli Stajduhar was handed the 2017 Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award last month from the Canadian Universities Faculty Association of BC, she was acknowledged as "a
living ambassador for the very real difference scientific knowledge brings to revolutionizing health care."
Charlotte Loppie, a professor in UVic's School of Public Health and Social Policy and director of the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement—is one of three
Canadian researchers who will be awarded a prestigious Gold Leaf Prize from CIHR at a May 16 ceremony in Ottawa.
Staff and physicians with UVic's Health Services Clinic have significantly reduced wait times to improve outcomes for at-risk students with acute mental health
issues.
A UVic program in Indigenous nationhood that is the first of its kind in Canada will train the next generation of leaders, scholars and researchers in how law, politics and
governance intersect at a critical time for Indigenous relations in Canada.