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At the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year, our 118 professors and 64 support staff welcomed more than 4,000 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students.  The Faculty of Health Sciences, spread over 5 geographic sites, is made up of four schools (nursing, rehabilitation sciences, human kinetics and the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences) and a nutrition program leading to a bachelor's degree in nutrition sciences.  The Faculty excels in its research endeavour thanks to the efforts of over 100 researchers working in a variety of disciplines, from molecular biology to metabolism, from human kinetics to social sciences of health.  Innovative and dynamic, the Faculty of Health sciences is focused on the future.  Come join us !!

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   Blaine Hoshizaki, Associate Professor                   › Read More
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events

  • Tuesday, February 9

    A New School at the Faculty of Health Sciences
    The University of Ottawa Senate, recently approved the request for the creation of a new school at the Faculty of Health Sciences which will be officially named: Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences. The acting director of the new School is Professor Sanni Yaya.
    To celebrate the event, the students’ association of the new school is organizing an outside BBQ today Tuesday, February 9.
    The new school will be officially launched later in March.
  • Thursday, February 4

    The University of Ottawa and the Faculty of Health Sciences are seeking to recruit an outstanding scholar for a Tier I Canada Research Chair (CRC) in the field of Health Ethics.

    The University of Ottawa is committed to becoming a leader in health ethics and is seeking to recruit an outstanding scholar to help build its capacity in this field. The Chair’s research program should focus on ethical considerations in areas such as planning public health responses (dementia caregiving, pandemic influenza, natural and other disasters), decision-making about health technologies (in such areas as genetics, reproduction, assistive and medical devices) and managing the health of vulnerable populations (women, indigenous peoples, aging). The chairholder will have excellent opportunities to develop strategic partnerships and interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues engaged in health-related research at the Faculty of Health Sciences and in other faculties and research institutes, such as the Institute of Population Health, as well as with many research chairs also interested in ethics.
    See detailed description
  • Wednesday, February 3

    Researchers of the Faculty of Health Sciences are part of a project to fight childhood obesity

    Malek Batal, François Haman and Michael Robidoux have been granted $700 000 out of the $2.5 million that the "Collaborative Action on Childhood Obesity" group received from Health Canada and Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC).
    This group is composed of six national, provincial and territorial partners across the country and aims at developing concrete projects in order to fight childhood obesity in Northern Ontario. The grant of the professors-researchers of the Faculty will be used to assist First Nation communities in developing sustainable food strategies based on local traditional dietary practices. To know more.
  • Friday, January 29

    2009 U of O Young Researcher Award presented to Milena Parent

    After winning the young researcher award at the Faculty of Health Sciences Ceremony of Excellence last November, Milena Parent has just been awarded the 2009 Young Researcher Award in the humanities and social sciences from the University of Ottawa.
    Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Milena Parent's research focuses on organization theory and strategic management, primarily in the context of large-scale events like the Olympic Games.
    Milena is part of the group of researchers-teachers from the Faculty of Health Sciences that will be in Vancouver for the Olympic Games.  
    Congratulations Milena !


  • Monday, November 9

    The University of Ottawa is seeking to recruit an outstanding scholar in the field of Aboriginal Health. The successful candidate will hold a Tier II Canada Research Chair (CRC). See the position description


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marilou

New elected Quebec representative on the executive board of the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC), Marilou Gagnon, assistant professor at the school of nursing, has successfully defended her

doctoral thesis on December 9th.  In the upcoming year, she will be completing her postdoctoral studies with Act-Up Paris, a community-based organization known for its social and political involvement in the field of HIV/AIDS. After her return in March, she will be pursuing her research on HIV/AIDS while working with Professor Namaste, a sociologist at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (Concordia University).



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