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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Knowledge Mobilisation Partnership grant awarded!

Living in residential care can be accompanied by feelings of social isolation, loneliness, depression, and a loss of life purpose or meaning. A team of researchers, including our faculty member Renate Ysseldyk, received a Knowledge Mobilisation Partnership Program grant from the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation to evaluate the... More

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Grant awarded in Perinatal Research!

More great news for our faculty, this time to Dr. Kristin Connor, who received the Molly Towell Perinatal Research Foundation new investigator grant. With this grant, Dr. Connor will study pregnancies complicated by underweight, obesity, and infection. The aim is to uncover new mechanisms at the maternal-fetal interface that contribute to... More

Monday, June 26, 2017

Faculty receive Development Grants!

    Congratulations to Drs. Kristin Connor, Paul Villeneuve and Renate Ysseldyk for receiving Development Grants from Carleton University!     Dr. Connor’s grant aims to understand how maternal underweight and obesity contribute to increased inflammation in pregnancy. If there is too much inflammation in the pregnant mother... More

Monday, March 27, 2017

HSTP student in finals of the 3 Minute Thesis Competition

HSTP student Charles Ozzoude made it to the finals of the 3 Minute Thesis Competition this March. He was presenting research from his group research project entitled “Growing Green: Developing an Institutional Garden for The Ottawa Hospital”. This project is working with the Ottawa Hospital to develop a functional model to introduce... More

Monday, March 20, 2017

Health Sciences Researchers awarded CIHR funding to study cancer impacts of gamma radiation

Dr. Minh Do and Dr.  Paul Villeneuve were awarded funding from CIHR to study the impact of gamma radiation on cancer risk in the Ontario Uranium Miners cohort.  Dr Minh Do holds an adjunct appointment within the department. This cohort includes nearly 30,000 miners who were employed between 1927 and 1987.  As part of... More

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

New Health Sciences Building

Update Work continues on the new Health Sciences Building which will house our programs in Health Science in addition to programs in Neuroscience. The building is expected to be completed in time for Fall 2017. Information from Facilities, Management and Planning The design and layout of the labs, offices and workspace are such to help... More

Friday, January 20, 2017

Health Sciences Postdoc Fellow Invited to Speak to Air Quality Policy Makers

The Air Management Committee of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment “manages intergovernmental approaches to air quality issues in Canada” This week, Dr. Cheryl Peters, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Sciences, spoke to the committee about the results and tools generated from CAREX Canada on estimating... More

Monday, January 9, 2017

Department of Health Sciences Research Published in the Lancet

Findings from a recently conducted epidemiological study that investigated the relationship between living near major roads and developing dementia were recently published in the Lancet. Dr. Paul Villeneuve was a co-author on this paper that was led by Public Health Ontario, and funded by Health Canada. This study, conducted among Ontario adults,... More

Friday, October 14, 2016

Sarah Zutrauen Health Sciences named TSN 1200 Athlete of the Week

http://goravens.ca/athletes-of-the-week/    ... More

Monday, June 20, 2016

Dr. Bernard Choi receives PHAC Policy and Program Merit award

Dr. Bernard Choi, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Sciences, Carleton University, received a Public Health Agency of Canada Policy and Program Merit Award in Ottawa on June 17, 2016, the final day of the 2016 National Public Service Week. Dr. Choi is a member of the Canadian Federal Health Portfolio Team which... More

Monday, March 14, 2016

Farm’s health benefits should trump hospital expansion: profs

By Tom Spears (article found in the Ottawa Sun at the following link here ) First posted: Friday, March 11, 2016 03:50 PM EST | Updated: Friday, March 11, 2016 05:56 PM EST Greenness in urban areas has been linked to a number of healthy behaviours, says Paul Villeneuve, professor of Health Sciences. MARK SUTCLIFFE/POSTMEDIA... More

Monday, February 8, 2016

A New Map for Children’s Cancer in Alberta

  Paul Villeneuve, epidemiologist with the Department of Health Sciences, studies the environmental factors that can impact health.  Dr. Villeneuve’s recent research, funded by the Cancer Research Society and Read for the Cure, looks at the relationship between childhood cancer and industry emissions across the country. Read more... More

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