A new national study on licensing policies for older drivers co-led by ݮƵ professor Anita Myers found that Canada is a regulatory patchwork of requirements for license renewal, reporting practices, and appeals processes.
ݮƵ professor David Hammond says “existing research suggests that more and more of our calorie consumption is coming from food eaten outside the home and the nutritional quality of these foods is typically low: higher in fat, salt and calories.
Research by ݮƵ professor David Hammond shows many smokers believe that some cigarettes are less harmful based on packaging and appearance.
For his ongoing research on cigarette labelling and how it can be used to influence behaviour, David Hammond of the University of ݮƵ has been awarded Canada’s Premier Young research award.
The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences hosted representatives of Uganda Christian University (UCU) on campus in ݮƵ to commemorate a new collaboration to build education and research capacity in the areas of public health, water-health, and health informatics.
ݮƵ professor John Garcia is collaborating with the Government of Nunavut and Inuit communities on a tobacco control strategy for the territory. He states that “The Government of Nunavut identified a whole series of priorities” in public health and tobacco control is high on the list.