Health and Well-being Supports for the UBC Community: Learners, Staff and Faculty

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Building the Future

Strategic Plan in Action

Explore the mid-term report and discover some of the many ways faculty, staff and learners are turning strategy into action.
Pathways Magazine

Pathways Magazine

One in three Canadians will experience a serious neurological issue during their lifetime. How can we create better brain health at every age?
Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Transforming Culture

Learn more about the Faculty’s commitment and actions towards creating respectful and inclusive learning and work environments

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A close-up of a healthcare provider applying a band aid on a patient’s upper arm after vaccination.

How fall vaccines keep pace with evolving viruses

November 5, 2024

Drs. Manish Sadarangani and Julie Bettinger share how new vaccines are handled to ensure they are safe and effective against evolving strains of influenza and SARS-CoV-2.
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A doctor holding and treating a newborn baby.

Scientists develop tool to predict sepsis in apparently healthy newborns

October 28, 2024

The discovery could help with earlier recognition of critically ill babies to implement life-saving treatment.
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A composite image of seven UBC Faculty of Medicine doctoral students who have been named to the 2024/2025 cohort of the UBC Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) Program. Top row: Chelsey Perry, Fatimah Bahrami, Katherine White and Rinni Mamman. Bottom row: Sarinn Blawatt, Zeba Khan and Xiaocong Guo.

Seven Faculty of Medicine doctoral students named 2024 UBC Public Scholars

October 23, 2024

Meet the scholars advancing collaborative, impactful research in areas like extreme heat, Indigenous health and traumatic brain injuries.
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A doctor in white attire with a stethoscope comforts a patient.

Methadone more effective for treatment retention than buprenorphine/naloxone

October 21, 2024

New research shows that people with opioid use disorder who received methadone were less likely to discontinue treatment, with no difference in mortality risk.
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New research sheds light on how people with autism visually experience faces

October 15, 2024

The findings have important implications for the development of facial recognition skills that play a key role in social interactions.
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Dr. Nadine Caron

Dr. Nadine Caron inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

October 3, 2024

She is recognized for transformative leadership in Indigenous health and surgical practice.
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