SFU Faculty of Health Sciences

10/15/2026

UPDATE: This event is now SOLD OUT.

We still have some tickets available for our Oct 27, 2026 lecture and book signing with OB/GYN, pain medicine physician and best-selling author Dr. Jen Gunter. Get them before they sell out!

SFU Health Sciences is pleased to be hosting renowned OB/GYN, pain medicine physician, and best-selling author Dr. Jen Gunter on Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026 at SFU Harbour Centre.

Dr. Gunter will be presenting her lecture, "The Blood Truth About Menstruation," addressing facts, myths and social media misinformation about menstruation. Full talk description available at: Full talk description available at: https://events.sfu.ca/event/50626-dr-jen-gunter-lecture-book-signing

If you live in the Lower Mainland, join us ahead of the lecture for a Women's Health Information Fair, featuring tables from: BC Cancer Screening and Prevention; BC Women's Complex Menopause Clinic and their Centre for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis; and Options for Sexual Health.

Tickets are $10+GST and are now available at:
https://drgunter_fhs.eventbrite.ca.
**Please note that tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE.**

Books will be available for purchase at the book signing thanks to Upstart & Crow, or bring your copy!

10/13/2026

As municipalities in British Columbia get ready to vote for mayors, counsellors and school trustees on Oct 17, you might want to look to rats (yes, 🐁!) for policy guidance at the ballot box.

PhD candidate Christine Yanagawa and FHS adjunct professor Kaylee Byers connect rats to civic and public health issues such as housing insecurity, sanitation, and even dog p**p scooping in their latest article for The Conversation Canada. Sightings of rats in neighbourhoods and homes are clues that select needs are not being met.

🔗: https://lnkd.in/dmQ5aZdY

10/07/2026

SFU Health Sciences is pleased to be hosting renowned OB/GYN, pain medicine physician, and best-selling author Dr. Jen Gunter on Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026 at SFU Harbour Centre.

Dr. Gunter will be presenting her lecture, "The Blood Truth About Menstruation," addressing facts, myths and social media misinformation about menstruation. Full talk description available at: Full talk description available at: https://events.sfu.ca/event/50626-dr-jen-gunter-lecture-book-signing

If you live in the Lower Mainland, join us ahead of the lecture for a Women's Health Information Fair, featuring tables from: BC Cancer Screening and Prevention; BC Women's Complex Menopause Clinic and their Centre for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis; and Options for Sexual Health.

Tickets are $10+GST and are now available at:
https://drgunter_fhs.eventbrite.ca.
**Please note that tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE.**

Books will be available for purchase at the book signing thanks to Upstart & Crow, or bring your copy!

09/23/2026

FHS professor and Bridge Research Consortium scientific co-director Kelley Lee is part of a commission that is recommending a "whole-of-society" approach to pandemic readiness that is equitable, effective, and people-centrered.

The National University of Singapore and The Lancet Group's PRIME (Pandemic Readiness through Institutions, Mobilising Communities, and Equity) Commission offered 10 integrated recommendations for equitable and sustained protection before, during and after pandemics.

Says Lee: "There is global scientific consensus that pandemics will, not only occur in future, but be more frequent. Approaches to pandemic readiness must evolve accordingly."

🔗 : https://lnkd.in/gry9MJj4

09/23/2026

Please join us in celebrating FHS grad students Ilhan Abdullahi, Zoe Hong, and Taelor L.! All three were accepted as Graduate Fellows in SFU Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi)'s 2026 cohort. 🎉 🙌

The program is hosted at SFU's space at 312 Main (in downtown Vancouver) and facilitates community-engaged research through a series of monthly workshops. Students will get the chance to learn, network, develop and engage with community through this fellowship.

Learn more about Ilhan, Zoe and Taelor here: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/ceri-programs-/graduate-research-fellowships/fall-2026.html

09/21/2026

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09/18/2026

Please join us in celebrating FHS researchers Naomi Maldonado-Rodriguez and Amanda Rowlands, who each received a Research Trainee Award from Michael Smith Health Research BC! 🙌

The Research Trainee awards support emerging researchers - primarily postdoctoral and health professional investigators - by offering vital funding needed to focus on high-quality research that is carried out in British Columbia.

More about their projects: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/news-events/news/2026/fhs-researchers-secure-mhsrbc-research-trainee-awards.html

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09/10/2026

New editorial from FHS assistant professor Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon: "The Missing PIllar: AI for All Funds Trust Signals, Not Trustworthiness."

In this article, Bélisle-Pipon differentiates why developing AI infrastructure without trustworthiness could be potentially problematic.

🔗: https://sciencepolicy.ca/posts/ai-for-all-funds-trust-signals-not-trustworthiness/

This article is part of Canadian Science Policy Centre's series examining Canada's AI for All policy.

Canada's new National AI Strategy declares that trust is its north star. On this, the government is right: nothing else in the document works without it. AI for All is candid about the problem. Canadians rank 42nd of 47 countries on trust in AI systems and 44th

08/27/2026

Congratulations to Faculty of Health Sciences professors Kanna Hayashi and Bohdan Nosyk for successfully securing two CIHR Project Grants! 🎉

Dr. Hayashi will be examining how harm reduction services influence health care access and outcomes for people who use drugs in Vancouver amid the ongoing toxic drug crisis.

Dr Nosyk will be evaluating emerging prescribing practices for opioid use disorder (OUD) in response to Canada's increasingly unpredictable toxic unregulated drug supply.

Click through for more on each of these critical public health projects.

Strengthening health systems, improving health outcomes and informing policy are among the areas of impact supported by SFU-led projects receiving more than $4.2 million through the Spring 2026 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant competition.

The funded projects span a range of health challenges, from understanding early brain development and rare neurological disease to evaluating treatments for opioid use disorder and the role of harm reduction services amid the ongoing toxic drug crisis.

Congratulations to Kanna Hayashi and Bohdan Nosyk from Faculty of Health Sciences and Lisa Julian and David Vocadlo from SFU Science on being named among the successful recipients.

Learn more about the researchers and their work in the comments.