School of Population and Health members recognized

Associate Professor Jane Buxton has won the Canadian Public Health Association’s Ron Draper Health Promotion Award. Buxton is a physician epidemiologist and Harm Reduction lead at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. Her work has influenced national and regional policy initiatives and helped reduce the burden of overdose morbidity and mortality. More information here.

Interdisciplinary PhD candidate Brittany Barker has won a CIHR Doctoral Research Award for her project titled “Street-Involved Youth and the Child Welfare System: Evidence to Improve Outcomes.” More information here.

PhD candidate Andrea Jones received a two-year Doctoral Research Training Award from WorkSafeBC for her project, “Injured workers and mental health: exploring how depression and mental health services impact return to work following workplace musculoskeletal injury.” More information here.

Interdisciplinary PhD candidate Kim Taylor won the Student Abstract Award for the Canadian Bioethics Society. Her abstract “Patients’ experiences negotiating healthcare decision-making as “a two-way street, working relationship” is based on a CIHR project on supportive decision-making. More information here.