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Transforming health through collaborative research
To mark Dal's 200th anniversary and invest in the future of our health care system, we created the Scholarship for PhD Studies in Health. Our goal is to attract and retain the best and the brightest students to our PhD in Health program.
HAHP in Dal News
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Closing the sports gap for powerchair users
March 28, 2019 8:30 AM
Fourth-year Kinesiology student Madison Campbell spent two years developing Nova Scotia's first-ever soccer league for powerchair users, looking to create a new parasport opportunity for individuals with far fewer options.
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In defence of Canada's Food Guide
February 4, 2019 8:30 AM
Canada's Food Guide makes nutrition recommendations. But the revamped guide does much more, says a team of Dal researchers. It directs us to consider the broader set of circumstances — the social determinants — of how we eat.
HAHP News
- Kinesiology students receive competitive NSERC USRAs
March 2019
Kinesiology students Fola Akpan and Chris Holland recently received Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) from NSERC to conduct research this summer.
- Loose parts play
March 2019
Dr. Michelle Stone, Kinesiology, talks about her research around the importance of children playing in an unstructured environment. - UpLift
March, 2019
A School-Community-University Partnership.
The core team for UpLift is based at Dalhousie University’s Healthy Populations Institute (Dr. Sara Kirk, Health Promotion), where the research that underpins the philosophy, need and value of UpLift was conducted.