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Emily Drake, PhD in Health candidate, was the only PhD Atlantic Canadian winner of the inaugural Canadian Cancer Society’s 2023 Master’s and PhD Research Training Awards Competition and was awarded $52,500. Among her other scholarships, Drake was previously awarded the Faculty of Health’s Leon and Rose Zitner Prize.

Killam Laureate, Healthy Populations Institute Scholar, BHCRI CRTP trainee and PhD in Health candidate Emily Drake (MA’10) is personally, professionally, and academically motivated by the prospect of building and nurturing community for young people with cancer.

As Lead Performance Analyst for the Toronto Blue Jays, Goreham equips the various skills he’s gained from the PhD in Health program to effectively execute his professional responsibilities. Such skills include data analysis, the application of sport science theory, computer science, work with sensors, and more.

PhD in Health candidate Lynette Peters has established the Cerberus Helmet Project, designed to serve active and retired Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) veterans and public service personnel. Peters has a ceramics studio which provides no-cost access to creative expression through pottery and glaze lessons.

Nila Joshi grew up with a forest in her backyard, so she was always playing outside and using her imagination. She built forts, and a stick could be anything she wanted it to be. Now, she’s researching how playing with open-ended materials like those can benefit children.

Looking through the comic panels of the soon-to-be-released Rainbow Reflections: Body Image Comics for Queer Men, it’s clear that this project was meant to start conversations, and that’s just what Phillip Joy hoped for.