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The Faculty of Health is collecting food this holiday season to donate to our university community through the DSU Food Bank.

Dal Health and other students in the health fields put classroom learning into practice by working with ‘real’ patients through the Centre for Collaborative Clinical Learning and Research (C3LR). Located in the CHEB, the Centre facilitates simulated education for more than 20 health-related programs across the Faculties of Health, Medicine and Dentistry.

The Clinical Vision Science Masters Program (CVS) is an innovative graduate program developed through a unique partnership between the IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie.

Dr. Heather Neyedli, (Health and Human Performance), is part of a micro-net that recently received $1.5 million in funding from The Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program. An associate professor in Kinesiology, Dr. Neyedli’s Cognitive and Motor Performance Lab will receive $265,650 of that funding for a research project that has applications for defence and security for Canadian military aerial and ground vehicles, as well as the automation used in search and rescue operations.

Dal Health is all about supporting the health of our students, staff, faculty and communities. We want to challenge YOU in our Dal Health Study Break Challenge to make a healthy change to support your studies and overall wellbeing. We have two gift bags to give away (pictured below), and it's easy to enter to win!

Dal Health school spirit was out in full force on Wednesday, October 9th when the School of Occupational Therapy, College of Pharmacy, School of Health Administration, School of Health Sciences competed in the Varsity Health Challenge.

Robin Campbell was a volunteer firefighter for 10 years in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, and is now hoping her research will lead to policy changes that will improve mental health training, awareness and support for volunteer firefighters across the province.

The Faculty of Health is pleased to welcome Dr. Merritt as our new Dean of the Faculty of Health. A new season and academic year is upon is, making this a good time to check in with Dr. Merritt on what she’s most excited about as she takes on the role, priorities for the Faculty and a personal message to our faculty, students, staff and alumni.

To celebrate fall Convocation 2019, we chatted with some graduating students about their experience at Dal and plans for the future. Today, we’re catching up with MSc Physiotherapy grad Carolyn Crane.