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Budget 2025 isn’t subtle. The federal budget’s priorities are loud and clear: strengthening Canada’s economic and political sovereignty in an increasingly unstable world. At a recent University of Ottawa Brown Bag Lunch on public policy, two panelists with very different backgrounds converged on the same message: the pace, scale and expectations around research have been supercharged.

The International Progressive MS Alliance, an organization that works to improve the quality of life of people with progressive MS worldwide, has awarded 6.9 million euros to three international studies. This includes 2.3 million euros for a trial co-led by professors Lara Pilutti of uOttawa and Sarah Donkers of the University of Saskatchewan.

The research landscape is changing fast. It is being shaped by open science, knowledge mobilization and partnerships with industries, communities and governments.

When Emma Archibald lines up at the start in Milan-Cortina in March, the 22-year-old will be competing in her first Paralympic Games — just six years after stepping onto cross-country skis for the first time.

The Ottawa Declaration on Black Health in Canada drives a bold and urgent mission: to end the invisibility of the health realities Black communities face and to demand meaningful change.

Preventing illness earlier, making care more effective and strengthening the systems people rely on when they need them most — these are the kind of impacts uOttawa researchers are working toward. And now, they have support from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grants.

Dr. Angel Foster has led studies on women’s reproductive health in 22 countries. But after the United States Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, relegating its legal status to individual states for the first time in nearly 50 years, the professor at uOttawa’s Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences shifted her research focus to her native country, where she c...

How can we advance public policy in an increasingly complex, fractured world?

Launched with the help of a visionary $5.8-million gift, the Nutrition and Mental Health initiative has become a world-class research program exploring how food, gut bacteria and mental health are connected.

As the Arctic experiences global pressure and undergoes transformation at unprecedented speed, as sea ice retreats, infrastructure strains and geopolitical interest accelerates, the North is no longer managed quietly at the margins.