As of November 7th, 2022, we became the 15th CityStudio in the world.
Our Launch was an opportunity to celebrate new partnerships, showcase innovative projects, and establish new networks between students, faculty, city staff and community members.
The planet’s health is inextricably bound to that of humans—and safeguarding our collective health requires urgent and transformative action.
With the health care industry estimated to cause between one and five percent of total global environmental impacts, the Faculty of Medicine is stepping up as a leader in planetary stewardship to protect the health of populations—setting a precedent for medical schools in Canada.
“Currently, there are barriers to health care and medicine with under representation from racial minority groups, low-income backgrounds, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ2S+ community.” — Farhan Mahmood (MD 2023), co-lead of the Social Accountability Student Advisory Committee in UGME.
A committee of uOttawa MD students is working with community outreach organizations, such as Let's Talk Science, to make medicine and health care more accessible as career paths for youth from low-income and minority groups.
Community engagement has come to be seen as an important aspect of the delivery of health services, but there is no clear understanding of precisely how such engagement makes a positive difference. Now, thanks to a $1 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, a Canadian research team will spend the next four years measuring the impact.
Dr. Claire Kendall, associate dean of social accountability in the Faculty of Medicine and senior investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute, is leading a cross-faculty, interdisciplinary team of uOttawa investigators in partnership with investigators from Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and, uniquely, representatives of two municipalities, Ottawa and Thunder Bay, as principal researchers.
