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Juliet Rowe and Theresa Gaughan are co-hosts of Mind: The Gap – a podcast that was created in Dr. Shaun Boe’s Lab for Brain Recovery and Function. Rowe, a Rehabilitation Research student, and Gaughan, a PhD in Health candidate, use the podcast to educate, inspire and to learn about themselves as researchers.

What are the factors that contribute to better health outcomes among aging adults? That’s what Dalhousie University aims to discover, thanks to a transformative $2-million gift from Shannex. The family-owned organization, a leader in long-term care and residential facilities, announced the gift on May 27, part of a $3-million investment it is making to support healthy aging research in Atlantic Canada.

Registered nurses wanting to gain advanced skills and education in mental health and addictions care now have the opportunity to do so in Nova Scotia through a new Dal program.

Designed to meet the needs of the Canadian paramedic profession, Dalhousie University’s unique, purpose-built Bachelor of Health Science — Emergency Medical Services Management (BHSc EMS Management) program is set to launch in January 2024.

This unique funding opportunity is directly aimed at Indigenous communities and organizations. Among its primary objectives is to support Indigenous communities to lead research according to their own health research priorities, generating solutions that support improvements to individual and community health and wellbeing, and advancing self-determination in research and research oversight.

Shoppers Drug Mart has made a transformative $2.5 million gift to Dalhousie’s Faculty of Health to support diversity and inclusion in health education, and research that aligns with Nova Scotia’s health transformation agenda, Action for Health.

The Diversity Exchange was created when School of Physiotherapy assistant professor Dr. Caitlin McArthur was looking for images for presentations for her class and noticed there was a big lack of diversity in currently available stock photos. She says they were mainly white people who looked affluent and in good health, and were often doing ineffective exercises or exercises incorrectly. It became clear she wanted to create an ethnoculturally diverse image library for her and others in the profession so diverse students could be represented.

After years devoted to its development, a new elective course entitled Centering Black Canadian Health (HLTH 2000) is a much-needed, and highly anticipated, addition to the Faculty of Health’s curriculum.

Dr. Kyle Wilby, Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy, is leading the project PrEP-Rx - Pharmacist Prescribing of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in Nova Scotia.