Recent prizes and awards
Kristi Adamo
Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology – Mentorship Award
This accolade honors commitment to fostering excellence and inspiring the next generation of professionals in exercise science. Professor Adamo (School of Human Kinetics) has demonstrated outstanding mentorship in her interdisciplinary research program focusing on early lifestyle intervention and upstream prevention of childhood obesity. With her team, she explores the impact of healthy active living during key phases of growth and development, including pregnancy.
Josephine Etowa
Canadian Public Health Association – Ron Draper Health Promotion Award
This award acknowledges a significant contribution to building healthy public policy, creating environments that support health, enabling community action, and/or re-orienting health services. Professor Etowa (School of Nursing) is a global leader in reducing health inequities faced by Black communities and transforming health systems in Canada and abroad. Her community-based research focuses on health equity, perinatal health, COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, nurses’ work life, and community nursing.
Angel Foster
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences - Fellowship
Induction into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) is one of the highest honours within the Canadian academic community. This CAHS fellowship is a testament of Professor Foster’s (Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences) unwavering commitment to reproductive health, and significant contribution to the scientific foundations of decision support in public health policy.
Faculty of Health Sciences Excellence in Research Award
Professor Foster received the Faculty’s Excellence in Research Award for her exemplary contribution to sexual and reproductive health research and influence on policy at the national and international stages.
Sandra Harrisson
Council of Ontario Universities – Scholarship Into Practice Award
This award recognizes Professor Sandra Harrison’s (School of Nursing) innovative interdisciplinary research examining the potential of all health members to contribute to the quality of life of residents in seniors’ care facilities and those receiving home care.
Mwali Muray
Faculty of Health Sciences EDI in Research Award
This Faculty award recognizes Professor Muray's (School of Nursing) contributions to strengthening equity, diversity, and inclusion through her research. Her expertise focuses on access to health care services for Francophone minority communities, with a particular interest in the well-being of African, Caribbean and Black populations who often experience double minoritization.
Jennifer O’Neil
Ontario Physiotherapy Association – Innovation and Advancement Award
This award acknowledges pioneering research excellence in physiotherapy and demonstrates the advancement of the profession through innovation in clinical practice, research, technology and education. Research initiatives led by Professor O'Neil (School of Rehabilitation Sciences) are focused on improving access to effective physiotherapy interventions and have played a key role in the development of telehealth solutions and capacity building on both national and global scales.
Annie Robitaille
Faculty of Health Sciences Early Career Researcher Award
This Faculty award recognizes the sustained outstanding contributions of Professor Robitaille (Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences) in improving the quality of life of older adults and their caregivers. Annie’s research aims to unravel the biopsychosocial factors at play during the aging process and to translate these findings into practice by implementing programs designed to improve the lives of older adults living with frailty.
Dawn Stacey
Society of Medical Decision Making - Career Achievement Award
This award honors seminal work in medical decision-making. Professor Stacey's (School of Nursing) research and expertise in decision and implementation science enable patients to reach beneficial health outcomes.
Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology - Distinction Award
The Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (CANO) promotes the highest standard in cancer care nursing excellence for all people in Canada. As one of the founders and co-developers of COSTaRS, decision tools designed to enhance the quality of cancer support by nurses, her sustained efforts in improving patient care further the vision and mission of CANO. The award recognizes Professor Stacey as an exceptional oncology nurse, researcher, collaborator, and mentor. The methods and tools she developed have influenced health policy in Canada and globally.
The Royal Society of Canada - Fellowship
A fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada is one of the highest research honours attainable and recognizes distinguished contributions and exceptional service to society. This fellowship celebrates Professor Stacey’s pioneering research focused on developing, evaluating, and implementing interventions to support patients in making healthcare decisions.
Karine Toupin-April
CIHR - Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis - Inclusive Research Excellence Award: Patient Engagement and Team Science
For her project ‘A novel approach to integrating young people’s perspectives in shared decision making research’, Professor Toupin-April (School of Rehabilitation Sciences) received two Inclusive Excellence Research Awards from the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR). The first award celebrates the project’s extraordinary contribution to improving patients’ and their families’ participation in decision-making. The second award recognizes the collaborations across disciplines and institutions that are the foundation of this promising project.
Chibuike Udenigwe
Royal Society of Chemistry - Fellowship
As the world’s leading chemistry community, the Royal Society of Chemistry has always responded to the dynamic environment to pursue its mission of advancing the chemical sciences. This fellowship recognizes Professor Udenigwe's (School of Nutrition Sciences) research program in food biochemistry focused on the role of food proteins/peptides in health.
Anna Zumbansen
University of Ottawa Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award
This award recognizes the researcher’s endeavours in facilitating exchange between the scholarly community and knowledge users. Professor Zumbansen (School of Rehabilitation Sciences) was selected as the recipient for her work to reach aphasia knowledge users through an innovative and inclusive process that enhances community connectedness.