Several of our professors have been recognized in recent months, whether through awards or research support. The Faculty of Health Sciences is proud to excel thanks to our members’ accomplishments.
Awards and recognition
- Patrick O’Byrne, a professor in the School of Nursing, received the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal for significant contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Canada.
- Josephine Etowa, a professor in the School of Nursing, also received the King Charles III Coronation Medal for her involvement with Black and racialized communities. As well, she shared the 2025 Community Advocate Award at the uOttawa Black Student-Athletes Advocacy Council Black Excellence Gala.
- Jacinthe Savard, a professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, made Université Laval’s Les Remarqués – Personnalités diplômées 2024 list of distinguished alumni, in the research category. She was recognized for receiving the ACFAS 2024 Gilles Paquet award, which highlights research on francophone minorities.
Managing research grants
- Angel M. Foster, a professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, was awarded one of the new 2025 University Research Chairs, in medication abortion. The chair aims to facilitate access to medical abortion by developing and evaluating innovative, simplified and de-medicalized service delivery strategies for providing misoprostol, with or without mifepristone, in Canada and internationally.
- Josephine Etowa was also named Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Black Women’s Health in Canada.
- The results of the CIHR Project competition are in — the Faculty had a 28.6% success rate, well above the national average of 17.2%. Professors received funding for five proposals:
- Jennifer Brunet of the School of Human Kinetics, for her project “A two arm randomized controlled trial evaluating a physical activity counselling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer.”
- Shannon Bainbridge of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences for her project “Impact of placental microplastic accumulation on pregnancy and fetal health.”
- Keir Menzies of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences for two projects, “Poly-ADP-ribosylation signalling in muscle health: A novel determinant of muscle maintenance and function in cancer cachexia” and “A novel determinant of cell fate decision and tissue repair capacity.”
- Mwali Muray of the School of Nursing for her project “Co-designing roadmaps for promoting culturally relevant food in long-term care homes in partnership with community food programs to address modifiable risk factors for poor health in the African, Caribbean, and Black population in Canada.”