Department Overview

The Department of Community Health and Epidemiology (CH&E) located in the Royal University Hospital at the University of Saskatchewan was founded in 1959-60 as the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine. Over the years, along with a name change in 1988, it has developed and expanded into a vibrant department with
     15 departmental faculty members,
     14 associate faculty members,
     50+ graduate students.
It is affiliated with 6 research units, also located in the Royal University Hospital or in Innovation Place, and has forged partnerships with multiple provincial and federal health service programs.

Programs

Program name changed to Community and Population Health Science

• The MSc program in Community and Population Health Science prepares students for academic careers, including pursuit of doctoral studies, or to work in a variety of research-intensive environments   more....  
• The PhD program in Community and Population Health Science is designed with considerable flexibility, recognizing that students come to the population health field with diverse backgrounds  more... 
• The  Collaborative Biostatistics Program is a collaborative venture of the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Through classroom participation, laboratory sessions, biostatistical consulting opportunities with core faculty members, and research, MSc and PhD students will have opportunity to explore developments in theoretical statistics and the application of this theory in the life sciences.  more...
  
• Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program
  The residency program is a medical postgraduate training program leading to Royal College certification as a specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine (formerly Community Medicine).  This is the specialty that focuses on the health of populations, on prevention, health promotion and health protection, using epidemiology and data analysis as its basic science.
  
• Making the Links - A Global Health Certificate A new program offered by the College of Medicine for undergraduate medical students that combines academic courses and service learning experiences in marginalized under-served communities locally and globally
  
  
  

Admissions

Master and PhD students will be admitted ONLY in the Fall term, although occasional exceptions may be made.  In order to be considered for Fall Admission, we must have your complete application by January 15 of the same year.

• Please note: you are responsible for ensuring that all application materials are received by the relevent deadline.
• Students will be notified regarding their application by April 30
• This decision will be communicated to the student and the College of Graduate Studies and Research.

Seminars

Departmental Seminars and "Work in Progress Seminars" are held Mondays throughout the academic year. CH&E students are required to attend.

• CHEP 990 Seminars
• Other Seminars

Interesting reads

Read the Communique Spring 2011 edition and a feature on health training in French promoting better access to health services for the minority official language community in Saskatchewan.
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The winter 2011-12 edition of Gravitas, the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada’s newsletter.

Read the College of Medicine Future of Medical Education in Canada implementation report.

The January issue of the Social Accountability E-zine.

News & Events

News and Events of Interest to our Department 

• Special Seminar

• Tuesday, February 14
  Health Sciences B111
  1:00 - 2:00
  Guest Speaker: Jean Francois Tardif, Executive Director of RESULTS Canada
  Topic: Creating the political will to end global health disparity and poverty

• Student Research Day
  Friday, February 17, 2012
  11:30 – 5:00 pm
  RUH room 4002-06
  Reception to follow in RUH 2753
  
  Deadline February 1, 2012
  Online Registration is now available.

• NEW form for CoM Conference Travel Awards
  Presenting at a Conference?  You may want to seek funding to help with the expenses.  The application form for Conference Travel Awards from the College has been updated.  Please use the new form available from the College of Medicine website.  Application procedures have also been updated. Since this form may be updated from time to time, it is preferable to always use the form directly from the website for each new application.
   
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• U of S researchers excel at conference with juvenile arthritis findings (OCN news Nov. 17)
  Susan Tupper, a PhD candidate in the department of Community Health and Epidemiology, won the clinical health services category for her study examining how pain changes during the day for juvenile arthritis patients. Susan is being co-supervised by Dr. Punam Pahwa and Dr. Alan Rosenberg.more....
  
  
• Congratulations to the Global Health Travel Award Recipients in Community Health and Epidemiology. 
  
  Global Health Travel Award for Faculty in the College of Medicine: Cory Neudorf - explore a potential collaboration between the WHO Europe Office and Canada on comparative data on health disparities and social determinants of health. Lori Hanson - development of a new site in Nicaragua for the international practicum component of the Making the Links – Certificate in Global Health program.

• Generation Squeezed: study released at U of S say today’s families staggering under the pressure

• Canadian parents today are raising families with less money and time than the baby boomer generation even though the country’s economy has doubled in size since 1976, says a new study. released at the University of Saskatchewan on October 18.
  

  Paul Kershaw of the University of British Columbia released the study with Nazeem Muhajarine and members of his Healthy Children research team at the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU), through their early years network, kidSKAN.
  
  
  

• Canadian Public Health Association 2012 Annual Conference Public Health In Canada: Creating and Sustaining Healthy Environments. Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton, AB.  June 11-14, 2112.  Call for Abstracts.  The Conference Steering Committee invites submission for oral poster presentations. Deadline for submissions: Friday, December 2, 2011. For more information.... 

• New Community and Population Health Subject Page!  Check out the newly created Community and Population Health Subject Page - a compilation of some of the best library resources available for students in Community Health & Epidemiology. This new guide includes instructions on finding journal articles, books, theses, grey literature, statistics and more. Links to new books and interesting videos are included. Also provided is information on managing your references. The guide is updated continuously so check back often for new content! The guide can be found at http://libguides.usask.ca/communityhealth

• Check out our new space.  The Academic Health Sciences Complex, currently under construction at the University of Saskatchewan, is an investment in the future of health education and practice, It will supply the province with a new generation of health service providers trained in the inter-professional practice that will distinguish 21st century health care. Fly-by of Health Sciences complex