Welcome to the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology. The Department provides programs of study leading to master's (MSc) and doctoral (PhD) degrees.
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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
16 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.
Read the Spring 2012 issue of communique, the College of Medicine's magazine or Dr. Albritton's Final Report to our College.
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.
Smart Cities, Healthy Kids Ph.D. student’s team wins local design award.
Smart Cities, Healthy Kids Ph.D. Student Sugandhi Wickremarachchi’s team, Avenir, won the David Adam Hutton Design Award for their pedestrian-friendly bridge design. Read more...
CIHR Grant awarded
Title: The Good Food Junction: A Community-Based Food Intervention to Address Nutritional Health Inequities
Investigators: Engler-Stringer (PI) & Muhajarine (co-PI), Abonyi, Neudorf, Vatanparast, Walker, Whiting (co-Is)
Dates: April 2013-April 2015
Amount: $200,000
The goal of this research is to understand how the introduction of a large-scale food and nutrition-focused community-based population health intervention may impact upon the health of individuals and families in a geographically bounded group of inner city neighbourhoods in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan that were previously considered a food desert. The intervention that is the focus of our study is a cooperative not-for-profit grocery store called the Good Food Junction that opened its doors on September 7th, 2012. The Good Food Junction is a 4900 sq ft grocery store containing a full range of fresh, frozen and packaged foods. Its mandate includes an explicit focus on healthy, affordable food and the store operates as a community-led cooperative not-for-profit with a commitment to serving the needs of people in the surrounding neighbourhoods. Our research team is well positioned to take advantage of this CIHR initiative, which will link our collective experience and expertise into a time-sensitive and timely study. We have a unique opportunity to study a large-scale intervention from the time the store opens, in an area where baseline data collection has occurred prior to the opening. 
Dr. Lori Hanson recently sent me some photos to share from Ethiopia. The first one is a traditional coffee ceremony, and the second is just one of thousands of 'donkey views' from the road. She said the electricity keeps going on and off so she hopes I receive the photos. "We had a few (more) very sobering visits to health centres and hospitals today... Tomorrow out to a rural village to talk to talk to health extension workers... They are the Backbone of the Ethiopian health system."
2013 Global Citizen Award Winner
"Lori Hanson is a University of Saskatchewan Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology whose work focuses on community-based actions on global health issues. In her youth, Lori was active in rural organizations, including the National Farmer’s Union and in Central American solidarity volunteering with the Sheaf and the Saskatoon Nicaragua Support Committee. She later spent 6 years working with community-based midwives and health workers in revolutionary Nicaragua and has since both worked and volunteered in more than a dozen countries worldwide. Her commitment to gender quality everywhere, and for rural Nicaraguan women in particular is steadfast, after 30 years, she continues to support rural feminists organizations there." 
Congratulations Lori!
Lori's acceptance speech for the award.
View photos of this year's student research day.
Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine, Professor and Department Head for the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, recently gave an invited talk at the inaugural Saskatchewan Youth Symposium on January 25-26, 2013. Presentation Topic: 'How healthy communities promote healthy childhoods.' This topic fits within the urbanization issue, as we witness families moving from rural communities to urban centres, the real question should be…’How will this affect our Saskatchewan culture and our children?’.
New Student Reps
Four CH&E students -- Femi Oluwole (first year PhD), Scott Mantyka (first year MSc), Enoch Pambour (2nd year PhD), and Meenu (MSc -- second year) have agreed to act as student representatives for our dept's graduate program committee. Please let these reps know if you have any concerns or questions about the program, courses, etc -- they can then raise them at meetings.
U of S researchers partner with First Nations, U of R, FNUniv on $1.5 million respiratory health initiative
Dr. Sylvia Abonyi (top insert photo) and Dr. Punam Pahwa (bottom insert photo), professors in Community Health and Epidemiology are part of a team of Saskatchewan researchers who want to help First Nations people breathe easier. A respiratory health initiative was announced on Tuesday. more...from CTV news website (photo credit).
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
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