Faculty of Health

Kayla Bernard (BScR’21) uses her background in recreation therapy and community development to make Indigenous students feel at home at Dal.

Dal Health instructor and occupational therapist Amira Tawashy (MScOT’12) will deliver the 20th Kelly Bang Memorial Lectureship.

2023 Aurum Award winner Athanasius “Tanas” Sylliboy (MN’20) is advocating for improved health outcomes for Mi’kmaq and other marginalized communities by breaking barriers and lifting voices.

As part of her work at Dalhousie and on the gynecology unit at the IWK, Dr. Rachel Ollivier (PhD’22) created the first patient educational tool in Nova Scotia on sexual health after birth.

During National Nurse Practitioners Week (Nov. 13-19, 2022), we caught up with two alumni to ask them about their experiences in the profession.

Dal alum Dr. Keisha Jefferies has completed a timely, much needed, and highly anticipated publication on the available literature related to Black nurses in Canada

2022 Aurum Award recipient, Patricia Lingley-Pottie (BN’88, PhD’11), co-founded the Strongest Families Institute to deliver telephone and online mental wellness services.

Dr. George Mencher has been active in the field of audiology around the world for more than five decades. In addition to his work as a professor of audiology in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Dalhousie from 1974 to 2012, he was instrumental in founding the school itself.

Social work grad Alex Sangha (MSW’13) makes a social impact through documentary film-making.

Roslyn ‘Roz’ Smith (BPE’71) has completed 31 marathons in person and two marathons virtually. The 72-year-old ‘road runner’ advises us to find a passion that keeps us active for life.