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The Faculty of Health Sciences embodies an interdisciplinary approach to research and teaching and to build capacity in Canada in population and public health.
As a non-departmentalized Faculty at SFU since 2005, the Faculty of Health Sciences avoids the siloed biomedical focus that characterizes many medical faculties, enabling research and teaching around important and complex health challenges that require transdisciplinary solutions. In its 'cell to society' design, the Faculty of Health Sciences鈥� interests are broader than traditional Schools of Public Health, integrating natural sciences, social sciences and humanities with population health, policy and societal applications.
Our Goals
The 2025-2029 Faculty of Health Sciences Strategic Research Plan reflects the Faculty鈥檚 growth, its collective research successes, and the current faculty complement and pending new hires.
The goals of the 2025-2029 Strategic Research Plan are:
- To support Faculty of Health Sciences researchers鈥� continued excellence in distinctive, transdisciplinary research and education across all of its strategic thematic areas;
- To strengthen links between our research strengths, the student experience, and curriculum;
- To facilitate collegial support and new research collaborations within the Faculty of Health Sciences and with multi-disciplinary researchers across SFU, including SFU鈥檚 new medical school;
- To support innovative research partnerships with local, national, and global organizations and communities.
Strategic Research Priorities for 2025-29
The Faculty of Health Sciences鈥� faculty identified the following Priority Research Themes that reflect the Faculty鈥檚 strengths and advance both its commitment to social justice and its mission to improve health and reduce health inequities locally, nationally, and globally.
These research priorities complement 尤物视频鈥檚 What鈥檚 Next Strategic Plan and align with the United Nation鈥檚 .
- Health Equity
- Indigenous Health
- Planetary Health
- Global Health
- Healthy Child Development
- Infectious Diseases
- Health Services, Systems and Policy
- Substance Use
- Chronic Health Conditions
- Knowledge Mobilization and Translation
- Data Science for Health
- Mental and Social Health
- Health Sciences and Public Health Education
Faculty Research Strengths by Strategic Theme
The interdisciplinary approach at the Faculty of Health Sciences has created a broad and rich engagement by our faculty members with several areas of research and teaching. Their activities frequently cut across multiple strategic themes, allowing for incredible collaboration, learning and teaching opportunities.
Planning to Action
An Implementation Plan will be developed by the Deans and Dean鈥檚 Office Managers to specify measurable outcomes, define resources to support the 2025-2029 Strategic Research Plan, and identify specific measures to be taken to strengthen global and institutional partnerships.
Faculty of Health Sciences researches are in the process of forming new Research Clusters. Research Clusters are social mechanisms that help build a sense of community and identify Faculty of Health Sciences researches who have shared or complementary research interests and are motivated to collaborate on either research or training initiatives. The Research Clusters offer the framework and opportunity for researchers to share resources and support trainee opportunities to enhance core competencies (e.g., experiential learning through research and research partnerships) across complementary projects. Research Clusters can be formed to foster ongoing collaboration on longstanding research themes or issues or be groups of researchers coming together for a shorter period to deal with pressing research questions or initiatives. Research Clusters will be evolving communities, open to researchers and students both within and outside of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
The Research Clusters replace the Research Challenge Areas from the 2018-2023 Strategic Research Plan.