Graduate Award in Population Health and Engineering

Award descriptionAwards totalling $2,000 are offered annually by friends and family to honour and remember UBC faculty members in the disciplines of occupational & environmental health and mechanical engineering who dedicated their careers to training and mentoring students to use knowledge from different disciplines with the goal of improving work and community environments. This award is for graduate students enrolled in the School of Population and Public Health or the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who undertake multidisciplinary research or training activities that bridge health and engineering disciplines to improve work or community environments. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Medicine in collaboration with the Faculty of Applied Science and in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.