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Buffer preparation tanks in the Emergent BioSolutions facility in Winnipeg

Winnipeg Free Press: UM alumna part of team searching for COVID-19 treatment

March 17, 2020 — 
UM alumna searching for COVID-19 treatment

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

College of Pharmacy marks Pharmacist Awareness Month with full slate of events

March 11, 2020 — 
March is Pharmacist Awareness Month and the Canadian Association of Pharmacy Students and Interns (CAPSI) and students from the College of Pharmacy are celebrating with a variety of activities and events.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

Enacting change: Dentistry, dental hygiene students push green plans

March 11, 2020 — 
A group of green-minded students is working to reduce the carbon footprint of the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

The science behind the social determinants of health

March 10, 2020 — 
Dr. Sharon Bruce, new head of community health sciences (CHS) in the Max Rady College of Medicine, is taking the lead of a growing and changing department situated within an evolving discipline.

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Alumni News

The Disrupters: Alumnae who persisted in an inequitable world

March 6, 2020 — 
As this year’s International Women’s Day calls for a more gender-equal world, we’re celebrating our own UM alumnae whose perseverance led to incredible contributions for Manitoba, Canada, and the world

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Michelle Driedger (community health sciences) with research partners at Manitoba Metis Federation, Georgina Liberty, Sheila Carter and Julianne Sanguins.

COVID-19 Rapid Response Program funding for studies in Indigenous populations

March 6, 2020 — 
Two University of Manitoba researchers have received nearly $1 million in COVID-19 Rapid Response Program funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for research projects that focus on public health responses in Indigenous populations.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

Rady students advance to 3MT finals

March 4, 2020 — 
Four Rady Faculty of Health Sciences grad students will be heading to the 3MT finals at the end of March.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

Breakfast recognizes community partners in shaping future health professionals

March 4, 2020 — 
The message of the third annual Community Partner Recognition Breakfast was that working with community organizations can profoundly affect how Rady Faculty of Health Sciences students practice when they enter their profession.

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Face coronavirus with courage, UM alumnus urges medical peers

March 3, 2020 — 
“We’re going to have to be strong,” author/physician Dr. Kevin Patterson said in a speech about doctors’ obligation to care for patients during a pandemic, regardless of the danger to their own health.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

‘Not less than human’

March 3, 2020 — 
North America’s Indigenous people face many health disparities, much of which can be traced back to colonization of their land by European settlers, says the keynote speaker of this year’s upcoming Helen Glass Research Symposium

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