Public Health & Preventive Medicine

We are medical anthropologists who have researched social and cultural dimensions of medical education. As teachers, we have worked with thousands of undergraduate pre-meds.

Rx for Renewal is a one-day event designed specifically to help pharmacists heal from—and learn to prevent—the effects of burnout and high stress.

A Saskatchewan doctor has been charged with unprofessional conduct after allegedly sending a fax to a pharmacy that disparaged homeless people and cancelled a patient’s prescription to punish the pharmacy for serving a local homeless encampment.

We all know it's happening—but are family physicians well-versed enough on the issues to help patients with opioid-use disorder?

A stockpile of drugs and investing in Canada’s pharmaceutical industry could fix Canada’s longstanding drug shortage problems, says Dr. Shoo Lee.

Adults offer theories about what is going on, but what do teens themselves say?

Three years into this pandemic, most Canadians have taken off their masks and many have stopped getting booster shots. However, COVID-19 is rising among the leading causes of death in Canada, reaching the No. 3 spot.

Patient advocacy groups and medical associations use polls to gauge the public’s interest or knowledge about an issue. Yet when headlines scream “Most Canadians agree ‘Canada is broken’,” it makes one wonder: Is polling broken?