HEAL is proud to celebrate the achievements of former postdoctoral associate Dr. Dong Liu, who has been awarded the 2026 International Geographical Union (IGU) Early Career Award in Geography. The award recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions by emerging geographers within ten years of completing their terminal degree. Dr. Liu was named among a select group […]

We are excited to congratulate Dr Don Lafreniere, a Faculty Associate with the HEAL at Western University, on his Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair at Trent University. He is receiving $8 million in federal funding over eight years to build a national program training marginalized youth in geospatial technologies and research. Dr Lafreniere spent 15 years […]

The HEAL is proud to share that Mackenzie Betteridge has completed her master’s thesis in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University. Her thesis, “Adolescent Cannabis Use in Canada: Patterns, Correlates, and Change Over Time During Early Cannabis Legalization and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” examined cannabis use among Canadian adolescents and explored how sociodemographic, psychological, lifestyle-behaviour and […]