The Department of Public Health Sciences continued its long relationship with Empire Life in 2018-19, with three fellowships totalling $20,000 awarded to current students.
This year’s recipients are Lindsey Cameron-Dermann (MSc Epidemiology), Priyanka Gogna (PhD Epidemiology), and Jordan Bertagnolli (Master of Public Health). Students are actively engaged in research on the association between estrogen and health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women in a breast cancer prevention trial; epigenetic modification of the human genome and its role in cancer development; and applied public health work on environmental health, climate change and Canada’s northern communities.
Fellowships recognize academic excellence and the potential to make an important contribution to the field of public health.
Since 2003, the Empire Life Public Health Sciences Fellowship has provided 32 awards to students in the department. Empire Life's national headquarters are just a short walk away from Queen's campus. They have a long history of giving to our university and to our community, and we are grateful for their strong support of the Department of Public Health Sciences through this graduate fellowship program.