MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Responding to a need: Occupational health and safety master's degree first in Atlantic region

By Cam Thi Hong Ho

Students will have the option to enrol in an interdisciplinary master's program in occupational health and safety (MOHS) at Memorial this fall.

Pending approval by the university's Board of Regents, the program will be the first in the Atlantic region and the fourth in Canada, after the University of Toronto, University of British Columbia and McGill University. The graduate degree is built on the expertise that has been developing at Memorial University over the past decade.

Leading faculty in the field

This expertise is channeled by SafetyNet, the university's specialist research centre on occupational health and safety. The centre, which helped design the new program and whose leaders will help teach and direct it, has been in existence for over a decade and has an impressive record of grant funding and publications.

"This new master's program is unique in that it is explicitly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary," said Dr. Stephen Bornstein, director, SafetyNet, and professor, Department of Political Science, and the Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine.

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