The Healthy UBC Newsletter comes out monthly for those who are interested in health and wellbeing topics at UBC.
Healthy UBC Newsletter
Corporate discounts and resources for staff and faculty: Coping with stress & building resilience
We recognize that UBC employees support their health and wellbeing in different ways and we encourage you to choose the type of service that best fits with your goals and interests.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
Pharmacist‐led cardiovascular risk prevention in Western Canada: a qualitative study
Cardiovascular Assessment and Medication Management by Pharmacists at the UBC Site (CAMMPUS) is a unique multi-year collaboration between the UBC Pharmacists Clinic and UBC HR’s Health, Wellbeing & Benefits.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
How to Flex Your Resilience Muscle
Resilience is the ability to experience discomfort, recover, adapt and grow from challenge. This does not mean enduring or subjecting oneself to repeated discomfort for the sake of “being resilient”.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
Four tips to manage your stress
As you leave summer behind and transition into re-establishing routines and coping with your “new normal”, managing stress will be more important than ever. Let’s take a look at four reliable strategies and some resources that can help.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
Vaccinations – Your Voice Matters
The UBC Health Wellbeing and Benefits, Occupational and Preventive Health, and Pharmacists Clinic teams are working together to provide UBC staff and faculty relevant and timely vaccine-related information and access to local vaccination services.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Climbing Our Way to Social Health One Peak at a Time
Pick Your Peak challenge is a fun way to move more and build social connection into busy lives, a health and wellbeing two for one! At UBC Okanagan this year, the challenge encouraged staff and faculty to hit the hills or some socially distant stairs, and compare points, goals and share favorite climbing spots with others.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Free Events and Wellbeing Resources This Month: July 2020
Positive Coping Strategies: Supporting Your Mental Health (facilitated webinar) | July 21 & 28, 2020 | 9:00 a.m.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Editorial: Having safe and healthy conversations on racism, anti-racism in the workplace
It’s normal to feel discomfort as you reflect on your own experiences with racial inequality and deepen your understanding of racism. Even among friends, these conversations can be particularly difficult and anxiety-provoking.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Eating your way to better mental health
What we eat is not only critically important for the health of our bodies, but also our minds.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
UBC LIFT Challenge 2020: Results
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first UBC LIFT Corporate Fitness Challenge! From April 15 to May 15, 183 UBC staff and faculty members took to their living rooms, yoga mats, or outdoor spaces to participate in a virtual fitness challenge.
- HR
- Healthy UBC