Currently, the areas of active research in the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology include:
- cancer, alzheimers, diabetes, and others
- community-based and institutional interventions
- environmental and occupational health and safety
- epidemiology
- healthy aging
- health care services, policy, planning, and evaluation
- health promotion
- quality of life
- prevention, control and management of disease
- risk assessment
- tobacco, alcohol, nutrition, physical activity and other healthy lifestyle modifications
- health informatics
- health communication
Areas of research for faculty in the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology can be found at the following website:http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/hsg/research/facultyresearch.html