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Largest set of data on health behaviours by Canadian post-secondary students to be released at conference

June 12, 2013

TORONTO, ON – The largest amount of data ever col­lect­ed on the health of Cana­di­an post-sec­ondary stu­dents will be released on Mon­day, June 17, by the Cana­di­an Orga­ni­za­tion of Uni­ver­si­ty and Col­lege Health (COUCH).

More than 30,000 stu­dents from 30-plus Cana­di­an insti­tu­tions respond­ed to the Nation­al Col­lege Health Assess­ment (NCHA) sur­vey. The data will be released pri­or to COUCH’s Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing being held at the Delta Mon­tre­al.

EVENT DETAILS

WHAT: Release of data on the health of Cana­di­an post-sec­ondary stu­dents by the Cana­di­an Orga­ni­za­tion of Uni­ver­si­ty and Col­lege and Health.

WHO:

  • Guy Faulkn­er, Pro­fes­sor, Kine­si­ol­o­gy and Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
  • Jen­nifer Robert­son PhD, Senior Eval­u­a­tor, Pub­lic Health Ontario
  • Dr. Su–Ting Teo, Direc­tor Stu­dent Health and Well­ness, Ryer­son Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Kan­di McE­lary,  Man­ag­er, Well­ness Ser­vices, Mount Roy­al Uni­ver­si­ty

WHERE: Delta Mon­tre­al, Vival­di Room, 475 Pres­i­dent Kennedy Avenue, Mon­tre­al, QC

WHEN: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Mon­day, June 17, 2013

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For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact:

Janine Robb
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
416–428-7377