To be a global leader in championing wellbeing for our students, faculty, staff, and community members, we must work together, embracing wellbeing in our campus culture, promoting and supporting wellbeing in both large and small ways, and helping one another address challenges.
Our Wellbeing Eco-System
It is this strategic, collaborative, system-wide approach that defines UBC’s approach to wellbeing. It is not the effort of a single unit or department, but something we create collectively, with everyone contributing to making UBC a better place to live, work, learn and play.
Do you have questions about our groups or how to get involved? Email us at ubc.wellbeing@ubc.ca.
UBC Office of Wellbeing Strategy
The UBC Office of Wellbeing Strategy (OWS) serves as the core strategic support (or backbone) to advance UBC’s Wellbeing Strategic Framework (WSF), and commitments to the Okanagan Charter. OWS provides system-wide alignment, coordinated action, capacity building, communication, facilitation, and evaluation support across UBC Vancouver & Okanagan campuses.
UBC Wellbeing Leadership Team
The UBC Wellbeing Leadership Team provides oversight and decision-making support to ensure that UBC moves toward becoming a wellbeing-promoting university, embedding health and wellbeing in all that we do: into everyday operations, business practices, and academic mandates. The Leadership Team will meet for one hour every two months as needed.
UBC Wellbeing Advisory Committee
The Wellbeing Advisory Committee is made up of a dedicated group of academic leaders, senior administrators, and student executives on both our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. They represent leadership across portfolios at UBC and are a driving force in supporting wellbeing as a priority on our campuses, addressing why wellbeing matters, and recognizing how it can be better integrated into the strategic, academic, and operational work of the university. The Advisory Committee typically meets 1-2 times per semester.
Strategic Support Team
A Strategic Support Team of staff from key wellbeing supporting units on both campuses works with faculties, units and departments to integrate wellbeing into their practices, policies and unit cultures. They also act as a “Community of Practice,” enhancing connections for staff connected to health, wellbeing, and sustainability promotion but without necessarily having a mandate for systems-wide work. This group focuses on knowledge sharing, capacity building, advising priority initiatives, innovation, and collaboration to connect communities and embed wellbeing across the institution. This group meets every two months.
Ad-hoc Priority Area Committees
Comprised of student, faculty, staff, and community stakeholders from both campuses, these committees support collaborative and system-wide priority areas and actions that advance our commitments to the Okanagan Charter and Wellbeing Strategic Framework. Each committee develops a terms of reference, action plans, and reports on outcomes.
For more information on committee membership and initiatives, visit the priority area pages on wellbeing.ubc.ca.