UBC's support for wellbeing can be found threaded throughout strategic plans, in research projects across diverse disciplines, and embedded through a broad range of programs, services and initiatives across the University.
We invite you to learn more about how our community members are supporting wellbeing on our campuses and encourage you to share and celebrate your own research, stories of success and wellbeing champions!
Move UBC is a university-wide initiative held every February to encourage increased physical activity and reduce the time students, faculty, staff, and the broader UBC community spend being stationary. Small changes can lead to big impacts—moving in ways that feel empowering, comfortable,…
This past year, UBC teams from Vancouver, Okanagan, and across the province demonstrated incredible resilience and dedication to advancing the Okanagan Charter and Wellbeing Strategic Framework. Together, they worked to prioritize health and wellbeing for all campus communities. The latest UBC…
Thrive is a time when we come together as a UBC community to learn about, talk about, and explore ways to support our mental health. Promoting mental health literacy, reducing stigma, and fostering a supportive campus culture are key to living, learning and working well …
Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the development of the Okanagan Charter at the 2025 International Health Promoting Campus Conference at the University of Limerick, Ireland, from June 16-19, 2025. This conference celebrates the anniversary of the Okanagan Charter…
To advance the goals outlined in the UBC Wellbeing Strategic Framework, the Canadian 24-hour Movement Guide, and the Okanagan Charter, the Climate & Movement cohort within the Sustainability Ambassador Program developed a series of Wellbeing Breaks aimed to raise awareness and spur action on…
In 2024, UBC Wellbeing reached a significant milestone, marking a decade since its establishment. On April 4th and 10th, over 150 students, faculty, staff and community members from Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, respectively, gathered to celebrate the collective efforts that have made our…
On April 19th, twelve faculty members from both UBC Vancouver and Okanagan, recipients of the inaugural Climate and Wellbeing Education Grant Program, gathered to showcase their efforts in integrating climate change and wellbeing content and pedagogy into UBC courses. This collaborative…
On April 12, 2024, Matt Dolf, Director of the Office of Wellbeing Strategy at UBC, and Dr. Rajiv Yeravdekar, Provost of the Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences at Symbiosis International University, co-presented at the International Congress on Academic Medicine (ICAM) in Vancouver…
On Thursday, April 11, 2024, the UBC Wellbeing network gathered to welcome guests from Symbiosis International University (Pune, India) for a knowledge-sharing session in the Wellbeing Design Lab in the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) on the Vancouver campus. …
UBC is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of our community and in 2016 proudly became one of the first universities in the world to adopt the Okanagan Charter– a globally recognized framework that aims to promote health and wellbeing on higher education campuses. In the…