Building capacity in health organizations, forming new ones, and inspiring institutional change and collaboration to achieve greater effectiveness are just some of the ways these change-makers have improved health in Canada and the world.| CMHF
Hormones are produced by glands or special cells and are sent into the bloodstream to various tissues in our bodies as part of the endocrine system. Hormones influence almost every cell, organ and function in our bodies.| CMHF
How we train and educate our health care providers and researchers has evolved as much as has science. Whether developing an academic specialty, creating new standards for training, building our learning institutions, or expanding the breadth of learning to include clinical research, CMHF Laureates have profoundly impacted future generations of health scientists, scholars and clinicians.| CMHF
Dr. Hans Selye is acknowledged as the "Father" of the field of stress research, having gained world-wide recognition for introducing the concept of stress in a medical context.| CMHF
