Dr. Jennifer Gardy receives UBC President’s Award for Public Education Through Media

Dr. Jennifer Gardy, Assistant Professor in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, has been awarded the 2014 UBC President’s Award for Public Education Through Media. This award celebrates the active and creative sharing of research expertise through news media.

Dr. Gardy is a devoted science communicator, passionate about educating the public about complex scientific issues and helping them to understand the importance, and the implications, of scientific discovery and knowledge. She regularly appears on CBC’s The Nature of Things and Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. She is frequently called upon to do guest segments for CTV’s The Social (2013-present), the Vancouver edition of CTV Morning Live (2014-present), and Urban Rush/The Rush (Shaw TV, 2008-present), as well as on CBC radio across Canada.

She released a children’s book, “It’s Catching: the Infectious World of Germs and Microbes” in 2014.

Dr. Gardy won the YWCA Women of Distinction award in the Science, Technology, & Research category, in 2014, and, in 2013, she was given the “Public Education about Microbiology through the Media” from the UBC Department of Microbiology & Immunology.

Dr. Gardy will receive her award at a reception honouring outstanding UBC researchers, hosted by the UBC Office of the Vice President Research & International, on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 in the Glass Lobby of the Chan Centre.