Join us in congratulating Dr. Katerina Rnic on receiving the 3rd annual ’Society to Cell’ Clyde Hertzman Memorial Fellowship!
Dr. Rnic is a postdoctoral fellow within our department. She is interested in how cognitive vulnerability, personality, and maladaptive behaviours predispose individuals to generate stress over time, and how this process causes, maintains, or exacerbates depression. Her research projects help us understand how social and environmental factors shape development and health, and how they might lead to health disparities over time. This fellowship is funded by the Social Exposome Cluster to financially support UBC trainees who are conducting research projects to better understand the long-term effects of such disparities.
This fellowship is in honour of the late Dr. Clyde Hertzman, the Founding Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), who passed away suddenly in 2013. Dr. Hertzman was a world-leading researcher in childhood development and health, a champion for social justice, and a tireless advocate for all children. He was the Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development and Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Dr. Hertzman played a central role in creating a framework that links population health to human development, which has catalyzed research investigating the importance of early child development as a determinant of health. His research contributed to international, national, provincial, and community initiatives for healthy child development. Amongst his many honours, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a long-term Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2010 Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013.
