Facilities

The Family Health Lab is located in the Arts Building at the University of Saskatchewan. It features a large meeting room, a testing room and observation gallery, and student research space. We have access to various technologies that allows us to perform innovative research. Research is also conducted in conjunction with health care systems, such as the Saskatchewan Health Authority.

Current Research

Broadly speak our research focuses on improving health and mental health outcomes in children, youth, and families. Current projects in the FHL are examining:

• Adolescent and young adult menstrual pain-related concerns and outcomes
• Non-verbal communication in pediatric pain
• Parental influences in pediatric pain
• Mental health literacy in parents of adolescents

Students interested in being involved in the family health lab can click here.

Community members interested in participating in our research can click here. We have lots of exciting research happening right now and are in need of research participants.

Lab News

• We recently launched our Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation funded website that was developed with youth to support youth in accessing menstrual pain information: menstrualpain.ca
• The Family Health Lab is excited to welcome Saphia Bedi to our team. Saphia is completing her honours thesis in the FHL this year in September 2026.