by Martin Dunphy on April 2nd, 2021 at 11:53 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and international climate-change activist Greta Thunberg will receive honorary degrees from the Universitry of British Columbia.
UBC announced the news in a March 31 news release that named 16 others who will be receiving honorary degrees the university s highest honour in late May this spring.
(The names of the other 16 recipients including four prominent members of B.C. First Nations and three renowned medical researchers are included at the bottom of this article.)
Henry, a former epidemiologist-physician with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, is the official face of the provincial response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and is widely known as a calming influence and a dispenser of scientifically validated information.