Dr. Mark Dolson is currently a Lecturer in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, mainly teaching critical courses such as Qualitative Methods (HLTH344), Social Determinants of Health (HLTH260), and seminars on topics like Poverty and Addiction and Re-imagining Care. Dr. Dolson has also been a mentor and peer to many, especially the numerous undergraduate and graduate thesis students that he has supervised during his time at AHS. He is the only medical anthropologist working in the faculty. Students describe him as approachable and resourceful, and as a purveyor of a refreshing view into the concept of "health" and how we view it, especially as dedicated students of the topic who are quite used to quantitative methods. He also works as an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Waterloo's Department of Anthropology.

Unfortunately, Dr. Lili Liu (Dean of AHS) is not extending Dr. Dolson's contract into 2021, despite his innumerable contributions to the faculty and student success. We are hoping for Dr. Liu to reinstate Dr. Dolson's status as a Lecturer with the Faculty due to his immense care for his students and his contributions to each of our personal successes and goals, as well as our understanding of health. For many, Dr. Dolson was one of the few approachable and caring professors during our time at Waterloo, and his wealth of knowledge and experience in the domain of population-level health in a qualitative sense is unparalleled by any other professors in AHS. As a medical anthropologist, Dr. Dolson provides a much-needed critical perspective into how we see and treat health, and the shortfalls of the medical and neoliberal perspectives of health. We are hoping that Dr. Liu sees our love and appreciation for Dr. Dolson and the value of what he has taught us, as well as the great appreciation that has been shown through things like his students' course evaluations, and reconsiders her decision.