Prof Carles Muntaner Inducted to The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
September 23/2019DLSPH Prof. Carles Muntaner has been inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences – one of the highest honours within Canada’s academic community. DLSPH writer Françoise Makanda spoke with Muntaner to learn more about the award and its impact on his work. Q: Congratulations on this recognition! How do...
“It’s not only whether you wake up and feel healthy but when you wake up, do you have access to land and food security?”
September 19/2019A DLSPH Researcher on Access to Care in the Far North By Heidi Singer After spending her early years in Labrador, the North was always part of Prof. Susan Chatwood’s circle of friends and family. So it felt like a natural place to land when she became a nurse in...
Prof Obidimma Ezezika Receives Next Einstein Award
September 13/2019DLSPH Prof. Obidimma Ezezika has been named one of Africa’s top 25 scientists by the Next Einstein Forum – an organization that supports the work of African scientists under the belief that the next Einstein will be African. Ezezika received the Next Einstein Forum Fellow Award for his research around...
People in Residential Buildings Smell Cannabis More Than Cigarette Smoke: U of T Researchers
September 11/2019U of T researchers found that more people in apartment buildings and condos reported being exposed to cannabis smoke than to tobacco in the year before legalization. In 2017, based on surveys of Ontario residents living in multi-unit dwellings, an estimated 800,000 people smelled cannabis smoke from hallways, other units or...
DLSPH Researchers Earn Connaught Awards for Cancer Care Projects
September 11/2019by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer, DLSPH DLSPH’s Olli Saarela and Jennifer Brooks have received U of T’s prestigious Connaught New Researcher Award for their projects on improving care and screening for cancer. They join 50 winners who are receiving funding as part of U of T’s commitment to fostering excellence...
Health System Reform Must Include Physicians
August 12/2019Ontario has embarked on a bold experiment to transform care with a large focus on Ontario Health Teams or OHTs. At maturity, OHTs will be responsible for the full continuum of care within a community. As the Premier’s Council’s latest report suggests, OHTs should be able to provide an integrated...
Uncovering the Communities with the Highest Premature Deaths in Ontario
August 07/2019U of T researchers have conducted the first spatial analysis of death in Ontario, discovering that social and demographic factors are by far the biggest factors in predicting who dies before their time. Public health researchers used traditional statistical and geography tools to break down premature death rates community by...
U of T Researchers Show Kids Widely Exposed to Smoking in Movies
July 24/2019More than half of the top-grossing movies in Ontario in the past 16 years featured smoking, according to University of Toronto researchers with the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit – and most of these films were rated as acceptable for youth. Since 2002, Adult Accompaniment (AA) or 14A rated movies have...
IHPME welcomes new acting director, Audrey Laporte
July 11/2019As the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) bids a fond farewell to outgoing Interim Director Rhonda Cockerill and wishes her well on her retirement, we are very pleased to welcome our current acting director Audrey Laporte, who has been with IHPME since 2001 as a faculty member and...
DLSPH Push Forward Recommendations to Improve Health of LGBTQ2S+ Communities
June 27/2019By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Trans people do not have access to adequate and inclusive medical care. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men face discriminatory policies when donating blood. When measuring homelessness, researchers cannot determine how many LGBTQ2S+ youth and young adults experience homelessness....