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Assumptions about the Lethality of Air Pollution in India May Be Exaggerated

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High levels of exposure to air pollution in India have a smaller effect on mortality than previously estimated, according to the first study to cover the whole of India, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a leading peer-reviewed journal. India has among the highest levels of air pollution in the world,...

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Prof. Xiaolin Wei combats health care barriers near and far

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By Bonnie O’Sullivan Photography by France Geomark Doctora Long before the pandemic, Prof. Xiaolin Wei was on the frontlines addressing health misinformation and building trust between health care professionals and communities. Now, the DLSPH epidemiologist has been recognized with election to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.   From a small...

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Selective Abortion of Girls Occurs — For Different Reasons — Among Indian and Chinese Diaspora: DLSPH Researchers

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The rates of selective abortion of female fetuses in third pregnancies following two earlier girls is higher among Indian diaspora than within India, according to a study published by public health researchers at the University of Toronto. The study authors, health researcher Catherine Meh and Prof. Prabhat Jha from the...

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Marburg Detection Highlights Importance of Global Surveillance Cooperation

By Françoise Makanda, DLSPH While cases of the Marburg virus were discovered in Ghana and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Prof. Shelly Bolotin is cautiously optimistic about the state of infectious disease surveillance. Marburg is a zoonotic disease which is closely related to Ebola. With a high mortality...

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“It was Exhilarating!”: U of T Students Become Lay Vaccinators

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By Heidi Singer and Françoise Makanda When the first person walked through the door of the makeshift clinic on U of T’s St. George campus, half a dozen students in red polo shirts and purple medical gloves were sitting at long tables, waiting to make history. Akash Kothari, a Master’s...

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$3.5 Million Gift to Expand Critical Qualitative Health Research at DLSPH

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A girl stands alone in the middle of an empty desert. A woman looks directly at the viewer, her mouth covered with band-aids. These artworks are helping public health researchers understand more about the lives of young mothers during COVID and systemic barriers that reinforce health inequities. Qualitative research like...

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World’s First MPH Program in Black Health

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by Françoise Makanda, DLSPH What should have taken 18 months was done in five, thanks to the leadership of DLSPH’s Black Health Lead, Prof. Roberta Timothy. In Fall 2023, DLSPH will welcome its first cohort of 10 students in the very first MPH in Black Health program, which Timothy believes...

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Two Prestigious Awards for DLSPH’s Investigative Journalism Bureau

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By Elaine Smith Within two short years of its launch, the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health has already garnered two prestigious journalism awards and received a nomination for a third. In 2021, the bureau’s inaugural year, it was named a finalist for the...

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Omicron triples Canada’s COVID-​19 infection count, study shows

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Nearly 30 per cent of Canadian adults – 9 million people – were infected during the Omicron variant wave early in 2022, compared with just 10 per cent who had been infected in the previous four waves, according to a new study led by Toronto researchers. Despite the high numbers...

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DLSPH Open: May is Asian Heritage Month

Dear DLSPH Community, May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. This is a time to celebrate our Asian communities and cultures, but it’s also an opportunity to consider how we can all support our Asian friends, family members, and colleagues in the face of rising racism and discrimination. Tragically, levels...

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