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DLSPH Professor Honoured by TTC During Black History Month

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Dr. Roberta K. Timothy is one of 11 Black Torontonians being celebrated for their leadership, with likenesses captured by artists for display in subway stations and buses for Black History Month By Elaine Smith Walk into Toronto’s St. George subway station in February and you’ll see a mural of a...

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These researchers explore how Latine/​x newcomers experience housing and health

A collage of portraits of five of the researchers taking part in the Latinx newcomer study looking at housing instability and its effects on health.

The two-year study will explore housing and health challenges unique to Latine/x newcomers.  By Elaine Smith  Professor Amaya Perez-Brumer, an early career researcher at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), and her co-researchers have been awarded a Connaught Community Partnership Grant to study the unique housing challenges facing...

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What you need to know about the 3 fall vaccines, according to U of T experts

3D renditions of three dangerous respiratory viruses: RSV (top left), SARS-CoV-2 (bottom center), and flu (top right). Note: not to scale. Credit: NIAID

Here is what these U of T experts want Canadians to know about the new RSV vaccine, the updated COVID-19 vaccine, and this year’s flu shot.   By: Ishani Nath and Betty Zou  As cold and flu season approaches, Canadians are facing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an increase in COVID-19 activity,...

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DLSPH Faculty Among Recipients of the 2023 New Initiative and Innovation Awards

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DLSPH faculty were among the recipients of the inaugural 2023 New Initiative and Innovation Awards from the Network for Improving Health Systems (NIHS). The network was created in November 2022 from a $3 million donation from Shoppers Drug Mart to both the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH)...

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This AI will help us get ahead of the next pandemic

Headshot of Dr. Kamran Khan

By Ishani Nath It seems appropriate that the Toronto offices for Kamran Khan’s BlueDot, which uses artificial intelligence to flag potential infectious disease outbreaks around the world, are located at the edge of Lake Ontario. Similar to a lighthouse, BlueDot signals when there’s danger ahead. "We use the internet as...

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RSV Immunizations Are Coming. This U of T Researcher Is Helping Parents Prepare

Scanning electron micrography of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) labeled with anti-RSV/gold antibodies shedding from surface of human lung A549 cultured cell.

By Ishani Nath RSV researchers have been waiting for this moment for decades. Two new ways to protect children from respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, are on the verge of becoming available in Canada. Even though the majority of children will get infected by age 2, “most parents...

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UNICEF Report Underscores Urgency of Childhood Vaccinations, U of T Researcher Says

7-year-old Hind Ali Nasser holds her arm after being vaccinated in Aden Governorate, Yemen. (UNICEF)

By Ishani Nath The pandemic drastically set back routine immunizations leaving millions of children in Canada and around the world vulnerable to preventable diseases, according to a new report from UNICEF. “This underscores the urgency of this situation,” says Prof. Shelly Bolotin, Director of the Centre for Vaccine Preventable...

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Out of the Archives: Public Health Siblings, Donald and Frieda Fraser

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“Public Health Siblings; Donald and Frieda Fraser: Profiles From the Public Health History Archives, University of Toronto” By Christopher J. Rutty, Ph.D. Professional Medical & Public Health Historian Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Exploring the history of public health is not just about examining,...

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Solidarity with Iran and the Elimination of Violence against Women

Today, we join with the global community in recognizing the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th, which begins 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence culminating in World Human Rights Day on December 10th. Recent events underscore the importance of these commemorations — in...

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Daniel Harris: Using a PhD in Epidemiology to Support Nursing Home Residents

By Françoise Makanda Daniel Harris will graduate with a PhD in Epidemiology at the November convocation. The American-born graduate got more than he bargained for when he first set his sights on a PhD in Canada studying antipsychotics among older people. “DLSPH is an exceptional institution and resource-rich,” says Harris...

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