This PhD student is filling a gap in research on intimate partner violence, brain injury and mental health
October 02/2023
Danielle Toccalino is one of two DLSPH PhD students who have received the Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award for her research on intimate partner violence-related brain injury and the mental health of survivors. Her research is greatly needed – the body of literature that explores the impacts of brain injury...
Why do some women experience diagnostic delays? This PhD student plans to find out.
September 15/2023
Kelly Gregory is one of two DLSPH PhD students who have received the Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award for her research into diagnostic delays among women-identifying patients. Her research stands out – in a field that often silos this conversation based on a single health condition, she is looking at...
Hereditary Breast Cancer Researcher Receives Prestigious Award
September 12/2023
Renowned hereditary breast cancer researcher Steven Narod, a full professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) and the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, has been awarded the 2023 McLaughlin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). The award recognizes important research of sustained...
DLSPH Faculty Among Recipients of the 2023 New Initiative and Innovation Awards
August 30/2023
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)...
OHT Impact Fellows help build a learning health system in Ontario
August 14/2023By Alisa Kim For Dr. Nusrat Farhana, designing comprehensive systems of care is both an art and a science. Part of the challenge is “there is no recipe to follow, the problem is not necessarily clearly defined, and there may not be a known starting point of how to solve...
RSV Immunizations Are Coming. This U of T Researcher Is Helping Parents Prepare
July 05/2023
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...
On Gas Stoves and Asthma, a Surprising Finding
June 19/2023
By Heidi Singer DLSPH researchers have found a strong correlation between gas stove emissions and childhood asthma in Canadian cities – particularly in Toronto. Profs. Jeff Brook, Padmaja Subbarao, Dr. Marc-Antoine Bedard, and PhD student Myrtha E. Reyna, working with colleagues across Canada, analysed asthma rates among children in major...
DLSPH Researchers Map GTHA Traffic Air Pollution and its Changes over the Last 15 years
June 02/2023
By Allan McKee Its' Clean Air Day today (June 7)! How ironic it is that we are dealing with a thick blanket of haze from forest fires in Quebec – wiping out all the gains in air quality we should be celebrating today. Our record levels of air pollution remind...
Meet the Researchers Turning a Hospital into Canada’s First Learning Health System
May 29/2023
By Heidi Singer University of Toronto researchers are addressing hospital crowding in the most counter-intuitive way imaginable – by seeking out patients far beyond their hospital’s overburdened corridors. Prof. Laura Rosella uses data and analytics to identify populations at risk of chronic conditions. Prof. Kerry Kuluski talks to patients and...
“I Just Don’t Want People to Feel Broken and Misunderstood”
May 16/2023
DLSPH Students Lead Studies to Support Student Mental Health By Heidi Singer Two research teams at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are studying student mental health in close partnership with the best experts on the subject – students themselves. Both teams received funding from a new University of...