U of T scientist co-leads human genome database project, Iranome, in the Middle East
April 16/2018By: Sarah Warr, Women's College Hospital With the completion of the human genome project in 2003, several genome databases have been made available worldwide yet, all of these databases lack representation from many ethnic groups including populations living in Middle East. To address this gap, Mohammad R. Akbari, Assistant Professor...
Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world
April 11/2018
Increasing cigarette prices would add to years of life lived, and cut billions of dollars in treatment costs for families globally By: Ana Gajic, St. Michael's Hospital Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world, while also cutting health treatment costs...
U of T selected as scientific partner of Canada’s largest health research platform to accelerate cancer and chronic disease research
April 11/2018
The University of Toronto has been selected to serve as the national scientific partner of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP), Canada’s largest population research platform that is unlocking the answers to why some people develop cancer and chronic diseases while others do not. Through a national competition by...
OTRU publishes 2017 Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Monitoring Report
March 29/2018The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit published the 2017 Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Monitoring Report on Wednesday March 28, 2018. Click here to download the report This report presents evaluative information about the activities and results of the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy and describes Strategy infrastructure and interventions, analyzes population-level changes, and explores...
Community Paramedics Offer an Alternate Resource for Chronically Ill Patients: U of T Expert
March 27/2018
By: Rebecca Biason, Communications and Events Coordinator, IHPME Can paramedics fill the gaps in primary care for chronically ill patients? Researcher and patient outcomes expert Katie Dainty, conducted a qualitative study of advanced training program EPIC, to find out. The idea behind the program which Dainty and her team of researchers designed,...
DLSPH Open: DLSPH launches first Operational Plan
March 23/2018Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share with you the Faculty’s first Operational Plan. Click here to read the Operational Plan (2017-2020) First, a word on how we got here. One of the recommendations following the 2016-17 University of Toronto Quality Assurance Process (UTQAP) was to develop an Operational Plan...
DLSPH Blog – Integrating Health Systems because the Future of Health Care is Local
March 23/2018
The DLSPH Blog is a digital platform that will explore issues that impact public health and health systems scholars on a biweekly basis written by Interim Dean Adalsteinn Brown in collaboration with DLSPH faculty, staff and students. For blog ideas, feedback or comments, contact: communications.dlsph@utoronto.ca The majority of healthy living activities...
Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers experience higher mortality rates: U of T researcher examines causes of death
March 08/2018
By: Rebecca Biason, IHPME Communications & Events Coordinator Sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis are more likely to die earlier than the general population, according to a new study by University of Toronto researchers that examined the causes of death of Ontarians over a 14-year period. “Everyone deserves to live the same length...
Almost all Ontarians accumulate multiple chronic conditions over their lifetime
March 05/2018
By: Deborah Creatura, ICES Communications The number of Ontarians who died with two or more chronic conditions increased from 79.6 per cent in 1994 to 95.3 per cent in 2013, according to a new study from Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). The...
Major Players in Global Fight Against Cancer Joining Forces at Toronto Conference
March 01/2018
By: Daniel Girard (University Health Network) & Leslie Shephard (St. Michael's Hospital) Some 300 delegates from more than 30 countries with one goal – joining in the global fight against cancer – met in Toronto today at the Toronto Global Cancer Control Conference, co-chaired by Professor Prabhat Jha. The conference will...