“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...
Human Relationships, Not High Tech, Sparked This Breast Cancer Breakthrough
March 30/2023
Human Relationships, Not High Tech, Sparked This Breast Cancer Breakthrough By Heidi Singer Researchers from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health have discovered a new genetic mutation significantly linked to breast cancer – another important piece in the puzzle explaining why breast cancer runs in families. The discovery, published...
New Fellowship Develops Human-Centered Leaders in AI for Health
March 29/2023
Artificial intelligence promises to have a huge impact on Canadian health care -- and faculty at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health are working now to train leaders who can realize its benefits. In partnership with AMS Healthcare, DLSPH has launched The AMS-Fitzgerald Fellowship in AI...
Two DLSPH faculty members receive Connaught funding to support emerging partnerships
March 02/2023
By Bonnie O'Sullivan DLSPH researchers performed extraordinarily well this year in receiving awards from a University of Toronto fund that supports collaborations with community partners and nurtures early-stage researchers. Prof. Angela Mashford-Pringle, Associate Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, and Prof. Beverley Essue, faculty member at the Institute...
Stars in the same constellation: DLSPH researcher on the mutual benefits of space and health innovations
January 12/2023
By Bonnie O'Sullivan Photo: Prof. Farhan Asrar (right) with Dr. David Saint-Jacques (Canadian astronaut, family doctor, and co-author). Taken at the Canadian Space Agency Head Quarters. “I’m a doctor, not an engineer,” said Star Trek’s Dr. Leonard McCoy when asked to do something outside his comfort zone. His story may...
PrEP for HIV Prevention Should Be Free for Canadians, Say Researchers
January 04/2023by Françoise Makanda Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention should be available at no cost to all Canadians who meet the clinical guidelines, say researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH). “Removing cost as a barrier to access in Ontario, like in some other provinces, is a...
Putting Primary Care at the Centre of Ontario’s Health System: DLSPH Researchers to Advise Primary Care Groups
November 30/2022
By Heidi Singer With Canadian health care systems in crisis, a University of Toronto researcher is working to inform stakeholders on building high-performing integrated primary care systems – work that she hopes will support them to make real change in the sector. Prof. Monica Aggarwal is leading a research collaboration...
Supported by Shoppers Drug Mart, DLSPH and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy partner to strengthen pharmacists’ role in health system
November 22/2022
The University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health along with Shoppers Drug Mart have announced a new collaboration to study how pharmacists can better support Canada’s overburdened health system. The research will review and evaluate what the expanded role for pharmacists...
Strengthening Primary Care Key to Rebuilding Canada’s Crumbling Healthcare System
November 15/2022
A new report on the sustainability and resilience of Canada’s healthcare system has sounded the alarm that the current healthcare model is incapable of making the changes necessary to address the challenges faced today and will not withstand the next crisis. The Sustainability and Resilience in the Canadian Health System...
Assumptions about the Lethality of Air Pollution in India May Be Exaggerated
October 12/2022
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,...