Selective Abortion of Girls Occurs — For Different Reasons — Among Indian and Chinese Diaspora: DLSPH Researchers
September 27/2022
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...
Five DLSPH PhD students selected as inaugural Connaught Fellows
September 22/2022
By Bonnie O'Sullivan One-third of those named to the Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship Program are from DLSPH. The five students – Tenzin Butsang, Rose Schmidt, Jane Zhao, Madison Giles and Anam Shahil Feroz – share a passion for bridging academia with practical impact. From September 2022 to August...
Undergraduate students receive $33,000 for their research project
September 08/2022
By Bonnie O’Sullivan Photography by Diana Tyszko The Dalla Lana School of Public Health Outreach and Access Program participants have been awarded funding to support their research into youth programming at The Neighbourhood Organization in Thorncliffe Park. They started as teenage members of a DLSPH outreach program and then went...
“It was Exhilarating!”: U of T Students Become Lay Vaccinators
August 24/2022
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...
CanPath Awarded $1.1M CIHR Grant for COVID-19 and Cancer Research Project
August 22/2022
CanPath, Canada’s largest population health study based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, will capture the impact of COVID-19 on cancer outcomes and risk in Canada. Researchers at the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath), based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of...
$3.5 Million Gift to Expand Critical Qualitative Health Research at DLSPH
June 29/2022
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...
Research finds influenza in humans is seasonal in Bangladesh
June 13/2022Avian influenza in poultry, less so By Elaine Smith New research by a University of Toronto PhD graduate has determined that human influenza infections in Bangladesh have a high season in the summer months, while avian influenza in poultry is present at similar levels year-round. In a paper published recently...
Two Prestigious Awards for DLSPH’s Investigative Journalism Bureau
June 07/2022
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...
PhD Candidate Wins Big With Queer Online Dating Apps Research
June 01/2022
By Françoise Makanda, DLSPH Jad Sinno is researching how Queer people date online when these applications often simulate the oppressions they experience offline. “How do online dating apps shape Queer identities and why do Queer people of colour continue to return to the space, when so many of us have...
Strengthening Healthcare Systems in Canada and Around the World
May 20/2022
The new NorthWest International Policy Network will bolster systems of primary care and examine pressing issues in health policy, particularly around pandemics. The University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health is establishing the NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT International Policy Network at its Institute for Pandemics. Supported by a...