A New Era for DLSPH and the WHO’s Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion
May 07/2021
DLSPH’s Centre for Global Health has just been named a WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion – part of a network of 800 academic and research institutions that support the organization’s mission to improve the world’s health. Although the School has been a Collaborating Centre since the 1990s, moving the designation...
Making Big Data More Inclusive
May 05/2021
A newly appointed DLSPH Faculty member and data pioneer is on a mission to help public health practitioners hear the “quiet voices” not traditionally captured in online data gathering. Neil Seeman has become a world-leading expert in uncovering the perspectives and experiences of people who don’t typically take surveys or...
Supervised Consumption Harm Reduction Goes Digital
April 26/2021U of T Researchers Test Novel Method to Reduce Opioid Deaths During the Pandemic by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A group of researchers at DLSPH and The Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs are studying a remote supervised-consumption model known as “spotting” to understand its benefits among...
Emerging Uses of Data Science and AI: DLSPH Kicks Off First Interdisciplinary Seed Projects
March 25/2021
Six teams of interdisciplinary researchers have won seed funding from DLSPH to investigate new and emerging projects in data science and artificial intelligence. The award is part of the School’s commitment to a new research model that brings together broad teams with disciplinary depth to tackle some of the most...
What They Heard: Q&A
March 16/2021
DLSPH researchers find local Indigenous communities not consulted about COVID Last year, as Canada shut its borders to stem the flow of COVID-19, people continued to cross freely into Indigenous communities by water– mingling with residents who had scarce access to masks or even clean water for hand washing. This...
Podcast Dissects Cities’ Future through Sustainable Development Goals
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March 16/2021
By Ayesha Shakeel, Communications Assistant and third-year undergraduate student in Global Health and Immunology A new podcast unpacks the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and outlines how U of T faculty and students' research are helping to achieve them. The Centre for Global Health’s Healthy Cities in the SDG Era Podcast,...
The Right Breast Cancer Screening at the Right Time
March 08/2021
DLSPH Profs. Jennifer Brooks, Anna Chiarelli and Meghan Walker are helping to lead game-changing research to better understand breast cancer risk and deliver more personalized screening tests for Ontarians. Most women with breast cancer have no family history, and don’t have the BRCA genetic mutations with strong links to the...
DLSPH Researchers to Study Teachers’ Exposure to COVID-19
March 04/2021
Researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are participating in a national study to estimate how many teachers and school personnel have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Asst. Prof. Brenda Coleman, who is running the Ontario wing of the study, hopes the results will...
Experts Work Together to Bolster Migrant Health Research
March 01/2021A group of DLSPH researchers have come together to explore the intersection of migration and public health. “The DLSPH has a long tradition of research and teaching in this area,” Prof. Andrea Cortinois, a group member of DLSPH’s Public Health and Migration says, “but we do not have a ‘home.’...
WBIIH is awarded Ontario NEIHR Grant
February 25/2021Indigenous Mental Health Capacity from the Ground Up by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at Dalla Lana School of Public Health The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) team is sharing their new Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) grant with national Indigenous experts to strengthen mental health research, programs,...