Update on Building Access
October 14/2021
Dear DLSPH Community, I would like to share our plans for safely navigating DLSPH buildings during the Fall 2021 Term. As a school of public health, we must be exemplary in our own COVID safety protocols. As such, our newly revised protocols (see attached), developed in consultation with DLSPH’s occupational...
Understanding How Prison Profits Impact Health
September 16/2021
By Heidi Singer A DLSPH PhD student is applying lessons learned from the tobacco wars to improve understanding of health in the isolated world of North American prisons. “We have 50 years of strong information on how the tobacco industry operates, and we find that the playbook in these other...
Rhonelle Bruder: Rising and Making Space in New Places
September 02/2021
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Rhonelle Bruder starts her PhD in September at U of T after decades of advocacy work to improve health outcomes for marginalized communities and survivors of human trafficking. “I come from the nonprofit sector but I want to pursue a PhD to advance...
Dataset Playbook to Help Canadians Understand COVID Trends
August 16/2021
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A popular student-led pandemic dashboard just published its ‘playbook’ allowing anyone to use its COVID data. “We have some graphs and maps showing how the data can be used. It’s very illustrative, but it allows people to get an idea of what you...
Alternating Weight Loss Diets an Intriguing Strategy
August 09/2021By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer, DLSPH Participants in a first-of-its-kind DLSPH study lost almost 10 per cent of their body weight following three successive and varying diets in less than two years. “Almost 80 per cent of participants lost a clinically significant amount of weight. This is important because losing...
Titilayo Esther Davies: It’s Time to Make a Difference
July 29/2021by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Titilayo Esther Davies is not taking a break after her Master's in Bioethics at DLSPH. She’s jumping right into a PhD program in the School’s Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences. Her love of philosophy has led her to this point. After...
Christina Ricci: Making Waves in Maternal Health
July 26/2021By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Christina Ricci is finally ready to hit the workforce after seven years of university studies. With a job waiting for her after graduation, Ricci says the transition from school to work will be effortless. For her first role at Public Health Agency Canada,...
Dean Brown Discusses Pandemic With DLSPH Alumni
July 21/2021
Ontario stands at a turning point in its progress against COVID-19, says Prof. Steini Brown, co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. If the province continues rolling out vaccines in a thoughtful and equitable way, we will see a strong return to normalcy. But stumbling could bring in a...
The Undervalued Potential of Good Samaritans
July 20/2021
DLSPH researchers have found that the world is undervaluing a cheap and potentially significant way to save many more lives from car accidents, overdoses, cardiac arrest and common worldwide diseases like malaria: basic first aid. A research team led by a Toronto emergency physician conducted a literature review finding that...
Thilaxcy Yohathasan: It’s Not the Way Things are Supposed to Be
July 15/2021
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Thilaxcy Yohathasan’s journey to an MPH in Indigenous Health took many turns. She studied political science and planned to attend law school until a chance conversation with a roommate changed the course of her education and career. In a second-year class, she learned...