Vanier Scholar Project Examines Occupational Health and Safety Regulations in South Korea
July 10/2020by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Although South Korea joined the ranks of highly industrialized nations in the new millennium, it has one of the highest fatal occupational injury rates of all OECD countries. South-Korean born DLSPH PhD Student Juyeon Lee finds that troubling and is working to uncover...
DLSPH welcomes Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco as part-time Assistant Professor, Learning Innovation
July 07/2020
Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco was appointed as a part-time Assistant Professor, Learning Innovation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health on July 2, 2020. Francisco is nationally recognized for excellence in pedagogy and educational leadership, and for his ability to inspire and connect through innovative and inclusive teaching. His priority this...
U of T Students Fill the Misinformation Gap with Trackers and Toolkits
July 06/2020
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A self-directed student-led organization, the Infectious Disease Working Group is responding to misinformation and public health communication gaps through an online resource portal. Their latest endeavour is a resource tracker: ReConnect, a community resource navigation tool that allows users to locate essential supports...
From Race to Racism as a Determinant of Health
July 02/2020
DLSPH Student Falan Bennett is Working to De-Pathologize Black Health Falan Bennett’s journey into public health wasn’t straightforward. She came to it through undergraduate studies in molecular biology and social psychology – and in seeing what was missing in the space between the natural and social sciences. “Learning about the...
From Theory to Practice: Origins of the University of Toronto Journal of Public Health
June 22/2020
by Daniel A. Harris, Rebecca A.G. Christensen and Jean-Paul R. Soucy The University of Toronto Journal of Public Health (UTJPH) reflects a grassroots, student-led initiative that grew out of a simple question: “How can we support the next generation of public health leaders?” This question was raised at a division-specific...
DLSPH launches a pan-Canadian study to understand the financing, organization, and performance of provincial and territorial public health systems
June 11/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the critical role of public health, revealing variations across the country in the preparedness and effectiveness of provincial and territorial (PT) public health systems. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how public health is financed, governed, and organized, and the composition of...
Your questions answered: the path to an effective COVID-19 vaccine
June 09/2020
On May 26, 2020, IHPME hosted a COVID-19 webinar — the twelfth in the DLSPH COVID-19 webinar series — exploring the path to an effective COVID-19 vaccine. It featured leaders from research, policy and private industry describing the pharmaceutical trajectory of new antiviral products (including the COVID-19 vaccine), from development...
U of T Offers Groundbreaking Training in Diplomacy for Public Health Professionals
May 28/2020
The race to create effective COVID-19 prevention and treatments illustrates the need for broader skills Diplomacy is both art and science – and public health professionals increasingly need to understand each of its intricate disciplines in order to create positive change in the world. That’s the guiding principle behind...
U of T students develop informatics platform to aid COVID-19 decision making
May 25/2020
Rapid Evidence Access Link (REAL) is an COVID-19 evidence pipeline for government and health sector leaders By: Nicole Bodnar An interdisciplinary team of health systems students and professionals built a digital platform that rapidly provides reliable COVID-19 information to health sector leaders and decision-makers across Ontario. Rapid Evidence Access Link...
Your questions answered: economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic
May 14/2020
On April 30, 2020, IHPME hosted its first COVID-19 webinar — the sixth in the DLSPH COVID-19 webinar series — exploring the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. It featured four health economists discussing how integrated economic and epidemiological modelling could support policy decisions and provided insights into how Canada...