Collaborative Specialization in Global Health Doctoral Program

Through various activities, including coursework and experiential learning opportunities, Doctoral students in the Collaborative Specialization in Global Health (CSGH) will reflect and deepen their knowledge about interdisciplinary approaches and responses to global health issues. Students will get opportunities to engage with leading global health faculty, career training opportunities and help to develop skills that advance their research objectives.

Application Requirements

Students who have already been accepted into a participating doctoral program at the University of Toronto are eligible to apply to the CSGH. Application requirements are:

Application form – CSGH – 2020
A personal statement, no longer than two pages, single spaced, describing your global-health related experiences – including coursework and independent research completed at the undergraduate and/or Masters levels, as well as professional and volunteer experiences – and how these experiences have prepared you for the collaborative Specialization in Global Health;
A curriculum vitae;
Two academic writing samples (maximum 20 pages each).

Program Requirements

For doctoral students admitted to the Collaborative Specialization in Global Health, formal requirements are:

1) Participation in CHL5701H: Doctoral Seminar, Collaborative Specialization in Global Health, a half-credit global health research seminar course, for two semesters during your studies. Students are encouraged to attend the CSGH seminar whenever they are in Toronto.

2) Completion of ONE core course. Students may choose between:

CHL5420H: Global Health Research

CHL 5702H: History of International Health

CHL 5704H: International Human Rights Law and Global Health: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice

JCR 1000Y: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Challenges

NUR 1038H: Social Determinants of Health in a Global Context: Theories and Methods (not offered in 2020-2021)

NUR 1083H: Comparative Politics of Health and Health Policy in a Globalizing World (not offered in 2020-2021)

if there isn’t a core course on this list that meets your learning objectives or you are not able to take, please consult the CSGH director.

3) Completion of one approved elective course from outside your home department (this is in addition to the core course). The elective must be approved by the CSGH Director.

4) Writing and defending a thesis related to global health. Your advisor or one member of your doctoral dissertation committee must be part of the Collaborative Program Advisory Committee. Please see Contacts at Collaborating Graduate Doctoral Programs for list of Committee members.

5) Doctoral students participating in CSGH are responsible for meeting the doctoral requirements of their home departments.

Participating programs

The program is available to PhD students in the following participating graduate units:

PhD Students Starting in 2019

Name	Contact Information	Home Department/Division	Supervisor/s	Research Interests and Area
Sujata Mishra		IHPME – Health Services Research (Health Economics)	Nancy Reichman and Audrey Laporte	Maternal and child health outcomes and non-communicable diseases in low resource settings
Victoria Haldane		IHPME – Outcomes and Evaluation	Xiaolin Wei	Evaluation Methods, Tuberculosis Control, eHealth
Brandon Maser	brandon.maser@mail.utoronto.ca; brandon.maser@sickkids.ca	IHPME – Health Services Research (Health Policy)	Mark Dobrow and Avram Denburg	Global child health policy; internationally-controlled essential medicines; global palliative care access
David Hill	davidc.hill@utoronto.ca LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hill-globalhealth	PHS – Social and Behavioural Health Sciences	Anne-Emanuelle Birn	Global health policy in Latin America, mining and extractive industries, societal determinants of health
Genevieve Armstrong	genevieve.armstrong@utoronto.ca	Nursing	Denise Gastaldo	Tuberculosis and Migration
Alyssa Kelly		IHPME – Health Services Research	Melanie Barwick
Miranda Loutet	miranda.loutet@mail.utoronto.ca	PHS – Epidemiology	Daniel Roth	maternal, newborn and child health
Garrett Morgan	garrett.morgan@mail.utoronto.ca	Geography and Planning	Blake Poland and John Robinson	Inclusive Urban Resilience and Sustainability; Healthy Cities; Place-Based Public Health Strategies
Archchun Ariyarajah	archchun.ariyarajah@mail.utoronto.ca	PHS – Epidemiology	Shelly Bolotin & Jeff Kwong	Vaccine-preventable diseases, Infectious disease outbreaks, Epidemiological surveillance data
Vinyas Harish		IHPME and Faculty of Medicine	Laura Rosella and Kamran Khan

PhD Students Starting in 2018

Name	Contact Information	Home Department/Division	Supervisor/s	Dissertation/Research Interests
Bianca Carducci	Bianca.carducci@sickkids.ca LinkedIn: linkedin.com/biancarducci	Nutritional Sciences	Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta	I’m really interested in the nexus between global food, nutrition, and the environment. My dissertation is focused on the health and nutrition of school-aged children in two provinces of Pakistan.
Loreto Fernandez		Social and Behavioural Health Sciences	Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Amrita Kumar-Ratta		Geography	Rachel Silvey
Juyeon Lee		Social and Behavioural Health Sciences	Erica Di Ruggiero & Lisa Forman	Social inequalities in health, especially the relationship between precarious employment and health. I am focusing on examining how the lived experiences of online platform workers vary across different social, economic and political contexts.
Sarah O’Sullivan	s.osullivan@mail.utoronto.ca Twitter: @s_oparkivan	Anthropology	Holly Wardlow & Bianca Dahl	Medical anthropology, development, post-conflict, humanitarianism, HIV/AIDS, personhood, stigma theory, East Africa, Uganda, Acholi
Kathryn Wiens		Epidemiology	Stephen Hwang
Sarah Williams	sarah.williams@mail.utoronto.ca Twitter: @misantropologa	Anthropology	Janice Boddy and Holly Wardlow	Maternal/Reproductive Health, Mexican midwifery, Mayas, Indigenous Health, Obstetric violence, Vaccine hesitancy

PhD Students Starting in 2017

Name	Contact Information	Home Department/Division	Supervisor/s	Dissertation/Research Interests
Shamim Ahmed	shamimjitu.ahmed@mail.utoronto.ca LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shamimahmedjitu/	Social and Behavioural Health Sciences	Daniel Sellen, Shafi Bhuiyan	Urban health, Labor market, Health equity, Development economics, Global Health, and Health policy
Kayvan Viand		IHPME	Alex Jadad
Natasha Altin		Social and Behavioural Health Sciences	Stephanie Nixon	Assistive technology, rehabilitation, disability, occupational therapy; rehabilitation systems’ services, policies and research
Michelle Amri	Twitter: @michelle_amri	Social and Behavioural Health Sciences	Patricia O’Campo & Theresa Enright	Public Health Policy; Health Equity; Urban Health; Discourse Analysis
Isha Berry	isha.berry@mail.utoronto.ca Twitter: @ishaberry2	Epidemiology	Dr. David Fisman	Transmission Dynamics of Influenza and Avian Influenza in Urban Bangladesh
Allison Daniel	allison.daniel@mail.utoronto.ca Twitter: @KusamalaProgram	Nutritional Sciences	Dr. Robert Bandsma	Developmental and nutritional outcomes in children with severe acute malnutrition
Calvin Ke	calvin.ke@mail.utoronto.ca Twitter: @calvinke	Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation	Baiju Shah, Prabhat Jha, Thérèse Stukel, Juliana Chan	Young-onset type 2 diabetes, global diabetes epidemiology
Rozina Somani	rozina.somani@mail.utoronto.ca LinkedIn: rozinasomani@gmail.com	Faculty of Nursing	Carles Muntaner PhD MHS Professor Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, DLSPH	My field of study is “critical approaches to health and health outcomes” and my PhD research focuses on “violence in the healthcare sectors.” I am planning to implement a Workplace Violence Reporting System for Nurses in a Healthcare Setting in Pakistan.
Sarah Sutherland		Epidemiology	Paula Braitstein & Harry Shannon	International health development with a focus on maternal and child health
Bernice Yanful		Public Health Sciences	Anne-Emanuelle Birn