Applying epidemiologic methods to tackle the climate crisis in British Columbia with Shirley Chen
About the Seminar Climate change is the single greatest threat to human health in the 21st century. British Columbia (BC) is already seeing the effects of human-induced climate change. The past several years have been marked by an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Record-shattering temperatures,...
The One Health approach : what is the role of environmental health?
About the Seminar The concept of One Health has been around for centuries, but the official term was adopted in 2004. Despite its devastation for human health, the COVID-19 pandemic had the advantage of raising awareness regarding the One Health approach globally. A “One Health High Level Expert Panel” (OHHLEP)...
CanPath Webinar: Building the Canadian Cancer Study within CanPath
About the webinar: Streams of big data are finally coming together to help us understand cancer and predict it earlier. CanPath is building the Canadian Cancer Study to advance research and discovery for cancer, the leading cause of death in Canada. As the first program to bring together national population...
ONTARIO NEIHR WEBINAR SERIES 2022/2023 – The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
ONTARIO NEIHR WEBINAR SERIES 2022/2023 The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) Title: Exploring the Elements and Advocacy within Research for Off-reserve Status/Non-Status First Nations, Metis, and Southern Inuit communities. Speakers: Lydia C. Rehman, Darienne Russell, Nazih Nasrallah Elder: Clayton Shirt Moderator: Dr. Suzanne Stewart March 16, 2023 1:00pm to 2:00pm...
Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar: “Ambiguities and Absences: Regulating Occupational Health and Safety in the Platform Environment.”
Title: Ambiguities and Absences: Regulating Occupational Health and Safety in the Platform Environment The presentation will examine the challenges of regulating occupational health and safety in the environment of platform mediated work (PMW). It will first describe the structure of PMW and briefly review the evidence on the incidence of...
Environments and Health Webinar: Child Health
Children’s health is particularly sensitive to the environment. What they are exposed to during early years can have a significant impact on their healthy development. To better understand these health pathways and how to improve children’s health outcomes, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded three research projects considering different...
Commercial Determinants and Indigenous Health Disparities: An Introduction
Health Inc: Corporations, Capitalism, and the commercial determinants of health seminar series is co-hosted by the Centre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. Overview: Intertwined with colonialism and dispossession, Indigenous communities are disproportionately impacted...
DFCM New Horizons Speaker Series
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kwame McKenzie, CEO of Wellesley Institute and Professor of Psychiatry at U of T, on how family doctors and primary care providers can better link their work in education, research, and quality improvement to the social determinants of health, and how to partner...
Improving Immunization with People Experiencing Homelessness
Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited. There are so many barriers to effective and appropriate immunization services for people experiencing homelessness — poverty, mistrust, unstable housing, and competing...
Environments and Health Webinar: Agri-Food, the Food-Water Nexus and Health
A changing climate will affect food through a range of effects on agriculture, livestock, water systems, and wildlife, which have implications for food security, foodborne disease, and malnutrition. For example, population growth, loss of environmental services and climate change are forcing communities to explore opportunities that treat municipal wastewater to...