Thematic Cartography for Health Geographers
Maps can be great tools for exploratory analysis and communicating research findings. This workshop will cover intermediate-to-advanced thematic cartography aimed to help health geographers visualize their data. The first part of the workshop will provide general guidelines for designing better maps (symbology, layers and hierarchy, balance and alignment, and accessibility)....
Measuring Transit Access to Hospitals using Python
Measuring access to opportunities in a transportation system requires two key ingredients: Travel times (typically in the form of travel time matrices) and opportunity locations. In this workshop, we will use a brand-new Python module called r5py to quickly generate realistic travel time matrices for public transit and other modes....
Bibliometrics Basics – What a Researcher Needs to Know
The Centre for Research & Innovation Support in collaboration with the University of Toronto Libraries is hosting a 90-minute webinar on Bibliometrics Basics – What a Researcher Needs to Know. This session will introduce participants to Bibliometrics and altmetrics that can be used to measure a broad range of scholarly...
Queerying Health Research: Undoing Suicidism: Queering, Transing, Cripping and Maddening (Assisted) Suicide with Alexandre Baril
Undoing Suicidism: Queering, Transing, Cripping and Maddening (Assisted) Suicide In this presentation, I argue that suicidal people are oppressed by structural suicidism. Suicidism and its preventionist script reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death through forms of incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups,...
Building bridges: community work, clinical services and research with people experiencing homelessness
Join us for the Upstream Lab Speaker Series launch! Our first episode features an insightful conversation between a community advisor and a family physician, delving into stories and realities of engaging with people experiencing homelessness. Meet the speakers: Mathieu Isabel is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Andrew...
Dementia, Care and Respect
Full Title: Dementia, Care and Respect Speakers: Amy Mullin, Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toronto Mississauga Abstract Three decades ago Ronald Dworkin set the terms of ongoing debates around health care decision-making for people with dementia, with Rebecca Dresser and Agnieszka Jaworska offering alternative recommendations and approaches. I review...
STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Hugo Aerts
Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Hugo Aerts, PhD Full Professor, Maastricht University Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM), Harvard-MGB (Mass General Brigham) Free Hybrid Event | Registration Required Talk Title Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging Speaker Profile Hugo Aerts PhD...
CRIS Connects: Open Access Publishing
CRIS Connects provides targeted, real-time help from experts. Come and ask experts anything on their topic of expertise and concurrently build your tri-campus networks. Stephanie Orfano, Head Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office, UTL, will be joining us as a guest expert for CRIS Connects April session to answer questions on...
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)...