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Moving Upstream: Advancing the science of structural determinants of health

November 20/2026 — 8:00am to 5:00pm

The Upstream Lab at Unity Health Toronto, in collaboration with partners including CIHR-IPPH, invites abstract submissions for Moving Upstream: Advancing the science of structural determinants of health. This one-day conference will bring together academics, research funders, policymakers, health system leaders, trainees, and community stakeholders to reflect on progress and advance...

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Critical Conversations Seminar: The Other Side of Energy Transitions: Critical Mineral Mining in Latin America

October 01/2026 — 12:00 to 1:00pm

Join the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care on October 1 for a critical conversation with Dr. Donald Kingsbury, Associate Professor (teaching stream) in Political Science at the University of Toronto and the former Vice President of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This talk...

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Health Inc Seminar Series Season 6, Episode 1 | Toward vaccine equity: Commercial forces, technological platforms and the race to develop the Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine

September 24/2026 — 12:00 to 1:00pm

Title: Toward vaccine equity: Commercial forces, technological platforms and the race to develop the Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine Speaker: Professor Matthew Herder Abstract: The race is on to develop a vaccine to help quell the outbreak of Ebola virus disease currently ripping its way through the Democratic Republic of Congo and...

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From Trauma to Meaning: Trauma-​Focused Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully Workshop

October 02/2026 — 8:00am to 4:00pm

Workshop Overview This workshop explores CALM-TF, a trauma-focused psychotherapy intervention to support individuals living with advanced cancer, including at critical and potentially traumatic junctures in the disease trajectory. Learners will also be introduced to the core principles and framework of CALM, making this workshop suitable both for those interested in...

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From Trade Wars to Health Gaps: What Economic Turbulence May Mean for Canada’s Global Health Approach

June 02/2026 — 9:00 to 10:30am

An online panel discussion presented by the 2026 Executive Course on Global Health Diplomacy. With panelists: Armine Yalnizyan, Natasha Crowcroft & Rohinton Medhora Moderated By: Garry Aslanyan Abstract: With U.S. tariffs and other forms of economic warfare disrupting long‑standing trade relations worldwide, what risks and opportunities does this situation create...

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Our Health in a Changing Climate

June 02/2026 — 12:00 to 1:00pm

Join the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care for a lunch time webinar, as part of Toronto Climate Week, about how climate change affects our health and healthcare systems. ​From extreme heat and poor air quality to the spread of diseases and impacts on mental health, climate change already...

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2S/​LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series: It Is Our Promiscuity That Will Save Us: Queer Care, Community-​Building, and the Messiness of Interdependence with Zena Sharman

June 15/2026 — 12:00 to 2:00pm

In 1987, the art historian, critic, and curator Douglas Crimp wrote, “It is our promiscuity that will save us.” Crimp’s challenge to the notion of promiscuity as a destructive force offers us a portal into thinking about technologies and practices of queer care and community-building that can help see us...

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SBHS Seminar (virtual)

May 26/2026 — 1:00 to 2:00pm

Dr. Sherri Dutton, DLSPH Postdoctoral Fellow: “I feel seen”: Developing Cultural Safety Training using the Co-writing Circle method of Collaborative Storytelling Roshaneh F. Jaffer, SBHS PhD Candidate: Narratives from the Cysterhood: Exploring the Gendered Medicalization of Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS/PCOS)

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Managing Heat Risk in Severe Mental Illness

May 20/2026 — 12:00 to 1:30pm

Presented by the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care ... This session will explore ways to identify and prevent heat-related illness for people with severe and persistent mental illness. Join the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) for...

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2S/​LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series: Family and community dynamics around caring for transgender and gender-​diverse youth: findings and implications from a qualitative study in Brazil with Julia Clara de Pontes

May 28/2026 — 12:00 to 1:30pm

Presented by the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub ... The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub lecture series presents: Gender Affirming Care in Brazil with Julia Clara de Pontes (University of São Paulo). Care for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children and adolescents sits at the centre of growing political and epistemological disputes, in contexts marked...

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