COVID and Tobacco Use: One Year Later
Over the past year the everyday lives of people around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Confinement, financial constraints, health concerns and other stresses have all had the potential to change health-related behaviours. But how has COVID affected smoking? This webinar is an opportunity to hear from...
What’s Online Community-Based Research Going to Look Like in the Future?
This is a MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions Evaluation Series Workshop facilitated by Dr. Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco (DLSPH). In social behavioural sciences, where community-based research (CBR) is best tolerated and implemented in disparate ways, there exists a role of predicting what will happen in the future. Kiser (1995) tells us...
Influences on Patient Autonomy & Decision-Making about Early Phase Cancer Clinical Trial Participation
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series 2020-21 Speaker: Jennifer AH Bell, Bioethicist and Clinician Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto About this Seminar: Early phase cancer clinical trials (CTs) require...
MAP Evaluation Series: What’s Online Community-Based Research Going to Look Like in the Future?
About the workshop In social behavioural sciences, where community-based research (CBR) is best tolerated and implemented in disparate ways, there exists a role of predicting what will happen in the future. Kiser (1995) tells us that the two things “required for successful prediction [are] general theoretical models of the relevant...
Book Launch – Global Health: Ethical Challenges
This talk will feature reflections on the book from Eric M. Meslin followed by three brief commentaries from authors Ross Upshur, Angela Mashford-Pringle, and Isabella Bakker who contributed chapters to it. The session will be introduced by Jennifer Gibson, and the Q&A will be facilitated by Erica Di Ruggiero.
Reimagining Aging and Restoring Trust in the Wake of COVID-19
Join in a panel discussion on aging and health, the standards and models of care as we age, healthcare worker burnout, the role of families and caregivers, and many other issues and failures faced through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Boehm Lectures on Public Health and Healthcare aim to foster a...
Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar: “Using geographic information systems to estimate potential pesticide exposure at the population level in Canada”
Presenter: Dr. Kristian Larsen Kristian is a research scientist at CAREX Canada and sessional lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD in Planning from the University of Toronto and an MA in Health Geography from the University of Western Ontario....
MPH Epi Coffee Break
This is a casual get together - just meant to check in and see how we are all doing. It will take place on the first Thursday of every month at 9am.
Global Public Health and Migration: People, Borders, and Health Systems
Global Public Health and Migration: People, Borders, and Health Systems in the Time of the Pandemic About this Event This webinar is the first in a two-part event organized to launch the Public Health & Migration area at the DLSPH. The webinar is open to the general public and will...
ONTARIO NEIHR WEBINAR SERIES 2021 with Dr. Holly Graham
Integrating Somatic-Based Therapies and the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) into Clinical Practice Dr. Holly Graham is a member of the Thunderchild First Nation. She has worked as a Registered Nurse (RN) in a variety of northern communities, in addition to various other health care environments since 1985....