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...
Environments and Health Webinar: Microbiome-Environment interactions and the impact on health
The microbiome is the collection of all microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and their genes, that naturally live on our bodies and inside us. Although microbes are so small that they require a microscope to see them, they contribute in big ways to human health and wellness. A person’s...
Environments and Health Webinar: Obesity and Environment
Obesity has been recognized as a significant public health concern, especially as 20th century urban development encouraged more sedentary lifestyles and car-dependent transportation. A result of the interaction of genes, lifestyle, and the environment, obesity is an important issue for public health researchers and practitioners to understand. The Canadian Institutes...
2SLGBTQ+ Health Hub Panel Discussion | Confronting Conversion Therapy
The ongoing practice of conversion therapy falsely claims that 2SLGBTQ+ sexualities and genders are deviant and changeable. This panel brings together four survivors and leaders in the field to share their experiences with conversion practices. Discussion will include conversion practices and their impact around the world, as well as Canadian...
Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with Dr. Rina Friedberg
Talk Title Private Hypothesis Testing over Sensitive Groups Abstract As companies work to provide the best possible experience for members, users, and customers, it is crucial to understand how different people – particularly individuals from sensitive groups – have different experiences. For example, do women visit our platform less frequently...