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Brown, Fisman, Herridge, Walmsley, Booth Elected to Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Five faculty members at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health have been elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the most prestigious honour of its kind in Canada. Fellows of the Academy are elected on the basis of their demonstrated leadership, creativity, distinctive competencies and commitment to advancing...
DLSPH Open: Welcome Back!
Dear DLSPH Community, Welcome to a second Fall term that’s unique in the history of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. This is such a rare and extraordinary time. And although the COVID-19 pandemic requires us to do things differently for a little longer, the safety measures we’re taking...
“I Breathed That Dust All Day”: DLSPH Remembers Sept. 11
By Heidi Singer White smoke rolled in from lower Manhattan, wrapping the Brooklyn waterfront in a sudden haze. The top third of the second tower had just crumbled to the ground, and I was on my bike, pedalling as fast as possible to the World Trade Center. It was the...
AI Infrastructure for Quicker Health Policy Decision-Making Earns Prof. New Funding
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A DLSPH researcher is using artificial intelligence to greatly speed up knowledge synthesis in health policy – allowing decision-makers high-quality data in just days, rather than many months. Prof. Andrea Tricco has just received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John...
Two DLSPH Profs. Become Members of the College of New Scholars at The Royal Society of Canada
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH DLSPH Profs. Laura Rosella and Andrea Tricco are now members of the College of New Scholars of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada. "This means so much to me on a personal and professional level,” says Rosella, DLSPH’s PhD program director in epidemiology....
New DLSPH Course Focuses on Black Mental Health
A groundbreaking new DLSPH course starting this Fall will explore Black mental health from a public health perspective, amid mounting evidence that the COVID pandemic has had inequitable effects on the wellbeing of racialized Canadians. The course, Fundamentals of Black Mental Health, is the first at the University of Toronto...
Rhonelle Bruder: Rising and Making Space in New Places
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Rhonelle Bruder starts her PhD in September at U of T after decades of advocacy work to improve health outcomes for marginalized communities and survivors of human trafficking. “I come from the nonprofit sector but I want to pursue a PhD to advance...
Building a Learning Public Health System
Across the country, there are calls to seize on the disruption caused by COVID to create better, stronger health systems – not least to deal with the coming wave of disease that will be diagnosed later due to missed care during the pandemic. This has accelerated interest in intelligent health...
Dataset Playbook to Help Canadians Understand COVID Trends
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A popular student-led pandemic dashboard just published its ‘playbook’ allowing anyone to use its COVID data. “We have some graphs and maps showing how the data can be used. It’s very illustrative, but it allows people to get an idea of what you...
Meet DLSPH’s New Postdoctoral Fellows in Black and Indigenous Health
By Alisa Kim and Heidi Singer Six Black and Indigenous postdoctoral researchers are joining DLSPH – part of the School’s strategy to strengthen its research capacity in global and partner-driven Black and Indigenous health. Three of the new researchers are part of the DLSPH Black Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a pilot...