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Five DLSPH PhD students selected as inaugural Connaught Fellows
By Bonnie O'Sullivan One-third of those named to the Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship Program are from DLSPH. The five students – Tenzin Butsang, Rose Schmidt, Jane Zhao, Madison Giles and Anam Shahil Feroz – share a passion for bridging academia with practical impact. From September 2022 to August...
Marburg Detection Highlights Importance of Global Surveillance Cooperation
By Françoise Makanda, DLSPH While cases of the Marburg virus were discovered in Ghana and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Prof. Shelly Bolotin is cautiously optimistic about the state of infectious disease surveillance. Marburg is a zoonotic disease which is closely related to Ebola. With a high mortality...
Undergraduate students receive $33,000 for their research project
By Bonnie O’Sullivan Photography by Diana Tyszko The Dalla Lana School of Public Health Outreach and Access Program participants have been awarded funding to support their research into youth programming at The Neighbourhood Organization in Thorncliffe Park. They started as teenage members of a DLSPH outreach program and then went...
“It was Exhilarating!”: U of T Students Become Lay Vaccinators
By Heidi Singer and Françoise Makanda When the first person walked through the door of the makeshift clinic on U of T’s St. George campus, half a dozen students in red polo shirts and purple medical gloves were sitting at long tables, waiting to make history. Akash Kothari, a Master’s...
CanPath Awarded $1.1M CIHR Grant for COVID-19 and Cancer Research Project
CanPath, Canada’s largest population health study based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, will capture the impact of COVID-19 on cancer outcomes and risk in Canada. Researchers at the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath), based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of...
DLSPH Open: Practical Advice on Disconnecting From Work
Dear DLSPH Community, As we move into another hectic pandemic summer, I hope we can all take time to rest, recharge and rejuvenate. But this is not easy, and I know that sometimes such exhortations only add to the feeling of stress when we’re already feeling overwhelmed. With that in...
DLSPH Welcomes New Faculty Members in 2022
This message was sent to all faculty members, staff and students by Dean Brown on June 15, 2022: Dear Faculty and Staff Members, Our School is growing! I am very pleased to share the appointments of faculty members Brice Batomen, Billie-Jo Hardy, Alex Hoagland, Zahra Shakeri, Robert Steiner and Kazumi...
$3.5 Million Gift to Expand Critical Qualitative Health Research at DLSPH
A girl stands alone in the middle of an empty desert. A woman looks directly at the viewer, her mouth covered with band-aids. These artworks are helping public health researchers understand more about the lives of young mothers during COVID and systemic barriers that reinforce health inequities. Qualitative research like...
World’s First MPH Program in Black Health
by Françoise Makanda, DLSPH What should have taken 18 months was done in five, thanks to the leadership of DLSPH’s Black Health Lead, Prof. Roberta Timothy. In Fall 2023, DLSPH will welcome its first cohort of 10 students in the very first MPH in Black Health program, which Timothy believes...
Canadian COVID Deaths Second-Lowest Among G10 Nations: DLSPH Researchers
For much of the past two years, Canadians experienced some of the most restrictive public health measures in the world. Now, U of T researchers have published the first analysis of how Canada compared to peer countries in terms of the public health and control measures we adopted, deaths related...