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Megan Saad helps develop training program to improve health care for transgender sexual assault survivors
Megan Saad is helping to develop a training program to educate nurses on how to provide “trans-affirming” care to improve health services for trans persons who have experienced sexual violence. “Trans people in their most critical time of need are often unable to access supports due to poor treatment from...
DLSPH remembers Professor Victor Marshall
The University of Toronto community is mourning Professor Victor W. Marshall, an internationally renowned sociologist and professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, who passed away on August 18, 2018. “The University of Toronto has lost a dedicated mentor and friend,”...
U of T Researchers Receive Grant to Increase Tuberculosis Treatment Adherence in Tibet
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health People living in two of Tibet’s remote communities will receive much-needed tuberculosis treatment support in a new trial led by DLSPH researchers. A grant from Stop TB Partnership will allow Xiaolin Wei and his team to deliver...
From Community-based to Acute Care: The Shifting Targets of the Aging At Home Strategy
By: Rebecca Biason, Communications and Events Coordinator, IHPME Many seniors who have chronic conditions do not require acute care attention, and in order to keep them out of hospital and in their own homes, community care programs have popped up across the province to better support their needs. The Aging at Home Strategy,...
Lower rates of breast reconstruction surgery in Ontario and barriers to access explored by IHPME PhD student
By: Rebecca Biason, Communications and Events Coordinator, IHPME Not all breast cancer patients across the province of Ontario have equal access to breast reconstruction surgery, with only 7.6% of patients in Ontario undergoing the procedure between 2004 and 2010. U of T PhD student and Vanier Scholar Helene Retrouvey is leading a...
DLSPH welcomes Eric Ng as Associate Director of Nutrition and Dietetics MPH Program
Eric Ng took on a new role with the Graduate Department of Public Health Sciences in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health as Associate Director of the MPH - Nutrition and Dietetics Program on August 7, 2018. Eric is a Registered Dietitian with more than 10 years’ experience in...
More Access to Equitable Mental Health Care for LGBTQ People in Poverty
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at Dalla Lana School of Public Health Even if barriers to accessing mental health care are overcome by LGBTQ people living in poverty, the available care remains inequitable and may even be a source of violence and oppression, according to a new study by Social...
U of T study finds low levels of Vitamin D3 and Periodontitis may trigger the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at Dalla Lana School of Public Health In the first study of its kind, a DLSPH PhD student identified how vitamin D3 and periodontitis influence Type 2 diabetes. Aleksandra Zuk found increased odds of developing Type 2 diabetes among people with gum disease who are...
Summer institute trains global scholars in mortality measurement
DLSPH hosts QES-SAVE Global Summer Institute to build mortality measurement systems and improve health research capacity Earlier this summer, DLSPH’s Office of Global Public Health Education and Training in partnership with the Centre for Global Health Research hosted the first Queen Elizabeth Scholars-Statistical Alliance for Vital Events (QES-SAVE) Research Summer...
DLSPH Open: Our leadership, milestones and refreshed narrative
Dear colleagues, I’d like to thank the DLSPH community for a tremendous year and I’m grateful to accept the appointment as Dean of the DLSPH. We’ve achieved a lot together and I’d like to congratulate our students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners for their hard work and achievements that move...