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U of T community invited to participate in bioethics for health in digital age conversation
Panel to explore data privacy, social media in healthcare Political views and voting patterns were allegedly compromised in Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach, but what if personal health information was leaked as a result of poor public policy on data privacy? “Good data governance is the best way to mitigate...
DLSPH Blog – Influencing Policy through Research: A public health approach to rolling out Cannabis in Canada
The DLSPH Blog is a digital platform that will explore issues that impact public health and health systems scholars on a biweekly basis written by Interim Dean Adalsteinn Brown in collaboration with DLSPH faculty, staff and students. For blog ideas, feedback or comments, contact: communications.dlsph@utoronto.ca Since the 1970s, scientists have...
DLSPH Open: Alumni Engagement
Dear colleagues, The Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s alumni community is a network of more than 5,000 public health and health system practitioners and leaders, including graduates of the Graduate Department of Public Health Sciences and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Alumni are among the School’s best...
Not a Miracle Test: U of T expert explains the true costs of genetic testing
By: Rebecca Biason, IHPME Communications & Events Coordinator From 23 and Me and Ancestry DNA to research laboratories, genome sequencing has become more widely available, and many would have you believe it’s an affordable option for just about anyone to get themselves tested for the risk of a variety of...
DLSPH and Toronto Public Health recognize World TB Day
World TB Day is March 24 – the day in 1882 that Robert Koch announced he had looked down a microscope and discovered the microbiologic cause of tuberculosis (TB). Today it’s an opportunity to raise awareness about the disease that sickens more than 10 million people annually and kills 1.7...
Improving breast cancer screening
By: Elizabeth Garel, Cancer Care Ontario Anna Chiarelli has been studying breast cancer screening in one way or another since joining Cancer Care Ontario in 1996. More than 20 years later, she is beginning a new phase of research. Her latest project focuses on improving personalized risk assessment, using a...
PHAA’s hosts successful In the Loop event on “Scienceploitation” with Professor Tim Caulfield
By: Ramlogan Sowamber Professor Timothy Caulfield – a self-proclaimed science geek and lover of evidence who enjoys integrating a wide range of perspectives in the pursuit of health – fascinated a crowd of more than 200 DLSPH alumni and students to debunk health myths created by pop culture on March...
Seven public health and health services students receive Gordon Cressy Award
Four Dalla Lana School of Public Health and three Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation students received a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award in recognition of their outstanding volunteer contributions to the University of Toronto community earlier this spring. This year’s recipients include: Sarah Buchan (PhD Epidemiology), Madeleine Bondy...
U of T scientist co-leads human genome database project, Iranome, in the Middle East
By: Sarah Warr, Women's College Hospital With the completion of the human genome project in 2003, several genome databases have been made available worldwide yet, all of these databases lack representation from many ethnic groups including populations living in Middle East. To address this gap, Mohammad R. Akbari, Assistant Professor...
Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world
Increasing cigarette prices would add to years of life lived, and cut billions of dollars in treatment costs for families globally By: Ana Gajic, St. Michael's Hospital Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world, while also cutting health treatment costs...