Blake-Hepburn: Let us Celebrate Black Resilience
February 08/2022by Françoise Makanda, Dalla Lana School of Public Health Denessia Blake-Hepburn hopes this Black History Month, the diaspora celebrates resistance and resilience. The recent MPH graduate worked with DLSPH Prof. Roberta Timothy and fellow student Falan Bennett as co-investigators on the Black Health Matters COVID-19 survey about how Black people...
Meet DLSPH’s new 2SLGBTQ+ Health Lead
February 04/2022
By Elaine Smith Daniel Grace, an associate professor at DLSPH, has been named the School’s new 2SLGBTQ+ Health Lead, effective Jan. 1, 2022. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to support the advancement of education and research in 2SLGBTQ+ health,” says Grace, Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender...
DLSPH Launches New Equity Hub
February 03/2022Dear DLSPH Community, We would like to take a moment to share with you the launch of DLSPH’s first Equity Hub. There is and has been excellent work happening around the school being led by students, faculty, and staff to help move the needle on issues related to equity, inclusivity...
Dean’s Statement—2022 Black History/Black Futures Month
February 01/2022Dear DLSPH Community, Today is the beginning of Black History/Black Futures Month. I’d like to share some events that our School is hosting to celebrate Black excellence and some thoughts about what this time means to me, as a public health academic. On Feb. 3 at 6:30 pm, I hope...
Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27/2022Dear DLSPH Community, Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day -- a chance to remember and learn from the Shoah. The conditions that gave rise to Nazism share much with genocides across the world and throughout history. We typically explain them by pointing to factors like political upheaval, extremist ideology and...
Outreach and Access Program Expands to Runnymede and Westview Centennial High Schools
January 10/2022
by Françoise Makanda, DLSPH DLSPH’s Outreach and Access Program continues to have an impact on more Toronto high schools. It completed its first semester at Westview Centennial. “It feels great that the program continues to expand and that we’re continuing to develop relationships and reaching more schools, more students, and...
A Blueprint for Black Food Sovereignty in Toronto
January 05/2022
By Heidi Singer DLSPH faculty helped make history last month with the launch of North America’s first Black Food Sovereignty Program – an attempt to address food insecurity by creating a Black-run food pipeline from field to table. The Toronto Black Food Sovereignty Plan, the result of a unique partnership between...
Statement from DLSPH Dean Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 30/2021
Dear DLSPH Community, Today, I hope we can all take some time for reflection as we mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As a public health school with roots that stretch back more than a century, I believe we have a profound responsibility to engage with the...
New Collaborative Builds Primer for Missing Black Health Curriculum
September 22/2021
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A cadre of prominent Canadian Black Health researchers is coming together as The Black Health Education Collaborative (BHEC) to provide Black health education for all health professionals and students. The Collaborative’s first module will be available to students next year. The resource serves...
New DLSPH Course Focuses on Black Mental Health
September 02/2021
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...