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New DLSPH Course Focuses on Black Mental Health

Photo of Prof. Akwatu Khenti

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...

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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...

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Meet DLSPH’s New Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Growing up in Toronto, Ryan Hinds always thought he’d become a physician, following a classic newcomer dream of what it meant to be successful in his new country. But that ambition evolved after Hinds, who moved from Guyana to Canada at age 9, discovered football. The sport made Hinds a...

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DLSPH Prof. Setting the Stage for an MPH in Black Health

Roberta Timothy

By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH As one of her first tasks as DLSPH’s first Black Health Lead, Asst. Prof. Roberta Timothy is developing a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Black Health. The two-year program will take approximately 18 months to develop. “They didn't include us in COVID-19,”...

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Meet DLSPH’s New Indigenous Health Lead

head shot of Assoc. Prof. Angela Mashford-Pringle with long hair, glasses, open-necked top, spring leaves in wooded background

Asst. Prof. Angela Mashford-Pringle, is DLSPH’s first-ever Indigenous Health Lead. She says her goals are “very simple”: “I want to create a safe and welcoming environment for Indigenous students, faculty, Elders and Knowledge Keepers and their guests.” But arriving at cultural safety might not be so simple. It means unpacking...

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PhD Candidate Award Sheds Light on Health Barriers for Black People Living with HIV

By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Apondi Judith Odhiambo received the Canadian Association for HIV Research 2021 New Investigator Award last month. She was honoured for her research in unearthing invisible barriers Black people living with HIV face as they enter the Canadian healthcare system. “I am honoured to...

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Statement by DLSPH Dean Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown on the Discovery of the Remains of 215 Indigenous Children

I was horrified and heartbroken to learn about the discovery of 215 Indigenous children buried in an unmarked site at the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C. This atrocity is just the latest in a shameful and, until recently, largely hidden history of discriminatory, racist treatment of Indigenous peoples by...

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Meet DLSPH’s New Black Health Lead

Asst. Prof. Roberta Timothy has been appointed Black Health Lead at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health – part of a School-wide initiative to embed equity and anti-racism throughout the curriculum, and to advance research and education in Black population health. Timothy plans to create new and innovative programming...

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A Climate Resilience Lab with a Racial Justice Lens

by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A new lab at U of T will bring together lessons from climate change research and the future of community-based resilience work with a racial justice lens. The lab will officially launch in Fall 2021. "It's tragic that the bodies that built the...

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Indigenous Micro Cultural Safety Course to be Available for U of T Students

by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at Dalla Lana School of Public Health A team at the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) is delivering two cultural safety courses online to ensure that the next generation of health professionals is better equipped to provide care to Indigenous people. U of T students at...

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