How Healthy is Your Office Building?
September 21/2020U of T Researchers Produce Guidelines For Working Amid Pandemic As restrictions ease and more workplaces re-open, employers must consider not just the health of staff and the workplace, but of the building itself. That’s according to U of T researchers who have co-created Canada’s first comprehensive report on workplace...
DLSPH Professor Untangles Politics of HIV Prevention Drug Implementation in Peru
September 17/2020
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer DLSPH Prof. Amaya Perez-Brumer has won funding for early-career researchers where she will explore the politics surrounding the dissemination and uptake of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), an HIV prevention drug, in Peru. Specifically, while Peru is making advances in PrEP science, it is experiencing delays in...
“I Was Shocked in a Good Way”
September 08/2020
How a U of T Professor Reimagined Land-Based Learning Online When Prof. Angela Mashford-Pringle learned she would have to put her ground-breaking land-based learning course online, her heart sank. How could a course built around an Indigenous connection with the land work remotely? She didn’t think it could be done...
DLSPH Researchers Draw Record Amount of Social Science Funding
September 01/2020
By Heidi Singer and Nicole Bodnar DLSPH researchers are claiming an increasing presence in the social science space, with a tripling of funds from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in the past few years – including five new recipients announced recently. Their success in the January 2020 Insight...
COVID Demands an End to Homelessness
August 25/2020
As COVID-19 hits Toronto’s homeless population, those who work with and care about them are anxious on their behalf. But they are also trying to create opportunity. Canadians may be numb to the sight of 35,000 people on the streets, but advocates have noticed the virus laying bare the public...
Creating a Smarter, More Equitable COVID Response
August 19/2020
University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health launches the Institute for Pandemics Governments and world bodies typically struggle to respond quickly to emerging health threats, bogged down by bureaucratic and political obstacles and rising public mistrust of authority. If we are to facilitate a more agile response, universities...
Your Questions Answered: One-on-One with Steini
August 06/2020Last month, Dean Steini Brown and alum Andrea Barrack delved into the COVID-19 response, the inevitable strain on our health system, the disproportionate impact on marginalized groups, the issues around collecting race-based data in the DLSPH's Advancement Office's latest webinar. Not all questions could have been answered. Here’s are some of the...
U of T Prof Earns Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health
August 04/2020
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Prof. Janet Smylie sees a change in the conversation about systemic racism. The recently appointed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health believes she is the first Indigenous person with kin and land ties to what is now known as Canada. She hopes...
Teaching About a Pandemic During a Pandemic
July 23/2020
By Heidi Singer When the COVID-19 crisis hit Canada, professors from almost every part of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health came together on a mega-COVID course In early April, as much of the world was deep in lockdown and universities scrambled to move online, DLSPH Prof. Blake Poland...
Female health-care workers at increased risk for stress, burnout and depression during COVID-19
July 23/2020
By: Nicole Bodnar Female health-care workers — who comprise eighty per cent of Canada’s health workforce — are at increased risk for stress, burnout and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study led by IHPME researchers. “Our early findings suggest that the pandemic is resulting a number of...