DLSPH hosts Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Mid-Year Meeting
April 04/2024On March 8th, DLSPH faculty Dr. Laura Rosella and Dr. Hailey Banack co-chaired the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) 2024 Mid-Year Meeting in Toronto. The mission of SER is to keep epidemiologists at the forefront of scientific developments. The theme of the mid-year meeting was Innovative Data Science Applications inEpidemiology,...
New educational tool on Black Health launches in Canada
March 21/2024Black Health Primer addresses challenges in receiving adequate and unbiased health care By Elaine Smith A new online course on Black health and anti-Black racism in the Canadian health-care system will now be available to learners across Canada, and its creators say the tool will be a momentous step in...
DLSPH Professor Honoured by TTC During Black History Month
February 28/2024Dr. Roberta K. Timothy is one of 11 Black Torontonians being celebrated for their leadership, with likenesses captured by artists for display in subway stations and buses for Black History Month By Elaine Smith Walk into Toronto’s St. George subway station in February and you’ll see a mural of a...
These researchers explore how Latine/x newcomers experience housing and health
February 02/2024The two-year study will explore housing and health challenges unique to Latine/x newcomers. By Elaine Smith Professor Amaya Perez-Brumer, an early career researcher at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), and her co-researchers have been awarded a Connaught Community Partnership Grant to study the unique housing challenges facing...
What you need to know about the 3 fall vaccines, according to U of T experts
October 04/2023Here is what these U of T experts want Canadians to know about the new RSV vaccine, the updated COVID-19 vaccine, and this year’s flu shot. By: Ishani Nath and Betty Zou As cold and flu season approaches, Canadians are facing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an increase in COVID-19 activity,...
DLSPH Faculty Among Recipients of the 2023 New Initiative and Innovation Awards
August 30/2023DLSPH faculty were among the recipients of the inaugural 2023 New Initiative and Innovation Awards from the Network for Improving Health Systems (NIHS). The network was created in November 2022 from a $3 million donation from Shoppers Drug Mart to both the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH)...
This AI will help us get ahead of the next pandemic
August 09/2023By Ishani Nath It seems appropriate that the Toronto offices for Kamran Khan’s BlueDot, which uses artificial intelligence to flag potential infectious disease outbreaks around the world, are located at the edge of Lake Ontario. Similar to a lighthouse, BlueDot signals when there’s danger ahead. "We use the internet as...
RSV Immunizations Are Coming. This U of T Researcher Is Helping Parents Prepare
July 05/2023By Ishani Nath RSV researchers have been waiting for this moment for decades. Two new ways to protect children from respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, are on the verge of becoming available in Canada. Even though the majority of children will get infected by age 2, “most parents...
UNICEF Report Underscores Urgency of Childhood Vaccinations, U of T Researcher Says
April 21/2023By Ishani Nath The pandemic drastically set back routine immunizations leaving millions of children in Canada and around the world vulnerable to preventable diseases, according to a new report from UNICEF. “This underscores the urgency of this situation,” says Prof. Shelly Bolotin, Director of the Centre for Vaccine Preventable...
Out of the Archives: Public Health Siblings, Donald and Frieda Fraser
January 26/2023“Public Health Siblings; Donald and Frieda Fraser: Profiles From the Public Health History Archives, University of Toronto” By Christopher J. Rutty, Ph.D. Professional Medical & Public Health Historian Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Exploring the history of public health is not just about examining,...