Faculty and Staff Win Big at DLSPH Awards
June 18/2019by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Faculty and staff were honoured at this year DLSPH Awards. Dean Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown recognized 11 recipients from 2017-18 and 2018-19. The evening ended with a celebration of Prof Donald Cole's retirement. Recipients The Anthony Miller Award for Excellence in Research in Public...
Palliative Care Disparities in Ontario Persist
June 13/2019
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A DLSPH student has found that some parts of Ontario, particularly in the North, are receiving next to no palliative care – even for painful cancer deaths or organ failure. But Michela Panarella, an MSc candidate in the Division of Biostatistics, found the...
Salima Mithani: From Pakistan to U of T’s Convocation
June 05/2019
By Bernice Yanful, PhD student in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at DLSPH When Salima Mithani talks about her time at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), she often uses words such as tight-knit, community and supportive. For Mithani, graduating this week with a Master of Public Health is...
Rachel Kirkland: Climbing my own Mount Everest
June 04/2019
by Rachel Kirkland, DLSPH Graduate Sitting in the auditorium at 155 College Street on day one of my degree felt a little like how I imagine I’d feel if I decided to climb Mount Everest tomorrow, equipped solely with the vision of what I wanted to do at the top,...
U of T Opens Groundbreaking Centre to Strengthen Vaccine Confidence Through Collaboration
May 09/2019By Heidi Singer, Director of Communications at DLSPH The Dalla Lana School of Public Health today launched The Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, an interdisciplinary hub of academic research and educational practice, with experts drawn from across U of T, to better understand and address the growth of preventable illnesses....
DLSPH Open: DLSPH’s First-Ever Academic Plan
May 02/2019Dear Colleagues, I’m pleased to announce that DLSPH’s first-ever Academic Plan has been approved by our School Council. This is the blueprint for our school’s guiding values and direction over the next five years. Many of you are already quite familiar with it, as the plan was forged through dozens...
A career in public health? DLSPH students set to share emerging research innovation at U of T Health Sciences Fair
May 01/2019By Rebecca Biason, IHPME On June 1 at the U of T Health Sciences Fair, part of the University’s Alumni Reunion, three students from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health will be showing high school students and their parents what a career in public health and health systems research...
U of T Researchers Look Back In Time to Help Prevent Future Brain Injuries
April 29/2019By Heidi Singer, Director of Communications at DLSPH U of T researchers used a novel data mining approach to uncover the most common medical problems affecting people in the time before they suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Their results can be used to better predict and prevent these life-altering...
Canada-Led Effort on Maternal and Child Nutrition Receives Partnership Award
April 26/2019by Jim Oldfield, Faculty of Medicine A global collaboration that includes the University of Toronto and spans dozens of organizations working toward better nutrition and health for women and children has been honoured with a Canadian partnership award. Enhancing Nutrition Services to Improve Maternal and Child Health (ENRICH) is a five-year...
Fractured Families, Fractured Communities: Studying the Impact of Separation on Migrant Workers and Indigenous People
April 25/2019
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH DLSPH researchers are studying the psychosocial impact of separation from one’s family and land by comparing the experiences of two population groups: Temporary foreign workers in Canada and Indigenous People who move to urban areas. “To our knowledge, nobody has ever conducted a study like this one before,” said Andrea...