DLSPH Blog – Why Quality Matters
September 26/2017
The DLSPH Blog is a digital platform that will explore issues that impact public health and health systems scholars on a biweekly basis written by Interim Dean Adalsteinn Brown in collaboration with DLSPH faculty, staff and students. For blog ideas, feedback or comments, contact: communications.dlsph@utoronto.ca. A health-care system rooted in quality is one...
You’ve got questions? We’ve got evidence.
September 26/2017By Geoff Koehler, Senior Communications Adviser, St. Michael’s Hospital Associate Professor Andrea Tricco will lead a Canada-wide alliance that answers health-care research questions submitted by policy makers, doctors and other clinicians, but also patients. “Any Canadian will be able to ask questions related to health care,” said Dr. Tricco, who is a scientist...
India has avoided 1 million child deaths since 2005, new study concludes
September 20/2017
Research is part of Million Death Study involving interviews with 100,000 homes where children died By: Leslie Shepherd, St. Michael’s Hospital India has avoided about 1 million deaths of children under age five since 2005, driven by significant reductions in mortality from pneumonia, diarrhea, tetanus and measles, according to new...
Higher levels of fluoride in urine associated with lower intelligence in children
September 19/2017
Fluoride in the urine of pregnant women shows a correlation with lower measures of intelligence in their children, according to University of Toronto researchers who conducted the first study of its kind and size to examine fluoride exposure and multiple states of neurodevelopment. “Our study shows that the growing fetal...
DLSPH Open: Intro to Public Health & Health Systems
September 08/2017Dear colleagues, Welcome to the 2017-18 Academic Year. For the 450 students beginning their studies at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) this fall, welcome to DLSPH Open, a bi-monthly message to our community that shares progress towards our shared vision, celebrates successes, and showcases our collective social...
Care interrupted: Housing crisis pushing people into rural areas with already stretched health services
September 08/2017
Health services in rural and remote areas are struggling to cope with an influx of people on low, fixed incomes moving to these areas, according to researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. No longer able to survive in southern Ontario due to skyrocketing housing costs, these people...
Vernissage Health: Supporting Tomorrow’s Health Leaders
September 07/2017
By: Rebecca Biason, Communications and Events Coordinator, IHPME Leadership in health care is required in today’s transformative and rapidly changing health system. Regardless of whether one is a clinician, manager, informatics specialist, policy advisor or researcher, being able to effectively lead and encourage system change as well as innovation is...
Personal stories underscore Indigenous health symposium at U of T
August 21/2017By Hannah James, Reporter, U of T News Families grappling with intergenerational traumas resulting from the residential school system. Troubling experiences of homelessness. Distressing examples of racism in the health-care system. Personal stories – some of which were extremely emotional – were shared at the inaugural Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health's...
Call for global action on life-threatening fungal infections
August 21/2017Most of the students, faculty and staff at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health would agree that Professor Donald Cole is a fun guy. His cousin David Denning from the University of Manchester is a “fungi” too. Together they are tackling an emerging issue that the global health community...
DLSPH Open: Humanitarianism & Social Justice
August 15/2017
Dear colleagues, On August 19, the World Health Organization celebrates World Humanitarian Day to recognize people who risk their lives in humanitarian service. Several members of the DLSPH community are engaged in humanitarian efforts that are improving health and health systems globally, and contributing to the Faculty’s vision to have...