Pilot Program for Black Post Doctoral Fellows is in Motion
October 21/2020by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH The Dalla Lana School of Public Health has already welcomed two post-doctoral fellows to its pilot program that nurtures early-career Black academics, helping to ensure that rising stars have opportunities to develop their research programs. Both postdocs are already working on independent research....
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...
First Outreach and Access Program Alumnae Head to U of T
September 08/2020
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A pioneering DLSPH effort to introduce underrepresented high school students to a career in health has borne fruit: Two of its alumna, Maha Khan and Maimuna Akhter, have chosen to attend U of T this fall. With the choice to attend all three...
When all Roads Lead to Public Health: Tyla Thomas -Jacques’ Journey
September 04/2020by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH The end of Tyla Thomas-Jacques' graduate journey came online -- an unfitting conclusion to two years at DLSPH. “It doesn't seem like there's any finale,” says Thomas-Jacques who earned her Master of Public Health in Public Health Promotion. “It was very anticlimactic but...
U of T’s Online Movement Breaks Available to All Classes in Fall
August 27/2020
By Francoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Pre-pandemic, students swayed back-and-forth to a choreographed Sean Paul routine in one of Prof. Ananya Banerjee’s well-known movement breaks. For just three minutes to break up long classes, Banerjee goes through a choreographed routine to get students moving. Now, the pilot project will...
15 DLSPH Student-Led Projects Win U of T’s COVID-19 Student Engagement Award
July 30/2020
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH More than 15 DLSPH student projects won awards in a university-wide competition to support projects that contribute to building and fostering a global community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The winning projects ranged from dashboards and attitudinal surveys to a children’s book and climate...
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...
Meet IHPME’s first Health Systems Artificial Intelligence emphasis student: Dr. Rashmi Nedadur
July 22/2020
By: Nicole Bodnar The Health Systems Artificial Intelligence (AI) emphasis — IHPME’s newest Health Services Research area of specialty — will welcome its first student this September. “My goal is to be a surgeon-scientist with expertise in AI and cardiovascular medicine,” said Dr. Rashmi Nedadur, a cardiac surgery resident at...
DLSPH Open: A Brief Update on COVID
July 16/2020Dear DLSPH Community, We normally don’t publish our School Bulletin during the summer months, but these are not normal times. In this issue, you can catch up on the many ways our faculty, students and alumni are involved in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic through research, education and public engagement. (I’m...