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Two Prestigious Awards for DLSPH’s Investigative Journalism Bureau

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By Elaine Smith Within two short years of its launch, the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health has already garnered two prestigious journalism awards and received a nomination for a third. In 2021, the bureau’s inaugural year, it was named a finalist for the...

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Strengthening Healthcare Systems in Canada and Around the World

The new NorthWest International Policy Network will bolster systems of primary care and examine pressing issues in health policy, particularly around pandemics. The University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health is establishing the NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT International Policy Network at its Institute for Pandemics. Supported by a...

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Shelly Bolotin to Head Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases

By Heidi Singer Shelly Bolotin has been fascinated by infectious disease all her life – first the biology of it, and then the profound way social, economic and other human factors drive its spread. “Viruses are smarter than we are --  that blows my mind,” says DLSPH’s Associate Professor of...

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Partnering with Faith Communities to Promote Vaccines — What Works?

Across Canada, public health officials are trying new partnerships and approaches to encourage vaccine confidence. DLSPH researchers hope to learn whether these efforts help. By Heidi Singer DLSPH researchers are beginning to study how Canadian public health officials and religious leaders are collaborating to build vaccine confidence in communities and...

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Return to In-​Person Classes Announcement – Winter Term 2022

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Dear DLSPH community, After extensive research and careful consideration of multiple academic and social factors and public health guidance, we have decided to return to in-person courses for the Winter 2022 term. Instructors will determine what in-person means for their Winter course(s) and communicate accordingly to students. For the majority...

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Update on Building Access

Dear DLSPH Community, I would like to share our plans for safely navigating DLSPH buildings during the Fall 2021 Term. As a school of public health, we must be exemplary in our own COVID safety protocols. As such, our newly revised protocols (see attached), developed in consultation with DLSPH’s occupational...

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DLSPH-​Led Experts Offer Tactics to Catch Up on Routine Immunizations

By Heidi Singer A DLSPH-led group of experts is calling on governments, physicians, schools and other health providers to step up immunizations for serious diseases like measles and polio to prevent new epidemics from cropping up. The vaccine experts, led by members of DLSPH’s Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases (CVPD),...

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Building a Learning Public Health System

Across the country, there are calls to seize on the disruption caused by COVID to create better, stronger health systems – not least to deal with the coming wave of disease that will be diagnosed later due to missed care during the pandemic. This has accelerated interest in intelligent health...

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Strengthening Ties With Public Health Experts in Kenya

DLSPH is renewing its partnership with Moi University’s School of Public Health in research and education opportunities around shared public health interests – particularly universal health coverage. The renewal is part of a strategic plan to strengthen global health at DLSPH, including the establishment last year of the Centre for...

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Dean Brown Discusses Pandemic With DLSPH Alumni

Ontario stands at a turning point in its progress against COVID-19, says Prof. Steini Brown, co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. If the province continues rolling out vaccines in a thoughtful and equitable way, we will see a strong return to normalcy. But stumbling could bring in a...

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