U of T Lab Provides Mask Protocol Testing Amid Domestic Shortage
May 21/2020
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH In less than three months, a small lab at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health is helping healthcare providers validate their mask reprocessing processes by testing the efficiency of filters at capturing fine particles. The lab in the Gage building is also...
Closing Schools Effective Against COVID-19 – Hot Weather Doesn’t Help
May 08/2020
U of T Researchers Publish First Peer-Reviewed Global Study Showing Summer Won’t End Transmission of the Virus By Heidi Singer University of Toronto researchers have found the first hard evidence that hot weather doesn’t help in the fight against COVID-19 -- but that closing schools does. “If we open schools...
NAO partners with WHO on COVID-19 information sharing
April 14/2020
The North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO) is contributing to domestic and international efforts to reliably track and document the policy interventions by federal, provincial and territorial governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “By creating a credible, open resource that captures the timing, intensity and range...
Natasha Crowcroft to lead WHO’s Measles and Rubella Program
April 07/2020
Dr. Natasha Crowcroft has accepted an international leadership role with the World Health Organization (WHO) as Senior Technical Advisor - Measles and Rubella Control that she will begin later this spring. “I’m thrilled to take on this new challenge with WHO – my dream job following a decade of working...
CPTP is now CanPath
March 27/2020
The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP) is now CanPath, the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health. This change is the result of extensive consultation with scientific leadership, funders, regional cohorts, participants and the National Strategic Advisory Council, in a national branding exercise that culminated on March 16, 2020. “Our Leadership Team carefully considered how the CPTP name represented the important work...
Arjumand Siddiqi appointed Epidemiology Division Head
March 20/2020
Arjumand Siddiqi was appointed Head of the Division of Epidemiology in the Graduate Department of Public Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health on March 20, 2020. Siddiqi is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity. She also holds appointments in...
‘The window for action is right now’: U of T epidemiologist on the effectiveness of social distancing
March 18/2020
As the new coronavirus continues to spread, authorities around the world are encouraging people to limit their contact with others in an effort to stem the tide. On Tuesday, for example, Ontario declared a state of emergency and announced 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 180. Alberta also declared...
DLSPH appoints Dionne Gesink as Acting Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
March 10/2020
Dionne Gesink was appointed Acting Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health on March 10, 2020. Gesink is a Professor of Epidemiology whose work focuses on generating new knowledge on restoring healthy relationships with a focus on the social epidemiology of sexual and reproductive...
With new federal funding, U of T researchers aid global effort to understand and control COVID-19
March 06/2020
by Geoffrey Vendeville The University of Toronto and affiliated institutions will receive almost $6 million for research projects related to COVID-19, with another $2.7 million to campus-based researchers, while $3.13 million will go to U of T researchers at affiliated hospitals – part of a $27 million federal investment in research related to the...
DLSPH welcomes global health powerhouse Nísia Trindade Lima to launch new Centre for Global Health
February 28/2020
Global health is public health. With tremendous breadth and expertise in a diverse set of global health issues, DLSPH faculty, alumni and collaborators have cultivated strong partnerships with leading global institutions and public health leaders. As the Office of Global Public Health Education and Training transitions into DLSPH’s new Centre...