Strengthening Primary Care Key to Rebuilding Canada’s Crumbling Healthcare System
November 15/2022
A new report on the sustainability and resilience of Canada’s healthcare system has sounded the alarm that the current healthcare model is incapable of making the changes necessary to address the challenges faced today and will not withstand the next crisis. The Sustainability and Resilience in the Canadian Health System...
Assumptions about the Lethality of Air Pollution in India May Be Exaggerated
October 12/2022
High levels of exposure to air pollution in India have a smaller effect on mortality than previously estimated, according to the first study to cover the whole of India, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a leading peer-reviewed journal. India has among the highest levels of air pollution in the world,...
Prof. Xiaolin Wei combats health care barriers near and far
September 27/2022
By Bonnie O’Sullivan Photography by France Geomark Doctora Long before the pandemic, Prof. Xiaolin Wei was on the frontlines addressing health misinformation and building trust between health care professionals and communities. Now, the DLSPH epidemiologist has been recognized with election to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. From a small...
Selective Abortion of Girls Occurs — For Different Reasons — Among Indian and Chinese Diaspora: DLSPH Researchers
September 27/2022
The rates of selective abortion of female fetuses in third pregnancies following two earlier girls is higher among Indian diaspora than within India, according to a study published by public health researchers at the University of Toronto. The study authors, health researcher Catherine Meh and Prof. Prabhat Jha from the...
Five DLSPH PhD students selected as inaugural Connaught Fellows
September 22/2022
By Bonnie O'Sullivan One-third of those named to the Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship Program are from DLSPH. The five students – Tenzin Butsang, Rose Schmidt, Jane Zhao, Madison Giles and Anam Shahil Feroz – share a passion for bridging academia with practical impact. From September 2022 to August...
Undergraduate students receive $33,000 for their research project
September 08/2022
By Bonnie O’Sullivan Photography by Diana Tyszko The Dalla Lana School of Public Health Outreach and Access Program participants have been awarded funding to support their research into youth programming at The Neighbourhood Organization in Thorncliffe Park. They started as teenage members of a DLSPH outreach program and then went...
“It was Exhilarating!”: U of T Students Become Lay Vaccinators
August 24/2022
By Heidi Singer and Françoise Makanda When the first person walked through the door of the makeshift clinic on U of T’s St. George campus, half a dozen students in red polo shirts and purple medical gloves were sitting at long tables, waiting to make history. Akash Kothari, a Master’s...
CanPath Awarded $1.1M CIHR Grant for COVID-19 and Cancer Research Project
August 22/2022
CanPath, Canada’s largest population health study based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, will capture the impact of COVID-19 on cancer outcomes and risk in Canada. Researchers at the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath), based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of...
$3.5 Million Gift to Expand Critical Qualitative Health Research at DLSPH
June 29/2022
A girl stands alone in the middle of an empty desert. A woman looks directly at the viewer, her mouth covered with band-aids. These artworks are helping public health researchers understand more about the lives of young mothers during COVID and systemic barriers that reinforce health inequities. Qualitative research like...
Research finds influenza in humans is seasonal in Bangladesh
June 13/2022Avian influenza in poultry, less so By Elaine Smith New research by a University of Toronto PhD graduate has determined that human influenza infections in Bangladesh have a high season in the summer months, while avian influenza in poultry is present at similar levels year-round. In a paper published recently...