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Rhonelle Bruder: Rising and Making Space in New Places
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Rhonelle Bruder starts her PhD in September at U of T after decades of advocacy work to improve health outcomes for marginalized communities and survivors of human trafficking. “I come from the nonprofit sector but I want to pursue a PhD to advance...
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...
Dataset Playbook to Help Canadians Understand COVID Trends
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A popular student-led pandemic dashboard just published its ‘playbook’ allowing anyone to use its COVID data. “We have some graphs and maps showing how the data can be used. It’s very illustrative, but it allows people to get an idea of what you...
Meet DLSPH’s New Postdoctoral Fellows in Black and Indigenous Health
By Alisa Kim and Heidi Singer Six Black and Indigenous postdoctoral researchers are joining DLSPH – part of the School’s strategy to strengthen its research capacity in global and partner-driven Black and Indigenous health. Three of the new researchers are part of the DLSPH Black Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a pilot...
Alternating Weight Loss Diets an Intriguing Strategy
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer, DLSPH Participants in a first-of-its-kind DLSPH study lost almost 10 per cent of their body weight following three successive and varying diets in less than two years. “Almost 80 per cent of participants lost a clinically significant amount of weight. This is important because losing...
DLSPH Open: Fall Decision
Dear DLSPH community, I would like to provide you with a brief update on the Fall term at our School. As you know, in May we made the difficult decision to continue delivering the majority of DLSPH classes online for the Fall term. We made the decision early to allow...
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...
Titilayo Esther Davies: It’s Time to Make a Difference
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Titilayo Esther Davies is not taking a break after her Master's in Bioethics at DLSPH. She’s jumping right into a PhD program in the School’s Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences. Her love of philosophy has led her to this point. After...
Meet DLSPH’s New Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Growing up in Toronto, Ryan Hinds always thought he’d become a physician, following a classic newcomer dream of what it meant to be successful in his new country. But that ambition evolved after Hinds, who moved from Guyana to Canada at age 9, discovered football. The sport made Hinds a...
Christina Ricci: Making Waves in Maternal Health
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Christina Ricci is finally ready to hit the workforce after seven years of university studies. With a job waiting for her after graduation, Ricci says the transition from school to work will be effortless. For her first role at Public Health Agency Canada,...