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U of T Students Question Popular Paper Which Supports Three Feet COVID Distancing
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH DLSPH epidemiology students have found that an influential paper may have overstated the safety of three feet of physical distancing to protect against COVID-19. The paper observed no statistical significance between students' risk of catching COVID-19 whether three or six feet apart in...
Statement by DLSPH Dean Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown on the Discovery of the Remains of 215 Indigenous Children
I was horrified and heartbroken to learn about the discovery of 215 Indigenous children buried in an unmarked site at the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C. This atrocity is just the latest in a shameful and, until recently, largely hidden history of discriminatory, racist treatment of Indigenous peoples by...
Meet DLSPH’s New Black Health Lead
Asst. Prof. Roberta Timothy has been appointed Black Health Lead at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health – part of a School-wide initiative to embed equity and anti-racism throughout the curriculum, and to advance research and education in Black population health. Timothy plans to create new and innovative programming...
Alum’s Documentary ‘Mothering in Quarantine’ Wins Big at Toronto Film School Festival
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at The Dalla Lana School of Public Health What was a therapeutic project for Alum Kyisha Williams won the minds and hearts of The Toronto Film School Film Festival as the Best Documentary of 2020. Mothering in Quarantine is an honest video diary featuring Black...
DLSPH Open: Vaccination Efforts at the Community-Level
Dear faculty members, staff and students, With vaccination efforts picking up steam in Canada, I’d like to call your attention to the work of several DLSPH professors whose work embodies our School’s evolving understanding of both equity and precision in public health delivery. These are the culturally specific COVID vaccination...
Fitness and Lower Likelihood of COVID-19 Death Link Found
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH U of T researchers have found that fit people are less likely to die from COVID-19. “One of the really cool findings of this study is that anyone with an above low level of physical activity is better protected,” says Rebecca Christensen, a...
A New Era for DLSPH and the WHO’s Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion
DLSPH’s Centre for Global Health has just been named a WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion – part of a network of 800 academic and research institutions that support the organization’s mission to improve the world’s health. Although the School has been a Collaborating Centre since the 1990s, moving the designation...
DLSPH Provides Culturally Safe Vaccination for Indigenous People
Indigenous health experts at the University of Toronto are running a COVID vaccination clinic for Toronto’s Indigenous community – an illustration of the power of public health measures wrapped in culturally appropriate care. The clinic began in early April on campus and runs once a week throughout May. It will...
Making Big Data More Inclusive
A newly appointed DLSPH Faculty member and data pioneer is on a mission to help public health practitioners hear the “quiet voices” not traditionally captured in online data gathering. Neil Seeman has become a world-leading expert in uncovering the perspectives and experiences of people who don’t typically take surveys or...
A Climate Resilience Lab with a Racial Justice Lens
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A new lab at U of T will bring together lessons from climate change research and the future of community-based resilience work with a racial justice lens. The lab will officially launch in Fall 2021. "It's tragic that the bodies that built the...