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Race, Health and Happiness Podcast Highlights Game Changers

Zoom capture of the RHH team

by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH The upcoming season of DLSPH Prof. Onye Nnorom’s popular podcast, Race, Health and Happiness (RHH) will showcase some of the game changers advancing anti-racism in health care. Dr. Nnorom will be speaking with guests like Dr. Marcia Anderson, Gurneet Dhami, Kern Carter, Victoria...

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What They Heard: Q&A

DLSPH researchers find local Indigenous communities not consulted about COVID Last year, as Canada shut its borders to stem the flow of COVID-19, people continued to cross freely into Indigenous communities by water– mingling with residents who had scarce access to masks or even clean water for hand washing. This...

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Podcast Dissects Cities’ Future through Sustainable Development Goals

Healthy Cities in the SDG Era[1]

By Ayesha Shakeel, Communications Assistant and third-year undergraduate student in Global Health and Immunology A new podcast unpacks the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and outlines how U of T faculty and students' research are helping to achieve them. The Centre for Global Health’s Healthy Cities in the SDG Era Podcast,...

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DLSPH Open: Wellness

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, It’s been a year of learning together, apart, and ‘so much has happened’ feels like an understatement, especially since it is all still happening. The burden of suffering, like the burden of work, is not shared equally across communities, evoking significant and complex emotions and...

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The Right Breast Cancer Screening at the Right Time

DLSPH Profs. Jennifer Brooks, Anna Chiarelli and Meghan Walker are helping to lead game-changing research to better understand breast cancer risk and deliver more personalized screening tests for Ontarians. Most women with breast cancer have no family history, and don’t have the BRCA genetic mutations with strong links to the...

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DLSPH Researchers to Study Teachers’ Exposure to COVID-​19

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Researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are participating in a national study to estimate how many teachers and school personnel have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Asst. Prof. Brenda Coleman, who is running the Ontario wing of the study, hopes the results will...

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Experts Work Together to Bolster Migrant Health Research

A group of DLSPH researchers have come together to explore the intersection of migration and public health. “The DLSPH has a long tradition of research and teaching in this area,” Prof. Andrea Cortinois, a group member of DLSPH’s Public Health and Migration says, “but we do not have a ‘home.’...

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WBIIH is awarded Ontario NEIHR Grant

Indigenous Mental Health Capacity from the Ground Up by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at Dalla Lana School of Public Health The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) team is sharing their new Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) grant with national Indigenous experts to strengthen mental health research, programs,...

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Novo Nordisk and the University of Toronto announced a combined C$40-​million investment to address diabetes and chronic disease prevention

Novo Nordisk A/S and the University of Toronto announced a C$40-million investment to establish the Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations. Based at U of T Mississauga, the new network will be a partnership between the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and University of...

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DLSPH Commemorates Black History Month

Black history month design for DLSPH 2021

To help mark this year’s Black History Month, DLSPH leaders and Black scholars are sharing what this moment means to them. This page will be updated regularly to include more statements from our community. Learning and Unlearning To me, Black History Month is a tap on the shoulder reminding me...

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