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Creating Safer Environments for Canada’s Soldiers
For the first time in his 30 years with the Canadian Armed Forces, Major Gary Johnston will be remembering Canada’s war dead by watching a ceremony on TV. “I don’t think I’ve really come to terms with it yet,” says Johnston, a Bioscience Officer with the Department of National Defence,...
Anti-Oppression Workshops An Important First Start to Allyship
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A recent anti-oppression training session offered an important start to conversations on equity for first-year DLSPH health promotion students, according to study leads and DLSPH alumnae Gifty Djulus and Natasha Yasmin Sheikhan. But post-workshop results showed that most participants wouldn’t feel comfortable applying...
DLSPH Researchers to Study COVID Seroprevalence in High-Risk Populations
By Arlette Bax The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected marginalized communities across Canada. The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath), hosted by the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, has received a $1.9 million investment from Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) to fund a study of...
U of T Launches New Investigative Journalism Bureau for Collaborative Reporting and Training
The Dalla Lana School of Public Health is launching the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB), a unique Canadian initiative bringing together journalists, academics and students to conduct in-depth reporting while training the next generation of investigative journalists. Building on the success of its existing journalism programs (The Dalla Lana Fellowship in...
Pilot Program for Black Post Doctoral Fellows is in Motion
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH The Dalla Lana School of Public Health has already welcomed two post-doctoral fellows to its pilot program that nurtures early-career Black academics, helping to ensure that rising stars have opportunities to develop their research programs. Both postdocs are already working on independent research....
DLSPH Open: The Second Wave
Dear students, staff, alumni and faculty members, As I write this, we are heading quickly into a second COVID-19 wave. My thoughts are with the health providers, policy analysts, and public health professionals who are dealing with this outbreak. I have heard from many of you that this is a...
Toronto health science leaders form ‘Community of Practice’ for high-quality, low-carbon care
Professors Steini Brown and Joshua Tepper co-chair the Sustainable Health System Community of Practice, an initiative that aims to reduce health care-related greenhouse gas emissions. By Alisa Kim Hazards related to climate change have significant implications for human health and health systems. Rising atmospheric and oceanic temperatures, for instance, are...
Three Out of Five DLSPH Projects Earn Connaught Community Project Awards
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Profs Lori Ross, Laura Rosella and Michelle Firestone earned this year’s Connaught Community Partnership Research Program Awards for their projects which tackled social assistance and LGBTQ2S+ community, data building for community wellbeing and knowledge downloading from frontline workers during COVID-19. The award helps...
How Healthy is Your Office Building?
U of T Researchers Produce Guidelines For Working Amid Pandemic As restrictions ease and more workplaces re-open, employers must consider not just the health of staff and the workplace, but of the building itself. That’s according to U of T researchers who have co-created Canada’s first comprehensive report on workplace...
DLSPH Professor Untangles Politics of HIV Prevention Drug Implementation in Peru
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer DLSPH Prof. Amaya Perez-Brumer has won funding for early-career researchers where she will explore the politics surrounding the dissemination and uptake of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), an HIV prevention drug, in Peru. Specifically, while Peru is making advances in PrEP science, it is experiencing delays in...