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Prof. Vivek Goel Named Next President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Waterloo
Vivek Goel, a renowned public health expert who served six years at the head of the University of Toronto’s research division, is leaving U of T to become the University of Waterloo’s seventh president and vice-chancellor. Goel, a professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at...
Maame’s Story: Making Connections Through a Pandemic
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer The pandemic has not stopped Maame De-Heer. The DLSPH student switched gears this Spring and began exploring ways to get involved in issues she cares about online. De-Heer was recently selected as a delegate to RBC’s Future Launch’s Fast Forward 2020 – Youth Summit –...
A Collaborative Specialization in Community Development Thrives Online
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH As online communities thrive, Prof. Blake Poland is teaching students about community development through his meetup group. “The basic idea is to create an opportunity for students interested in community development to come together in a learning space where they can share and...
DLSPH Open: Key Global Health Appointments
Dear students, staff, alumni and faculty members, I am delighted to announce two key global health appointments that will strengthen our School’s commitment to researching and educating in the area of global health equity, particularly in the analysis of policy interventions and in strengthening public health systems. Prof. Erica Di Ruggiero, Director of DLSPH’s Centre for Global Health, has been named...
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...