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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...
“I Was Shocked in a Good Way”
How a U of T Professor Reimagined Land-Based Learning Online When Prof. Angela Mashford-Pringle learned she would have to put her ground-breaking land-based learning course online, her heart sank. How could a course built around an Indigenous connection with the land work remotely? She didn’t think it could be done...
First Outreach and Access Program Alumnae Head to U of T
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A pioneering DLSPH effort to introduce underrepresented high school students to a career in health has borne fruit: Two of its alumna, Maha Khan and Maimuna Akhter, have chosen to attend U of T this fall. With the choice to attend all three...
When all Roads Lead to Public Health: Tyla Thomas -Jacques’ Journey
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH The end of Tyla Thomas-Jacques' graduate journey came online -- an unfitting conclusion to two years at DLSPH. “It doesn't seem like there's any finale,” says Thomas-Jacques who earned her Master of Public Health in Public Health Promotion. “It was very anticlimactic but...
DLSPH Researchers Draw Record Amount of Social Science Funding
By Heidi Singer and Nicole Bodnar DLSPH researchers are claiming an increasing presence in the social science space, with a tripling of funds from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in the past few years – including five new recipients announced recently. Their success in the January 2020 Insight...
U of T’s Online Movement Breaks Available to All Classes in Fall
By Francoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Pre-pandemic, students swayed back-and-forth to a choreographed Sean Paul routine in one of Prof. Ananya Banerjee’s well-known movement breaks. For just three minutes to break up long classes, Banerjee goes through a choreographed routine to get students moving. Now, the pilot project will...
COVID Demands an End to Homelessness
As COVID-19 hits Toronto’s homeless population, those who work with and care about them are anxious on their behalf. But they are also trying to create opportunity. Canadians may be numb to the sight of 35,000 people on the streets, but advocates have noticed the virus laying bare the public...