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Six public health and health services students receive Gordon Cressy Award
Three Dalla Lana School of Public Health and three Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation students received a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award in recognition of their outstanding volunteer contributions to the University of Toronto community on April 20, 2016. This year’s recipients include: Shannon Brent (MPH Epidemiology), Melissa...
Professor Steven Narod receives prestigious Killam Prize
Congratulations to world renowned breast cancer researcher Steven Narod, who will receive the Killam Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts at a ceremony on May 3, 2016. Read more about the Killam Program. Narod is a Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a senior scientist at Women’s College Research Institute,...
Professor Prabhat Jha receives CIHR Trailblazer Award
By: Marc Dodsworth, St. Michael’s Hospital The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has awarded Dr. Prabhat Jha its inaugural Trailblazer Award in Population Health Solutions. The CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer award recognizes Dr. Jha’s exceptional policy and practice contributions to population health. Dr. Jha’s wide scope of research with health policy impact...
Health Promotion students IMAGINE a better future for interprofessional health education
DLSPH Student Blog By: Anne Rucchetto, Fatima Mussa, Antu Hossain, & Anjum Sultana Healthcare is an ever-expanding field where various specialists — including public health professionals, physician and nurses — must work together to improve health for all. All healthcare experts are interdependent and beneficiaries of one another’s success when...
How DLSPH is leveraging big data to address health inequity
I would like to thank everyone who attended the General Faculty Meeting on March 8, 2016 at which I gave my first State of the School address. Following my presentation, David Henry gave a talk entitled: Changing Landscape of Population Health Data in Ontario. Big data for Population Health is...
Dr. Xiaolin Wei named Associate Professor of Health Systems and Clinical Public Health in Asia
Dr. Xiaolin Wei is the Faculty’s first Associate Professor of Health Systems and Clinical Public Health in Asia — a shared core faculty position with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Division of Clinical Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation — as of April...
In the Loop: Zika virus
Two public health experts explain Zika virus within the global context at alumni event Two days following an announcement from the World Health Network Organization (WHO) that Ebola is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, two U of T public health leaders discussed the latest global infectious...
Poverty is chief reason reported by youth for being on the street
Poverty is the most common reason reported by children and youth globally for why they were on the streets, according to a large international study led by a Dalla Lana School of Public Health researcher. It is estimated that there are tens to hundreds of millions of children and youth...
Nutrition students to coordinate Indigenous cultural competency training
Two Nutrition and Dietetics students received U of T professional development funding for an Indigenous cultural competency training initiative to help bring context to the current health disparities that disproportionately affect Indigenous people in Canada. Branka Gladanac and Tenzin Lama where among the 10 graduate student groups awarded funding from U of T’s...
VIDEO: Dean Howard Hu’s State of the School Address
Watch Dean Howard Hu's State of the School Address delivered on March 8, 2016 at the General Faculty Meeting. Click here to watch video