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“It was Exhilarating!”: U of T Students Become Lay Vaccinators
By Heidi Singer and Françoise Makanda When the first person walked through the door of the makeshift clinic on U of T’s St. George campus, half a dozen students in red polo shirts and purple medical gloves were sitting at long tables, waiting to make history. Akash Kothari, a Master’s...
CanPath Awarded $1.1M CIHR Grant for COVID-19 and Cancer Research Project
CanPath, Canada’s largest population health study based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, will capture the impact of COVID-19 on cancer outcomes and risk in Canada. Researchers at the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath), based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of...
DLSPH Open: Practical Advice on Disconnecting From Work
Dear DLSPH Community, As we move into another hectic pandemic summer, I hope we can all take time to rest, recharge and rejuvenate. But this is not easy, and I know that sometimes such exhortations only add to the feeling of stress when we’re already feeling overwhelmed. With that in...
DLSPH Welcomes New Faculty Members in 2022
This message was sent to all faculty members, staff and students by Dean Brown on June 15, 2022: Dear Faculty and Staff Members, Our School is growing! I am very pleased to share the appointments of faculty members Brice Batomen, Billie-Jo Hardy, Alex Hoagland, Zahra Shakeri, Robert Steiner and Kazumi...
$3.5 Million Gift to Expand Critical Qualitative Health Research at DLSPH
A girl stands alone in the middle of an empty desert. A woman looks directly at the viewer, her mouth covered with band-aids. These artworks are helping public health researchers understand more about the lives of young mothers during COVID and systemic barriers that reinforce health inequities. Qualitative research like...
World’s First MPH Program in Black Health
by Françoise Makanda, DLSPH What should have taken 18 months was done in five, thanks to the leadership of DLSPH’s Black Health Lead, Prof. Roberta Timothy. In Fall 2023, DLSPH will welcome its first cohort of 10 students in the very first MPH in Black Health program, which Timothy believes...
Canadian COVID Deaths Second-Lowest Among G10 Nations: DLSPH Researchers
For much of the past two years, Canadians experienced some of the most restrictive public health measures in the world. Now, U of T researchers have published the first analysis of how Canada compared to peer countries in terms of the public health and control measures we adopted, deaths related...
Research finds influenza in humans is seasonal in Bangladesh
Avian influenza in poultry, less so By Elaine Smith New research by a University of Toronto PhD graduate has determined that human influenza infections in Bangladesh have a high season in the summer months, while avian influenza in poultry is present at similar levels year-round. In a paper published recently...
Two Prestigious Awards for DLSPH’s Investigative Journalism Bureau
By Elaine Smith Within two short years of its launch, the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health has already garnered two prestigious journalism awards and received a nomination for a third. In 2021, the bureau’s inaugural year, it was named a finalist for the...
IHPME new faculty spotlight: A Q&A with Dr. Zahra Shakeri
Growing up in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Zahra Shakeri was fascinated with two things: art and math. “My first desire was to become an artist. At the same time, I loved math. When I was in fifth and sixth grade, I could spend hours and hours solving math problems,” says...