On-Campus Students: Learn Whether You’ve Been Exposed to COVID
November 30/2020
Calling on all U of T students who live on campus or have a documented reason to attend any of the three campuses regularly. You are invited to participate in a critical study to learn whether you have been previously exposed to COVID-19. Researchers from the Dalla Lana School of...
DLSPH Researchers Test Healthcare Workers for COVID-19 Antibodies
November 26/2020
U of T researchers are offering COVID antibody tests to a sampling of health care workers in the Greater Toronto Area and other Canadian cities in an effort to better understand how many have been infected by the virus -- and how best to keep providers safe. The "COVID-19 Cohort...
Pandemic Information Overload? U of T Experts Deliver Custom Data to Your Inbox
November 23/2020
Anyone in Ontario can now receive free daily emails with details of COVID-19 cases in their postal codes, thanks to researchers from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and their partners at the howsmyflattening.ca website. The next-generation version of the site includes an interactive open-source monitoring system to support...
DLSPH Researchers to Study COVID Seroprevalence in High-Risk Populations
October 28/2020By 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
October 22/2020The 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
October 21/2020by 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....
Three Out of Five DLSPH Projects Earn Connaught Community Project Awards
September 25/2020
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?
September 21/2020U 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
September 17/2020
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”
September 08/2020
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...