Prof. Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown Reappointed as DLSPH Dean
October 27/2022
Memo from Cheryl Regehr, Vice-President & Provost October 27, 2022 I am pleased to announce that the Agenda Committee of Academic Board has approved the reappointment of Professor Adalsteinn Brown as Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health for a six-year term from July 1, 2023 to June 30,...
DLSPH Remembers Paula Braitstein
October 18/2022
Dear Colleagues, We are writing with heavy hearts to inform you that our friend, colleague and department/faculty member, Dr. Paula Braitstein, passed away on Sunday in Eldoret, Kenya. Paula was a Professor of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and cross-appointed to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology...
Assumptions about the Lethality of Air Pollution in India May Be Exaggerated
October 12/2022
High levels of exposure to air pollution in India have a smaller effect on mortality than previously estimated, according to the first study to cover the whole of India, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a leading peer-reviewed journal. India has among the highest levels of air pollution in the world,...
Prof. Xiaolin Wei combats health care barriers near and far
September 27/2022
By Bonnie O’Sullivan Photography by France Geomark Doctora Long before the pandemic, Prof. Xiaolin Wei was on the frontlines addressing health misinformation and building trust between health care professionals and communities. Now, the DLSPH epidemiologist has been recognized with election to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. From a small...
Selective Abortion of Girls Occurs — For Different Reasons — Among Indian and Chinese Diaspora: DLSPH Researchers
September 27/2022
The rates of selective abortion of female fetuses in third pregnancies following two earlier girls is higher among Indian diaspora than within India, according to a study published by public health researchers at the University of Toronto. The study authors, health researcher Catherine Meh and Prof. Prabhat Jha from the...
Marburg Detection Highlights Importance of Global Surveillance Cooperation
September 14/2022
By Françoise Makanda, DLSPH While cases of the Marburg virus were discovered in Ghana and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Prof. Shelly Bolotin is cautiously optimistic about the state of infectious disease surveillance. Marburg is a zoonotic disease which is closely related to Ebola. With a high mortality...
“It was Exhilarating!”: U of T Students Become Lay Vaccinators
August 24/2022
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...
$3.5 Million Gift to Expand Critical Qualitative Health Research at DLSPH
June 29/2022
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
June 28/2022
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...
Two Prestigious Awards for DLSPH’s Investigative Journalism Bureau
June 07/2022
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...