Two DLSPH faculty members receive Connaught funding to support emerging partnerships
March 02/2023
By Bonnie O'Sullivan DLSPH researchers performed extraordinarily well this year in receiving awards from a University of Toronto fund that supports collaborations with community partners and nurtures early-stage researchers. Prof. Angela Mashford-Pringle, Associate Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, and Prof. Beverley Essue, faculty member at the Institute...
Stars in the same constellation: DLSPH researcher on the mutual benefits of space and health innovations
January 12/2023
By Bonnie O'Sullivan Photo: Prof. Farhan Asrar (right) with Dr. David Saint-Jacques (Canadian astronaut, family doctor, and co-author). Taken at the Canadian Space Agency Head Quarters. “I’m a doctor, not an engineer,” said Star Trek’s Dr. Leonard McCoy when asked to do something outside his comfort zone. His story may...
PrEP for HIV Prevention Should Be Free for Canadians, Say Researchers
January 04/2023by Françoise Makanda Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention should be available at no cost to all Canadians who meet the clinical guidelines, say researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH). “Removing cost as a barrier to access in Ontario, like in some other provinces, is a...
Putting Primary Care at the Centre of Ontario’s Health System: DLSPH Researchers to Advise Primary Care Groups
November 30/2022
By Heidi Singer With Canadian health care systems in crisis, a University of Toronto researcher is working to inform stakeholders on building high-performing integrated primary care systems – work that she hopes will support them to make real change in the sector. Prof. Monica Aggarwal is leading a research collaboration...
Solidarity with Iran and the Elimination of Violence against Women
November 25/2022Today, we join with the global community in recognizing the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th, which begins 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence culminating in World Human Rights Day on December 10th. Recent events underscore the importance of these commemorations — in...
Supported by Shoppers Drug Mart, DLSPH and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy partner to strengthen pharmacists’ role in health system
November 22/2022
The University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health along with Shoppers Drug Mart have announced a new collaboration to study how pharmacists can better support Canada’s overburdened health system. The research will review and evaluate what the expanded role for pharmacists...
Strengthening Primary Care Key to Rebuilding Canada’s Crumbling Healthcare System
November 15/2022
A new report on the sustainability and resilience of Canada’s healthcare system has sounded the alarm that the current healthcare model is incapable of making the changes necessary to address the challenges faced today and will not withstand the next crisis. The Sustainability and Resilience in the Canadian Health System...
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,...