Public Health Trailblazer receives President’s Award for the Outstanding Native Student of the Year
August 07/2015
Congratulations to Earl Nowgesic, recipient of the University of Toronto President’s Award for the Outstanding Native Student of the Year. “I’m honoured to receive this prestigious award and appreciative to U of T for helping me advance social justice for and self-determination of Indigenous peoples,” said Nowgesic, Interim Associate Director...
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics joins the Dalla Lana School of Public Health
June 30/2015On July 1, 2015, the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) will join the Dalla Lana School of Public Health as its new home faculty. This transition from the Faculty of Medicine into the School reflects the evolution of bioethics as a field that is expanding its scope...
DLSPH 2014-15 Annual Report: The beauty of what we pursue
June 29/2015
The Dalla Lana School of Public Health published it's first annual report since its re-establishment in 2008 and achieving faculty status (U of T’s first new faculty in 15 years) in July 2013. The beauty of what we pursue is the report’s distinctive subtitle thatcaptures the idea that threats to...
U of T students receive first place and honourable mention in global health contest
May 04/2015
Global health students at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health received first place and honourable mention in the 2015 Untold Global Health Stories contest. The contest is run jointly by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and Global Health NOW, an online magazine by the Johns Hopkins...
Waging Peace: The Annual Pakula Lecture by Professor Chandler Davis
April 20/2015Professor Chandler Davis will speak at the third Dr. Zofia Pakula Public Lecture Series on April 27, 2015 in the Music Room at Hart House. Davis is a Professor Emeritus in U of T’s Department of Mathematics. He is also an author and self-identified socialist who was imprisoned in 1960...
U of T’s Institute for Indigenous Health uniquely named to honour Canadians’ commitment to Indigenous Peoples
April 17/2015
A transformative institute aimed at creating thriving health in Indigenous communities will receive the name, Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, on March 23 at the University of Toronto. The Institute — among the first of its kind in the world — was created at the Dalla Lana School of Public...
Professor Earl Nowgesic appointed Interim Associate Director of the new Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health
April 17/2015
Professor Earl Nowgesic is the Interim Associate Director of the new Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) as of April 1, 2015. At this same time, he will also begin an academic appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla...
DLSPH names director of Institute for Indigenous Health
December 12/2014Professor Jeffrey Reading will begin the role of inaugural interim director of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Institute for Indigenous Health on January 1, 2015. This is somewhat of a homecoming for Professor Reading. He is an alumnus with master’s and PhD degrees from U of T’s Community...
Global Health Summit: Creating a Pandemic of Health is underway
November 04/2014From November 3 to 5, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health is hosting a Global Health Equity and Innovation Summit, “Creating a Pandemic of Health,” that aims to shift the emphasis in health care away from the traditional focus on disease and towards a concentration on health and well-being....
Global Health Summit: The Grand Convergence
October 27/2014By Elaine SmithThe issue: In a widely read 2013 article, "Global Health 2013: The Grand Convergence," The Lancet revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035.The lead author, Dean T. Jamison, now a professor emeritus at the University...