DLSPH Students Shine in Documentary Digging Into the Health Risks of Heavy Metal Contamination
January 24/2025
Heavy Risks zooms in on the Whin Valley, Ghana and showcases the public health risks of heavy mental contamination, and what can be done to protect this essential farming region. By Ishani Nath Recently, three DLSPH students took what they learned in the classroom and applied it to protect the...
DrPH Program Celebrates Academic Milestones as Cohort IV Enters the Program
November 11/2024
By Elaine Smith Updated: November 13, 2024 Dr. Ted Witek, Professor and Director of the DrPH program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), is excited about the activity associated with the students’ academic milestones. “The inaugural cohort is in its thesis stage, Cohort II has successfully completed...
DLSPH Professor Honoured by TTC During Black History Month
February 28/2024
Dr. Roberta K. Timothy is one of 11 Black Torontonians being celebrated for their leadership, with likenesses captured by artists for display in subway stations and buses for Black History Month By Elaine Smith Walk into Toronto’s St. George subway station in February and you’ll see a mural of a...
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...
New First Exposure initiative provides critical resources for maternal, reproductive and child health in Ontario
May 19/2022
A new information hub and research network at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health will fill crucial gaps in health care for mothers and infants. Thanks to a $5-million investment from the Vohra Miller Foundation, the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health is launching a groundbreaking...
Small Steps for Indigenous Health Inclusion in Medical Curricula
May 02/2022
by Françoise Makanda, DLSPH After three years of ardent work, the Public Health & Preventive Medicine Program is taking its first steps in Indigenizing its curriculum. But program leads Profs. Onye Nnorom and Barry Pakes are not rejoicing just yet. “We hope to Indigenize or at least decolonize our curriculum,”...
Outreach and Access Program Expands to Runnymede and Westview Centennial High Schools
January 10/2022
by Françoise Makanda, DLSPH DLSPH’s Outreach and Access Program continues to have an impact on more Toronto high schools. It completed its first semester at Westview Centennial. “It feels great that the program continues to expand and that we’re continuing to develop relationships and reaching more schools, more students, and...
Return to In-Person Classes Announcement – Winter Term 2022
November 05/2021
Dear DLSPH community, After extensive research and careful consideration of multiple academic and social factors and public health guidance, we have decided to return to in-person courses for the Winter 2022 term. Instructors will determine what in-person means for their Winter course(s) and communicate accordingly to students. For the majority...
Update on Building Access
October 14/2021
Dear DLSPH Community, I would like to share our plans for safely navigating DLSPH buildings during the Fall 2021 Term. As a school of public health, we must be exemplary in our own COVID safety protocols. As such, our newly revised protocols (see attached), developed in consultation with DLSPH’s occupational...
Dean Steini Brown’s Statement on Discovery of Unmarked Graves in Saskatchewan
June 24/2021Dear DLSPH community, Today, after learning about the 751 children discovered in unmarked graves at Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, I am reflecting on what I can do to advance Reconciliation -- and what can be done by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the University of...