Faculty and Staff Honoured at Awards and Retirement Lunch
June 24/2016More than 75 Public Health Sciences faculty and staff attended the awards lunch on June 16, 2016 at U of T’s Faculty Club to celebrate members of the community who have made an impact in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and beyond. “This is an important moment to...
Dr. Nancy Baxter named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at DLSPH
June 22/2016Dr. Nancy Baxter is the Faculty’s Associate Dean of Academic Affairs as of July 1, 2016. “Nancy is a tremendous teacher, supervisor, mentor and administrator and I am thrilled to welcome her to the Faculty,” said Howard Hu, Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. A faculty member...
Making the case for supervised injection services
June 17/2016Five years after Associate Professor Carol Strike and Professor Ahmed Bayoumi said that Toronto would benefit from opening at least three supervised drug injection sites, their research is now influencing public health leaders and policy-makers to make safe-injection services available in the city. “We’ve been saying for a long time...
LGBTQ Health Research-to-Action on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
May 12/2016DLSPH Student Blog By: Kinnon Ross MacKinnon On May 17, 130 countries around the world will celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. May 17 is significant for international lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer (LGBTQ) and ally communities because it was on that date in 1990 that the...
Six public health and health services students receive Gordon Cressy Award
April 22/2016Three Dalla Lana School of Public Health and three Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation students received a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award in recognition of their outstanding volunteer contributions to the University of Toronto community on April 20, 2016. This year’s recipients include: Shannon Brent (MPH Epidemiology), Melissa...
Professor Prabhat Jha receives CIHR Trailblazer Award
April 13/2016
By: Marc Dodsworth, St. Michael’s Hospital The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has awarded Dr. Prabhat Jha its inaugural Trailblazer Award in Population Health Solutions. The CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer award recognizes Dr. Jha’s exceptional policy and practice contributions to population health. Dr. Jha’s wide scope of research with health policy impact...
Health Promotion students IMAGINE a better future for interprofessional health education
April 13/2016
DLSPH Student Blog By: Anne Rucchetto, Fatima Mussa, Antu Hossain, & Anjum Sultana Healthcare is an ever-expanding field where various specialists — including public health professionals, physician and nurses — must work together to improve health for all. All healthcare experts are interdependent and beneficiaries of one another’s success when...
Dr. Xiaolin Wei named Associate Professor of Health Systems and Clinical Public Health in Asia
April 12/2016Dr. Xiaolin Wei is the Faculty’s first Associate Professor of Health Systems and Clinical Public Health in Asia — a shared core faculty position with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Division of Clinical Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation — as of April...
In the Loop: Zika virus
April 05/2016
Two public health experts explain Zika virus within the global context at alumni event Two days following an announcement from the World Health Network Organization (WHO) that Ebola is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, two U of T public health leaders discussed the latest global infectious...
Poverty is chief reason reported by youth for being on the street
April 04/2016
Poverty is the most common reason reported by children and youth globally for why they were on the streets, according to a large international study led by a Dalla Lana School of Public Health researcher. It is estimated that there are tens to hundreds of millions of children and youth...