Improving breast cancer screening
April 25/2018By: Elizabeth Garel, Cancer Care Ontario Anna Chiarelli has been studying breast cancer screening in one way or another since joining Cancer Care Ontario in 1996. More than 20 years later, she is beginning a new phase of research. Her latest project focuses on improving personalized risk assessment, using a...
PHAA’s hosts successful In the Loop event on “Scienceploitation” with Professor Tim Caulfield
April 17/2018
By: Ramlogan Sowamber Professor Timothy Caulfield – a self-proclaimed science geek and lover of evidence who enjoys integrating a wide range of perspectives in the pursuit of health – fascinated a crowd of more than 200 DLSPH alumni and students to debunk health myths created by pop culture on March...
Seven public health and health services students receive Gordon Cressy Award
April 17/2018Four 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 earlier this spring. This year’s recipients include: Sarah Buchan (PhD Epidemiology), Madeleine Bondy...
U of T scientist co-leads human genome database project, Iranome, in the Middle East
April 16/2018By: Sarah Warr, Women's College Hospital With the completion of the human genome project in 2003, several genome databases have been made available worldwide yet, all of these databases lack representation from many ethnic groups including populations living in Middle East. To address this gap, Mohammad R. Akbari, Assistant Professor...
Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world
April 11/2018
Increasing cigarette prices would add to years of life lived, and cut billions of dollars in treatment costs for families globally By: Ana Gajic, St. Michael's Hospital Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world, while also cutting health treatment costs...
U of T selected as scientific partner of Canada’s largest health research platform to accelerate cancer and chronic disease research
April 11/2018
The University of Toronto has been selected to serve as the national scientific partner of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP), Canada’s largest population research platform that is unlocking the answers to why some people develop cancer and chronic diseases while others do not. Through a national competition by...
OTRU publishes 2017 Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Monitoring Report
March 29/2018The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit published the 2017 Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Monitoring Report on Wednesday March 28, 2018. Click here to download the report This report presents evaluative information about the activities and results of the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy and describes Strategy infrastructure and interventions, analyzes population-level changes, and explores...
Community Paramedics Offer an Alternate Resource for Chronically Ill Patients: U of T Expert
March 27/2018
By: Rebecca Biason, Communications and Events Coordinator, IHPME Can paramedics fill the gaps in primary care for chronically ill patients? Researcher and patient outcomes expert Katie Dainty, conducted a qualitative study of advanced training program EPIC, to find out. The idea behind the program which Dainty and her team of researchers designed,...
DLSPH Open: DLSPH launches first Operational Plan
March 23/2018Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share with you the Faculty’s first Operational Plan. Click here to read the Operational Plan (2017-2020) First, a word on how we got here. One of the recommendations following the 2016-17 University of Toronto Quality Assurance Process (UTQAP) was to develop an Operational Plan...
DLSPH Blog – Integrating Health Systems because the Future of Health Care is Local
March 23/2018
The DLSPH Blog is a digital platform that will explore issues that impact public health and health systems scholars on a biweekly basis written by Interim Dean Adalsteinn Brown in collaboration with DLSPH faculty, staff and students. For blog ideas, feedback or comments, contact: communications.dlsph@utoronto.ca The majority of healthy living activities...