What They Heard: Q&A
March 16/2021
DLSPH researchers find local Indigenous communities not consulted about COVID Last year, as Canada shut its borders to stem the flow of COVID-19, people continued to cross freely into Indigenous communities by water– mingling with residents who had scarce access to masks or even clean water for hand washing. This...
Podcast Dissects Cities’ Future through Sustainable Development Goals
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March 16/2021
By Ayesha Shakeel, Communications Assistant and third-year undergraduate student in Global Health and Immunology A new podcast unpacks the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and outlines how U of T faculty and students' research are helping to achieve them. The Centre for Global Health’s Healthy Cities in the SDG Era Podcast,...
The Right Breast Cancer Screening at the Right Time
March 08/2021
DLSPH Profs. Jennifer Brooks, Anna Chiarelli and Meghan Walker are helping to lead game-changing research to better understand breast cancer risk and deliver more personalized screening tests for Ontarians. Most women with breast cancer have no family history, and don’t have the BRCA genetic mutations with strong links to the...
DLSPH Researchers to Study Teachers’ Exposure to COVID-19
March 04/2021
Researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are participating in a national study to estimate how many teachers and school personnel have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Asst. Prof. Brenda Coleman, who is running the Ontario wing of the study, hopes the results will...
Experts Work Together to Bolster Migrant Health Research
March 01/2021A group of DLSPH researchers have come together to explore the intersection of migration and public health. “The DLSPH has a long tradition of research and teaching in this area,” Prof. Andrea Cortinois, a group member of DLSPH’s Public Health and Migration says, “but we do not have a ‘home.’...
WBIIH is awarded Ontario NEIHR Grant
February 25/2021Indigenous Mental Health Capacity from the Ground Up by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at Dalla Lana School of Public Health The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) team is sharing their new Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) grant with national Indigenous experts to strengthen mental health research, programs,...
Novo Nordisk and the University of Toronto announced a combined C$40-million investment to address diabetes and chronic disease prevention
February 24/2021
Novo Nordisk A/S and the University of Toronto announced a C$40-million investment to establish the Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations. Based at U of T Mississauga, the new network will be a partnership between the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and University of...
What the 1918 Flu Teaches Us About Surges
February 08/2021
U of T and Swiss scientists reach into history to find a possible roadmap for preventing new COVID-19 surges Researchers from U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) and Swiss counterparts have shown that a hesitant and decentralized response to the Spanish Flu led to longer and...
COVID-19 Positivity Increases with Age, BMI and Waist Circumference
February 04/2021by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH If you’re over the age of 65 and have a high waist circumference, you are more likely to test positive for COVID-19 regardless of your BMI, U of T researchers have observed. It’s the first study to include waist circumference and BMI together...
DLSPH Faculty Lead Toronto Task Force on Vaccine Inequity
February 03/2021
A DLSPH professor, Akwatu Khenti, will chair a task force of Black scientists to address vaccine hesitancy and other challenges around vaccine equity in Toronto. City officials announced the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity, which includes several DLSPH professors, in a virtual news conference Feb. 3, along with...