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...
DLSPH Researchers Study COVID Transmission Among Paramedics
February 02/2021
Paramedics are at high risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but details of what puts them most at risk of exposure have not yet been studied until now. Two researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are working on the cross-country study, run by the...
“This Could Become the Facebook of Environmental Information”
January 29/2021
U of T researchers are developing an app allowing anyone to learn about air quality, greenery, walkability, and other factors contributing to the environmental health of their neighborhoods. Tentatively named “Good Score,” the app will lay bare environmental inequities among communities across Canada, and, for the first time, enable public...
U of T Researcher Receives WHO Grant to Explore Ethics of Travel Bans
January 27/2021
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Researchers recently received a WHO grant to examine the legality of travel bans. “The legal side of things was traditionally of the opinion that travel bans are ineffective and unlawful. COVID has really put this idea to the test, and we wondered what...
DLSPH Researchers to Test COVID Masks in New Ways
January 26/2021
DLSPH Prof. James Scott is breaking new ground in determining the effectiveness of anti-COVID face masks, thanks to $1.2 million from the Ontario government for equipment that measures filtration much more accurately. Scott, head of DLSPH's Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, will perform the next-generation testing in the same...
It Takes a Village: Black-Led Database is Accepting Canadian Data
January 20/2021
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH DLSPH Asst. Prof. Roberta Timothy is launching a Black-run and led survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the African and Black diaspora. “This project is about life and death for our community. Too many people know someone who got COVID or...
Sierra Leone Spared from High COVID Deaths
January 18/2021
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH COVID-19 is not yet a leading cause of death in Sierra Leone, U of T researchers have found. Prof. Prabhat Jha, an epidemiologist with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Queen Elizabeth Scholar (QES) Ashley Aimone applied the same methods as...
New DLSPH Course Explores Overpolicing in Black Communities
December 18/2020A ground-breaking course being offered at DLSPH this spring will allow students to analyze the public health implications of race-based criminal justice data in real-time – as Canadian governments are releasing the information. In 2020, the Ontario government mandated the collection of race-based data across the criminal justice system, from...
CanCOVID Welcomes New Theme Leaders
December 10/2020CanCOVID is delighted to announce the appointments of Dr. Katrina Milaney, Dr. Louis Flamand, Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine and Dr. Sue Horton as its new theme leaders. "We are thrilled to welcome our new theme leads to CanCOVID to help contribute the best available evidence and expertise for the pandemic response,” says Prof. Vivek Goel, Network Science...
DLSPH Researchers, Scarsin to Collaborate on COVID Decision Support
December 09/2020
Some of Canada’s leading pandemic readiness, response and resilience experts will join forces to support public health decision makers with powerful decision support and evidence-based reporting. Researchers based at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Pandemics (IFP) will collaborate with Markham-based Scarsin Corporation to advise on and support the deployment...