U of T Researchers to Study Impact of Cannabis on Indigenous Oral Health
June 05/2020
Clinical research and Indigenous knowledge models will help team gather first evidence of effects of cannabis on Indigenous peoples of Canada A multidisciplinary team from the University of Toronto, with experts from the Faculty of Dentistry and the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public...
U of T Modelling Shows Ontario Must Keep Distancing to Continue Opening Up
May 28/2020
University of Toronto researchers have found fresh evidence that Ontario’s physical distancing measures have worked. But their newest models suggest that without more testing and tracing, an increase to more than 50 percent of pre-COVID physical contact would quickly overwhelm the province’s ICUs. The model is a worst-case scenario that...
U of T students develop informatics platform to aid COVID-19 decision making
May 25/2020
Rapid Evidence Access Link (REAL) is an COVID-19 evidence pipeline for government and health sector leaders By: Nicole Bodnar An interdisciplinary team of health systems students and professionals built a digital platform that rapidly provides reliable COVID-19 information to health sector leaders and decision-makers across Ontario. Rapid Evidence Access Link...
U of T Lab Provides Mask Protocol Testing Amid Domestic Shortage
May 21/2020
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH In less than three months, a small lab at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health is helping healthcare providers validate their mask reprocessing processes by testing the efficiency of filters at capturing fine particles. The lab in the Gage building is also...
Closing Schools Effective Against COVID-19 – Hot Weather Doesn’t Help
May 08/2020
U of T Researchers Publish First Peer-Reviewed Global Study Showing Summer Won’t End Transmission of the Virus By Heidi Singer University of Toronto researchers have found the first hard evidence that hot weather doesn’t help in the fight against COVID-19 -- but that closing schools does. “If we open schools...
NAO partners with WHO on COVID-19 information sharing
April 14/2020
The North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO) is contributing to domestic and international efforts to reliably track and document the policy interventions by federal, provincial and territorial governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “By creating a credible, open resource that captures the timing, intensity and range...
Natasha Crowcroft to lead WHO’s Measles and Rubella Program
April 07/2020
Dr. Natasha Crowcroft has accepted an international leadership role with the World Health Organization (WHO) as Senior Technical Advisor - Measles and Rubella Control that she will begin later this spring. “I’m thrilled to take on this new challenge with WHO – my dream job following a decade of working...
CPTP is now CanPath
March 27/2020
The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP) is now CanPath, the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health. This change is the result of extensive consultation with scientific leadership, funders, regional cohorts, participants and the National Strategic Advisory Council, in a national branding exercise that culminated on March 16, 2020. “Our Leadership Team carefully considered how the CPTP name represented the important work...
Arjumand Siddiqi appointed Epidemiology Division Head
March 20/2020
Arjumand Siddiqi was appointed Head of the Division of Epidemiology in the Graduate Department of Public Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health on March 20, 2020. Siddiqi is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity. She also holds appointments in...
‘The window for action is right now’: U of T epidemiologist on the effectiveness of social distancing
March 18/2020
As the new coronavirus continues to spread, authorities around the world are encouraging people to limit their contact with others in an effort to stem the tide. On Tuesday, for example, Ontario declared a state of emergency and announced 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 180. Alberta also declared...