U of T community invited to participate in bioethics for health in digital age conversation
May 10/2018
Panel to explore data privacy, social media in healthcare Political views and voting patterns were allegedly compromised in Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach, but what if personal health information was leaked as a result of poor public policy on data privacy? “Good data governance is the best way to mitigate...
DLSPH Blog – Influencing Policy through Research: A public health approach to rolling out Cannabis in Canada
April 30/2018
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 Since the 1970s, scientists have...
Not a Miracle Test: U of T expert explains the true costs of genetic testing
April 27/2018
By: Rebecca Biason, IHPME Communications & Events Coordinator From 23 and Me and Ancestry DNA to research laboratories, genome sequencing has become more widely available, and many would have you believe it’s an affordable option for just about anyone to get themselves tested for the risk of a variety of...
DLSPH and Toronto Public Health recognize World TB Day
April 27/2018
World TB Day is March 24 – the day in 1882 that Robert Koch announced he had looked down a microscope and discovered the microbiologic cause of tuberculosis (TB). Today it’s an opportunity to raise awareness about the disease that sickens more than 10 million people annually and kills 1.7...
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...
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,...