Meet DLSPH’s New Indigenous Health Lead
June 21/2021
Asst. Prof. Angela Mashford-Pringle, is DLSPH’s first-ever Indigenous Health Lead. She says her goals are “very simple”: “I want to create a safe and welcoming environment for Indigenous students, faculty, Elders and Knowledge Keepers and their guests.” But arriving at cultural safety might not be so simple. It means unpacking...
“A Golden Opportunity on a Silver Platter”: The Infectious Enthusiasm of DLSPH’s Digital Evangelist
June 17/2021
Asst. Prof. Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco is DLSPH’s online engagement guru – a surprising new role for the long time AIDS activist and community based researcher. At 58, the Chilean-born former Vancouverite was asked to join the faculty to help professors – who are often much younger – learn how to teach...
U of T Endocrinologist to Lead ‘Powerhouse’ Diabetes Research Network
June 17/2021
A noted diabetes researcher and public health advocate from the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health has been selected lead a “powerhouse” research network that will impact the global fight against diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. Physician and Associate Professor Lorraine Lipscombe of...
PhD Candidate Award Sheds Light on Health Barriers for Black People Living with HIV
June 14/2021By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Apondi Judith Odhiambo received the Canadian Association for HIV Research 2021 New Investigator Award last month. She was honoured for her research in unearthing invisible barriers Black people living with HIV face as they enter the Canadian healthcare system. “I am honoured to...
Meet DLSPH’s New Black Health Lead
May 19/2021Asst. Prof. Roberta Timothy has been appointed Black Health Lead at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health – part of a School-wide initiative to embed equity and anti-racism throughout the curriculum, and to advance research and education in Black population health. Timothy plans to create new and innovative programming...
A New Era for DLSPH and the WHO’s Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion
May 07/2021
DLSPH’s Centre for Global Health has just been named a WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion – part of a network of 800 academic and research institutions that support the organization’s mission to improve the world’s health. Although the School has been a Collaborating Centre since the 1990s, moving the designation...
Making Big Data More Inclusive
May 05/2021
A newly appointed DLSPH Faculty member and data pioneer is on a mission to help public health practitioners hear the “quiet voices” not traditionally captured in online data gathering. Neil Seeman has become a world-leading expert in uncovering the perspectives and experiences of people who don’t typically take surveys or...
Supervised Consumption Harm Reduction Goes Digital
April 26/2021U of T Researchers Test Novel Method to Reduce Opioid Deaths During the Pandemic by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A group of researchers at DLSPH and The Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs are studying a remote supervised-consumption model known as “spotting” to understand its benefits among...
Emerging Uses of Data Science and AI: DLSPH Kicks Off First Interdisciplinary Seed Projects
March 25/2021
Six teams of interdisciplinary researchers have won seed funding from DLSPH to investigate new and emerging projects in data science and artificial intelligence. The award is part of the School’s commitment to a new research model that brings together broad teams with disciplinary depth to tackle some of the most...
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...