IHPME doctoral student awarded the Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award
April 25/2024One of U of T’s Awards of Excellence recipients, doctoral student Natasha (Yasmin) Sheikhan, is recognized for her academic achievements and work in advocating for patients’ rights in both research and community settings. By Elaine Smith “My health-care journey began as a patient in a system where I felt lost...
DLSPH hosts Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Mid-Year Meeting
April 04/2024On March 8th, DLSPH faculty Dr. Laura Rosella and Dr. Hailey Banack co-chaired the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) 2024 Mid-Year Meeting in Toronto. The mission of SER is to keep epidemiologists at the forefront of scientific developments. The theme of the mid-year meeting was Innovative Data Science Applications inEpidemiology,...
Inaugural Canadian SORT IT Program Aims to Improve Accessibility and Uptake of Vaccines
March 12/2024The launch of the Canadian public health program SORT IT provides critical research support to countries and institutions By Subrana Rahman, MPH Social and Behavioural Health Sciences (Health Promotion) Student, Class of 2024 As a global partnership based at TDR (the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases...
Tuberculosis Research in Tibet Soars to New Heights, Improving Treatment Adherence and Outcomes
February 22/2024Professor Xiaolin Wei, the Dalla Lana Chair of Global Health Policy, in Clinical Public Health and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at DLSPH, and his co-authors recently had their tuberculosis research in Tibet published in The Lancet. The article is titled ‘Effectiveness of a comprehensive package based on...
IHPME Student Awarded Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
December 20/2023Leighton Schreyer, IHPME student in the Health Systems Leadership and Innovation program at DLSPH, is among 11 Canadians awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Leighton Schreyer, currently pursuing both the MD Program at Temerty Medicine and the MSc in Health Systems Leadership and Innovation (HSLI) at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), is one of...
This PhD student is filling a gap in research on intimate partner violence, brain injury and mental health
October 02/2023Danielle Toccalino is one of two DLSPH PhD students who have received the Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award for her research on intimate partner violence-related brain injury and the mental health of survivors. Her research is greatly needed – the body of literature that explores the impacts of brain injury...
Why do some women experience diagnostic delays? This PhD student plans to find out.
September 15/2023Kelly Gregory is one of two DLSPH PhD students who have received the Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award for her research into diagnostic delays among women-identifying patients. Her research stands out – in a field that often silos this conversation based on a single health condition, she is looking at...
DLSPH Faculty Among Recipients of the 2023 New Initiative and Innovation Awards
August 30/2023DLSPH faculty were among the recipients of the inaugural 2023 New Initiative and Innovation Awards from the Network for Improving Health Systems (NIHS). The network was created in November 2022 from a $3 million donation from Shoppers Drug Mart to both the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH)...
“I Just Don’t Want People to Feel Broken and Misunderstood”
May 16/2023DLSPH Students Lead Studies to Support Student Mental Health By Heidi Singer Two research teams at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are studying student mental health in close partnership with the best experts on the subject – students themselves. Both teams received funding from a new University of...
New Fellowship Develops Human-Centered Leaders in AI for Health
March 29/2023Artificial intelligence promises to have a huge impact on Canadian health care -- and faculty at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health are working now to train leaders who can realize its benefits. In partnership with AMS Healthcare, DLSPH has launched The AMS-Fitzgerald Fellowship in AI...