‘I’m Confident in My Path Now’: DLSPH’s MPH Black Health program has fine-tuned the life goals for this student
February 26/2025
First-year DLSPH student Sylvia Okonofua says the MPH Black Health program has fine-tuned her life’s mission to improve health outcomes for Black patients. As the founder and executive director of Black Donors Save Lives, she has used her education to inform her advocacy, education and policy work. By Bonnie O'Sullivan...
DLSPH Students Shine in Documentary Digging Into the Health Risks of Heavy Metal Contamination
January 24/2025
Heavy Risks zooms in on the Whin Valley, Ghana and showcases the public health risks of heavy mental contamination, and what can be done to protect this essential farming region. By Ishani Nath Recently, three DLSPH students took what they learned in the classroom and applied it to protect the...
DLSPH Diaries: A Day in the Life of an Epidemiology Student
January 17/2025
What does balance look like for a DLSPH student? First-year Epidemiology student Sadia takes us on a day in her life, kicking off with delicious coffee on campus and an Epidemiologic Methods I lecture. Later, she meets a friend for some roller-skating at Union Station and then rounds off her...
Four DLSPH Students Awarded 2024 Health System Impact Fellowships
December 10/2024
Meet the DLSPH students who will receive the prestigious 2024 Health System Impact Fellowships from CIHR. By Ishani Nath The Health System Impact Fellowship, funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), offers PhD trainees, postdoctoral researchers and early career researchers the valuable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in health...
Ten DLSPH doctoral students named 2024 Vanier Scholars
August 13/2024
Six Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) students and four Public Health Sciences (PHS) students were named 2024 Vanier Scholars, earning funding to support their doctoral studies. By Bonnie O’Sullivan, with content from Marielle Boutin’s IHPME article DLSPH is delighted to congratulate ten doctoral students who have been...
Two research teams awarded grants toward student mental health studies
July 08/2024
Faculty members Emily Seto and Daniel Grace receive 2023-24 Inlight Research Development Grants for studies focusing on student mental health. By Elaine Smith Professors Emily Seto and Daniel Grace are among five University of Toronto (U of T) researchers who have been awarded 2023-24 Inlight Research Development Grants to advance knowledge...
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 04/2024
On 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 12/2024
The 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 22/2024
Professor 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...