More than 300,000 Canadians enrolled in multi-decade research initiative to monitor disease trends
June 13/2018
Over the past 10 years, more than 300,000 Canadians have volunteered to be part of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP), a research platform that tracks the development of cancers and chronic diseases in the population over several decades to better understand disease risk factors. On June 11, researchers...
University of Toronto remembers Professor Jack Tu
June 01/2018By: Brianne Tulk, Communications Officer, Department of Medicine University of Toronto faculty, students and staff are mourning Prof. Jack Tu, an internationally-renowned cardiologist and professor in both the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, who passed away on May 30. click here for Dr. Tu's...
DLSPH Open: Dalla Lana Family Gift Agreement
May 28/2018Dear colleagues, Earlier this year we announced that our Faculty’s founding benefactors, Paul and Alessandra Dalla Lana, committed a second $20-million gift to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, doubling down on their first investment made in 2008. With their combined support of $40-million, this is an unprecedented level...
DLSPH Student Blog – Reflections on the PEGASUS: PEace, Global health, and SUStainability Conference
May 25/2018DLSPH Student Blog By: Michelle Amri, PhD Student, Dalla Lana School of Public Health The PEGASUS Conference, an acronym built from the first letters of the main themes: PEace, Global health, And SUStainability, was not a typical conference. With a theme of “From Evidence to Action,” the conference called participants to action, healing, and...
U of T study finds food insecurity increases diabetes risk
May 23/2018
Public health researchers find that food insecurity more than doubles the risk of developing type 2 diabetes By: Deborah Creatura and Nicole Bodnar Adults in Ontario who live in food-insecure households had more than twice the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, compared to those with food security, according to...
Rising Rates of Diabetes among Young People Inspire International PhD Project
May 22/2018
By: Rebecca Biason, IHPME Events & Communications Coorindator Once thought of as a disease that only affected older adults, diabetes is now being diagnosed increasingly in young people under the age of 30, and the implications of this have yet to be fully studied. “It is a global phenomenon occurring...
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...