Students Develop Harm-Reduction Toolkit for U of T Community
November 25/2021by Françoise Makanda, DLSPH U of T students developed a “Know Your Drugs 101” toolkit that will help students returning to campus spot the signs of a drug overdose. The toolkit is comprehensive – it includes information on how to respond to an overdose, and how to access and administer...
Waking Up to the Reasons Behind Chronic Sleeplessness
November 23/2021
By Françoise Makanda, DLSPH PhD student Kristie Serota started quilting for a research project on insomnia. Quilting helps her question the ‘sleep industrial complex.’ While she radically accepts her bouts of sleeplessness, her professor in the Social and Behavioural Sciences division, insomnia researcher Michael Atkinson, suggests that it might be...
Falan Bennett: No Regrets on the Path to Black Health
November 10/2021Before enrolling at DLSPH, Falan Bennett heard one piece of advice over and over from students and alumni: the time goes by in a flash. Make sure to grab the most important opportunities. “I really took that seriously, and now I'm realizing just how fast it went and all the...
Return to In-Person Classes Announcement – Winter Term 2022
November 05/2021
Dear DLSPH community, After extensive research and careful consideration of multiple academic and social factors and public health guidance, we have decided to return to in-person courses for the Winter 2022 term. Instructors will determine what in-person means for their Winter course(s) and communicate accordingly to students. For the majority...
Update on Building Access
October 14/2021
Dear DLSPH Community, I would like to share our plans for safely navigating DLSPH buildings during the Fall 2021 Term. As a school of public health, we must be exemplary in our own COVID safety protocols. As such, our newly revised protocols (see attached), developed in consultation with DLSPH’s occupational...
Understanding How Prison Profits Impact Health
September 16/2021
By Heidi Singer A DLSPH PhD student is applying lessons learned from the tobacco wars to improve understanding of health in the isolated world of North American prisons. “We have 50 years of strong information on how the tobacco industry operates, and we find that the playbook in these other...
Rhonelle Bruder: Rising and Making Space in New Places
September 02/2021
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Rhonelle Bruder starts her PhD in September at U of T after decades of advocacy work to improve health outcomes for marginalized communities and survivors of human trafficking. “I come from the nonprofit sector but I want to pursue a PhD to advance...
Dataset Playbook to Help Canadians Understand COVID Trends
August 16/2021
By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH A popular student-led pandemic dashboard just published its ‘playbook’ allowing anyone to use its COVID data. “We have some graphs and maps showing how the data can be used. It’s very illustrative, but it allows people to get an idea of what you...
Alternating Weight Loss Diets an Intriguing Strategy
August 09/2021By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer, DLSPH Participants in a first-of-its-kind DLSPH study lost almost 10 per cent of their body weight following three successive and varying diets in less than two years. “Almost 80 per cent of participants lost a clinically significant amount of weight. This is important because losing...
Titilayo Esther Davies: It’s Time to Make a Difference
July 29/2021by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Titilayo Esther Davies is not taking a break after her Master's in Bioethics at DLSPH. She’s jumping right into a PhD program in the School’s Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences. Her love of philosophy has led her to this point. After...