Scoping Review Highlights Lack of Research on Health Outcomes for Queer and Trans People in Lower Socio-Economic Status
June 23/2021By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Queer and Trans people living in poverty face poor health outcomes, DLSPH researchers discovered through an extensive scoping review of Canadian research. Discrimination and living at the intersection of several markers of identity that are associated with social stigmatization are underlying determinants of...
Nusrat Farhana’s Story: Dissecting Healthcare Competitiveness in Canada
June 22/2021By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH What causes Canadian hospitals to compete amongst themselves with no paying clients? Under the supervision of Dean Adalsteinn Brown, Nusrat Farhana spent the last six years understanding what drives hospitals to compete through the Ontarian and Albertan healthcare systems. “If you don't understand...
Sarah Richter: A New Pivot
June 21/2021By Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH Sarah Richter has been running non-stop online and offline during the pandemic. At the beginning of the pandemic, as DLSPH grappled with the fast move to online classes, Richter and the PHSA pivoted as well. Richter’s academic journey has been filled with pivots....
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...
Devon Bowyer: From the Bench to Indigenous Vaccine Clinics
June 15/2021The Auduzhe Mino Nesewinong (Place of Healthy Breathing) Vaccination clinic will have a full-time Program Logistic Manager: Devon Bowyer, a newly minted graduate of DLSPH’s MPH in Indigenous Health. “This is part of the reason you got into public health. You want to be there for people, especially those that...
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...
U of T Students Question Popular Paper Which Supports Three Feet COVID Distancing
June 09/2021by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH DLSPH epidemiology students have found that an influential paper may have overstated the safety of three feet of physical distancing to protect against COVID-19. The paper observed no statistical significance between students' risk of catching COVID-19 whether three or six feet apart in...
Statement by DLSPH Dean Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown on the Discovery of the Remains of 215 Indigenous Children
June 01/2021I was horrified and heartbroken to learn about the discovery of 215 Indigenous children buried in an unmarked site at the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C. This atrocity is just the latest in a shameful and, until recently, largely hidden history of discriminatory, racist treatment of Indigenous peoples by...
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...
Fitness and Lower Likelihood of COVID-19 Death Link Found
May 10/2021
by Françoise Makanda, Communications Officer at DLSPH U of T researchers have found that fit people are less likely to die from COVID-19. “One of the really cool findings of this study is that anyone with an above low level of physical activity is better protected,” says Rebecca Christensen, a...