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The Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) Celebrates Its Second Year Anniversary With Student Presentations
The Wellness Impact Lab (WIL), co-founded in 2023 by Dr. Harvey Skinner, PhD (Senior Fellow) and Susan Harris, MSW (Community Fellow), is rooted in the mission of “healing ourselves, healing others, healing our world.” Over the past two years, WIL has...
GEHLab Research Intern Presents at the 16th Annual CUGH Conference in Atlanta
From February 20th to February 23rd, 2025, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the 16th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference in Atlanta, United States. The Global & Environmental Health (GEH) Lab had a strong...
Quantitative Methods for Global Health: DI Scholars Club Workshop with Dr. Gabriel Dusing
On April 28, 2025, the DI Scholars Club hosted an intensive Quantitative Methods Workshop at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. The workshop, led by Dr. Gabriel Dusing, brought together ten graduate students and researchers from the Dah...
Empowering Communities Through AI: How Senegal Is Pioneering Digital Health Surveillance in West Africa
AI4PEP Senegal has been prominently featured in the 2025 Q1 “AI in Africa” Summary Report by Convergence AI, under the AI for Digital Transformation section. The recognition highlights the team’s efforts to apply artificial intelligence in strengt...
Global Health Intern Presents at the CUGH 2025 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia
I am grateful for the opportunity to attend the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2025 conference that was held in Atlanta, Georgia between February 20-23. My abstract which summarized my work on the effects of particulate matter on l...
Nurturing Infrastructures of Care: Centering Healing, Imagination and Solidarity in Polycrisis Response
On March 26 Dr. Chiara Camponeschi, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute, convened a two-part session at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Detroit, MI in collaboration with Dr. Natalie Gulsrud of Cop...
A Basic Income for Nature and Climate? Reimagining Conservation and Climate Futures at the AAG, 2025
This year, the American Association of Geographers (AAG) held their annual conference in Detroit around the theme “Making Spaces of Possibility,” encouraging participants to reflect on how geographers can contribute to making spaces of possibility, spa...
GEHLab Intern Presents Poster at 2025 CUGH Conference in Atlanta, Georgia
Through Dr. Godfred Boateng's Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Global and Environmental Health Lab, I was presented the opportunity to submit an abstract to the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2025 Conferenc...
Jennifer Corriero Honoured with Prestigious 2025 King Charles III Coronation Medal
York University is proud to celebrate the remarkable achievements of Jennifer Corriero, a distinguished alumnus and Community Fellow at the Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Corriero has been named one of 1...
“Non-Violent Kitchen Table”: Another Way of Knowing and Belonging in the Space of the Global Tuberculosis Response
On November 12-16, 2024, I joined thousands of researchers, scientists, health professionals, government officials, civil society and Tuberculosis (TB) affected communities at the annual international event, The Union World Conference on Lung Health (T...