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Recap — Calling for a Public Health Approach to Suicide in China’s Scientific Community, with Cary Wu

On March 19, 2025, Dahdaleh faculty fellow Cary Wu delved into the pressing issue of suicide within China’s scientific community, highlighting the urgent need for a public health approach tailored to this context. Drawing from a working paper co-author...

Recap — Insights from India's Success in Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality with Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa

On March 12, 2025, Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa, Assistant Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, delved into India’s progress in improving maternal and neonatal health. He explained that this research wa...

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...

Recap — A Global Analysis of Health Worker Protests, Unions, and Policy Challenges, with Veena Sriram

On March 5, 2025, Veena Sriram, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, delivered a seminar examining how health worker protests evolved during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. She explored global protest trends, their political and...

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...

Recap — Chlorine, Contamination and Governance: Examining Water Quality Challenges in Lusaka, Zambia, with Hillary Birch

On February 26, 2025, Dahdaleh Graduate Student Scholar, Hillary Birch, explored the urban governance of water quality in Lusaka, Zambia. A PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at York University, Birch presented findings from her six-month fieldwork...

Call for Applications — 2025 Seed Grants for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research

The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is accepting applications for the 2025 Seed Grants for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research. York graduate students and research fellows are welcome to apply with the supp...

Recap — Strengthening One Health Governance for AMR Mitigation, with Arne Ruckert

On February 12, 2025, Arne Ruckert, Director of Research at the Global Strategy Lab’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Policy Accelerator, delved into the role of One Health (OH) governance in combating AMR. The seminar explored how integrated, multi-sec...

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...

Call for Presentations – 2025 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Workshop

Returning for a sixth year, the Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health (CPGH) Research workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET. Join us to gain novel insights, discuss new research opportunities, and he...