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Dahdaleh Institute Welcomes Benjamin Ewert as a Visiting Scholar
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is delighted to welcome Professor Benjamin Ewert as a new member, who joins the Institute as a visiting scholar for one year starting June 2025. Prof. Dr. Benjamin Ewert is a political scientist with a...
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...
Recap — Rethinking Public Engagement Through Political Theory and Health Policy, with Julia Rodgers
On April 9, 2025, Julia Rodgers, a PhD candidate in Political Science at Dalhousie University, delved into the complexities of public engagement in health policy, drawing from her dissertation and work at the Global Strategy Lab. She challenged the dom...
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...
Recap — Reimagining Systems of Care: Public Innovation and Community Action in Times of Polycrisis, with Jesper Christiansen and Javier Vergara Petrescu
On April 2, 2025, Dahdaleh research fellow Dr. Chiara Camponeschi opened a timely seminar by exploring the role of public innovation in addressing complex and overlapping global challenges. She framed the discussion around “infrastructures of care” cal...
Recap — Commercial Determinants of Health and the Right to Health: Insights from Fossil Fuel Accountability Work, with Marta Schaaf
On March 26, 2025, Marta Schaaf, Director of the Programme on Climate, Economic and Social Justice and Corporate Accountability at Amnesty International, delivered a seminar exploring how a public health framework, specifically the commercial determina...
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...
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...