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Inaugural Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships Awarded to Two Outstanding Students
The Dahdaleh Institute has launched the Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarship Program, awarding inaugural scholarships to two exceptional global health graduate scholars—Beauty Umana and Sarah Khan—for their promise of excellence in research...
Internship Program: 2021 Summer in Review
Over the summer, the Dahdaleh Institute worked with exceptional students through our Internship Program, which is founded in an experiential education approach. Students completed program practicums with us, were hired through the Research at York prog...
New Publication - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to Optimize COVID-19 Clinical Public Health and Vaccination Roll-Out Strategies in Africa
COVID-19 is imposing massive health, social and economic costs. While many developed countries have started vaccinating, most African nations are waiting for vaccine stocks to be allocated and are using clinical public health (CPH) strategies to contro...
2021-2022 Fall/Winter Student Opportunities Open for Applications
Five research assistant positions at the Dahdaleh Institute are open for applications. York University students have the unique opportunity to contribute to research which takes on real-world challenges, gain professional experience in a supportive env...
New Book Chapter: Review and Selection of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Technique for Sustainability Assessment
Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Byomkesh Talukder recently published a chapter in a new book, titled Energy Systems Evaluation(Volume 1). The chapter discusses the procedures of multi-criteria decision analysis and how it can...
2021 Seed Grant Recipients Announced: Dahdaleh Institute Seed Grants for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Awarded to Five York Researchers
With many outstanding applications received this year, the Dahdaleh Institute Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Steering Committee made the difficult selection of five 2021 Seed Grant recipients. The purpose of the Seed Grants is to...
Dr Idil Boran appointed Associate Director of CIFAL York - the First Canadian UN Leadership Training Centre launched at York University
Dahadaleh Institute for Global Health Research Faculty Member Dr Idil Boran has been appointed Associate Director of the new CIFAL Centre at York University. CIFAL is the French acronym for International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (Cen...
Narratives of vulnerability and resilience: An investigation of the climate action plans of New York City and Copenhagen
This paper by Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow Chiara Camponeschi, argues that the rise of a global mainstream resilience narrative is advancing a strategically simplified concept of vulnerability that is being exploited to open up lucrative new oppo...
Publication - Health impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers
Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Byomkesh Talukder has recently co-authored a new article on the health impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers. Director of the Dahdaleh Institute Dr. James Orbinski was also one of the contributo...
Updated WHO HIV Service Delivery Guidelines
The World Health Organization recently published the latest version of the "Updated recommendations on service delivery for the treatment and care of people living with HIV". Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Member Dr. Amrita Daftary served as one of the evi...