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Reframing Refugee Crisis: Challenging the practice of “Containment through humanitarian assistance”
Dahdaleh Institute Fellow Maissaa Al Mustafa’s article, Reframing refugee crisis: A “European crisis of migration” or a “crisis of protection”? challenges the practice of “Containment through humanitarian assistance” by highlighting that poli…
Collaboration with University of the Witwatersrand to tackle COVID-19 in Africa and future disease outbreaks
York University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa are building on a successful collaboration to tackle COVID-19 across Africa by creating an international consortium of experts in disease modelling and artificial intelligence. Yor…
State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2020: Accelerating Action on Climate Adaptation
Idil Boran, Founder and Principal Investigator of the Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative, and Megan Whitney, PhD student in Geography, have contributed to the State and Trends on Climate Adaptation 2020 Report. …
Youth Climate Report selected as Honorary mention in the 2020 UN SDG Action Awards
The UN SDG Action Campaign joins committed individuals, organizations and growing SDG networks to channel the power of people to act on the Goals – and inspire others to do the same. The UN SDG Action Awards celebrate the most innovative, impactful SDG…
Nature-based Solutions: Five opportunities to strengthen nature-based climate adaptation for people, land and oceans
On January 25-26, the Climate Adaptation Summit takes place worldwide. Hosted by the Netherlands, this international online event hosts world leaders and stakeholders. The highlight of the summit is the launch of the Adaptatio…
Podcast on Environmental Emergencies: Climate Crises and Humanitarian Response
Everyday Emergency · Environmental Emergencies: Climate Crises and Humanitarian Response Check out this newly released podcast by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) featuring Director of the Dahdaleh Institute Dr. James Orbinski, Community Scholars Carol D…
Mark Terry featured in cover story of Eden Magazine
Dahdaleh Institute member Mark Terry has recently been feature in the cover story of the January issue of the renowned Eden Magazine. The story written by Dina Marrone, discusses Mark’s journey and accomplishments as an explorer, filmmaker, scholar, jo…
MSF Scientific Days Latin America – Webinar Series commencing February 1st to 22nd
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 MSF Scientific Days Latin America conference had to be cancelled. As an alternative, a Webinar Series is taking place on February 2021, using selected abstracts from the 2020 edition. MSF Scientific Days …
Dr. Amrita Daftary featured in podcast to highlight diagnosis and treatment of TB
A recently released episode of the RawTalk Podcast features Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Member Dr. Amrita Daftary in which she discusses Tuberculosis. The RawTalk Podcast is a graduate student-run podcast at the University of Toronto about medical scien…
Decision-making Tool for Allocating Resources to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals
Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Byomkesh Talukder worked alongside Simone Philpot and Keith Hipel to develop a newly published report at the 2020 EEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). The report seeks to provid…