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Opportunity: Two Postdoctoral Fellowship positions in mathematical/statistical modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic
Background During different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, real-time delivery of reliable and comprehensive information is critical to predict spread and impact, and to guide governmental strategic policies and best practice. This require…
Safe Water Optimization Tool featured in two national magazines
Water Canada and Smart Water Magazine have featured articles about the Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT), a new web-based tool aims to help aid workers ensure that water is safe to drink in refugee and internally displaced persons camps. Read the Sma…
Opportunity: Conference Rapporteur, Sustainable and Inclusive Internationalization conference
York University is hosting the Sustainable and Inclusive Internationalization Virtual Conference, co-organized by York International, the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability and international partners, from January 20th to 22nd…
Innovative new data analytics technology to help improve access to safe water in refugee camps
York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research launches first of its kind web-based tool TORONTO, November 5, 2020 – A new web-based tool will help aid workers ensure that water is safe to drink in refugee and internally displaced pers…
Research on AI in humanitarian crises featured in Brainstorm
Tino Kreutzer, PhD candidate based at the Dahdaleh Institute, was featured in Brainstorm, a special issue of YFile which showcases research and innovation at York University. Kreutzer is building a tool which uses Natural Language Processing, a form of…
Opportunity: Associate/Full Professor, Experiential Learning in Global Health
The School of Global Health in the Faculty of Health at York University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a teaching stream, tenure-track position at the Associate or Full Professor level in Experiential Learning in Global Health to comm…
Project Launch: Digital technologies and local food security in the context of COVID-19
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant COVID-19 Special Initiative. The grant will support Digital technologies and local food security: Smallholder farmers in Odisha, India, in the context o…
Director James Orbinski Co-Chairs Global Public Health at The Recovery Summit
In support of the Dahdaleh Institute’s call for a global response to COVID19, Director James Orbinski Co-Chaired the Global Public Health sessions at The Recovery Summit. Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, opened…
Dahdaleh Institute Launches Conversations on Decolonising Global Health Research
The Dahdaleh Institute is engaging in a series of conversations on decolonizing global health research. Following the widespread protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, we as affiliates at York University Dahdaleh Institute for Global H…
Research Fellow Mark Terry Inducted into the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and its Members have elected this year’s new Fellows and named the incoming class of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Eighty-seven new Fellows in the Academies of Arts and Humanities, Social Science…