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Student Opportunity: Design Systems for Equity
JOBID 3691 Design Systems and Parameters for Equity, Effectiveness, and Excellence in Global Health Eligibility Requirements: sfs.yorku.ca/employment/workstudy Applications are only accepted through the YorkU careers site Apply here: careers.yor…
Student Opportunity: Graphic & Web Design Assistant
JOBID 3677 Graphic and Web Design Assistant Eligibility Requirements: sfs.yorku.ca/employment/workstudy Applications are only accepted through the YorkU careers site Apply here: careers.yorku.ca/online-system/ Applications due April 29th …
James Orbinski on Freedom from Want on the CBC
Director James Orbinski was featured on CBC Ideas over the weekend. Picking up on his address at Ideas at Stratford over the summer, the episode digs into the question: what is freedom? Listen to the full episode.
Community Scholar will Present Report-Back on Research Trip
Community Scholar Linn Biorklund Belliveau recently returned from Mexico, where she conducted research on the health of Honduran migrants in Mexico, towards her major project Health of Displaced People in the Context of Climate Change & Restri…
Foresighting Research Fellow Leads Lunch & Learn
Global Health Foresighting Research Fellow, Aria Ilyad Ahmad, lead this week’s Lunch & Learn on alternative financing mechanisms for global health, sparking a discussion on how impact bonds shape – for better and worse – global public health. Click…
Revisiting First Annual Lecture with Dr. Liu
On September 18th 2018, Dr. Liu delivered a captivating lecture on humanitarian action in the 21st century (and the lessons learned). Dr. Liu emphasized the three areas which caused the most global insecurity during her five years of presidency of…
Researchers Publish First-Of-Its-Kind Study in “Water”
Two DIGHR researchers, Dr. Syed Imran Ali and Matthew Arnold, have published a paper which reports a first-of-its-kind evaluation of disinfection by-products (DBP) levels in humanitarian water supplies. Read the Abstract The reliance on chlorination in…
WASH Project Showcased in London at Humanitarian Innovation Fund Meeting
Dr. Imran Ali was in London last week to share information on the Safe Water Optimization Tool he has been developing in his role as the DIGHR Global Health & Humanitarianism Research Fellow, in partnership with Doctors Without Borders. The Humanit…
Design is not just a pretty interface – and other lessons from Emergency Data Science
The Dahdaleh Institute concluded 2018 with an enormous undertaking: put experts from around the world in the same room to solve humanitarian data challenges. We started 2019 with an even greater task: follow through on what they designed. Humanitarian…
Oshawa Showing of “Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic” Closes
Dr. Steven J. Hoffman, a DIGHR-affiliated researcher and Director of the Global Strategy Lab, has been featured in YFile highlighting the Canadian premiere of Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic. The project is a video game and art installation that imagin…