Research
Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Seed Grants in Critical Perspectives in Global Health Research
Following the fourth annual Critical Perspective for Global Health Research (CPGH) workshop in March, the CPGH Steering Committee is delighted to announce that the following York researchers have been awarded this year’s $5,000 seed grants to carry out…
Update – Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing with Local NGOs and Community Organizations in Belize
In March 2023, Dahdaleh Institute postdoctoral research fellow James Stinson returns from a week-long research trip to commence activities for the Partnership For Youth and Planetary Wellbeing – in Belize, he visited and worked with Partners at the Jul…
Climate Change Research Month showcases York as community of changemakers
A month-long series of events hosted by York University Organized Research Units (ORU) and campus groups aim to generate awareness on climate change research and mobilize community action. March 1 marks the start of the second annual Climate…
York University funds $4.05M to support interdisciplinary research for the UN SDGs
The research projects advance knowledge in areas ranging from water remediation, management of infectious disease through technological innovation, the effects of climate change on ecosystems and human populations, visual neuroscience, and understandin…
Dahdaleh Institute researchers contribute to York’s achievements towards the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals
In June 2020, York University launched its new University Academic Plan 2020-2025 (UAP), which included a university-wide challenge to elevate York’s contributions to the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new UAP serves…
Publication: Digital technologies for biodiversity protection and climate action: Solution or COP out?
Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow James Stinson and DI Graduate Research Assistant Lee Mcloughlin have recently published their recent work on the promotion of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, as solutions to biodiversity and c…
Research recap – Modelling Health Impacts of Climate Change Workshop in Malawi (August 2022)
This was our first in-person and onsite meeting of all PIʼs, fellows, and graduate students since the onset of the global COVID pandemic. From August 15 until August 25, we engaged in stakeholder consultations, partnership engagement meetings with the…
Politics of climate change offer lessons for fight against antimicrobial resistance
The emerging pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and challenges to addressing it have parallels with climate change, said experts at a recent online panel on AMR Policy Leadership and Innovation, hosted by York University’s Global Stra…
Lassonde team developing new tool for detection of microplastics in water
Researchers at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University are working to develop innovative methods for the detection of microplastics in bodies of water. Recently, a group of researchers successfully designed and prototyped an affordable an…
York U researchers’ revamped AI tool makes water dramatically safer in refugee camps
As the world’s refugee crisis intensifies and climate change linked natural disasters become more frequent, unique machine-learning enabled tool helps aid workers deliver safe water in displaced-population settlements Woman and children gather at a tap…