Research
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...
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...
Multi-indicator supply chain management framework for food convergent innovation in the dairy business
Abstract A comprehensive integrated framework of indicators currently used in lean, agile, sustainable and resilient supply chain paradigms is developed under the umbrella of convergent innovation (CI) and applied to the management of the supply chain...
New Publication: Melting of Himalayan Glaciers and Planetary Health
Check out the newly published article by our Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Byomkesh Talukder and Director of the Dahdaleh Institute Dr. James Orbinski. Abstract Climate change has accelerated the melting of Himalayan glaciers, with profound impacts on th...
New Publication: COVID-19's implications on agri-food systems and human health in Bangladesh
Led by Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow, Dr. Byomkesh Talukder, this paper describes and analyses the impacts of COVID-19 on agri-food systems in Bangladesh with particular attention to human health issues and related SDGs. The authors...
New Study on drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB)-HIV care among patients in South Africa
Researchers led by Dr. Amrita Daftary, Faculty Member at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, recently published a study which describes experiences of DRTB-HIV care among patients in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. The study aims t...
Why is Uptake of Digital Contact Tracings Apps Low? The Digital Global Health and Humanitarianism Lab has Evidence-based Answers and Recommendations
Digital Contact Tracing (D-CT) apps - digital interventions that allow governments and epidemiologists to track and trace the spread of COVID-19 - represent a promising and also controversial pandemic response tool. Yet, little research has been done r...
Biocultural nation making: Biopolitics, cultural-territorial belonging, and national protected areas
Dahdaleh Institute Postdoctoral Fellow James Stinson recently co-authored a published paper which advances the concept of biocultural nation making. While the academic literature on biopolitics has investigated how the life of the population and its bi...