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Recap — The Benefits of Self-Healing on Our External Environment and Relationships With Others
For most of us, our daily life continues to grow more difficult with challenges such as climate change, political instability, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a global sense of approaching doom. Now more than ever, practical ways are needed…
Update – Training and Research for the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing Begins in Belize
Dahdaleh Institute postdoctoral fellow James Stinson and PhD research assistant Lee McLoughlin were recently in Punta Gorda, Belize, to commence training and research activities for the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing. Working in collabor…
Denis Mukwege Spurs Grads to Endeavour for Peace
Dr. Denis Mukwege, renowned obstetrician/gynecologist, Nobel Prize laureate and recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Laws from York University, called on Faculty of Health graduands to use their talent to fight injustice and care for those in need. Mu…
Recap — Urban Inequality During and After COVID-19 in Johannesburg, Chicago, and Toronto
In this seminar on May 24, Dahdaleh graduate student scholar Hillary Birch and Dahdaleh faculty fellow Roger Keil along with their colleagues shared their findings on how communities and governments in Johannesburg, Chicago, and Toronto were affected b…
Dahdaleh Postdoctoral Fellow Discusses Digitalization and Predictive Policing in Conservation
Written by Aiden Smith, Research Fellow at the Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment Originally published by Legal Planet (2 June 2023). Does technology shift focus toward “green policing” and away from integrated conservation and development?…
Recap – Individual Agency in the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases
In this November 9, 2022, Arun Chockalingam, professor and Dahdaleh senior fellow, analyzed the correlation between planetary health and human health. Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) on the rise since the mid 1900s. Professor Chockalingam advised that…
Dahdaleh Institute Sponsors World Non-Communicable Disease Congress 2023
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is a proud sponsor of the third World Non-Communicable Diseases Congress (WNCD 2023), taking place from June 25 to June 30, 2023, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada. Researchers,…
Dahdaleh Graduate Scholar Presents Research in Rome and Calgary
17th World Congress on Public Health in Rome Director of the Dahdaleh Institute, Dr. James Orbinski, and Dahdaleh graduate scholar Nilanjana Ganguli participated at the 17th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH) held in Rome from May 2 to 6. The World…
New Research Show Mpox Outbreak Lead to Stigma and Blame Toward 2SLGBTQIAP+ Community
Originally published by YFile (30 May 2023) York University researchers have furthered their study of the global mpox virus by publishing a new paper on the dangerous stigmas the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community face as the outbreak continues. Since the World Hea…
Research Advancing Mpox Research Receives CIHR Funding
Originally published by YFile (24 May 2023) A York University mathematician has received nearly half a million dollars from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) to better predict and assess future outbreaks of mpox and other zoono…