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Recap – Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of Polycrisis, with Achim Steiner
Members of the Dahdaleh community were invited to attend a special Empire Club of Canada talk given by Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on December 13. While addressing the disappointment many felt about…
Student Opportunity W23 – Experiential Learning in Global Health II Research Assistant
Experiential Learning in Global Health II Research Assistant Hourly wage: $17 per hour Hours per week: 6 hours per week Start date: January 9, 2023 End date: April 27, 2023 Job description Under the supervision of Dr. Ahmad Firas Khalid and Dr. A.M. Vi…
Research Opportunity – Sexfluent Youth Peer Researchers
Seeking Bilingual* Sexfluent Youth (16-29) Peer Researchers (*must be fluent in English AND French) Period of employment: January 2023 – September 2023 (80hrs total) Compensation: $25.00/hour (trainings and focus groups)$50/meeting (Youth Advisory…
Recap – Book Launch Playing for Real, with Paul Hogan
A book launch was held for DI community fellow Paul Hogan’s book, Playing for Real on December 10, 2022. The book was commissioned by Di director James Orbinski for Paul to develop a curriculum based book as a continuation of his experi…
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…
Dahdaleh Institute Researchers Call for Papers – Fall 2022
Refugee Experiences of Integration in Canadian Small Communities Led by Dahdaleh Institute research fellow Maissaa Almustafa and Willem Maas (Department of Political Science, Glendon College, York University), the call aims to address the knowledge gap…
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…
Job Opportunity – Research Finance Specialist
Job Title Research Finance Specialist, various Dahdaleh Institute research projects including but not limited to: Complex Adaptive Modelling Climate Change Health ImpactsDesigning One Health Governance for Antimicrobial StewardshipAfrica-Canada A…