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Opportunity: Back-end Developer, Safe Water Optimization Tool Project
Background The Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) is an initiative of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR), in partnership with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders), to bu…
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…
Updated WHO HIV Service Delivery Guidelines
The World Health Organization recently published the latest version of the “Updated recommendations on service delivery for the treatment and care of people living with HIV”. Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Member Dr. Amrita Daftary served as one of the evi…
Dr. Amrita Daftary featured in Podcast discussing stigma and TB
Dr. Amrita Daftary, Faculty Member here at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, was recently featured on the “Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma” podcast hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie. Dr. Daftary discusses TB and how this preventab…
Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) featured in Compendium of Water Supply Technologies in Emergencies
This year, the Emergency WASH Knowledge Portal featured the Safe Water Optimization Tool led by Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow Dr. Syed Imran Ali, in its “Compendium of Water Supply Technologies in Emergencies”. The Emergency WASH Knowledge Portal…
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Internship Program: 2020-2021 Year In Review
Over the 2020-2021 academic year, the Dahdaleh Institute worked with exceptional students through our Internship Program, which is founded in an experiential education approach. Students completed program practicums with us, were hired through the Rese…
Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Fellow to present at the 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival
On April 30th and the 5th day of the 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival, Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Byomkesh Talukder will be presenting his work on the “Water–Food–Energy Nexus Effects on Farmers Health of the Southw…
New peer-reviewed publication in Global Policy: ‘Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework’.
Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Member Idil Boran teamed up with a broad network of 26 leading experts to evaluate the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA) and discuss options to improve it to strengthen sub‐ & non‐state engagement in a new decade. The t…
Safe Water Optimization Tool featured as Bold Innovations Helping People in Conflict
The Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) has been featured by the Humanitarian Grand Challenge as a creative solution which helping conflict-affected people around the world. On World Creativity and Innovation Day, the SWOT was featured alongside many o…
New Publication – Normalising the Exceptional: The Use of Temporary Protection in Transit Countries to Externalise Borders and Responsibilities
A new research article has been published by Dahdaleh Institute’s Research Fellow Rhonda Ferguson and Community Scholar Linn-Biorklund Belliveau. In the paper, Rhonda and Linn take a closer look at temporary protection in transit countries, and the imp…