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Student Opportunity: Social Sciences Health and Innovation for Tuberculosis (TB) Research Assistant
Job ID: 27502 Application Deadline: Sunday, April 18, 2021 @11:59pm Eligibility Criteria: sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs/how-to-apply-for-ray-positions Applications are only accepted through the Career Centre. Go to careers.yorku.ca/online-system/ an...
Student Opportunity: Global Legal Epidemiology Research Assistant
Job ID: 27501 Application Deadline: Thursday, April 22, 2021 @11:59pm Eligibility Criteria: sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs/how-to-apply-for-ray-positions Applications are only accepted through the Career Centre. Go to careers.yorku.ca/online-system/...
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...
Releasing Soon - The Changing Face of Iceland, film by Mark Terry
The Changing Face of Iceland represents the third installment in Mark Terry’s trilogy of polar documentaries focusing on the impacts climate change on the island nation of Iceland. Touching the Arctic Circle at its north end, changes to Iceland’s glaci...
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...
Application for the 2021 Planetary Health Film Lab
The 2021 edition of the Planetary Health Film Lab is an intensive program designed for youth who have a story to tell about climate change and health and want to do so through film. During a week-long virtual workshop to be held in August, 2021, a grou...