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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…
Call for Application to the 2021 Seed Grant Program for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University is accepting applications for its 2021 Seed Grant Program for Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health. Up to five seed grants worth up to $5,000 CAD each will be awarded…
Summer of Smoke -New Study shows that a Two and a Half Month Smoke Exposure in Canada’s Subarctic Doubled Emergency Room Visits for Asthma.
Combining insight from a previously-published community-based interview study with new quantitative analysis of air quality and health services data, the “SOS-Summer of Smoke” study, published today in BMJ Open, shows that in 2014, 385 wildfires led to…
Reframing Refugee Crisis: Challenging the practice of “Containment through humanitarian assistance”
Dahdaleh Institute Fellow Maissaa Al Mustafa’s article, Reframing refugee crisis: A “European crisis of migration” or a “crisis of protection”? challenges the practice of “Containment through humanitarian assistance” by highlighting that poli…
Collaboration with University of the Witwatersrand to tackle COVID-19 in Africa and future disease outbreaks
York University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa are building on a successful collaboration to tackle COVID-19 across Africa by creating an international consortium of experts in disease modelling and artificial intelligence. Yor…
Opportunity: P/T Junior Developer, Safe Water Optimization Tool Project
Background The Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) is an initiative of Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR), in partnership with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders), to build, refine, and scale a web-base…
State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2020: Accelerating Action on Climate Adaptation
Idil Boran, Founder and Principal Investigator of the Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative, and Megan Whitney, PhD student in Geography, have contributed to the State and Trends on Climate Adaptation 2020 Report. …
Youth Climate Report selected as Honorary mention in the 2020 UN SDG Action Awards
The UN SDG Action Campaign joins committed individuals, organizations and growing SDG networks to channel the power of people to act on the Goals – and inspire others to do the same. The UN SDG Action Awards celebrate the most innovative, impactful SDG…