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Director James Orbinski Co-Chairs Global Public Health at The Recovery Summit
In support of the Dahdaleh Institute’s call for a global response to COVID19, Director James Orbinski Co-Chaired the Global Public Health sessions at The Recovery Summit. Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, opened…
Research Fellow Mark Terry Inducted into the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and its Members have elected this year’s new Fellows and named the incoming class of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Eighty-seven new Fellows in the Academies of Arts and Humanities, Social Science…
Dahdaleh Institute Launches Conversations on Decolonising Global Health Research
The Dahdaleh Institute is engaging in a series of conversations on decolonizing global health research. Following the widespread protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, we as affiliates at York University Dahdaleh Institute for Global H…
UNESCO Announces Official Partnership with Youth Climate Report
The Youth Climate Report (YCR) now has official support from UNESCO through a partnership with York University’s UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability. Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education at the UNESCO hea…
New Volunteers join Dahdaleh Institute Trainee Program
Alisha Gauhar and Laksmiina Balasubramaniam join the Dahdaleh Institute as volunteers in our Trainee Program. The University of Toronto and McMaster University students will assist Research Fellow Jennie Phillips’ research on the digital response to CO…
Dahdaleh Institute Panel at RightsCon Addresses Digital Access to Medicines
The Dahdaleh Institute hosted Promoting human rights and access to safe medicines during pandemics: The critical role of Internet pharmacies at RightsCon 2020. The panel discussed the challenge of access to safe internet pharmacies and medicines during…
Postdoc Fellow’s Poetry Collection Featured in Toronto Sun
Mark Terry, Postdoctoral Fellow in Documentary Film and Global Health, was featured in the Toronto Sun. Mark recently published Pandemic Poetry: A Collection of Poetic Musings on Life During the Coronavirus (Hollywood Canada Communications, 2020). The…
Dahdaleh Institute hosts panel at RightsCon
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health research hosts Promoting human rights and access to safe medicines during pandemics: the critical role of internet pharmacies (session #11486) on 29 July 2020 at RightsCon 2020. RightsCon is “the world’s leading…
Postdoc Fellow awarded Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH grant
Jody Boffa, Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, has been awarded one of 13 TB REACH Wave 8 grants. The grants are an initiative of the World Health Organization’s Stop TB Partnership, funded primarily by Global Affairs Canada. Jody will be running a private-…
Student Opportunities Open for Applications
Three Research Assistant positions at the Dahdaleh Institute are open for applications. York University students have the unique opportunity to contribute to research which takes on real-world challenges, gain professional experience in a supportive en…