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Researchers Publish First-Of-Its-Kind Study in “Water”
Two DIGHR researchers, Dr. Syed Imran Ali and Matthew Arnold, have published a paper which reports a first-of-its-kind evaluation of disinfection by-products (DBP) levels in humanitarian water supplies. Read the Abstract The reliance on chlorination in…
WASH Project Showcased in London at Humanitarian Innovation Fund Meeting
Dr. Imran Ali was in London last week to share information on the Safe Water Optimization Tool he has been developing in his role as the DIGHR Global Health & Humanitarianism Research Fellow, in partnership with Doctors Without Borders. The Humanit…
Design is not just a pretty interface – and other lessons from Emergency Data Science
The Dahdaleh Institute concluded 2018 with an enormous undertaking: put experts from around the world in the same room to solve humanitarian data challenges. We started 2019 with an even greater task: follow through on what they designed. Humanitarian…
Oshawa Showing of “Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic” Closes
Dr. Steven J. Hoffman, a DIGHR-affiliated researcher and Director of the Global Strategy Lab, has been featured in YFile highlighting the Canadian premiere of Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic. The project is a video game and art installation that imagin…
Lillian Meighen Wright Postdoctoral Fellowship in Maternal-Child Health
Applicants are invited to submit their application to the Lillian Meighen Wright Postdoctoral Fellowship in Maternal Child-Health at the Faculty of Health, York University. The Fellowship will offer a highly qualified candidate interdisciplinary traini…
Projections: The Good, the Bad and the Weird of Global Health Films
The Dahdaleh Institute is getting an education on the art of moving images. Join us as we watch documentaries, thrillers and experimental films on global health themes. Feel free to bring your lunch and your inner film critic. Screening schedule can be…
Lunch and Learn with Jordan Jarvis
Lunch and Learn events present original research and foster discussion in an informal setting. Open to all. Framing Non-Communicable Diseases to Accelerate Collective and Political Action Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) governance is impeded by competiti…
Journal Club on “Unauthorised Migration”
Reading: Unauthorised migration beyond structure/agency? Acts, interventions, effects. Vicki Squire (2017) KEYWORDS: acts, agency, borders, migration, structure PRESENTER: Linn Biorklund Belliveau is a researcher at the DIGHR and at Médecin…
Health Impacts of Climate Change Strikes a Chord
The Canada briefing on the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change has garnered attention from national and local press, including CBC News, CBC Radio, Global News and the Ottawa Citizen. The Dahdaleh Institute hosted the launc…
Byomkesh Talukder Publishes Article on Ecological Indicators
Byomkesh Talukder, Planetary Health Research Fellow, has published Energy efficiency of agricultural systems in the southwest coastal zone of Bangladesh. Read the abstract: Indicators for energy-use efficiency and levels of CO2 emissions were…