FALL TERM 2024
Undergraduate student Qjiel Giuliano Mikhl Zamora has been named one of the top 25 environmentalists under 25 of Canada.
Professor Godfred Boateng has been appointed as Interim Graduate Program Director in the School of Global Health for Winter 2025.
Professors A.M. Viens and Steven Hoffman, and Adjunct Professor Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, are co-authors on a new paper Analyzing Antimicrobial Resistance as a Series of Collective Action Problems in the Policy Studies Journal.
Undergraduate student Qjiel Giuliano Mikhl Zamora's work examining how Indigenous knowledge can help address plastic pollution was featured by the UNICEF's Children's Environmental Health Collaborative.
Professor A.M. Viens gave a presentation on the ethics of health promotion at Runnymede Collegiate Institute as part of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health Outreach and Access Program, which is a group-mentoring program that supports Black, Indigenous, and other socially diverse youth from underrepresented communities to pursue careers and opportunities in public health and health systems.
Professor Jessica Vorstermans’ transformational course will take York students to Cuba to study health equity, which has been featured in York University's Community Newspaper Excalibur.
Professor Godfred Boateng was a co-author on a paper on the Attribution of Climate Change to Environmental Outcomes: Perceptions of Coastal Communities in the Caribbean in the journal Environmental Development.
Professor Amrita Daftary, with scholars, community and civil society actors, and trainees from over ten countries, publishes an agenda-setting paper on building social equity and person-centered innovation into global responses to end TB at the one year anniversary of an Equity and TB workshop at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva.
Professor Mathieu Poirier has been appointed as the new Director of the Global Strategy Lab.
The Global Strategy Lab marks a decade of impact at York University.
Professor Godfred Boateng was invited to be part of the Patient-Centred Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Expert Scientists meeting to contribute to advancing the measurement of the science of engagement in Washington, D.C.
We are very excited to welcome the first cohort in our new Global Health PhD Program.
Professor Benedict Weobong has co-authored a paper entitled Development and Implementation of Mental Healthcare Plans in Three Districts in Ghana: A Mixed-Method Process Evaluation Using Theory of Change in the Community Mental Health Journal.
The School of Global Health has launched its search for a Sessional Assistant Professor in Experiential Education in Global Health (teaching stream) to commence July 1, 2025 (application deadline: November 15, 2024).
Professor Kerry Scott’s teaching excellence has been recognized for a course she co-taught this summer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Introduction to Social Accountability in the Health Sector of Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Professor Mathieu Poirier was quoted in a recent CBC News article on how superbugs could kill 39 million people by 2050.
The School’s new promotional video, Shape the Future of Health: York University’s Global Health Program, has been released.
Professor Oghenowede Eyawo has earned international recognition in the field of global health epidemiology, being named one of the world’s most cited researchers by Stanford University.
Professor Mathieu Poirier published a commentary in The Conversation highlighting lessons from climate change for the United Nations’ General Assembly High-level Meeting on AMR.
Professors A.M. Viens and Mathieu Poirier participated in the 2024 AMR Workshop GLEAN: Gathering Lessons from Environmental Governance for Antimicrobial Resistance, hosted at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on September 12.
Professors Mathieu Poirier and Steven Hoffman, and Adjunct Professor Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, along with other colleagues have published 1–10-100: Unifying Goals to Mobilize Global Action on Antimicrobial Resistance in Globalization & Health.
Professor A.M. Viens was appointed as a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge for September 2024.
Professor Kerry Scott co-led a Workshop on Measuring Digital Skills in Mobile-First LMIC Populations in London, UK in June 2024, bringing together stakeholders from UN agencies, mobile phone operators, global health and development donors, and academic institutions. At the workshop, Dr. Scott and colleagues from University of Cape Town, Johns Hopkins University, and 2xDigital launched three toolkits on improving and standardizing metrics for measuring digital skills, participating in the digital economy, and digital access. Dr Scott led a session entitled “General principles for digital skills measurement: Qualitative research findings from India, Kenya, Nigeria.”
Professor Benedict Weobong gave an invited talk at the Centre for Global Mental Health – Ghana Somubi Dwumadie on the topic of “Developing and implementing district mental healthcare plans: lessons from Ghana”.
Professor Kerry Scott was a co-author on a paper entitled, “Making the health system work for over 25 million births annually: drivers of the notable decline in maternal and newborn mortality in India”, published in BMJ Global Health.
Professor Benedict Weobong was the lead author on a paper entitled, “Reaching adolescents with health services: Systematic development of an adolescent health check-ups and wellbeing programme in Ghana (Y-Check, Ghana)”, which was published in PLoS ONE.
Professor Kerry Scott co-authored a paper published in BMJ Global Health on “A tale of two exemplars: the maternal and newborn mortality transitions of two state clusters in India”.
Professor Kerry Scott was a co-author on a paper entitled, “Messy but worth it; Human-Centred Design as applied within a successful vaccine-promotive campaign”, published in BMJ Global Health.
Professor Kerry Scott co-authored a paper published in Qualitative Health Research on “Prompts, Pearls, Imperfections: Comparing ChatGPT and a Human Researcher in Qualitative Data Analysis”.
Dr. Godfred Boateng co-authored a paper on the Effect of Compositional and Contextual Factors on the Perceived Importance of Environmental Change and Livelihood Sectors in Three Caribbean Countries in SN Social Sciences, an inclusive multidisciplinary journal serving all areas of the Social Sciences community.
Professors Mary Wiktorowicz, Tarra Penney, and A.M. Viens are part of the successful team granted funding of $2.7 million for the Canadian One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Health Research Training Network from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, a training platform to help future health research leaders apply One Health approaches to the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Professors Steven Hoffman and Mathieu Poirier, other investigators at the Global Strategy Lab, were awarded more than $1.13 million that will go towards work being done for Leveraging Global Legal Epidemiology to Design More Impactful and Equitable International Agreements for Health.
Global Health undergraduate student Qjiel Giuliano Mikhl Zamora, who is also a Youth Council member of the UN Joint SDG Fund, was recently invited by the University of Malaya’s Faculty of Medicine to host their PublicHealth@UMPodcast episodes on implementation science.
Professors A.M. Viens and Steven Hoffman, and Adjunct Professor Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, along with other colleagues have published Analyzing Antimicrobial Resistance as a Series of Collective Action Problems in the Policy Studies Journal.
Professor Jessica Vorstermans’ study abroad course in Cuba breaks new ground, exploring human rights, Cuban culture, and the country’s health-care system.
Professors Oghenowede Eyawo and Tarra Penney have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations Oghenowede and Tarra!
Professor Tarra Penney provided the opening keynote at the Nutrition Society Congress 2024 in Belfast, entitled “Global food transformation and SDGs by 2030: challenges for prevention policy and systems change’.
Post-Doctoral Fellows Dr. Chloe Clifford Astbury and Dr. Kristen Lee, and Professors Mary Wiktorowicz, A. M. Viens, and Tarra Penney, co-authored a paper entitled Governance of the Wildlife Trade and the Prevention of Emerging Zoonoses: A Mixed Methods Network Analysis of Transnational Organisations, Silos, and Power Dynamics in Globalization and Health.
Professor Amrita Daftary co-authored a paper with colleagues in South Africa, Zambia, Australia & the US, on equitable approaches to including children’s voices in clinical trials in Current Tropical Medicine Reports, as part of a series on Advancing Health Equity in Pediatric Global Health, entitled Including the Voices of Children < 15-Years-Old in Paediatric Global Health Research.
Professor Tarra Penney, Post-Doctoral Fellows Dr. Chloe Clifford Astbury and Dr. Kristen Lee, and global health program alumna Janielle Clarke were co-authors on The Role of Corruption in Global Food Systems: A Systematic Scoping Review, published in Globalization and Health.
Professor Amrita Daftary gave a talk on integrating qualitative research into clinical trials as part of the Tuberculosis Transformative Science Group (TB TSG) Symposium at the 2024 Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally Network Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Professor Godfred Boateng co-authored a paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health entitled, A Scoping Review of Instruments Used in Measuring Social Support Among Refugees in Resettlement.