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SUMMARY:2026 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the seventh annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.\n\n\n\nWorkshop participants will have the opportunity to learn about new research happening at York University that uses critical social science perspectives and methodologies to understand the global health enterprise. Researchers working in this vein tend to engage directly with global public health actors, structures, and systems, using transdisciplinary, participatory, experimental or experiential methods. The Workshop is intended to generate new insights, foster collaboration, and discover new opportunities in global health research.  \n\n\n\n\nThis year, Dr. Andrew Pinto will be delivering the keynote presentation. Dr. Pinto is the founding and current director of the Upstream Lab, a research team focused on tackling social determinants of health, population health management, and using data science to enable Learning Health Systems. He holds the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Upstream Prevention. He is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist and family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UPLEARN), the lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and the founder of the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the keynote, we will hear from the 2025 seed grant recipients regarding the progress of their global health research projects funded by the Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant. The seed grant program supports critical global health research within the three themes at the Dahdaleh Institute (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting).\n\n\n\nFinally, York faculty and global health researchers will then have the opportunity to deliver Pitch Presentations: brief 5-minute presentations on any current or planned research project that takes a critical social science approach to global health. Register as a Pitch Presenter to receive valuable feedback on your proposal from expert researchers. Please complete the registration form to be a Pitch Presenter by Thursday, April 16 at 12:00 p.m., or to attend the event by Monday, April 27, by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n8:30Continental Breakfast9:00Welcome and Overview to Workshop9:15Keynote Presentation and Q&A with Andrew Pinto10:20Break10:30Research Updates from the 2025 CPGH Seed Grant Recipients11:00Pitch Presentations from the York Community11:30Closing Remarks12:00Lunch at Dahdaleh Institute \n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, May 5 at 9 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:8th Annual Global Health Intern Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nOur Fall/Winter 2025-2026 global health interns will be giving a short 5-minute presentation summarizing their experience working on research and global health projects at the Dahdaleh Institute under the guidance of Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will cover their research findings and results, what they learned in their role, and how they will apply their experiences in a future opportunity.\n\n\n\nPlease join us to celebrate the work of our interns participating in the Dahdaleh Institute Internship Program! The presentation topics are as follows:\n\n\n\nPresentation TitlePresenterYouth Voices in Climate Governance: Exploring Youth Perceptions and Participation in Global Climate SpacesHanna Hemmati RoozbehaniMapping Mediators and Moderators in the Relationship Between Extreme Heat Exposure and Mental Health in LMICsMahnoosh Jalilzadeh & Yasmin HusenShelter to Survival: Unpacking the Health Impacts of Housing Insecurity Across the Life CourseGordane CallooBehind the Scenes: My Experience as a Global Health Special Projects AssistantEsha MahmoodKnowledge Translation: The Science of CommunicationLisa FreireMapping Gendered Differences in Smoking Behaviors: A Global Intersectional Scoping ReviewKritnaaz Arora\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on April 22, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:The Global Future of Civilian Protection: Learning from the Gaza Genocide
DESCRIPTION:\nThe significant failure to protect civilians in the most recent conflict in Gaza (2023 onwards) and what has been labeled the ‘rupture’ of the rules-based international order, demands a critical assessment of the future of protection of civilians, as a legal and institutional commitment. This discussion has increased in urgency following the US-Israel war in Iran, involving the same actors deploying the ‘Gaza playbook’ vis-a-vis protecting civilians. \n\n\n\nProtection of civilians while anchored in International Humanitarian Law, encompasses all activities aimed at obtaining full respect for the rights of the individual in accordance with relevant bodies of law (i.e. International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Refugee Law), as well as alongside notions of military honour and other ethics. It is a concept applied in situations of conflict to keep civilians from harm.\n\n\n\nProtection of civilians in a conflict can be actioned through multiple measures, including conflict prevention, civilian/community-based self-protection, restraint measures in military operations, international and domestic justice processes, ensuring physical safety of civilians and ensuring access to adequate humanitarian assistance.\n\n\n\nThis roundtable discussion brings together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners to speak to the future of civilian protection based on the lessons from Gaza. They will bring a diversity of perspectives including international law; international peace and security; principled humanitarian action; civil society engagement in political and public spaces (protests, boycotts, legislative initiatives, etc.) and civilian self-protection, based on their academic and/or practice expertise and their lived experience. 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.kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible{border-top-color:#eeeeee;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#eeeeee;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#eeeeee;border-left-style:solid;}.kt-accordion-id15728_623be2-ce .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible,\n				.kt-accordion-id15728_623be2-ce > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{border-top-color:#444444;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#444444;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#444444;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#444444;border-left-style:solid;}}\n\nHeidi Matthews – International Humanitarian Law (IHL) after Gaza\n\nTopic Focus: While Israel’s systemic violations of the laws of war in Gaza have resulted in historic arrest warrants against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court, third states in the west—including Canada—have largely refrained from taking meaningful action to prevent and punish these acts. How Gaza has shifted state understandings of compliance with IHL?\n\n\n\nDr. Heidi Matthews is Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, where she co-directs the International and Transnational Law Intensive Program. She researches and teaches in international criminal law, the law of war, and sexuality and the law. Her work theorizes contemporary shifts in the practice and discourse of the global legal regulation of political violence, with particular attention to gender and political theory\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Kinnimont – Protection of Civilians and International Peace and Security\n\nTopic focus: Why and how the UN has been sidelined in Gaza and what future role the UN can play in peace and security, human rights and accountability.\n\n\n\nJane Kinninmont is the Chief Executive Officer at the United Nations Association – UK. Prior to this she was the Policy & Impact Director at The European Leadership Network (ELN), where she worked to strengthen the influence, policy relevance and impact of the ELN’s research, convening and networks. Jane’s previous positions also include Associate Director for the Middle East and Africa at the Economist Group and Senior Editor/Economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Jane has contributed articles and analysis to a wide range of publications, including the Economist, Financial Times, Newsweek, Guardian and Prospect, and to consultancies and NGOs such as Oxford Analytica and Freedom House.\n\n\n\n\n\nAmra Lee – Remaking Order: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the Future of Civilian Protection\n\nTopic Focus: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and by-passing of the established humanitarian system.\n\n\n\nAmra is a current PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations ANU and former Rotary Peace Fellow at Uppsala University Sweden (2018-19). Amra brings advanced protection, humanitarian and conflict expertise drawing on 16 years’ professional experience working for the United Nations (UN), the Australian Government and international Non-Government Organisations across a range of crisis contexts and regions. Recent professional positions include Senior Humanitarian Adviser with the Australian Mission to the UN New York (2023) and Head of Program for the World Food Program Pacific (2020-21), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2020). Amra brings post graduate qualifications in anthropology, peace and conflict, law and qualitative research to her analytical work.\n\n\n\n\n\nDalia El Farra – Protection of Civilians and Global Civil Society: Refusing Silence – Solidarity and the Politics of Protection\n\nTopic Focus: Reflection on the unprecedented scale of witnessing and solidarity during the Gaza genocide, asking what it means to refuse silence, and whether this moment can reshape the future of civilian protection beyond crisis. With global civil society contributing to transforming protection of civilians into a widely shared moral and political demand.\n\n\n\nDalia El Farra is a Palestinian, justice-oriented educator, writer, and organizer. Her work centers on public education, accountability, and the careful use of narrative to challenge distortion and erasure, particularly in relation to Palestine. She holds a Master of Education (MEd) in Social Justice from the University of Toronto and is a Certified Canadian Inclusion Practitioner (CCIP™) with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion.\n\n\n\n\n\nYipeng Ge – Care and Protection of Civilians at the Community Level \n\nTopic Focus: The critical role played by healthcare workers and the wider Palestinian community in spotlighting the harm – model for replication elsewhere?\n\n\n\nDr. Yipeng Ge is a primary care physician and public health practitioner based on the traditional, unceded, and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. In his clinical practice, he works in family medicine practice and refugee health at a community health centre. He has worked on and studied the structural and colonial determinants of health in both the settler colonial contexts of so-called Canada and occupied Palestine.\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator – Sarah Khan\n\nSarah Khan is an international lawyer and former UN international civil servant with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has worked in multiple crisis contexts including, Afghanistan, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia (covering also Yemen situation), Sudan and Syria. She has also worked at Headquarters level in Geneva at the Global Protection Cluster covering various conflict and internal displacement situations, including Central African Republic, Colombia, Iraq, Israel/OPT and the Philippines.\n\n\n\nSarah completed her Research LLM program at Osgoode Hall Law School in June 2025, where she trained in various research methods. Currently, Sarah is a community fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University and an independent consultant with an interest in practice and politics of protecting civilians and displaced populations in violent conflict settings.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has ended.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/the-global-future-of-civilian-protection-learning-from-the-gaza-genocide/
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SUMMARY:TB and Planetary Health: Social Science Perspectives – World TB Day Webinar 2026
DESCRIPTION:\nThe theme of World TB Day 2026 – ‘Yes! We can end TB!’ –  is a bold call to action and a message of hope, affirming that it is possible to get back on track and turn the tide on the TB epidemic, even in a challenging global environment. With decisive country leadership, increased domestic and international investment, rapid uptake of new WHO recommendations and innovations, accelerated action, and strong multisectoral collaboration, ending TB is not just aspirational – it is achievable.\n\n\n\nThe Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is excited to cosponsor this World TB Day webinar with the SSHIFTB & Athena Institute on Monday, March 24, 2026, 8 am EST/ 1 pm SAST/ 2 pm CET.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease see below for information about the speakers and topics:\n\n\n.kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:0px;}.kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 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.kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:0px;}.kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;}.kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header{border-top:0px solid #f2f2f2;border-right:0px solid #f2f2f2;border-bottom:0px solid #f2f2f2;border-left:0px solid #f2f2f2;}.kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header:hover, \n				body:not(.hide-focus-outline) .kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible{border-top-color:#eeeeee;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#eeeeee;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#eeeeee;border-left-style:solid;}.kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible,\n				.kt-accordion-id15648_168725-af > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{border-top-color:#444444;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#444444;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#444444;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#444444;border-left-style:solid;}}\n\nEffect of Climate Change on TB and Health System Preparedness in India – Findings from a Literature Review - Karuna Devi Sagili\nIn 2024, WHO disseminated its first analysis framework of climate change and TB. This initiated a new era in TB care and prevention. TB, an ancient disease, has been resilient over the centuries. In this talk, we will look at the effect of climate change on TB risk factors and health system preparedness, with focus on India.\n\n\n\nKaruna Devi Sagili – Independent Consultant\n\n\n\nDr Karuna D Sagili is a biomedical and public health researcher working at the intersection of global & public health research and advocacy, with a focus on health system strengthening through operational/implementation research, synthesising evidence through systematic reviews, undertaking strategic policy advocacy, and providing technical support to national health ministries. She brings over 18 years of experience in infectious disease research, from a biosocial perspective and has published over 50 scientific papers. She has experience in quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research and systematic reviews. She led the operational research component of the largest civil society grant by The Global Fund (Project Axshya) for over 9 years, ensuring successful completion and impactful evidence-based policy advocacy. She also led systematic reviews in partnership with the Cochrane Collaboration. As a coordinator, facilitator and mentor, she accelerated operational research training in India, Asia and Africa in collaboration with WHO/TDR to strengthen national health programs.\n\n\n\nPlanetary health is her growing area of interest, especially climate change and its impact on health. She conducted a literature review on the effect of climate change on TB in India.\n\n\n\nHer passion is to see lives transformed and individuals live to their fullest.\n\n\n\n\nMental Health Impacts of TB and Planetary Health in Inuit Communities - Carol Devine\nCarol Devine will speak about SeeChange’s work with Inuit communities and partners in Nunavut responding to the disproportionate tuberculosis (TB) epidemic across Inuit Nunangat. By the 1950s, at least one-third of the Inuit population in Canada was infected with TB, and thousands were sent south for treatment, without consent. Since 2018, SeeChange has supported Inuit-led initiatives addressing TB while recognizing the intergenerational harms and mental health impacts of colonial-era TB evacuations. Carol will highlight a novel program developed in response to Inuit Elders’ recommendations, in which healing visits brought TB sanatorium survivors and youth together to support intergenerational healing, knowledge transfer, and efforts to eliminate TB today. She will also briefly touch on SeeChange’s collaborative scoping review examining TB, climate change, and One Health in the highly climate-impacted circumpolar region.\n\n\n\nCarol Devine – SeeChange Initiative\n\n\n\nCarol Devine is social scientist, researcher, and writer. She is Chief Operating Officer of SeeChange Initiative, a social purpose organization in Canada that supports communities in their health responses, their way. With Inuit Elders and youth from Nunavut, SeeChange co-led an Intergenerational Healing Journey to a former TB Sanatorium in southern Ontario, recognizing the impact of colonial-era TB evacuations on the survivors, their families, and communities, and how acknowledging this difficult and complex history can contribute to healing, TB awareness, and prevention today. Carol is co-author of Exploring the intersection of Tuberculosis, Climate Change and One Health from a Community Response Perspective: A Rapid Scoping Review and Context Analysis with partners at SSHIFTB, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR), York University, and University of Toronto.\n\n\n\nCarol is a Community Scholar at DIGHR, York University, an International Fellow of The Explorers Club, and a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Working Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). She was Lead of Humanitarian Action on Climate and Environment (HACE) Initiative of Médecins Sans Frontières Canada (MSF) and of Climate Smart MSF, a large-scale project of MSF’s Transformation Investment Capacity to support this global medical humanitarian organization’s decarbonization. Carol represented MSF at COP23 in Egypt on humanitarian responses and nature-based solutions, and was the Canadian liaison for MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines Campaign.\n\n\n\n\nSomething People would Actually use: Co-designing Tools to Filter TB Bioaerosols from our Indoor Air - Ellen Mitchell\nThis talk is about studying air and amorphous risk. As the warming climate drives people indoors, the diversity of organisms suspended in indoor air has become a source of creative inquiry. Lots of new techniques are helping us to appreciate how alive the warming air is. This talk is about how we engage health care workers and people with TB in conversations about things in the air they cannot see.  Many groups are trying to capture the TB in indoor air before it captures us.  Ellen will share how our group is trying to co-design sustainable machines to remove bioaerosols using locally manufactured, simple tech. We will describe our challenges in honest co-design, from overcoming informational asymmetries to forging meetings of the minds.\n\n\n\nEllen Mitchell – Institute of Tropical Medicine\n\n\n\nEllen M.H. Mitchell, PhD is a Public Health Fellow in the unit of Mycobacterial and Neglected Tropical Diseases led by Professor Epco Hasker at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp since October 2019.  Prior to that, she worked at KNCV TB Foundation for ten years. Ellen started out squarely in the Social Sciences frame studying ethnography and politics of public health during her training at Oberlin (’91) and Tulane (‘95, ‘01) and as a Fulbright in Ecuador (’98). Over time she has gravitated toward a version of social epidemiology that mixes tools and hybrid strategies for solving TB problems. Ellen is happiest working in multidisciplinary, multi-country teams to tackle questions about TB risk – not only who and where, but why and what are we doing about it. This has led her to dig into TB stigma, active case-finding, TB mortality measurement, gender, and invite some re-thinking of TB orthodoxies. She has a thing for shiny new ideas, tools, and methods.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on March 24, 2026 at 8 a.m.!\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register ( https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/WC0fiLDyQASW5RqiMU6Iwg#/registration )\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2026-world-tb-day/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Poverty: Socially Embedded Push Factors in Adolescent Rural-Urban Migration, with Sylvia Gyan
DESCRIPTION:\nA co-sponsored event between the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Harriet Tubman Institute, and the CITY Institute. \n\n\n\nRural-urban migration among adolescents in the Global South is often explained through narrow economic frameworks that emphasize poverty and household survival. Drawing on qualitative data from adolescents who migrated from rural areas to urban centers, this paper examines the multiple, socially embedded factors shaping adolescent migration decisions. The findings reveal that migration is driven not only by livelihood insecurity linked to poor harvests and unpredictable weather, but also by adolescents’ forward-looking aspirations related to education, vocational training, and preparation for socially recognized transitions into adulthood. Adolescents described migrating to earn money for school necessities, vocational apprenticeships, and marriage-related items such as cooking utensils and household containers, highlighting migration as a strategic investment in future social and economic roles. Gendered expectations were particularly evident, with girls’ migration closely tied to preparation for marriage and domestic responsibility. In addition, kinship networks and social relationships played a central role, as some adolescents migrated following invitations from friends or relatives to provide childcare or domestic assistance. Experiences of emotional strain and difficult living conditions at home further shaped migration decisions. By situating adolescent migration within a life-course and social reproduction framework, the paper argues that adolescents are active agents negotiating structural constraints, family obligations, and culturally defined expectations of responsibility. The study challenges reductive push-factor models and calls for policy and scholarly approaches that recognize adolescent migration as a complex social process shaped by environmental change, education systems, gender norms, and kinship relations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nSylvia Esther Gyan (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana, with over a decade of experience in teaching and research. Currently, she is a visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University. Her primary research interest lies in the Sociology of Health, specialising in adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Her work also encompasses Family Demography, Gender, Ageing, Climate Change, and Migration, with particular focus on how structural inequalities influence women's well-being throughout their lives. Much of her research investigates women in vulnerable situations in the Global South, offering a comparative perspective on how health, gender, and family dynamics intersect with race, ethnicity, and migration to create inequalities. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Thursday, March 5 at 2 p.m. ET \n\n\n\nRSVP here: \n\n\n\n\nCITY Research Seminar | Beyond Poverty: Socially Embedded Push Factors in Adolescent Rural-Urban Migration ( https://www.yorku.ca/cityinstitute/events/beyond-poverty-socially-embedded-push-factors-in-adolescent-rural-urban-migration/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/beyond-poverty-socially-embedded-push-factors-in-adolescent-rural-urban-migration-with-sylvia-gyan/
LOCATION:626 Kaneff Tower
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SUMMARY:Equitable Green Homes? Housing, Health, and Energy in a Changing Climate
DESCRIPTION:\nAs the impacts of climate change exacerbate all over the world, issues around housing, energy poverty and gentrification become more complex to deal with in equitable ways. We invite you to be part of a conversation with three interdisciplinary panellists who's work intersects at the core of the question "How can we keep everyone healthy and well as we work towards mitigating and adapting to climate change?". Join us as we find unexpected connections and points of intervention!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Panellists\n\n\n\n\nEvelyn Amponsah is an interdisciplinary scholar of Black diaspora, memory, temporality, and political life whose work spans Canada, Ghana, and the broader Black Atlantic. She holds a PhD in Social & Political Thought from York University and recently comepleted a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at York University’s Climate and Equity Lab. Across her research, Evelyn examines how Black communities navigate ruptured histories, racial power, and institutional harm, and how cultural and community practices become tools for dignity, survival, and collective possibility.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatricio Belloy is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics, Universidad Austral de Chile. His research and practice explore how environmental, energy, and climate policy and action can concurrently promote community development through meaningful engagement and knowledge co-production. Patricio holds a PhD and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He earned a BBA from Austral University of Chile and an MA in Global Studies from Leipzig University (Germany) and Wroclaw University (Poland). He is a former MIT Mel King Community Fellow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMylène Riva is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at McGill University, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Housing, Community and Health. She leads an interdisciplinary and applied research program sits at the intersection of health geography and population health with a particular focus on how housing and community environments shape health and well‑being across diverse populations and settings. Her research is rooted in the principles of social justice and sustainability (her research connects to 11 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals). She is committed to working with communities, organizations, and governments to provide rigorous scientific evidence that can be used to inform practice and public policy. Prof. Riva has mentored over 40 trainees, from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral levels. She is the author and co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and research reports. As a principal investigator, her research is funded by health and social sciences research councils; as a co-investigator, her research is further supported by natural sciences and engineering research councils. Her work is published in journals spanning geography, public health, housing and energy studies.\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be chaired by Lina Brand Correa, Faculty Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research & Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on February 27 at noon!\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/equitable-green-homes/
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SUMMARY:The Limits and Responsibilities of Global Health & Humanitarianism: What the Genocide in Gaza Reveals – Part II
DESCRIPTION:\nIsrael’s ongoing assault on Gaza has created a profound humanitarian and public health catastrophe. Sustained airstrikes on a densely populated and displaced civilian population, combined with severe restrictions on food, water, medical care, and shelter, are devastating the basic conditions necessary for human survival. At the same time, violence against Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli military and settlers has reached unprecedented levels.\n\n\n\nA central feature of this panel will be testimonies from Palestinians in Gaza, whose lived experiences will ground the discussion. Panelists will examine the immediate and intergenerational health consequences of the crisis, reflect on Palestinian resilience and humanity amid genocide, and interrogate how—and why—the international community has allowed these conditions to persist.\n\n\n\nThe seminar aims not only to inform, but to compel reflection and action, asking what researchers, health professionals, and concerned citizens can and must do within the York community and across the Canadian context.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\n\nDr. Ahmmed Al-Farra is a senior paediatrician in Gaza and head of pediatrics and maternity in Gaza's Nasser Medical Complex. He has been reporting to the world across multiple media platforms and news stations about the catastrophic conditions in Gaza, and particularly the starvation and violence that Israel is inflicting on Gaza’s children. \n\n\n\nDr. Ola Ziara is a paediatrician and child health and nutrition expert from Gaza, who now lives in Toronto. Her recent study with Dr. Rachel Coghlan called, "Palestinians in Gaza: Exemplars of Ethical and Local Humanitarianism” captures the voices and experiences of Palestinians in Gaza reflecting on the meaning of humanity amidst genocide.\n\n\n\nProf. Michael Lynk is Professor Emeritus of Law at the Faculty of Law, Western University, in London, Ontario. He served as the 7th UN-appointed Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territories from 2016 – 2022, in addition to decades of work, research, and teaching on labour, human rights, disability, constitutional and administrative law.\n\n\n\nA recorded presentation of Dr. Rachel Coghlan will be shared. She is a researcher at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne; she is also a practicing physiotherapist, specialising in post-acute care, aged care, rehabilitation and palliative care for people with disability, cancer and progressive neurological conditions. With 25 years of professional experience in public health, development and humanitarian response, and allied health practice, she brings expertise in palliative and end-of-life care, ageing and frailty, disability and rehabilitation, non-communicable diseases, equitable and inclusive health systems, and multidisciplinary supportive care. \n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on February 25 at 1 p.m.!\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecap: Part I – The Limits and Responsibilities of Global Health & Humanitarianism: What the Genocide in Gaza Reveals\n\n\n\nRecap: Part II – The Limits and Responsibilities of Global Health & Humanitarianism: What the Genocide in Gaza Reveals\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/the-limits-and-responsibilities-of-humanitarian-and-global-health-what-the-genocide-in-gaza-reveals-part2/
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UID:MEC-33169e6c57113f6de6b49fb5d8d32838@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20260119T170000Z
DTEND:20260119T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20260112T193300Z
CREATED:20260112
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115
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SEQUENCE:37
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SUMMARY:Interbeing Wellness Meditation and Qi Gong Practices – Winter 2026
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nNote that there are two gaps in the timetable:\n\n\n\n\nno sessions the week Feb 2 or Feb 5 \n\n\n\nno sessions the two weeks of Feb 16 and Feb 23 \n\n\n\n\nWinter 2026 Series\n\n\n\nMondays: Qi Gong with Harvey at noon – 12:30pm and Meditation with Susan at 12:30 – 1:00pm, followed by optional Q&A\n\n\n\nThursdays: Qi Gong with Harvey at noon – 12:30pm, followed by optional Q&A\n\n\n\n\nSession 1: Jan 19 and Jan 22\n\n\n\nSession 2: Jan 26 and Jan 30\n\n\n\n*** no sessions Feb 2 or Feb 5\n\n\n\nSession 3: Feb 9 and Feb 12\n\n\n\n*** no sessions the weeks of Feb 16 and Feb 23\n\n\n\nSession 4: Mar 2 and Mar 5\n\n\n\nSession 5: Mar 9 and Mar 12\n\n\n\nSession 6: Mar 16 and Mar 19\n\n\n\nSession 7: Mar 23 and Mar 26\n\n\n\nSession 8: Mar 30 and Apr 2\n\n\n\nSession 9: Apr 6 and Apr 9\n\n\n\n\nFor more information, please visit: interbeingwellness.info.yorku.ca/ or contact Harvey Skinner ( mailto:hskinner@yorku.ca )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://interbeingwellness.info.yorku.ca/
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UID:MEC-17b525960417571dc1220766bbced337@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20260401T170000Z
DTEND:20260401T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20251218T164100Z
CREATED:20251218
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:128
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SUMMARY:Navigating Complexity: Indigenous Health, Public Policy, and Intergovernmental Collaboration, with Sandra Romain
DESCRIPTION:\nHow do health systems adapt when governance is shared across federal, provincial, territorial, and Indigenous governments? How do advocates navigate the complexity of Indigenous health policy in Canada, where jurisdictional boundaries, cultural priorities, and reconciliation commitments converge?\n\n\n\nDr. Sandra Romain brings extensive experience in policy development, health transformation, and intergovernmental relations. Drawing on real-world examples, she will explore collaborative strategies, systemic barriers, and policy innovations that shape health outcomes for Indigenous communities.\n\n\n\nAttendees will gain a critical understanding of governance challenges and practical approaches to advancing equity and culturally grounded solutions in health policy.\n\n\n\nThis seminar is held in collaboration with the Graduate Program in Global Health, School of Global Health at York University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Romain has recommended reading the Inuit Nunangat Policy. ( https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1650556354784/1650556491509 )\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here.\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandra Romain is a Medical Anthropologist and senior policy leader in the Government of Canada, specializing in Indigenous and Inuit health. She has held leadership roles at Indigenous Services Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, where she advanced strategic policy initiatives in public health and economic reconciliation. Her work includes intergovernmental collaboration on the National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy, tuberculosis elimination, vaccine confidence and Indigenous entrepreneurship programs.\n\n\n\nDr. Romain’s research and policy experience emphasize culturally informed approaches to health systems and governance. She has published widely on Indigenous health and pharmaceutical care in remote communities and serves on national research ethics boards.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 1, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/navigating-complexity-indigenous-health-public-policy-and-intergovernmental-collaboration-with-sandra-romain/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-4c1062cc42d7e3c64306cbee964db44f@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20260204T180000Z
DTEND:20260204T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20251208T201100Z
CREATED:20251208
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:123
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SUMMARY:The Afterlives of the Clinic: AMR, Conflict, and the Future of Global Health, with Omar Dewachi
DESCRIPTION:\nAcross contemporary conflict zones, the clinic—the central institution of modern medicine—is increasingly fragile. From Gaza’s devastated hospitals to Mosul’s shattered medical infrastructures, war has undone the basic conditions that once sustained clinical practice. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in the Middle East, this talk explores the afterlives of the clinic: the provisional, improvised, and often fragmented forms of care that emerge when hospitals collapse, laboratories fail, and medical records scatter across borders.\n\n\n\nThese disrupted conditions also shape patterns of antimicrobial resistance, where shortages, displacement, and repeated interruptions to care leave lasting microbial and therapeutic consequences. As patients move between cities and countries seeking treatment, they carry with them both the scars and complications of systems that can no longer guarantee continuity.\n\n\n\nBy rethinking global health from these settings, the talk asks what it means to practice and support medicine amid chronic instability—and how humanitarian, clinical, and planetary health frameworks must adapt to a world where care unfolds in ruins.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Dewachi has recommended reading I Was a Doctor in Iraq. I Am Seeing a Nightmare Play Out Again.\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here.\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOmar Dewachi is a medical anthropologist, historian, and former physician whose work examines how decades of war and displacement in the Middle East have reshaped medical infrastructures, therapeutic practices, and microbial life. He is Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. His scholarship bridges medical anthropology, global health, humanitarian studies, and the history of science, with publications in The Lancet, Global Public Health, and leading anthropology journals, as well as commentary featured in The New York Times. Dewachi is the author of Ungovernable Life and is completing his forthcoming book, Death of the Clinic, which traces the collapse and afterlives of medicine in conflict settings. His research informs global debates on health, conflict, and the futures of care.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 4, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/the-afterlives-of-the-clinic-amr-conflict-and-the-future-of-global-health-with-omar-dewachi/
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UID:MEC-8d80b953e6dab669d98c905f7527fedd@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20260114T180000Z
DTEND:20260114T193000Z
DTSTAMP:20251208T193000Z
CREATED:20251208
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:122
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SUMMARY:Unpacking the Polycrisis: Transforming Capitalism’s Existential Health Threats, with Ronald Labonté
DESCRIPTION:\nPolycrisis has become the new term to reference the multiple intersecting crises that are posing global health threats. This upcoming seminar will unpack some of these crises, beginning with the chaotic disruptions to health and economic order engineered by Donald Trump’s second presidency and his administration’s coterie of enabling loyalists. It will identify some of the key elements of ‘Donald Trump as Polycrisis’ before locating them in the history of predatory capitalism and its consumptogenic necessity. It concludes with a discussion of the potential for alternative economic paradigms, many embedded under the rubric of ‘wellbeing economics.’ It will also launch the newest edition of the People’s Health Movement’s flagship triannual publication, Global Health Watch 7: Mobilizing for Health Justice, from which some of the elements of the talk are taken.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Labonté has recommended reading Global Health Watch 7 Introduction and Chapter A1.\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here.\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonald Labonté is Professor Emeritus and former Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa. For the past 30 years his research has focused on the health equity impacts of diverse globalization processes, on topics ranging from health worker migration; medical tourism; global health diplomacy; trade, political economy and tobacco control; trade and food security; health impact assessments of trade and investment treaties; comprehensive primary health care reforms; the social determinants of health equity; health and foreign policy; and global governance of infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance. He is active with the People’s Health Movement, has consulted extensively with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations, and is an Editor-in-Chief of the BMC journal, Globalization and Health.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 14, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has now closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-unpacking-the-polycrisis/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/unpacking-the-polycrisis-transforming-capitalisms-existential-health-threats-with-ronald-labonte/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-590fcadab00abacc5caaf30b51e91ad3@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20260217T140000Z
DTEND:20260220T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20251120T151800Z
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:61
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Course – Winter 2026
DESCRIPTION:\nSystematic review and meta-analysis techniques produce precise estimates of empirical studies to address issues that are pertinent for policy, practice, and future study. The application can also reveal unnoticed patterns in the results of previous studies, producing new insights. For these reasons, there has been an increase in the use of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the social, medical, and natural sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by Dahdaleh faculty fellow Godfred Boateng and facilitated by Dr. Reginald Quansah, this four-day course will discuss the fundamentals methods in systematic reviews and meta-analysis. It will include a series of lectures, exercises, group discussions, and supervised statistical training sessions.\n\n\n\nThis is a non-degree course is appropriate for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and senior researchers who have interest in evidence synthesis. Participants should have completed introductory courses in research methods and statistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\nSystematic review and meta-analysis method research is extremely useful in the era where a huge amount of research is produced each year, often with conflicting findings. In those instances, it can offer scientifically sound and powerful alternatives that can overcome the difficulties in addressing bias, heterogeneity and quality of the studies. However, often a poorly conducted systematic review and meta-analysis could yield misleading results. Therefore, various guidelines have been suggested to help standardized the independent study findings and to improve quality research. \n\n\n\nIn this course, participants will gain a better understanding of systematic review and meta-analysis and gain the following skills:\n\n\n\n\nRecognize features of systematic reviews and meta-analyses as a research design\n\n\n\nIdentify the elements of a well-defined review question\n\n\n\nUnderstand and develop search strategies\n\n\n\nPerform a comprehensive search for relevant studies\n\n\n\nManage the results of systematic searches\n\n\n\nExtract data and assess risk of bias of included studies\n\n\n\nUnderstand and carry out quantitative analysis of extracted data\n\n\n\nApply the methodology and conduct reviews independently\n\n\n\n\nCertificate will be issued upon completion.\n\n\n\nFees\n\n\n\n$100 for faculty\n\n\n\n$50 for students (use promo code SRMA26 to apply the discount)\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions, please email Godfred Boateng ( mailto: gboaten@yorku.ca )\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, February 17 at 9:00 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    var exampleCallback = function() {\n        console.log('Order complete!');\n    };\n\n    window.EBWidgets.createWidget({\n        // Required\n        widgetType: 'checkout',\n        eventId: '1969804530376',\n        iframeContainerId: 'eventbrite-widget-container-1969804530376',\n\n        // Optional\n        iframeContainerHeight: 700,  // Widget height in pixels. Defaults to a minimum of 425px if not provided\n        onOrderComplete: exampleCallback  // Method called when an order has successfully completed\n    });\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/introduction-to-srma-course-w26/
LOCATION:York University
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DTSTART:20251121T150000Z
DTEND:20251121T163000Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251212
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:63
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SUMMARY:Decentralized Small Systems Water Treatment with UV-LED in Mexico and Tanzania, with Karlye Wong
DESCRIPTION:\nA co-sponsored event between the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the One WATER Institute. \n\n\n\nAccess to safe drinking water remains a pressing challenge in decentralized communities, where reliance on varying sources of water and ineffective treatment often lead to inconsistent water quality and poor public health outcomes. This research evaluates the long-term field performance of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LED) and low-pressure UV (LUV) disinfection systems across urban and rural settings in Mexico and Tanzania, providing insights into performances in real-world conditions. While both systems showed early effectiveness, over a period of 18-24 months, both the UV-LED and LPUV performance declined. Post-intervention biodosimetry and analysis confirmed significant dose reduction due to fouling and material interactions. Results highlight how user adoption, maintenance, system design, and water source conditions significantly influence disinfection efficacy. This analysis aims to guide practical design and maintenance strategies for future interventions in these challenging environments. \n\n\n\nKarlye Wong is currently a PhD candidate at the Drinking Water Research Group at the University of Toronto. As a civil and environmental engineer with a focus in WASH, public health, and international development, she has had 10 years of experience in infrastructure and environmental projects in the Canadian Arctic and 20+ countries, working with government and international agencies including the World Bank and WaterAid. Karlye also holds a Master of Applied Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto and a dual degree in Civil Engineering and Life Sciences from Queen's University. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Friday, November 21, at 10 a.m. ET \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Find the recording of this event here. ( https://youtu.be/S2S9eC81XqQ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/decentralized-small-systems-water-treatment-with-uv-led-in-mexico-and-tanzania-with-karlye-wong/
LOCATION:88 The Pond Rd, Suite 2150, North York, Ontario
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UID:MEC-301c8eb1f76e106ec1bcf7a70ad25ffd@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20251210T161500Z
DTEND:20251210T174500Z
DTSTAMP:20251031T164500Z
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SEQUENCE:49
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SUMMARY:6th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the 6th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium to learn more about some of the groundbreaking research being conducted at the Dahdaleh Institute. This year, accomplished Dahdaleh graduate scholars will share the progress of their funded research projects in line with the Institute's three themes (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting). The exciting presentation lineup includes:\n\n\n\n\nAna Carolina de Almeida Cardoso – Colonization of the Future at the United Nations: Climate False Solutions and Resistance on the ground(s)\n\n\n\nBabatunde Odugbemi – Accountability Mechanisms for Antimicrobial Resistance Policies\n\n\n\nJoanne Ong – Women’s Political Empowerment as a Determinant of Health and Health Equity\n\n\n\nTareq Al Khalaf – Exploring Programs Supporting Health and Wellbeing of Family Caregivers of Individuals on the Spectrum of Autism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here to attend and join us on December 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM!\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-sixth-annual-dahdaleh-global-health-graduate-scholars-symposium/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/6th-annual-global-health-graduate-scholars-symposium/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-d8a7031d63e3762cfac9ac452816f6fe@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20251020T160000Z
DTEND:20251020T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20251021T145800Z
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:33
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SUMMARY:Interbeing Wellness Series – Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nMondays, October 20 through December 11:\n\n\n\n\nQi Gong, with Harvey Skinner noon - 12:30pm\n\n\n\nMindfulness Meditation, with Susan Harris 12:30 - 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\nThursdays, from October 20 to December 11:\n\n\n\n\nQi Gong, with Harvey Skinner noon - 12:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information, please visit: interbeingwellness.info.yorku.ca/\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://interbeingwellness.info.yorku.ca/
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UID:MEC-8e9cd83f2adcf2a064c2b35d3564e075@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20251119T180000Z
DTEND:20251119T200000Z
DTSTAMP:20251016T163400Z
CREATED:20251016
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:153
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SUMMARY:The Limits and Responsibilities of Global Health & Humanitarianism: What the Genocide in Gaza Reveals
DESCRIPTION:\nIsrael’s assault on Gaza has devastated food, water, and health systems, striking at the very essentials of life that sustain Gaza’s population. This panel will bring together experts in food systems, WASH, and health to examine the indications of a genocidal pattern; explore how and why the international community has allowed it to continue; and consider the implications for global health and humanitarianism. The session aims to impel reflection and action on what researchers and concerned citizens can do in response, within the York community and in the broader Canadian context.\n\n\n\nThis 2-hour hybrid session at York University will feature presentations from each of the three panelists, followed by discussion hosted by the moderator, and questions from the floor. Informal time to connect with participants will follow after the remarks with refreshments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\n\nDr. Ahmad Abu Shaban, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, York University; Associate Professor & Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at Al Azhar University Gaza (Food Security)\n\n\n\nDr. Reem Abu Shomar, Water and Public Health Expert, Research Fellow – Water and Public Health in Conflict Zones at United Nations University – INWEH (Water/WASH)\n\n\n\nDr. Mohammed Al Barayka, Pediatrician, former Medical Doctor at Al Awda Hospital in Gaza with MSF’s reconstructive surgery project; currently based in Canada (Health)\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on November 19, 2025 at 1 p.m.!\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-centering-palestinian-voices-rethinking-global-health-and-humanitarian-responsibility-in-gaza/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/the-limits-and-responsibilities-of-humanitarian-and-global-health-what-the-genocide-in-gaza-reveals/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-ff9697189557e125385ed6a4a8bf5788@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20251104T223000Z
DTEND:20251105T003000Z
DTSTAMP:20251016T154300Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251017
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:33
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SUMMARY:A World Café: Conversations on Climate Change and Belonging
DESCRIPTION:\nHave you ever felt like the places that shaped you, whether nearby or far across the world, are changing? \n\n\n\nA World Café: Conversations on Climate Change and Belonging is a space to reflect, share, and connect through guided conversations about how environmental change impacts our sense of identity, memory, and the idea of home.\n\n\n\nTogether, we will explore how climate change affects our emotional lives and sense of belonging, while creating space for connection, community, and hope. Whether you are thinking about places like Sudan, the Philippines, the Caribbean, Bangladesh, Brazil, Syria, or right here in Toronto, your experiences are welcome. \n\n\n\nYou do not need to be an expert to join. This is a space for emotional honesty, shared reflection, and meaningful conversation. The session will be audio recorded to help us better understand how climate change affects people emotionally and culturally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register ( https://www.wellnessimpactlab.com/event-details/a-world-cafe-conversations-on-climate-change-and-belonging/form )\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/world-cafe-november-2025/
LOCATION:88 The Pond Rd, Suite 2150, North York, Ontario
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UID:MEC-94bd3f4d79c60af8831740e58a68dd6e@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20251107T150000Z
DTEND:20251107T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20251002T191700Z
CREATED:20251002
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:58
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SUMMARY:Nurturing Infrastructures of Care: Centering Healing, Imagination and Solidarity in Polycrisis Response, with Chiara Camponeschi
DESCRIPTION:\nA co-sponsored event between the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the CITY Institute ( https://www.yorku.ca/cityinstitute/ ). \n\n\n\nDespite being relatively recent terms, narratives of poly- and permacrisis seem to have saturated public discourse, becoming a frequently invoked justification for policies of austerity and enclosure that often translate into experiences of isolation, vulnerability and "chronic urban trauma" (Pain, 2019) for many people on the ground. Rather than succumbing to a passive acceptance of crisis as inevitable and predetermined, a growing number of frontline communities is resisting, reworking and actively reimagining alternatives to the status quo along distinctly 'integrative' (Camponeschi, 2021), 'care-full' (Williams, 2020; Sultana, 2022) and relational lines.\n\n\n\nThis seminar will provide an overview of preliminary work from the Turning Moments of Crisis into Moments of Care project, which aims to subversively reclaim public imaginaries of crisis response through the concept of‘infrastructures of care’––a suite of scalable approaches and solutions that ensure that as a society we are not merely surviving a disruption but are committing to interventions that place equity, solidarity and care at the center of healthy adaptation and sustainable change.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nChiara Camponeschi is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at York University's Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. As an interdisciplinary researcher, her work is situated at the intersections of climate justice, urban resilience and planetary health. She has published on these topics in journals such as Geoforum, Cities and Health, and Nature Sustainability.\n\n\n\nChiara is also the founder of Enabling City, an action-research organization devoted to stimulating new imaginaries for transformative social change, and has two decades of experience working in nonprofit and civil society spaces around the world as an advisor, educator, and consultant on issues pertaining to urban sustainability, just transitions, solidarity economies and more.\n\n\n\nJoin us on Friday, November 7, at 10 a.m. ET \n\n\n\nRSVP here: \n\n\n\n\nNurturing Infrastructures of Care: Centering Healing, Imagination and Solidarity in Polycrisis Response ( https://www.yorku.ca/cityinstitute/events/nurturing-infrastructures-of-care-centering-healing-imagination-and-solidarity-in-polycrisis-response/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/nurturing-infrastructures-of-care/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Fragile Futures: Climate Change Crisis and Its Toll on Women and Children, with Soumya Swaminathan
DESCRIPTION:\nThis upcoming seminar will describe the threats to health from climate change, focusing on the impact of extreme heat and air pollution on populations living in low and middle income countries. Recent data from India and other developing countries as well as case studies will be used to provide an overview of challenges and opportunities for research and innovation in this area.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSoumya Swaminathan, a pediatrician and global expert in tuberculosis and HIV research, recently served as WHO's Chief Scientist and previously as Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2015-2017). She assumed the role of Chairperson at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in February 2023. She is also the Principal Advisor to National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.\n\n\n\nWith over 40 years of experience in clinical care and research, Dr. Swaminathan has dedicated her career to translating research into impactful health programs. As Secretary to the Government of India for Health Research, her efforts were focused on integrating science into health policy-making, enhancing research capabilities in Indian medical institutions, and fostering global partnerships in health sciences.\n\n\n\nDr. Swaminathan received her academic training in India, the UK, and the USA, and has authored over 480 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. She is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Medicine, the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), and all major science academies in India. She holds honorary doctorates from prestigious institutions including Karolinska Institute, EPFL Lausanne, and the McGill University, Canada. She currently co-chairs a global commission “Our Common Air” and serves on the Kofi Annan Commission on Food Security. She holds adjunct professorships at Karolinska University (Sweden) and Tufts University (USA).\n\n\n\nCurrently, Dr. Swaminathan serves on the boards of Alliance Bioversity, Population Foundation of India, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and Women Lift Health, among others. She is a member of the Governing Council of the Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission, member of One Health and Climate Change Strategic Committee, Government of Tamil Nadu and Chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).\n\n\n\nDuring her tenure as WHO's first Chief Scientist, Dr. Swaminathan established the Science Division focusing on research, quality assurance of norms and standards, and digital health. She played a pivotal role in coordinating global scientific efforts and was instrumental in setting up Covax to ensure equitable vaccine distribution to Low and Middle-Income Countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n\n\nHer current focus is on addressing the health impacts of climate change, especially on women and children and food system transformations to strengthen nutrition security in India and regionally.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 15, at 3:30 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/fragile-futures-climate-change-crisis-and-its-toll-on-women-and-children-with-soumya-swaminathan/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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SUMMARY:Healthcare Without Growth? The Opportunities and the Challenges of Degrowth for Health and Healthcare, with Martin Hensher
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nCohosted by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University; the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health and Sustainable Care, University of Toronto; the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods, University of Toronto, Scarborough.\n\n\n\nGlobal and national economic growth rates have been slowing for decades. Some embrace deliberate “degrowth” or “post-growth” economic strategies as an essential precondition for avoiding ecological and societal collapse; others see involuntary degrowth as an inevitable consequence of failing to remain within planetary boundaries. Reducing harmful overconsumption may offer profound opportunities to improve health; yet modern healthcare systems are deeply dependent upon economic growth, and may struggle to remain viable under conditions of degrowth. In this talk, Professor Martin Hensher will consider the opportunities, risks and challenges for health and healthcare in a degrowth or postgrowth world – and how we might best prepare for them.\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nProfessor Martin Hensher is the Henry Baldwin Professorial Research Fellow in Health Systems Sustainability at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania. His program of work explores how healthcare systems can meet the environmental, economic and social challenges of the years ahead. Martin draws on health and ecological economics to explore big systemic challenges: how health care can respond to climate change and ecological crisis, how it might function in a slower-growth future, and why investing more resources might increasingly not lead to better outcomes. Professor Hensher has over thirty years' experience in health economics, planning and financing, gained in the UK, Australia, Africa, Europe and Central Asia. Professor Hensher served as the European Union Consultant in Health Economics in the South African National Department of Health; senior economic adviser in the Department of Health England; and a senior executive in the Tasmanian Department of Health\n\n\n\nRecommended Readings\n\n\n\n\nHensher, Martin. (2023). Preparing for the degrowth transition in healthcare: understanding the challenges and opportunities. Degrowth Journal 1, 00033.\n\n\n\nHensher, Martin and Aillon, Jean-Louis. Degrowth: health and healthcare in Nelson, Anitra (Ed.) (2025), Routledge Handbook of Degrowth, p250-264.\n\n\n\nHensher, Martin et al. (2024). Health economics in a world of uneconomic growth. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 22(4), 427-433.\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for Monday, September 29 event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/healthcare-without-growth/
LOCATION:Toronto
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SUMMARY:The Toxic Legacies of the Oil and Gas Industry – Lessons in Decommissioning from the Niger Delta to North America, with Anna Zalik and Isaac Osuoka
DESCRIPTION:\nIn March 2025 Shell Oil announced it had divested the last of its holdings in Nigeria, through a series of sales and non-transparent contracts that abandoning the legacy of close to a century of pollution from Shell installations in the Niger Delta to Nigerian firms. Shell's announcement followed on the formal launch in Nigeria of the report "An Environmental Genocide: The Human and Environmental Cost of Big Oil in Bayelsa" in late 2024. The latter, the outcome of five years of work by the Bayelsa State (Nigeria) Oil and Environmental Commission, demonstrates the long term health and environmental impacts of oil industry' pollution and the need for massive ecological restoration of the Niger Delta. In this presentation, members of the Expert Working Group of the Bayelsa Commission discuss the findings of the report, the ongoing global project to implement the report's recommendations, and the implications of the Niger Delta example for other international jurisdictions, including Canada.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Zalik has recommended reading An Environmental Genocide: Counting the Human and Environmental Cost of Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria ( https://assets.website-files.com/644ad88c127c7f2a89b6c819/645e5659a595c598984ee7b5_An%20Environmental%20Genocide%20-%20Counting%20the%20Human%20and%20Environmental%20Cost%20of%20Oil%20in%20Bayelsa.pdf ).\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Zalik is a professor in Global Geography, Environmental and Urban Change at York University where she teaches international environmental politics and the political ecology of extraction.Zalik’s research examines the political economy of oil, gas and other extractive industries, with a focus on the merging of corporate security and social interventions in strategic exporters, particularly Nigeria, Mexico and Canada. She is a former Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow in Natural Resources at the University of California at Berkeley.\n\n\n\nZalik has worked on various international projects concerning hydrocarbons, substantive industrial transparency, and the contested regulation of extractive industries beyond national jurisdiction. She has given invited presentations at many venues internationally and serves on a number of academic editorial boards.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka coordinates Social Action International, an organisation promoting resource democracy and the human rights and livelihoods of marginalised communities in West and Central Africa. Osuoka previously served as Coordinator of Oilwatch Africa, a network supporting communities impacted by the petroleum industry in the continent.\n\n\n\nOsuoka has participated in many international fora and served as a panelist at the United Nations’ Expert Group Meeting on the Use of Non-Renewable Resource Revenues for Sustainable Local Development. Osuoka holds a doctorate from York University and is a former Vanier Scholar.\n\n\n\nBoth Osuoka and Zalik served as members of the Expert Working Group of the Bayelsa State (Nigeria) Commission on Oil and Environment.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 26, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/lessons-in-decommissioning-from-the-niger-delta-to-north-america-with-anna-zalik-and-isaac-osuoka/
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SUMMARY:Global Health PhD student's Independent Learning Plan
DESCRIPTION:\nEach Year 2 Global Health doctoral student will conduct a 12 minute ILP presentation followed by 8 minutes for questions.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeptember 10 from 1-2:30 p.m.:\n\n\n\n\nRupsha Mutsuddi - Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation for People Living with Dementia Using Participatory Design Methods\n\n\n\nNaeema Hassan - From Principles to Practice: Examining Equity in Global Health Research Partnerships\n\n\n\nOrit Awoke - \n\n\n\nBabatunde Odugbemi - The AMR GAP: A comparative analysis of governance, contextual issues, strengths and limitations of implementing One Health national antimicrobial resistance action plans in high (Canada) and low-to-middle income country settings (Nigeria)\n\n\n\n\nSeptember 11 from 1-2:30 p.m:.\n\n\n\n\nMichael Davies-Venn - Anthropocene Era Governing on Human Health and Environment in a Trans-boundary Resource Setting\n\n\n\nJoanne Ong - Explaining cross-national variation in the gender gap in subjective health: the role of women's political empowerment\n\n\n\nLathika Laguwaran - From Awareness to Action: Examining Sex and Gender in Smokeless Tobacco Use in SoutheastAsia\n\n\n\nKathirvel Soundappan - Systems Thinking and Systems-informed Interventions to Strengthen Global Governance of AMR Policy Design and Implementation\n\n\n\n\nThese sessions will be open to members of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, new first year Global Health PhD students entering the program in Sept 2025, and Global Health faculty members. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-health-phd-students-ilp-2025/
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SUMMARY:Going Public: Corporatizing Universal Health Amid Shifting Global Configurations, with Ramya Kumar and Anne-Emanuelle Birn
DESCRIPTION:\nThis seminar will explore the pivotal role of corporate players in universal health coverage ideologies and implementation, and critically examine social innovation-driven approaches to expanding primary care in low-income settings. It will first trace the evolving meanings of universal health/healthcare in global health politics and policy, analysing their close, often hidden, intertwining with corporate interests and exigencies. It will then juxtapose three ‘social innovations’ in health targeting niche 'markets' for lower-cost services in the Majority World, against three present-day examples of publicly financed and delivered primary healthcare (PHC), demonstrating what corporatization does to PHC, within deeply entrenched colonial-capitalist structures and discourses that normalize inferior care, private profit, and dispossession of peoples. The Seminar will end by drawing attention to the ongoing and accelerated expansion of private finance and philanthrocapitalist models in global health and their implications for healthcare access in the Majority World.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Kumar has recommended reading Going Public: The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/going-public/437BEE4439762D49FC4C1E2E3DAA51D2#element ) and Private Financial Actors and Financialisation in Global Health ( https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/345758/1/Private%20Financial%20Actors%20and%20Financialisation%20in%20Global%20Health.pdf ). \n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRamya Kumar is a Senior Lecturer and medical doctor attached to the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka. In 2023, she was Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ramya’s research interests include access to healthcare, politics of global health, gender and health, and applying critical feminist methodologies to health research. Her recent work explores health policy, health reform and gender and health, focusing primarily on Sri Lanka, and global health policy and politics, including a volume titled, Going Public: The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare (Cambridge, 2023) co-authored with Anne-Emanuelle Birn. Ramya is currently Associate Editor with Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters and was recently Section Editor of the Handbook of Sex, Gender and Health: Perspective from South Asia (SpringerNature, 2025). She is currently a member of the Collective for the Political Determinants of Health (University of Oslo) and the Kuppi Collective, an independent group of academics committed to preserving free public education in Sri Lanka.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne-Emanuelle Birn is Professor of Global Development Studies and of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) at the University of Toronto. Previously she was a professor at the New School in New York, worked at the Pan American Health Organization, and has been a visiting professor in Montevideo, Paris, Lisbon, and at the World Health Organization. Her research explores the history, politics, and political economy of global health, particularly in Latin America. Current projects examine: the history of child health in Uruguay; transnational perspectives on social activism and policy-making during the COVID-19 pandemic; social justice-oriented South-South health cooperation; and the health harms of Canadian extractivism. She has published widely in Latin American, African, Asian, North American, and European journals and presses and edited nine special journal issues in multiple languages. Her books include: Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico (Rochester, 2006); Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (Rutgers, 2013); Oxford University Press’s Textbook of Global Health (2009; 2017/18); Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America (Duke, 2020); and Going Public: The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare (Cambridge, 2023). She served on the Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health, and is currently a member of the Collective for the Political Determinants of Health (both based at the University of Oslo). Among other scholar-activist roles, she is a core member of the Canada country circle of the People’s Health Movement and has served as the North American regional representative on the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement.\n\n\n\nA former Canada Research Chair in International Health, she has been recognized among the top 100 Women Leaders in Global Health, and was named to the List of Canadian Women in Global Health. She is the 2023 recipient of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health History from the American Public Health Association and Columbia University.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 12, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-universal-health-care-in-an-era-of-corporatization-with-ramya-kumar-and-anne-emanuelle-birn/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/going-public-corporatizing-universal-health-amid-shifting-global-configurations-with-ramya-kumar-and-anne-emanuelle-birn/
LOCATION:004 ACE
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SUMMARY:Embodied Systems Learning through Immersive Media: Advancing SDG Innovation in Global Health, with Pravin Pillay
DESCRIPTION:\nThe current metacrisis—marked by climate disruption, ecological degradation, humanitarian emergencies, and weakening global governance—poses profound challenges for global health. In this context, the critical question is not only what we know but how we act wisely. Responding well requires new forms of sense-making that integrate analysis, embodied awareness, and collective agency across individuals, organizations, and institutions.\n\n\n\nThis one-hour seminar, led by Pravin Pillay, Creative Director of MOVE37XR, introduces the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR) Community to experimental methods at the intersection of planetary health, humanitarianism, and foresighting. The session blends theory, immersive experience, and dialogue to consider how immersive media can inform global health scholarship and practice.\n\n\n\nKey Themes\n\n\n\n\nHyperobjects and Planetary Health: Framing climate change and other global phenomena as distributed, non-local systems that structure human and ecological futures, drawing on the 2023 Planetary Boundaries Report.\n\n\n\nFrom Systems-Thinking to Systems-Embodiment: Exploring how datapoetic and sensory practices connect intellect (analysis), heart (emotional attunement), and hand (agency), fostering coherence across scales of action.\n\n\n\nMOVE37XR Case Study: Examining the role of an emerging media research lab and creative studio in developing immersive experiences that support sense-making, empathy, and innovation in response to global challenges.\n\n\n\n\nMethodological Innovation\n\n\n\nParticipants will take part in two short immersive practices (TBC):\n\n\n\n\nA datapoetic encounter that translates ecological and health data into sensory forms.\n\n\n\nAn embodied listening exercise designed to cultivate relational awareness and systems-feeling.\n\n\n\n\nBoth exercises aim to extend conventional approaches to global health research by integrating intellectual, affective, and embodied modes of inquiry.\n\n\n\nRelevance for the DIGHR Community\n\n\n\nThe seminar functions as an immersive learning system, modeling the adaptive, participatory, and transdisciplinary approaches needed to address global health in the 21st century. Students will encounter:\n\n\n\n\nExperimental methodologies bridging qualitative, quantitative, and experiential research.\n\n\n\nPractices that enhance capacity for sense-making and wise action in conditions of uncertainty.\n\n\n\nFrameworks for considering how individuals and institutions act as nodes within broader complex adaptive systems.\n\n\n\n\nThis session offers an opportunity to engage critically and experientially with questions at the heart of DIGHR’s mission: how to design, research, and enact the global health we want.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Pravin has recommended reading Sustaining planetary health through systems thinking: Public health's critical role, Planetary Health Check: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet ( https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/storyblok-cdn/f/301438/x/a4efc3f6d5/planetaryhealthcheck2024_report.pdf ), Complexity as a theory of education ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241092373_Complexity_as_a_theory_of_education ), Beyond doomism and solutionism in response to climate change ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365316983_Beyond_doomism_and_solutionism_in_response_to_climate_change ), and Building Community Resiliency through Immersive CommunalExtended Reality (CXR). He has also recommended listening to the “Deep Time Diligence” – Tyson Yunkaporta episode ( https://open.spotify.com/episode/6M4XrN4ycz7u94CqQ6D2Ne?si=41d247939ba94c68 ) of the Emergence Magazine Podcast (the podcast transcript can be found here ( https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/deep-time-diligence/ )).\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPravin Pillay is a speaker, designer, artist, investor, and advisor whose work sits at the intersection of emerging technology, consciousness, and cultural wisdom. As Creative Director of MOVE37XR, he pioneers immersive storytelling experiences that foster empathy, sustainability, and inter-cultural exchange, drawing on decades of experience as a multimedia artist, permaculturalist, and practicing yogi.\n\n\n\nA sought-after speaker and advisor, Pravin brings transformative insights to bioregional and global stages and organizations, cultivating complex adaptive systems with a focus on indigenous innovation, ancient wisdom practices, planetary health, and human-computer interaction.\n\n\n\nAs a designer and artist, his groundbreaking projects—such as Hyper Object 108 and The Rain is the River is the Ocean—blend bioregional knowledge with cutting-edge XR to create deeply resonant, systems-based experiences.\n\n\n\nBeyond the creative realm, Pravin is an active investor and strategic advisor, co-founder of Humanitas Smart Planet Systems, founder of Emergent Performance Consulting and Creative Systems Architect for the Indigenomics movement where he champions progressive interdisciplinary ventures that bridge technology, tradition, and future-ready organizational and leadership development.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 5, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-immersive-learning-for-global-health-bridging-data-complexity-and-wisdom-with-pravin-pillay/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/embodied-systems-learning-through-immersive-media-advancing-sdg-innovation-in-global-health-with-pravin-pillay/
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SUMMARY:Researching Civil-Military Global Health Delivery and Governance, Challenges and Opportunities, with Fawzia Gibson-Fall
DESCRIPTION:\nThis seminar will explore the ethical and practical dilemmas linked to researching military involvement in global health and reflect on the importance of this research for global health governance. The lecture will build on practical examples from research in African settings and within international organizations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Gibson-Fall has recommended reading Military responses to COVID-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements, Global health security and the health-security nexus: principles, politics and praxis, and Coronavirus: how to avoid military responses becoming double-edged swords.\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFawzia's research explores the role of security actors in global health, issues of trust, misinformation, and disinformation, as well as conflict and health. Her first book entitled, ‘Health Warriors, the Global Politics of Military Health in Africa,’ is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press and builds. She has a solid track record as a global health educator: she was a Lecturer in Global Health at University College London (UCL) and a Teaching Fellow at the King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships where she led postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Conflict & Health, Global Burden of Disease, Health Systems, Health Policy, and Child Health. She co-developed and delivered research capacity-building workshops as part of King’s health partnerships in Sierra Leone and Somaliland and ran a global health conference cycle at the Royal Society of Medicine.\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/researching-civil-military-global-health-delivery-and-governance-challenges-and-opportunities-with-fawzia-gibson-fall/
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UID:MEC-4662efebaa2ef1b42bb1097a941393ef@yorku.ca
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SUMMARY:Reaching Adolescents with Health Services: Case Studies from Ghana, with Benedict Weobong
DESCRIPTION:\nAdolescents face unique barriers in accessing health services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where health systems are often not designed with their needs in mind. These seminar series draw on case studies from two innovative initiatives in Ghana – YMIND and Y-Check – to explore scalable strategies for improving adolescent health service delivery. YMIND focuses on school-based mental health early intervention for depression among adolescents, while Y-Check implements the integration of routine health and wellbeing screening into adolescent health systems. Together, these case studies highlight the importance of co-designed, youth-centered, and context-responsive approaches. The seminars will reflect on implementation experiences, policy implications, and lessons for advancing equitable and integrated adolescent health services in Ghana and beyond.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Weobong has recommended reading Youth Participatory Research: A Review of Reviews and Practice Guidance.\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Benedict Weobong has degrees in psychology, mental health epidemiology from Universities of Ghana and London. As a Global Mental Health epidemiologist and academic, his research portfolio has been informed by the principles of Global Mental Health along six strands: understanding and addressing the social determinants of mental health; developing and evaluating psychological treatments; implementation research in routine primary health care settings; school-based health and wellbeing programs; research agenda setting; and training. His current research laboratory holds three major activities: climate change and mental health; developing measures/tools for relational wellbeing among youth; developing a step-up care intervention to treat depression and anxiety among adolescents in Ghana (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/african-youth-in-mind ( https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/african-youth-in-mind )); evaluating the implementation of a routine health check-up programme for adolescents; and building a critical mass of global mental health researchers through doctoral and post-doctoral training (https://amari-africa.org ( https://amari-africa.org )).\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 22, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-screening-program-for-adolescents-in-communities-in-cape-coast-case-studies-from-ghana-with-benedict-weobong/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/reaching-adolescents-with-health-services-case-studies-from-ghana-with-benedict-weobong/
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SUMMARY:Expanding the Imagination and Solution Space in Global Health, with Madhukar Pai
DESCRIPTION:\nUPDATE: Tickets to attend in person for this event are sold out. Please register for online attendance at the bottom of this page.\n\n\n\nIn global health the most visible “solutions” to hunger, poverty, and disease are often imagined by those who have never borne the weight of these realities. To truly open up the solution space, we will need to center the expertise of people with lived experience and who are the most impacted by structural violence. Through a series of examples, we will illustrate that solution spaces are not fixed; they expand or contract based on who is centered in the conversation and whether their lived realities are considered legitimate grounds for policymaking and action.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Pai has recommended reading “You can’t see what you’ve never had to live”—Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development ( https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0005242 ).\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nProf Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC is the Inaugural Chair, Department of Global and Public Health at the McGill School of Population and Global Health. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health. He was previously Director of the McGill International TB Centre. He was the inaugural Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.\n\n\n\nMadhu Pai did his medical training and community medicine residency in Vellore, India. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF.\n\n\n\nMadhu serves on the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB in the South-East Asia Region, and the WHO Advisory group on Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Laboratory. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva. He serves as the Chair of the Public-Private Mix (PPM) Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. He serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases, PLoS Medicine, and BMJ Global Health, among others. He was the inaugural Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health.\n\n\n\nMadhu’s research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. His research is supported by grant funding from the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has more than 400 publications. He is recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, Haile T. Debas Prize, and David Johnston Faculty & Staff Award. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us online on October 8, 2025 at 1 p.m.!\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-reimagining-global-health-critical-perspectives-from-dr-madhukar-pai/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/expanding-the-imagination-and-solution-space-in-global-health-with-madhukar-pai/
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DTSTART:20250924T170000Z
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SUMMARY:Letting the Fox Build the Hen House: Private Sector Influence at the WHO, with Tracey Wagner-Rizvi
DESCRIPTION:\nThis seminar will examine private sector influence on substantive initiatives at the WHO as well as on the development of the WHO’s Framework of engagement with non-State actors (FENSA), which was adopted in May 2016.\n\n\n\nDespite their self-representation as trustworthy partners in addressing health issues, private sector actors work to influence substantive initiatives by the WHO related to the sale and consumption of their products. Private sector actors also engage in a long-game to shape paradigms that determine which policies are pursued and what role private actors are able to play in developing them. These paradigms create an environment conducive to companies and their associations, for example, arguing against regulation and in favour of voluntary measures and representing themselves as legitimate partners in developing health-related policy. \n\n\n\nLike other industries, the baby food and soda industries, for example, have pursued their substantive and long-term interests by drawing on a so-called “corporate playbook” of strategies and tactics to access and impact upon global health policy-making at the WHO. These strategies and tactics are underpinned by various forms of power and are iterative and mutually reinforcing. Analysis of FENSA's contested development reveals that the private sector deployed these same strategies and tactics to influence its outcome, and highlights the types of issues against which the WHO must continue to guard itself so as not to undermine the agency’s independence, integrity, credibility and mandate. However, by opening its doors to fuller engagement with the private sector, formalized in FENSA, the WHO has potentially set itself up for even more in-depth corporate influence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Wagner-Rizvi has recommended reading Corporate practices and health: aframework and mechanisms, Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinantsof health, and Negotiating the Opening of International Organizations to Non-State Actors ( https://brill.com/view/journals/iner/29/3/article-p357_1.xml ).\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTracey Wagner-Rizvi holds a PhD and an MA in Global Governance from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, with focuses on global social governance, and human rights and global justice. \n\n\n\nShe is currently a Research Associate at the Global Strategy Lab at York University, where she researches the governance of antimicrobial resistance. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, looking at the conduct and influence of the producers of unhealthy commodities (especially of tobacco, alcohol and ultra processed foods) in driving consumption.\n\n\n\nShe previously lived in Pakistan for 13 years. During that time, she worked for UNICEF, local and international non-governmental organizations, and a national newspaper, and briefly in 2002 for an INGO in Afghanistan. Significantly, she campaigned for legislation in Pakistan banning the marketing of baby formula and observed firsthand the baby food industry’s influence on both national and global health policy and policymaking, leading to her career-long interest in corporate political activity.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 24, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/letting-the-fox-build-the-hen-house-private-sector-influence-at-the-who-with-tracey-wagner-rizvi/
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DTSTART:20250917T170000Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Health System Resilience: Concepts and Controversies in the German Context, with Benjamin Ewert
DESCRIPTION:\nThe session will begin by unpacking the concept of resilience, tracing its origins from ecological systems theory and its adoption in health policy discourse. Benjamin Ewert will present different conceptualizations - ranging from resilience as an outcome (bouncing back), a process (adapting and learning), to a systemic capacity shaped by governance structures, actors, and institutional arrangements.\n\n\n\nBuilding on this, he will examine how the resilience discourse has evolved in the German context, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The seminar would explore how policy actors and institutions have framed resilience - whether as a managerial, technical goal or as a politically contested process. Using examples from recent policy documents, reforms, and academic debates, he will show how resilience is operationalized within Germany’s corporatist health system and how this interacts with existing power structures and governance modes.\n\n\n\nThe session will conclude with a discussion on the political determinants of health system resilience and the role of institutional change, civic engagement, and intersectoral collaboration. Participants will be invited to reflect critically on the normative and strategic uses of resilience in health governance, and its relevance to their own research or policy contexts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Ewert has recommended reading Any lessons to learn? Pathways and impasses towardshealth system resilience in post-pandemic times. \n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Benjamin Ewert is a political scientist with a specialization in health and social policy, currently serving as Professor of Politics for Health Professions at the Department of Health Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences. He holds a Venia Legendi in Political Science from Heidelberg University and earned his doctorate summa cum laude in Social Sciences from Justus Liebig University Giessen.\n\n\n\nProf. Ewert has held teaching and research positions at several institutions, including the University of Siegen, Fern Universität in Hagen, and Heidelberg University. He has been involved in numerous EU-funded research projects such as WILCO (Welfare Innovations at the Local Level) and InSup-C (Integrated Palliative Care), contributing both as a principal investigator and collaborative researcher. He has also conducted international research stays in Manchester, Prague, and Seinäjoki, further enriching his global perspective on health governance.\n\n\n\nAs a committed educator, Prof. Ewert has taught a wide range of seminars in health policy, social innovation, and behavioural governance. He has organized academic conferences and workshops, and regularly presents his research at international conferences such as ECPR and ICPP. His scholarly contributions have been recognized with the Ken Young Best Paper Prize in 2022. He is an active reviewer for numerous journals and funding bodies, including Public Administration, Behavioural Public Policy, and the European Commission.\n\n\n\nProf. Ewert is currently involved in institution-building and governance roles at Fulda University and maintains a strong engagement in the academic community through his editorial and peer-review work. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 17, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-repoliticizing-health-system-resilience-unpacking-the-political-determinants-of-health-with-benjamin-ewert/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/rethinking-health-system-resilience-concepts-and-controversies-in-the-german-context-with-benjamin-ewert/
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SUMMARY:A Comparative Analysis of Mental Health Reform: Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, with Kaitlin Di Pierdomenico
DESCRIPTION:\nThis presentation examines the trajectories of mental health reform in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, focusing on how political and institutional contexts within universal healthcare systems have shaped their development. Using a comparative-historical approach, Dr. Kaitlin Di Pierdomenico combines historical institutionalism with critical perspectives from Mad Studies and Postpsychiatry to analyse how institutional configurations influence the design, implementation, and outcomes of mental health policies.\n\n\n\nThe study investigates the relationship between governance structures, financing and service system designs, and professional regulation and payment, assessing how these dimensions interact with shifting policy and cultural discourses on rights, recovery, and community-based care. Archival research, policy analysis, and input from community service agencies provide the empirical foundation for tracing reform pathways in each country.\n\n\n\nFindings highlight how institutional frameworks and historical legacies condition the use of policy levers, producing differences in the scale and pace of reform. This comparative analysis contributes to understanding the interplay between institutional design, policy tools, and mental health reform outcomes, offering insights for the development of equitable and contextually grounded mental health systems.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Di Pierdomenico has recommended reading Access and Injustice: An Intersectionality informed Analysis of Victorian Mental Health Policy in Australia ( https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v18i3.4657 ), Mental health in Kenya: Tensions between human rights approaches and colonial care ( https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v18i3.4066 ), and Governance of mental healthcare: Fragmented accountability ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113007 ).\n\n\n\nPDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrO4GEE4dMu22Gbz )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Kaitlin Di Pierdomenico is a postdoctoral visitor in the Department of Psychology at York University and with DIVERT Mental Health. Her research focuses on mental health equity, examining how governance, funding, regulation, and service system design influence access, quality, and rights in care. Drawing on historical institutionalism, Mad Studies, and Postpsychiatry, she investigates reform processes with an emphasis on person-centered, community-driven approaches. Her work spans topics from mental health reform to digital interventions, with a commitment to building inclusive systems that address the social and structural determinants of health.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 1, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-tracing-mental-health-policy-reform-across-borders-a-comparative-study-of-canada-the-uk-and-australia-with-kaitlin-di-pierdomenico/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/a-comparative-analysis-of-mental-health-reform-canada-the-united-kingdom-and-australia-with-kaitlin-di-pierdomenico/
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DTSTART:20250918T150000Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:\nThe fourth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research will be held on Thursday, September 18 and Friday, September 19, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET. The event will take place over two days this year to allow for more topics to be covered, and to allow for more members to attend across one or both days. We hope to see as many of you as possible during this event! See below for a more detailed agenda for the two days.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick Here to RSVP ( http://go.yorku.ca/di-agm )\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2025-annual-general-meeting/
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DTSTART:20250820T150000Z
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Global Health Trainee Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nOur global health interns will be giving a short presentation summarizing their experience working on research and global health projects at the Dahdaleh Institute under the guidance of Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will cover their research findings and results, what they learned in their role, and how they will apply their experiences in a future opportunity. Our graduate student scholars will also be giving brief presentations on their research and work, what they've accomplished to this point, and what they will be working on going forward. \n\n\n\nPresentation titles and presenters are below:\n\n\n\nNamePresentation TitleRupsha MutsuddiCo-Designing Technologies and Services that Mitigate Loneliness for People Living with Dementia in Communities GloballyMahnoosh JalilzadehNature Heals: A Scoping Review on Nature-Based Interventions for Climate-Related Emotional DistressSheryl Peris & Ria SaraiyaExploring Communication Interventions for Dementia Care NetworksNaeema Hassan (virtual)Unpacking Equity in Global Health Research PartnershipsKathirvel SoundappanChallenges in Designing and Implementing Antimicrobial National Action Plans: Systematic Review and Meta-EthnographyTove BuhlmannSpecial Projects Research Assistant Experience\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on August 20, 2025 at 11 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the event recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-trainee-symposium-su25/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-health-trainee-symposium-su25/
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DTSTART:20250710T200000Z
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SUMMARY:A World Café: Conversations on Climate Change and Belonging
DESCRIPTION:\nA World Café: Conversations on Climate Change and Belonging is a space to reflect, share, and connect through guided conversations about how environmental change impacts our sense of identity, memory, and the idea of home. Together, we will explore how climate change affects our emotional lives and sense of belonging, while creating space for connection, community, and hope.\n\n\n\nHeads up, this session will be audio recorded to help the Wellness Impact Lab understand how climate change affects people both emotionally and culturally, and to help us learn how to better serve our international community.\n\n\n\nDate: Jul 10, 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nLocation: Stong College, Room 101, York University, 4700 Keele St, North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register ( https://www.wellnessimpactlab.com/event-details/a-world-cafe )\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/a-world-cafe-conversations-on-climate-change-and-belonging/
LOCATION:101 Stong College
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Water Engineering Course - Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nThe Humanitarian Water Engineering Intensive Online Course runs from 3 September to 3 December 2025 and offers a comprehensive 12-week program focused on safe water supply in humanitarian emergencies. Participants will explore key topics including water quality assessment, emergency source development, treatment technologies, distribution systems, and outbreak preparedness. The course blends curated readings, interactive lectures, and problem-based learning (PBL) activities, all guided by experienced facilitators. Designed for WASH practitioners, engineers, and graduate students, it equips participants with essential skills for real-world humanitarian response.\n\n\n\nThis course is a joint initiative of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Lassonde School of Engineering, and CIFAL York. Fees are set on a sliding scale—from $600 to $2,600 CAD (+tax)—to support participation and to promote a globally diverse learning environment.\n\n\n\nApplications are due by Sunday, August 31, 2025.\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about the course\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/hwe-fall-2025/
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SUMMARY:TRCA Administrative Office Tour
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) proudly marked the official opening of its new, state-of-the-art administrative office building at 5 Shoreham Drive, Toronto, with an official ceremony held on Friday, April 25, 2025. Join the Dahdaleh Institute in a tour of their new facilities on August 7 at 9:30 AM.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/trca-administrative-office-tour/
LOCATION:5 Shoreham Drive Toronto, ON M3N 1S4
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DTSTART:20250611T150000Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation With Visiting Scholar Benjamin Ewert
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for a conversation with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Ewert and colleagues from the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Global Strategy Lab. In this 1-hour session, he will share insights from his research on designing governance structures and policy instruments to enhance public services—particularly in the fields of health and social welfare.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Benjamin Ewert is a political scientist with a specialization in health and social policy, currently serving as Professor of Politics for Health Professions at the Department of Health Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences. He holds a Venia Legendi in Political Science from Heidelberg University and earned his doctorate summa cum laude in Social Sciences from Justus Liebig University Giessen. His academic career has been shaped by a strong interdisciplinary and comparative approach to public policy. With a research focus that includes behavioural public policy, empirical policy analysis, and social innovation, Prof. Ewert explores how governance structures and policy instruments can be designed to enhance public services—particularly in the fields of health and social welfare.\n\n\n\nRead more about his visiting scholarship at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/dahdaleh-institute-welcomes-benjamin-ewert-as-a-visiting-scholar/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/a-conversation-with-benjamin-ewert/
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SUMMARY:The Changing Landscape for Global Aid
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Trump administration’s decision to gut its overseas development assistance agency, USAID, and cancel funding to nearly all its programs, has had massive and immediate health, social and economic impacts for countries and communities across the Global South. It has added to the uncertainty in the international aid and development sector and further precipitated a series of policy shifts by other major donor countries in the G7/OECD. The immediate term consequences are already emerging across the developing world and assessment of the key trends and patterns is much needed. The medium- and longer-term implications for global stability and human security are unclear but could potentially further exacerbate conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and Ukraine and accelerate the conditions for others. In this context we ask what the future will look like for development cooperation and humanitarian assistance at different scales/modalities of assistance: \n\n\n\n\nWhat are the main impacts and consequences of the current policy changes? \n\n\n\nHow are development practitioners and developing societies responding? \n\n\n\nWhat does this shift imply for medium-term development cooperation efforts and the leveraging of soft power over the longer-term globally? \n\n\n\nCritically, how will these changes impair the “intermediate” efforts to strengthen the resiliency of poor societies aimed at allowing them to build capacity for self-determined and sustainable development? \n\n\n\nWhat impacts will there be for short-term humanitarian responses to disasters and emergencies?\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on June 11 (starting at 2 p.m. ET) as the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies ( https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/ ), Centre for Refugee Studies ( https://www.yorku.ca/crs/ ), Cooperation Canada ( https://cooperation.ca/ ), and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/ ) bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss this moment and possible ways forward to sustain common global efforts for justice.\n\n\n\n\nRegister here for in-person attendance ( https://www.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/75871/The-Changing-Landscape-for-Global-Aid/home?eventRoleId= )\n\n\n\nRegister here for virtual attendance ( https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/lSgHs0uBSL6WCOA0Yvuuyg#/registration )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanellists and Topics\n\n\n.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:0px;}.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 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.kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible{border-top-color:#eeeeee;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#eeeeee;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#eeeeee;border-left-style:solid;}}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible,\n				.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{border-top-color:#444444;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#444444;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#444444;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#444444;border-left-style:solid;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{display:block;}.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap .kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:0px;}.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;}.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header{border-top:0px solid #f2f2f2;border-right:0px solid #f2f2f2;border-bottom:0px solid #f2f2f2;border-left:0px solid #f2f2f2;}.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header:hover, \n				body:not(.hide-focus-outline) .kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible{border-top-color:#eeeeee;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#eeeeee;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#eeeeee;border-left-style:solid;}.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible,\n				.kt-accordion-id13942_28df05-93 > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{border-top-color:#444444;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#444444;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#444444;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#444444;border-left-style:solid;}}\n\n‘Global Aid at a Crossroads: A Stocktake of Origins, Trends, and Emerging Challenges’ - Steffi Hamann ( https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/shamann/ ) (LA&PS/Development Studies)\n\n\n\n\nThis opening contribution provides a foundational overview of the global aid architecture. It traces the historical origins and evolution of humanitarian and development aid in the 20th century. This includes the establishment of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the adoption of the aspirational 0.7% target for Official Development Assistance – a benchmark seldom fully met by donor countries. The discussion then shifts to recent trends, highlighting sharp funding cuts and recent policy that are generating ripple effects. These changes have disrupted global aid flows, weakened multilateral coordination, and raised urgent questions about donor commitment, soft power dynamics, and global equity. By examining both long-standing patterns and current disruptions, this contribution sets the stage for deeper discussions on how development cooperation will have to adapt in an era of retrenchment, geopolitical fragmentation, and intensifying humanitarian and development needs worldwide.\n\n\n\n\n‘Civil Society on the Road to Rethinking Global Cooperation’ - Darron Seller-Peritz ( https://cooperation.ca/team/darron-seller-peritz/ ) (Cooperation Canada)\n\n\n\n\nAs the global aid architecture is reshaped by donor retrenchment, rising nationalism, and geopolitical instability, civil society organizations are on the front lines of both response and resistance. These shifts are not only reducing predictable and equitable funding, but also entrenching power imbalances that sideline local actors and priorities. At the same time, civil society is facing growing restrictions worldwide: a shrinking civic space that threatens human rights and the foundations of accountable development. In this context, civil society actors are not merely calling for policy adjustments, but for a fundamental rebuilding of the international cooperation system: one that centers equity, restores trust in multilateralism, and ensures civil society has the space and support to lead transformative, locally driven change.\n\n\n\n\n‘Reconfigurations and Refusals: Forging Futures Beyond Aid in Malawi - Rachel Silver ( https://edu.yorku.ca/edu-profiles/index.php?mid=1806513 ) (Education/Development Studies)\n\n\n\n\nIn March 2025, President Trump shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, cutting more than $40 billions of dollars of promised funding  (CGD, 2025). Significant media attention has been paid to the devastating ramifications of the cuts for global public health (Mandavilli, 2025). Yet millions of young people are also at risk of losing access to schooling (Relief Web, 2025).  In Malawi, a context characterized by historically produced poverty, the U.S. alone contributed over 13% of the country’s overall 2024/2025 budget (Guardian, 2025). While aid can meaningfully impact lives, however, the global aid architecture—the organizations, funding mechanisms, policies, and programs that scaffold development activities worldwide—is deeply flawed, often reproducing power hierarchies rooted in colonial histories and relationships. \n\n\n\nThis paper draws on a pilot study to (1) consider if and how aid cuts might catalyze decolonization of the education and health sectors and (2) begin to reimagine possibilities for humanitarian engagement. In contrast to scholarship on development and humanitarianism “beyond aid” that focuses on global governance, our project centers how local development workers theorize alternative arrangements for education within highly inequitable systems. Situated between international funders and community-based recipients, Malawian policymakers, NGO staff-members, and fieldworkers are uniquely positioned to reconceptualize aid mechanisms and forge new resourcing futures.\n\n\n\n\n‘The China Factor’ - Gregory Chin ( https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/gtchin/ ) (LA&PS/Politics)\n\n\n\n\nChina's role in the global development system and the world economic order has evolved dramatically.  The People's Republic of China has provided assistance to developing countries since the 1950s and 1960s, but from the late 1990s onward, China has also emerged as a major international creditor, and a provider of leading-edge science and technology.  In the mid-2000s, China undertook UN peacekeeping and supplying humanitarian assistance, and has increased its contributions.  In 2013, Beijing launched its ambitious pan-regional Belt and Road Initiative, and in 2019 established China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA).  This was all before Trump 2.0.  Some commentators suggest that the changes in the global development landscape resulting from the policies of the Donald Trump Administration and the traditional Northern donor governments create further openings for China's expanded influence.  The presentation will assess the accuracy of this hypothesis, examining key trends and patterns in China's evolving positioning in global development.\n\n\n\n\nModerated by Ravi de Costa ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/person/ravi-de-costa/ ) (LA&PS/Development Studies/DIGHR)\n\n\n\n\nRavi de Costa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science and a member of the Graduate Programs in Development Studies and Environmental Studies. He is an interdisciplinary social scientist who works on Indigenous and environmental politics. He also currently serves as the Associate Dean Research & Graduate, in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/the-changing-landscape-for-global-aid/
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SUMMARY:No Country Left Behind: Strengthening Global Tobacco Control
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nNo Country Left Behind: Strengthening Global Tobacco Control, Hosted by the Global Strategy Lab ( https://www.globalstrategylab.org/events/no-country-left-behind-strengthening-global-tobacco-control/ )\n\n\n\nDate: May 29, 2025Time: 10 AM EDT / 2 PM GMT\n\n\n\nLocation: Zoom\n\n\n\nTobacco is one of the biggest public health threats we’ve ever faced. Since the adoption of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the implementation of better tobacco control policies saved lives, reduced healthcare costs and boosted the economy. Deemed a success, high-income countries (HICs) saw a decrease of over 1,000 cigarettes per adult annually after 2003. Unfortunately, the same success story has not occurred globally. \n\n\n\nThis isn’t a coincidence. Since the implementation of the FCTC, tobacco companies began using tactics to actively fight against the adoption of stronger regulations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), while simultaneously also undermining public accountability through intimidation tactics, appealing to young people, smuggling, and tax avoidance. Challenges to treaty implementation also include the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and political conflict. To defeat the global tobacco epidemic, no country or region can be left behind.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion ahead of World No Tobacco Day on the importance of global research on the tobacco epidemic: what has worked, what hasn’t, where knowledge gaps remain, and how policies can be strengthened to create a healthier, more equitable tobacco-free future. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP here ( https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UnaA22oyTbKagehFxhDqYQ )\n\n\n\n\nModerator & Panelists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Dr. Mathieu Poirier, Director, Global Strategy Lab\n\n\n\nMathieu Poirier is the Director of the Global Strategy Lab ( https://www.globalstrategylab.org/ ), York Research Chair (Tier II) in Global Health Equity, and Assistant Professor of Social Epidemiology at the School of Global Health. His research ranges from evaluating international law to developing health equity metrics and generating policy-relevant research on socially and politically determined inequities in health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Tina Nanyangwe-Moyo, Investigator, Global Strategy Lab\n\n\n\nDr. Nanyangwe-Moyo is an Investigator with the Global Legal Epidemiology research programme at GSL with expertise in advanced demographic and epidemiological research methods. Her research integrates analytical approaches in understanding the ways socioeconomic factors affect systems that have downstream impacts on population health. She leads team research projects and designs and executes interdisciplinary global health research studies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOuleymatou Diop, AFRO Regional Coordinator, Global Alliance for Tobacco Control\n\n\n\nOuleymatou Diop is the AFRO Regional Coordinator for the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC), a role she assumed after more than a decade of experience advancing global health initiatives. She brings a strong background in project management, strategic planning, compliance, and donor engagement, having led and supported impactful health programs across Africa. Ouleymatou is passionate about amplifying the voices of African civil society in global health governance. Through her work, she champions evidence-based tobacco control policies and strives to ensure regional priorities are reflected on the global stage. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLes Hagen, MSM, Executive Director, ASH Canada\n\n\n\nLes Hagen is the Executive Director for Action on Smoking & Health Canada (ASH Canada) and he has been providing leadership on tobacco control in Canada and beyond for the past three decades. Les also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health. Recently, ASH led the development of the Global Tobacco Control Progress Hub to monitor implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The Progress Hub represents the world’s first open-access public health treaty surveillance platform and it has been used to help NGOs in over 35 countries with treaty reporting and implementation. Les served as the Official NGO Delegate for Canada in the 8th and 9th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/no-country-left-behind-strengthening-global-tobacco-control/
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SUMMARY:Protect or Hurt? Social Networks and Well-Being Inequalities across Societies, with Lijun Song
DESCRIPTION:\nDo social network factors jointly protect or harm well-being in its various forms across societies? We propose an external-internal well-being continuum and introduce a theoretical framework to explore the interplay between two fundamental network factors: accessed status and tie strength. The framework includes theories or propositions on the main impacts of accessed status and tie strength on both external and internal well-being, their combined impact across these two dimensions of well-being, and how these impacts vary across societies. Our analysis of data from three societies—the U.S., urban China, and Taiwan—reveals that in Taiwan, a more egalitarian society, accessed status and weak ties, individually and jointly, are more likely to promote (rather than harm) external well-being. In contrast, accessed status and strong ties, individually and jointly, are more likely to protect (rather than harm) internal well-being.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nLijun Song is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Networks and Inequalities Lab (SNAIL) at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on how societies produce and reproduce inequalities, with core interests in social networks and health. Currently, she is developing social cost theory to explain the detrimental impact of social networks and is leading a high-priority R56 project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, to design the first nationally representative survey of older never-married adults, focusing on their social networks and health. She has received two publication awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA): one from the Section on Asia/Asian America and another from the Section on Sociology of Mental Health. Additionally, she has been elected to chair two ASA sections: Medical Sociology and Sociology of Mental Health.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, May 6, at 10:00 a.m. EST.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/protect-or-hurt-social-networks-and-well-being-inequalities-across-societies-with-lijun-song/
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SUMMARY:A 'Just Transition' or 'Just Transitioning': Energy Transition, Historical Oil Pollution and the Search for Justice, with Engobo Emeseh
DESCRIPTION:\nEngobo Emeseh is Professor of Law and Head of the School of Law, University of Bradford. Professor Emeseh’s work centres on the regulation and governance of extractive industry and climate justice, particularly in the African context. She served on the Expert Working Group of the Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Oil and Environment Commission, which released its final report in May 2023. Professor Emeseh serves on various academic editorial boards, including as the founding Managing Editor of the Nigeria Yearbook of International Law. Among her many contributions, Professor Emeseh was a member of the international team that produced a Draft Declaration on Climate Change and Human Rights (on behalf of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and Environment) to feed into the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris 2015.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by The International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution and a Just Transition in the Niger Delta and the following units at York University: Environmental and Urban Change; the Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas; the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights.\n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/just-transition-or-just-transitioning/
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UID:MEC-9b4192ee086949047cfc64d86d895c2e@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250516T190000Z
DTEND:20250516T230000Z
DTSTAMP:20250403T185800Z
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SUMMARY:"We Walk the Earth" film screening at Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALAC) Congress
DESCRIPTION:\nYork University's Faculty of Health is delighted to share that the documentary film "We Walk the Earth," has been selected for screening at this year's Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) ( https://www.yorku.ca/research/calacs/events/calacs-annual-conference/ ) Congress hosted at York University.  \n\n\n\nThis film was co-produced through the Grounded Project ( https://lasnubes.euc.yorku.ca/grounded-project/ ) led by Dr. Mathieu Poirier and Julie Hard in partnership with Dr. Felipe Montoya and Ana Maria Martinez at the Las Nubes EcoCampus.\n\n\n\nThe screening will be presented as a joint initiative between FEUC and the International Development Studies Program in LAPS, highlighting Indigenous health and land reclamation struggles in Latin America. \n\n\n\nDr. Miguel Gonzalez Perez and Dr. Ravi de Costa will also be screening the film "Patrol".\n\n\n\nThese films provide vital documentation of Indigenous struggles across Costa Rica. "We Walk the Earth" recounts the Bribri, Cabécar, Brunka and Bröran peoples' fight for land rights, self-governance, and autonomy, revealing how Indigenous stewardship offers alternative perspectives on our relationship with Earth. "Patrol" takes a more somber approach, examining the violent confrontations and devastating impact faced by unprotected Indigenous communities along the Nicaraguan border as they stand on the frontlines against environmental destruction.\n\n\n\nThe event will take place on May 16th at the Nat Taylor Cinema (Ross Building - North, Campus Walk N102).\n\n\n\nEvent Schedule:\n\n\n\n\n"We Walk the Earth ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evbEkCv2x9g )" – 3:00pm to 5:00pm\n\n\n\n"Patrol ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKB0-bh4VTc )" – 5:00pm to 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\nEach screening will be followed by a panel discussion facilitated by Julie Hard exploring critical issues facing Indigenous peoples as environmental protectors. \n\n\n\nWe are honored to welcome Gilbert Gonzales, one of the film directors and Indigenous leaders from Costa Rica, who will be joining our panel.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/we-walk-the-earth-film-screening-at-canadian-association-for-latin-american-and-caribbean-studies-calac-congress/
LOCATION:Room 102, Ross North bldg, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
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UID:MEC-163fd77a3b90502e0f3aa35e3ec14fae@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250410T133000Z
DTEND:20250411T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20250402T195200Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium: From the Niger Delta, Nigeria to the World - Charting a Global Just Transition Agenda
DESCRIPTION:\nGiven the spectre of Trump’s drill-baby-drill, and accompanying pressure to expand oil and gas infrastructure in the United States and Canada, researchers and advocates are confronted with deepening global obstacles to a just energy transition.  Informed by the Final Report ( https://report.bayelsacommission.org/ ) of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission ( https://www.bayelsacommission.org/ ), this symposium brings together a diverse group of scholars, community leaders and activists, legal experts, and international advocates - to examine the relationship between the prospects for a global just transition, the Nigerian Niger Delta’s enduring environmental crisis, and extractive violence in resource-rich areas in North America and elsewhere.\n\n\n\nKeynote Address: Nnimmo Bassey,  YorkU Honorary Doctorate and renowned global environmental justice activist, author, architect, director of the ecological think tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation (Nigeria), recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and York Honorary Doctor of Laws, on April 10 at 3pm, 519 Kaneff Tower, York University\n\n\n\nThis symposium is organized by the International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution in the Niger Delta with support and co-sponsorship from the following units at York University: Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change; the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security; the Harriett Tubman Institute, York International, and the Vice-President for Research & Innovation.\n\n\n\n\nRegister to attend the event ( https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=265501 )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/symposium-from-the-niger-delta-nigeria-to-the-world-charting-a-global-just-transition/
LOCATION:519 Kaneff Tower, York University, Keele Campus
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UID:MEC-db4195f88b8dae852e94bfcf0f2cc0b9@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250528T170000Z
DTEND:20250528T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20250402T140600Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250704
PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Gender Differences in Cigarette Smoking Intensity Among Current Smokers: An Analysis of Survey Data From 172 Countries, with Tina Nanyangwe-Moyo and Md Mehedi Hasan Rasel
DESCRIPTION:\nDespite meaningful progress in global tobacco control, significant gender differences in cigarette smoking persist globally. International survey data on cigarette smoking is routinely collected, but there is a notable gap in understanding how the average number of cigarettes smoked per day among current smokers differs between men and women. This co-sponsored seminar with the Global Strategy Lab will discuss the process of data collection, cleaning, and analysis, as well as the study's rationale and background, and will present key results and recommendations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nTina Nanyangwe-Moyo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Strategy Lab’s Global Legal Epidemiology research stream, where she generates scientific evidence to inform global health policies. Her primary research focuses on evaluating global tobacco control policies, particularly the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its impact on population health. Previously, her work centered on implementation science in maternal and adolescent health and HIV prevention and treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa, evaluating policy effectiveness and equitable access to services.\n\n\n\nMehedi Hasan Rasel is a Data Analyst at the Global Strategy Lab and contributes to the Global Legal Epidemiology research stream, with a current focus on tobacco control. His interests revolve around health economics and health policy to enhance population health and economic well-being through data-driven insights. He employs theories and statistical methods, along with econometric models, to dissect both aggregated data and disaggregated microdata to unravel complex issues in an accessible manner.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, May 28, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-smoking-intensity-gender-and-contributing-factors-with-tina-nanyangwe-moyo-and-mehedi-hasan-rasel/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/gender-differences-in-cigarette-smoking-intensity-among-current-smokers-an-analysis-of-survey-data-from-172-countries-with-tina-nanyangwe-moyo-and-md-mehedi-hasan-rasel/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-e87152a7cbeb2c3262d51598e1de52d5@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250416T170000Z
DTEND:20250416T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20250327T174700Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250605
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SUMMARY:7th Annual Global Health Intern Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nOur Fall/Winter 2024-2025 global health interns will be giving a short 5-minute presentation summarizing their experience working on research and global health projects at the Dahdaleh Institute under the guidance of Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will cover their research findings and results, what they learned in their role, and how they will apply their experiences in a future opportunity.\n\n\n\nPlease join us to celebrate the work of our interns participating in the Dahdaleh Institute Internship Program! The presentation topics are as follows:\n\n\n\nPresentation TitlePresenterThe Power of Climate Cafés in UniversitiesSophia Bryan-Carbonell & Sarah MerghaniSupporting Social Scientists in the Field of Tuberculosis ResearchHanna Lum-GerryWorking on Detecting Anomalies for Dementia Oriented PatientsSyed HaiderExploring the Nutritional Impacts of Energy Insecurity on Afro-Colombian Households.Ailiya Rizwan\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on April 16, 2025 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/7th-annual-global-health-intern-symposium/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-54ecc28e9508fcf28363014b0d1b4eb8@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250429T130000Z
DTEND:20250429T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20250317T192400Z
CREATED:20250317
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SUMMARY:2025 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the sixth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.\n\n\n\nWorkshop participants will have the opportunity to learn about new research happening at York University that uses critical social science perspectives and methodologies to understand the global health enterprise. Researchers working in this vein tend to engage directly with global public health actors, structures, and systems, using transdisciplinary, participatory, experimental or experiential methods. The Workshop is intended to generate new insights, foster collaboration, and discover new opportunities in global health research.  \n\n\n\nThis year, Professor Kristina Baines (Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York) will be delivering the keynote presentation titled "Heritage in the Body: Sensory Investigations in Global Health Practice"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the keynote, we will hear from the 2024 seed grant recipients regarding the progress of their global health research projects funded by the Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant. The seed grant program supports critical global health research within the three themes at the Dahdaleh Institute (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting).\n\n\n\nFinally, York faculty and global health researchers will then have the opportunity to deliver Pitch Presentations: brief 5-minute presentations on any current or planned research project that takes a critical social science approach to global health. Register as a Pitch Presenter to receive valuable feedback on your proposal from expert researchers. Please complete the registration form to be a Pitch Presenter by Thursday, April 10 at 12:00 p.m., or to attend the event by Monday, April 21, by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n8:30Continental Breakfast9:00Welcome and Overview to Workshop9:15Keynote Presentation and Q&A with Kristina Baines10:20Break10:30Research Updates from the 2024 CPGH Seed Grant Recipients11:00Pitch Presentations from the York Community11:30Closing Remarks12:00Lunch at Dahdaleh Institute \n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, April 29 at 9 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2025-critical-social-science-perspectives-in-global-health-research-workshop/
LOCATION:88 The Pond Road, Toronto, Ontario
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UID:MEC-58efa70ac9501993f69ac68489db09ad@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250409T170000Z
DTEND:20250409T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20250314T190100Z
CREATED:20250314
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603
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SUMMARY:From Buzzword to Practice: How to Utilize Public Engagement as a Policy/Research Tool, with Julia Rodgers
DESCRIPTION:\nAcross disciplines and organizations, the pressure to incorporate public engagement into health research continues to increase. More than ever, engagement is embedded as an official ideology in healthcare decision-making, at all levels and in every aspect of policy. The one-stop formula to pacify dissent, or the “solution to contention and public concern, almost as a form of holy grail”. Yet, research has seemingly skipped the importance of prescribing the type of problem an institution is attempting to resolve through engagement and moved directly onto evaluating the success of the process. Though most suggest that simply “doing” engagement is a net positive, Julia Rodgers' research contends the opposite. This project develops a typology or “road map” of engagement in order to conceptually clarify how and why non-professional engagement in healthcare is manifested. To successfully apply engagement as a policy tool that achieves specific outcomes, decision-makers and researchers must recognize the context-specific nature of these practices, clarify what the objective of the practices are, and codify the variables accordingly.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nJulia Rodgers is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Dalhousie University. Her dissertation research considers deliberative methods of health policy creation through a case analysis of provincial governance structures. Utilizing theories of representation and power, her work presents a framework of collaborative policy development that accounts for the different goals, intended outcomes, and institutional factors that facilitate system-wide success. She also holds a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (Atlantic Canada Studies) from Saint Mary’s University, where her MA thesis developed a critical history of public engagement mechanisms in Nova Scotia through the lens of neoliberal governance models. \n\n\n\nJulia’s professional background spans across disciplines, with experience in a diverse range of roles and sectors. From research coordination to mixed-methods data analysis, she has been involved in large-scale projects in fields such as Law, Management, Health Science, Nursing, and Community Health & Epidemiology. Holding expertise in community-based research – particularly with equity-deserving groups – she acted as lead author on a report for the Halifax Regional Municipality deemed to be “the most ambitious blueprint in Canada to reinvest in community services.” Beyond her professional and research background, Julia was elected to the Board of Directors for the Canadian Political Science Association, holding a term position until 2025. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 9, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here.  ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-rethinking-public-engagement-through-political-theory-and-health-policy-with-julia-rodgers/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/from-buzzword-to-practice-how-to-utilize-public-engagement-as-a-policy-research-tool-with-julia-rodgers/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-487648b2b65867706a16ae2fc325112e@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250326T170000Z
DTEND:20250326T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20250314T155800Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250506
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:69
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SUMMARY:Using an Emerging Public Health Framework To Inform Human Rights Work: The Case of Fossil Fuels, with Marta Schaaf
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this seminar, Dr. Schaaf will discuss insights provided by research on the commercial determinants of health and how this work is informing Amnesty International's strategy to document and campaign on the harms of fossil fuels.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nMarta Schaaf has spent over two decades working at the interface of health and human rights. Her work has included advocacy and program management for NGOs such as Medecins du Monde and the Clinton Foundation; program-focused research for WHO, the Open Society Foundations, and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and a decade as a researcher at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She has lived in several countries of the Western Balkans and in Burkina Faso, and she currently lives in New York City. She holds a Master's Degree in Human Rights and a Doctoral Degree in Public Health from Columbia University.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 26, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-commercial-determinants-of-health-and-the-right-to-health-insights-from-fossil-fuel-accountability-work-with-marta-schaaf/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/using-an-emerging-public-health-framework-to-inform-human-rights-work-the-case-of-fossil-fuels-with-marta-schaaf/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-a1028301bbff33a4443273d3d86a3d99@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250430T120000Z
DTEND:20250501T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20250303T151900Z
CREATED:20250303
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SUMMARY:2025 World Health Assembly Simulation
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for an immersive two-day simulation of the World Health Assembly (WHA) from April 30 to May 1, where students, professionals, and global health enthusiasts come together to engage in high-level debates, draft resolutions, and tackle real-world health challenges. This event offers a unique opportunity to step into the shoes of global health policymakers, collaborate with peers from around the world, and develop critical leadership and diplomacy skills. The theme of this year's event is: Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: All for Health, Health for All. \n\n\n\nThis event is brought to you by the School of Global Health.\n\n\n\nSeats are limited, so don't delay and secure your place today to be a part of this transformative event! \n\n\n\n\nRead more about WHA SIM\n\n\n\nRegister for WHA SIM 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2025-wha-sim/
LOCATION:15 Library Ln, North York, Ontario
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UID:MEC-d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2f@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250305T180000Z
DTEND:20250305T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20250224T152100Z
CREATED:20250224
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410
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SUMMARY:Global Trends in Health Worker Protests During and Beyond COVID-19, with Veena Sriram
DESCRIPTION:\nRepresentative health worker organizations – such as unions and associations – play critical roles in governance and policy processes, particularly with regards to health workforce issues. Despite this role, health policy and systems researchers have yet to fully engage with the role of health worker unions and associations in health politics and governance, particularly from a global perspective, including in the context of low- and middle-income countries. This topic has gained particular salience in light of COVID-19, the global health workforce crisis and frequent strikes and protests by various health workers groups. In this presentation, we present data on global trends in health worker protests during and beyond COVID-19 and then present results from a novel cross-country comparison of nursing unions in India, Canada and the United States, examining their role and power during major contemporary policy debates. The findings from this study are also used to develop a conceptual framework, examining representation, workforce governance structures, political environment, strategies, and outcomes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nVeena Sriram is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Global Health Policy, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) at the University of British Columbia. Her research sits at the intersection of global health, social science and public policy, and her interests are in understanding power and politics in health policy processes in low- and middle-income countries. She draws upon theory and methodologies from the social sciences in conducting her research, and has a particular focus on qualitative approaches. Her work has been published in journals such as the BMJ, Social Science and Medicine, BMJ Global Health and Health Policy and Planning.\n\n\n\nDr. Sriram has a particular focus on health workforce policy and health sector governance. She has conducted extensive research at the national and state level in India, exploring a range of health policy and system questions, including medical specialization, health workforce policy development, the functioning of national health authorities and emergency care systems. She has also contributed to expanding the application of theory and concepts to study power in health policy and systems research. Dr. Sriram also writes regularly on contemporary issues in global health policy in forums such as International Health Policies, and is involved with Health Systems Global and Emerging Voices for Global Health.\n\n\n\nDr. Sriram has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She has previously been awarded fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies and the U.S. Fulbright Program. She has led the design and execution of qualitative research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (Fogarty International Center and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has also consulted for the World Health Organization.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 5, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recap and event recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-a-global-analysis-of-health-worker-protests-unions-and-policy-challenges-with-veena-sriram/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-trends-in-health-worker-protests-during-and-beyond-covid-19-with-veena-sriram/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-799974951f19a0c730acda2389cc852b@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250312T170000Z
DTEND:20250312T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20250218T194500Z
CREATED:20250218
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PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Exemplars in Global Health: Learning from India's Progress in Improving Maternal and Neonatal Health at the National, Cluster, and State Levels, with Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa
DESCRIPTION:\nIn the last two decades, India has achieved remarkable strides in improving maternal and newborn health outcomes, surpassing global declines in mortality rates. This transformative progress is evident as India’s share of global maternal deaths decreased from approximately 23% in 2000 to 12% in 2017, and neonatal deaths reduced from 31% to 22% during the same period. What has enabled India’s exemplary progress in maternal and newborn survival over the past two decades? To answer this question, the India Exemplars in Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) study conducted a national level analysis, including an analysis of two clusters of states (one with higher mortality and lower per capita income and the other with lower mortality and higher per capita income), which both made exemplary progress since 2000. We further conducted analyses of exemplary states (Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh). The study was guided by a conceptual framework to systematically examine distal (context, policies), intermediate (system and service changes, household factors) and proximate (service coverage) drivers of change in mortality and used a mixed-methods approach, including quantitative analysis of national and state-specific data (NFHS and DLHS), qualitative analysis of literature and document review, key informant interviews, and expert round table discussions at national and state levels.\n\n\n\nThe quantitative and qualitative evidence shows how India’s national policies and reforms since the late nineties, but especially since 2005 with the NRHM, have resulted in major increases in the coverage of MNH services with reduced inequalities, and related reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality. Such advances were made in both the higher and lower mortality states, but at different stages of a mortality transition. These health sector efforts were enabled by societal changes such as changing norms favoring smaller family size and increased women’s empowerment and education, as well as economic and technological progress with expanded mobile and road networks in rural areas. These changes have combined to support the health sector progress in coverage and survival of women and newborns in India. The India exemplar study provides a solid basis for planning of future strategies to further reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. Even though the primary aim of the exemplar study was to understand the drivers of past progress, the final section of the report also provides some reflection on the implications for current and future strategies using the maternal and newborn mortality transition framework.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Ramesh BM, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Assistant Director, Research and Knowledge Translation at the Institute for Global Public Health, Rady Faculty of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba (UoM), Canada. He is also a founding member of India Health Action Trust (IHAT).\n\n\n\nPreviously, he was the Project Director for the UoM’s MNCH projects in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. He was also the Director, Population Research Centre, Dharwad and a faculty at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Bombay.\n\n\n\nRamesh, a Demographer by training, has a long experience of over 30 years of research and program implementation, monitoring and evaluation in the field of MNCH and HIV/AIDS.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 12, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-insights-from-indias-success-in-reducing-maternal-and-neonatal-mortality-with-ramesh-banadakoppa-manjappa/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/exemplars-in-global-health-learning-from-indias-progress-in-improving-maternal-and-neonatal-health-at-the-national-cluster-and-state-levels-with-ramesh-banadakoppa-manjappa/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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DTSTART:20250226T163000Z
DTEND:20250226T183000Z
DTSTAMP:20250212T183600Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Emotion Café
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the Climate Emotion Café at #YorkUEUC on February 26th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in HNES 140.\n\n\n\nThis event connects environmental challenges with mental well-being and features experts like Professor Joshua Thienpont, Dr. Harvey Skinner, and Susan Harris.\n\n\n\nRSVP 🔗 | https://bit.ly/3CGJy4b ( https://bit.ly/3CGJy4b ).\n\n\n\nSpots are limited! Light refreshments will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: February 26, 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm EST\n\n\n\nLocation: 140 HNES Building\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register ( https://bit.ly/3CGJy4b )\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/climate-emotion-cafe/
LOCATION:140 HNES Building
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UID:MEC-4c109426911ae8639359ef7f75eb7c89@yorku.ca
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SUMMARY:Black History Month 2025 — Panel Discussion III: Community Organizing
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the Harriet Tubman Institute for the third event of Black History Month 2025 on Thursday, February 27: a panel discussion on Community Organizing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: Xavier McLaughlin, Parents of Black Children; Mischka Crichton, Toronto Caribbean Carnival; Tatiana Ferguson, Black Queer Youth Collective.\n\n\n\nModerators: Clifton Grant, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Tubman Executive Committee; Sharon Henry, Graduate Research Assistant, Tubman Executive Committee\n\n\n\nDate: February 27, 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 12-2pm EST\n\n\n\nLocation: Tubman Resource Room (314 York Lanes, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3)\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register for in-person attendance ( https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=253495 )\n\n\n\nClick here to register for virtual attendance ( https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/gGeUeeNRQsyx4wfZcBnsLA )\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/black-history-month-2025-panel-discussion-community-organizing/
LOCATION:Harriet Tubman Institute Resource Centre
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SUMMARY:Nurturing Infrastructures of Care: Exploring the Role of Public Innovation in Polycrisis Response, with Jesper Christiansen and Javier Vergara Petrescu
DESCRIPTION:\nThis seminar is a continuation of the conversation on Nurturing Infrastructures of Care that will be kicked off at the upcoming American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting in Detroit by Dr. Chiara Camponeschi, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the DIGHR. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be hearing from two speakers, Dr. Jesper Christiansen and Javier Vergara Petrescu, whose pioneering work on social and public innovation spans countries, cultures, and sectors. Hailing from Denmark and Chile respectively, these renowned and award-winning experts bring a wealth of applied knowledge to the work of fostering transformative systems change in the face of complex and interconnected issues.\n\n\n\nDr. Jespersen will reflect on his journey at the heart of the movement for global public innovation, sharing insights gleaned from decades spent helping municipal and national governments, as well as UN and international development agencies, implement a “transformation infrastructure” in support of the implementation of more responsive and equitable solutions to the polycrisis. Mr. Vergara Petrescu will continue the conversation with an overview of a range of promising co-design methodologies and place-based interventions that improve urban livability and sustainability, build inclusive communities, and strengthen processes of citizen participation in developing cities. He’ll focus, in particular, on preliminary findings from two ongoing projects: Santiago Zero Carbon, which brings together low and high technologies to accelerate participatory climate solutions, and Urban95, which is building a ‘caring neighbourhood’ and transforming spaces for children and caregivers through the Proximity of Care model. \n\n\n\nCommon to both speakers is the pursuit of an interdisciplinary approach to critical problem-solving that fundamentally shifts institutional and organisational governance ecosystems while also advancing mission-based, multilevel collaborations that place a strong emphasis on community engagement and shared ownership. \n\n\n\nGiven the wide applicability and scalability of the approaches and methodologies being introduced, this seminar may be especially interesting to members of the DIGHR community working in the areas of global health foresighting and planetary health, though we welcome the participation of students and scholars from all disciplines.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nJesper Christiansen – Director of Programs, Bikuben Foundation & Co-Founder, States of Change (Denmark)\n\n\n\nJesper holds a PhD in Anthropology from Aarhus University. He has a long track-record of working with ambitious governments, public organisations and international institutions to deliver better policy outcomes and achieve meaningful systems transformation. At Bikuben Foundation, Jesper leads projects that create more inclusive service systems for and with marginalized youth. He also leads international collaborations focused on rethinking the role of foundations as catalysts of systems change. Within States of Change, Jesper continues to build the next generation of public innovation learning. In this capacity, he has been leading multiple strategic partnerships with the governments of Canada, Colombia, UAE and Australia, among others, as well as with international institutions such as the UNDP, OECD and the EU Commission.  Jesper has additionally worked for pioneering organizations like MindLab–the cross-ministerial innovation unit of the Government of Denmark––as well as UK innovation foundation Nesta and the Australian public design outfit Thinkplace. Throughout his career, Jesper has focused on blending inclusive social research with public innovation, rethinking policy design and government interventions to create better outcomes with and for the most marginalized and vulnerable people of society.\n\n\n\nJavier Vergara Petrescu – Founder and Executive Director, Ciudad Emergente (Chile)\n\n\n\nJavier is an architect who holds a MSc City Design & Social Sciences from the London School of Economics. As Founder and Executive Director of Ciudad Emergente, Javier specializes in social innovation, citizen participation and technologies applied to the city, working in Latin America, Europe and the United States. He is also Co-founder of Plataforma Urbana and Plataforma Arquitectura / ArchDaily, and in 2006 he was chosen one of the 100 Young Leaders of Chile by the Center for Strategic Leadership of the Adolfo Ibáñez University. Javier is a regular lecturer at universities across North and South America, and has been a guest lecturer onTactical Urbanism at Columbia University and the Latin Graduate School of Design at Harvard. His work with Ciudad Emergente has been exhibited in multiple cities, including the MoMA in New York. For his work with Ciudad Emergente, he received the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor Award in 2021, one of the most prestigious awards given by the United Nations to projects that promote sustainable urbanization in the world.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 2, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the event recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-reimagining-systems-of-care-public-innovation-and-community-action-in-times-of-polycrisis-with-jesper-christiansen-and-javier-vergara-petrescu/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/nurturing-infrastructures-of-care-exploring-the-role-of-public-innovation-in-polycrisis-response-with-jesper-christiansen-and-javier-vergara-petrescu/
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SUMMARY:Black History Month 2025 — Panel Discussion I: Politics and Labour
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the Harriet Tubman Institute for the first event of Black History Month 2025 on Thursday, February 6: a panel discussion on Politics and Labour.\n\n\n\nPanelists include:\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Green, MP, Hamilton Centre\n\n\n\nSarah Jama, Hamilton Centre\n\n\n\nSabreina Dahab, School Trustee, HWDSB Ward 2\n\n\n\nNicole Waldron, Social Community Activist\n\n\n\nDr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Schulich School of Business\n\n\n\n\nOpening remarks by Dr. Salewa Olawoye, Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, and  Dr. Crystal Garvey, OPSEU\n\n\n\nModerator: Dr. Ruth Rodney, Associate Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: February 6, 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 12-2pm EST\n\n\n\nLocation: Tubman Resource Room (314 York Lanes, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3)\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register for in-person attendance ( https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=252132 )\n\n\n\nClick here to register for virtual attendance ( https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/8aScvev7TEC2W-iNhSm3BA )\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/black-history-month-2025-panel-discussion-politics-and-labour/
LOCATION:Harriet Tubman Institute Resource Centre
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SUMMARY:Black History Month 2025 — Panel Discussion II: Racial Justice and Labour
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the Harriet Tubman Institute for a panel discussion on Racial Justice and Labour on Thursday, February 13.\n\n\n\nPanelists include:\n\n\n\n\nAïssata Hann, York Federation of Students\n\n\n\nDr. Usha Viswanathan, CERREC\n\n\n\nDr. Tiana Reid, YUFA\n\n\n\nPatrick Teed, CUPE 3903\n\n\n\nDr. Crystal Garvey, OPSEU\n\n\n\nLisa Skeete, CUPE 4400\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Dr. Bianca Beauchemin, Executive Committee Member of the Harriet Tubman Institute\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: February 13, 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 12-2pm EST\n\n\n\nLocation: Nat Taylor Cinema (102 Ross North Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3)\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register for in-person attendance ( https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=252717 )\n\n\n\nClick here to register for virtual attendance ( https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/hRGIOj4wTdCeXEloC-qj7Q )\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/black-history-month-2025-panel-discussion-racial-justice-and-labour/
LOCATION:Room 102, Ross North bldg, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
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SUMMARY:Building A Public Health Approach to Preventing Suicides in China’s Scientific Community, with Cary Wu
DESCRIPTION:\nThe rising number of suicide cases in Chinese academia are not isolated incidents but rather reflect systemic issues within the academic and sociopolitical environment. In this seminar, Cary Wu will first provide an overview of recent advancements in creating a public health approach to suicide prevention. He will then share results from analyzing a unique database created through a systematic search and hand-coding of media reports on suicide cases within China’s scientific community over the past several decades. Finally, he will outline a public health framework specifically tailored to China’s scientific community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nCary Wu (PhD, UBC) is an assistant professor of sociology at York University. His research focuses on political culture, race and ethnicity, and health inequality. He has published widely on these topics and often shares his research with the public via national and international TV, radio, and newspaper forums including NPR, CBC, CTV, Washington Post, Toronto Star, Maclean’s, and The Economist. He is currently working on a five-year (2022-2026) SSHRC Insight Grant research project to develop a political sociology of health (PSH) to study social and political trust as essential determinants of health.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 19, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the event recording and seminar recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-calling-for-a-public-health-approach-to-suicide-in-chinas-scientific-community-with-cary-wu/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/building-a-public-health-approach-to-preventing-suicides-in-chinas-scientific-community-with-cary-wu/
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SUMMARY:One Health Governance and AMR: Conceptual Clarifications and Practical Applications, with Arne Ruckert
DESCRIPTION:\nThis is a co-sponsored event with the Dahdaleh Institute and the Global Strategy Lab ( https://www.globalstrategylab.org/ ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar will introduce the One Health governance concept, and explore how its implementation can positively impact efforts to mitigate antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It will build on findings from a scoping review to identify the governance domains most relevant to applying the OH approach to the design and evaluation of AMR surveillance systems. This review found that governance is a crucial component of the development of surveillance systems equipped to tackle complex, structural issues such as AMR. The governance domains identified include participation, coordination and collaboration, management, sustainability, accountability and transparency, and equity. The seminar will also provide a case study in which this framework was applied in practice.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested readings in preparation for this seminar are cited below. PDF copies of the readings can be found here ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shr1R104SWsankPtS ).\n\n\n\nRuckert, A., Harris, F., Aenishaenslin, C., Aguiar, R., Boudreau-LeBlanc, A., Carmo, L. P., Labonté, R., Lambraki, I., Parmley, E. J., & Wiktorowicz, M. E. (2024). One Health governance principles for AMR surveillance: a scoping review and conceptual framework. Research Directions One Health, 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/one.2023.13\n\n\n\nCarelli, D. E., Ogne, J. B., & Pierre, J. (2024). Coming of age: governance challenges in updated AMR national action plans in the EU. European Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae067 ( https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae067 )\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nArne Ruckert is the Director of Research at the Global Strategy Lab’s AMR Policy Accelerator, with a current research focus on One Health governance. His previous academic work revolved around understanding how social determinants of health are driving global health inequities, using political economy and social sciences approaches. More recently, he has researched the governance of AMR surveillance drawing on the One Health approach, as well as the role of equity considerations in the global AMR response.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 12, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please see the event recap and seminar recording here ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-strengthening-one-health-governance-for-amr-mitigation-with-arne-ruckert/ ).\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/one-health-governance-and-amr-conceptual-clarifications-and-practical-applications-with-arne-ruckert/
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SUMMARY:Chlorine, Bacteria, and the Urban Governance of Water Quality in Lusaka, Zambia, with Hillary Birch
DESCRIPTION:\nThe city of Lusaka, Zambia, experiences recurring cholera outbreaks as rapid urbanization and climate change bring about groundwater contamination and flash floods. What results is an uneven distribution of waterborne disease where drinking water is produced at multiple scales and locations across the city, superseding the ‘modern infrastructural ideal' of centralized and separate circulations of water and waste. Based off of recently completed fieldwork in Lusaka, this presentation will use the measurement and mapping of free residual chlorine in drinking water during a recent cholera outbreak there as an entry to explore how water quality becomes a contested attribute across a range of actors who are drawn into water’s flows in urban space. The use of chlorine to contend with bacteria and protect life in Lusaka makes water quality far more than a straightforward biophysical measurement, offering a view of how water and its quality becomes deeply implicated in the urban governance of the city.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested readings in preparation for this seminar are cited below. PDF Copies of the readings can be found here ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrDMQNhY1zHSja5Y ):\n\n\n\n\nGething, P. W., Ayling, S., Mugabi, J., Muximpua, O. D., Kagulura, S. S., & Joseph, G. (2023). Cholera risk in Lusaka: A geospatial analysis to inform improved water and sanitation provision. PLOS Water, 2(8), e0000163. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000163\n\n\n\nNading, A. M. (2016). Local biologies, leaky things, and the chemical infrastructure of global health. Medical Anthropology, 36(2), 141–156. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2016.1186672\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nHillary Birch is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her PhD explores the urban governance of water quality in Lusaka, Zambia. She holds a master’s degree in urban governance from Sciences Po, Paris where she studied community responses to Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, as well as a master’s degree in political science from McGill University. Hillary is a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar in Planetary Health, and her research is supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and an IDRC International Doctoral Research Award.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 26, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please see the event recap and seminar recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-chlorine-contamination-and-governance-examining-water-quality-challenges-in-lusaka-zambia-with-hillary-birch/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/chlorine-bacteria-and-the-urban-governance-of-water-quality-in-lusaka-zambia-with-hillary-birch/
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SUMMARY:Tensions in Global Mental Health Implementation: Illustrating the Research-Practice Gap Paradox and the Power and Politics of Universalism, with Luma Samawi
DESCRIPTION:\nThe field of implementation science has yielded considerable evidence to support the sustained uptake of healthcare interventions. Yet, despite the rapid growth of the field, many global health implementation efforts fail to translate this knowledge into practice. This seminar will draw on ongoing doctoral research to illustrate some of the tensions in implementing and scaling up mental health interventions in low-resource settings. Through a brief presentation of field experience and facilitated discussion, it invites a critical reflection on the very nature of implementation evidence and the power and politics involved in universalizing and medicalizing mental health.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nLuma is a PhD candidate in health systems research at the University of Toronto's Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME). Her research explores the implementation of WHO's flagship mental health program, the mhGAP, drawing on her work experience at WHO in Jordan and the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Luma has a background in psychology, neuroscience, and global mental health, and her academic and professional interests lie at the intersection of global mental health, implementation science, and transcultural psychiatry.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 22, at 1:00 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the seminar recap here ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-tensions-in-global-mental-health-implementation-navigating-the-research-practice-gap-and-the-politics-of-universalism-with-luma-samawi/ ).\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/tensions-in-global-mental-health-implementation-illustrating-the-research-practice-gap-paradox-and-the-power-and-politics-of-universalism-with-luma-samawi/
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SUMMARY:Getting Ready for Your Real Life’s Work: An ‘Inspired Conversation’ with Don Simpson
DESCRIPTION:\nHow do you get ready for your real life’s work?\n\n\n\nThis highly interactive DI Seminar will involve an ‘Inspired Conversation’ with Don Simpson, PhD, Chief Explorer of the Renaissance Expedition; Senior Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; and 2024 Order of Canada Recipient. The conversation will be moderated by Harvey Skinner, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Psychology & Global Health; and Senior Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research.\n\n\n\nFormat: opening 45 minutes of questions and reflections between Don and Harvey; followed by 45 minutes of open questions from the audience, especially from the Global Health doctoral students in attendance.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDon Simpson, PhD. Chief Explorer of the Renaissance Expedition and Senior Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research.\n\n\n\nDon Simpson is Canada’s greatest unknown treasure. For 7 decades he has wandered the world as an explorer, working as an educator, entrepreneur, administrator, researcher, program designer and mentor. \n\n\n\nDon stands out - not just because of the longevity of his work or the passion he brings to every project - but because of his uncommon capacity to listen, collaborate, communicate and connect. He has an amazing ability to absorb vast amounts of information in various forms, bring meaning to it and turn it into a story that attracts everyone who hears it.  \n\n\n\nDon is the supreme question asker, the challenger, the “why-not? er”. You won’t find Don as the President, Founder or Chair, but when you dig deeper around some of Canada’s most prominent individuals and initiatives, you will ALWAYS find him “in the picture”. He creates conditions under which things happen.\n\n\n\nDon’s work has consistently fostered inclusivity, diversity, and innovation. In the 1960s, he co-founded the African Students Federation, enabling 350 African students to study in Canada, and helped establish Operation Crossroads Africa in Canada, building meaningful international relationships. During the 1970s, as Executive Director of Western University’s Office of International Education, he pioneered cross-cultural learning innovations like the Cross-Cultural Learning Centre, now a thriving charity.\n\n\n\nDon also supported First Nations education, co-chairing initiatives that decentralized administration and established Arctic College. In global development, he led the IDRC’s Global Education Program, creating networks to solve education challenges collaboratively.\n\n\n\nIn the 1990s, Don transformed the Banff Centre into a hub for innovation management and led Alberta’s Roundtables, engaging 20,000 citizens to shape an innovation-driven economy. His Challenge Dialogue System©️ empowered others to tackle complexity, leaving a legacy of collaborative problem-solving across diverse fields.\n\n\n\nIn 1992, Don led a team to create the “Innovation Expedition” as a new style, virtual, global, values driven, business network for inspiring and implementing transformational change. The network focused on mentoring leaders to unleash innovations in various sectors, with a particular interest in initiatives that included a goal of reducing social and economic injustices. He co-created globally tested, knowledge products for driving improved performance, as part of a comprehensive program conceptualized under the theme of “Modern-Day Renaissance Leadership”.\n\n\n\nSince 2008, Don has chronicled these experiences in The Global Odyssey LogBook series—15 volumes highlighting Renaissance Leadership concepts through case studies and training programs.\n\n\n\nAs a “Storyteller with A Purpose,” Don’s mission is to share the principles of Renaissance Leadership, spotlight innovations by our Renaissance Pathfinders, and inspire others to embrace the mindset of a modern Renaissance leader.\n\n\n\nHarvey Skinner PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Global Health; Senior Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; and was Founding Dean of York University's Faculty of Health (2006-2016).\n\n\n\nHarvey is placed in the Top 2% World Scientists by the Stanford University worldwide analysis with respect to research citations and impact metrics. Currently, Harvey co-leads the Wellness Impact Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute. At a personal level, Harvey maintains a daily wellness practice of Mindfulness Meditation and Qi Gong. His passion is ‘healing ourselves, healing our world’.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 29, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recap and event recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-navigating-your-lifes-work-an-inspired-conversation-with-don-simpson/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/getting-ready-for-your-real-lifes-work-an-inspired-conversation-with-don-simpson/
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SUMMARY:HIV/AIDS among Women in Asia-Pacific: Issues, What Works and Way Forward, with Rajnish Prasad
DESCRIPTION:\nThis seminar will provide an overview of HIV/AIDS among Girls and Women in the Asia-Pacific Region including country wise variations. Further, key challenges faced by Women Living with HIV (WLHIV) and interventions/strategies that works in supporting WLHIVs will be shared. Some key recommendations to address the challenges faced by WLHIVs will be also presented.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, the below readings are recommended. PDF copies of the below readings can be found here. ( https://airtable.com/apptSiygKuWhk0T68/shrzm6m4pTQtMCvSe )\n\n\n\n\nJan, S., Manzoor, S., & Rashid, J. (2023). Experiences of stigma and discrimination of women living with HIV/AIDS in health-care settings of Kashmir. PubMed, 67(1), 155–158. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijph.ijph_485_22\n\n\n\n\n\nNguyen, L. T., Giang, L. M., Nguyen, D. B., Nguyen, T. T., & Lin, C. (2024). Unraveling reproductive and maternal health challenges of women living with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: a qualitative study. Reproductive Health, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-024-01768-3\n\n\n\n\n\nFauk, N. K., Gesesew, H. A., Mwanri, L., Hawke, K., & Ward, P. R. (2022). HIV-related challenges and women’s self-response: A qualitative study with women living with HIV in Indonesia. PLoS ONE, 17(10), e0275390. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275390\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nRajnish Ranjan Prasad is currently working as Programme Specialist- Gender Equality and HIV/AIDS with the UN Women’s Asia-Pacific Regional Office. He has 17 years of experience in addressing inequalities, empowering marginalized communities and providing technical support to Governments. He is working with UN Women Country Offices in the Asia Pacific region to address gender inequality in planning, and utilization of health services. \n\n\n\nHe has previously worked with UNFPA and supported Government of Rajasthan, India in strengthening of large-scale programmes for holistic development of young people specially girls, addressing gender inequalities and to promote youth leadership. He has also worked with National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Government of India and managed large-scale HIV/AIDS programme. He has received PhD in the area of Public Health from IIHMR University, India.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 9:30 a.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recap and event recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-addressing-hiv-aids-among-women-in-asia-pacific-challenges-progress-and-strategies-with-rajnish-prasad/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/hiv-aids-among-women-in-asia-pacific-issues-what-works-and-way-forward-with-rajnish-prasad/
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SUMMARY:Epidemiological Modelling in Humanitarian Crises: From Critical Insight to Public Health Action, with Ruwan Ratnayake
DESCRIPTION:\nEpidemiology is a core tool for effective public health response during humanitarian crises. Increasingly, modern analytical methods, like mathematical modelling, have been added to the epidemiological toolbox to attempt to describe the epidemiology of communicable diseases, decipher disease transmission dynamics, and simulate promising public health interventions among crisis-affected populations.\n\n\n\nUsing the lenses of cholera response in crises and decolonial practices in global health, this seminar will explore the potential uses and challenges for modelling in crises to aid evidence generation and real-time decision-making.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nRuwan is a field epidemiologist and modeler with considerable experience in humanitarian crises. Currently, he works with colleagues at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to integrate the modelling of communicable disease, acute malnutrition, and excess mortality with traditional field epidemiology methods to provide insights that can hopefully drive public health actions in crises worldwide.\n\n\n\nAs a CIHR Doctoral Foreign Scholar, he completed a mid-career PhD in mathematical modelling at LSHTM, in collaboration with Epicentre-Médecins Sans Frontières, where he evaluated the effects of targeted interventions for cholera outbreaks using mathematical modeling and observational studies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\n\n\n\nBefore this, Ruwan was the Senior Epidemiologist for the International Rescue Committee, where he supported health programs primarily in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and for the Syria regional crisis. He also trained with the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program of the Public Health Agency of Canada. He published both research and public health guidance, including articles recently in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and guidelines for early warning surveillance systems in emergencies for the WHO.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, December 18, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the seminar recap and event recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-epidemiological-modeling-in-global-health-crises-from-key-findings-to-actionable-strategies-with-ruwan-ratnayake/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/epidemiological-modelling-in-humanitarian-crises-from-critical-insight-to-public-health-action-with-ruwan-ratnayake/
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UID:MEC-a0594936f572d14b6fde439d55dc345a@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250115T150000Z
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SUMMARY:Canada, Kenya, Australia: Colonial Encounters, Human Rights and Mental Health Laws, with Marina Morrow
DESCRIPTION:\nCanada, Australia and Kenya are all signatories to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. Yet, each country retains domestic laws that continue to sanction human rights violations, such as involuntary detainment, forced treatment, seclusion, and restraints. This seminar will present findings from field research and policy and legal analysis from the Realizing Human Rights and Social Justice in Mental Health project (www.socialjusticeinmentalhealth.org ( http://www.socialjusticeinmentalhealth.org )). We begin with an overview of the relationship between colonization and psychiatry to illustrate how mental health law has come to be used disproportionately against racialized communities.\n\n\n\nWe shed light on the structure of psychiatric power by sharing narratives from interviews with individuals who have experienced human rights violations in mental health. These stories reveal how psychiatric power is influenced by intersecting experiences of colonialism, racism, sexism, poverty, and sanism. Through this illumination, we expose the profound social and structural inequities that permeate the mental health care system, perpetuating social injustices. We argue that system change must move beyond legal and policy reform to support a paradigm shift in mental health care that will bolster innovative recovery and human rights-oriented community care that supports the autonomy, dignity and well-being of people.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nMarina Morrow, PhD is a Professor at the School of Health Policy and Management in the Faculty of Health at York University and a renowned international expert on mental health, policy, and equity. Her research has developed novel intersectional approaches and academic-community engagement models that have been translated into mental health policy and practice in Canada and internationally. In her work, Morrow uses mad studies approaches to better understand the social, political, and institutional processes through which mental health policies and practices are developed and how social and health inequities are sustained or attenuated for different populations.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 15, at 10 a.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-colonial-encounters-human-rights-and-mental-health-laws-in-canada-kenya-and-australia-with-marina-morrow/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/canada-kenya-australia-colonial-encounters-human-rights-and-mental-health-laws-with-marina-morrow/
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UID:MEC-03056aa23aa837b508c6b305aebe1e3e@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20250108T180000Z
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SUMMARY:It is Time to Save the Decolonization of Global Health Movement: The Urgent Need of a Paradigm Shift, with Luchuo Engelbert Bain
DESCRIPTION:\nThere is global consensus in the scholarly and international development spaces that global health should/must be decolonized. Some authors are increasingly becoming concerned that the movement will be limited to buzz creation rather than creating impact. Others have recognized that the movement has been captured by the Global North Elite, a strong predictor of an unchanging status quo in the space. Epistemic violence, epistemic disrespect, epistemic dominance, and epistemic arrogance are growing concepts in the decolonization of global health literature. What does is truly mean to effectively decolonize global health? This seminar will attempt an answer to this complex question by highlighting the why and the how of a paradigm shift, if a meaningful decolonization of global health movement must thrive.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Luchuo Engelbert Bain is a global public health physician, implementation research scientist, and empirical bioethicist with over 15 years of global health experience.\n\n\n\nCurrently, he is the Head of International Programs at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi Kenya. He has previously served as a senior program officer with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, as a senior research fellow in global health with the University of Lincoln in the UK, and has worked as a consultant for various international organizations, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Population Services International (PSI).\n\n\n\nLuchuo is an associate professor of global health and bioethics with the EUCLID University, a research fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University in Toronto Canada, a senior research associate with the department of psychology of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and an inaugural fellow on climate change and health of the Geneva learning foundation (TGLF). Luchuo is a current member of the World Health Organization’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) Sexual Health and Well-being Advisory Group (SWAG) and a technical working group member to the Africa CDC supporting the development of its annual Public Health Intelligence Report. Luchuo has reviewed proposals for the National Institute of Health Research and Primary Care (NIHR) in the UK, and the European Commission.\n\n\n\nDr. Luchuo holds a Ph.D. in Transdisciplinary Global Health Solutions from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, an executive MBA in Strategic Human Resources Management from UNIR, a Master’s of Science in Bioethics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a Master’s of Public Health from Hebrew University, an MD from the University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon, and executive training in global health diplomacy from the University of Toronto. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals on various topics including sexual reproductive health and rights, ethics, decolonization of global health, community engagement in research, HIV medicine, and health policy.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 8, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event is closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recap and event recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-it-is-time-to-rescue-the-decolonization-of-global-health-movement-the-pressing-need-for-a-shift-in-paradigm-with-luchuo-engelbert-bain/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/it-is-time-to-save-the-decolonization-of-global-health-movement-the-urgent-need-of-a-paradigm-shift-with-luchuo-engelbert-bain/
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SUMMARY:Participatory Action Research for Community-based Emergency Health Response in Latin America, with Jeannie Samuel
DESCRIPTION:\nThis discussion will focus on the use of Participatory Action Research in an internationally funded, multi-partner project in Guatemala. The project aims to support community-based response to extreme weather events through research and advocacy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nJeannie Samuel is an interdisciplinary scholar with a Ph.D. in Public Health Sciences from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, with expertise in health equity and human rights. She is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Health and Society program, Department of Social Science at York University. Dr. Samuel teaches in the areas of environmental health, gender and health, and community-engaged learning. She has a particular interest in participatory action research, community engaged and hands-on learning practices. She is currently the NPI on an NFRF/IDRC funded project on community-based emergency response to extreme weather events in Guatemala, in collaboration with partner organizations there.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 27, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-collaborative-action-research-for-community-centered-emergency-health-response-in-latin-america-with-jeannie-samuel/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/participatory-action-research-for-community-based-emergency-health-response-in-latin-america-with-jeannie-samuel/
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DTSTART:20241211T153000Z
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the 5th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium to learn more about some of the groundbreaking research being conducted at the Dahdaleh Institute. This year, six accomplished Dahdaleh graduate scholars will share the progress of their funded research projects in line with the Institute's three themes (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting). The exciting presentation lineup includes:\n\n\n\n\nAna Cardoso – Fighting for Tomorrow: Colonization of the Future(s) and International Climate Politics at the End of the World(s)\n\n\n\nBrian Waters – Seasonal Variation of Urban Water Security in Freetown, Sierra Leone \n\n\n\nHanie Fard – Transnationalized Environmental Obligations of Foreign Investors\n\n\n\nLiam Michaud – Securitizing Risk: The Legal Determinants of Health Among People Who Use Drugs\n\n\n\nMichael De Santi – Linking Water Quality to Health Risks Using Machine Learning and Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment in the Kyaka II Refugee Settlement\n\n\n\nValerie Lawson – Healthcare Access: An Analysis of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Accra, Ghana\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, December 11, at 10:30 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/5th-annual-global-health-graduate-scholars-symposium/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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SUMMARY:Equity in AMR Surveillance: Global Experts’ Perspectives, with Mary Wiktorowicz
DESCRIPTION:\nAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a global health threat, intensified by the over- and misuse of antimicrobials. In an urbanized world, antimicrobial use and AMR are interwoven with uneven development and increasing socioeconomic demands that shape nature-society relations, placing vulnerable groups at increased risk of resistant infections, highlighting the need to address inequities escalating AMR. While equity considerations are integral to AMR governance, the relevance for AMR surveillance systems has not been fully conceptualized and limited practical guidance and evidence informs its operationalization. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn urban political economy (UPE) lens is used to both conceptualize and support operationalization of equity in the governance of AMR surveillance. Key informant interviews were conducted with experts engaged in all four agencies of the Quadripartite Joint Secretariat on AMR, national government agencies, academia and the private sector. Our findings contribute a conceptual understanding of how explicitly incorporating equity considerations within One Health AMR surveillance systems through a UPE lens would enable states to better operationalize, identify and address the main drivers of AMR.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nMary Wiktorowicz is Professor in the School of Global Health, Associate Director of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and member of the WHO Collaborating Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at York University. In the JPIAMR and NFRF-funded projects she leads, she compares the governance of antimicrobial stewardship across several states (Netherlands, Hungary, Senegal, Philippines, Rwanda, Ecuador, Brazil and Canada) and five continents to identify effective and equitable governance approaches. \n\n\n\nShe also assesses the global governance of deep pandemic prevention to assist in identifying approaches that foster the prevention of zoonotic emergence including through regulation of wildlife trade. Her research also assesses global and state governance frameworks underlying programs that support women's and children's health in Sub-Saharan Africa.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 20, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-global-insights-on-equity-in-amr-surveillance-with-mary-wiktorowicz/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/equity-in-amr-surveillance-global-experts-perspectives-with-mary-wiktorowicz/
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DTSTART:20241106T223000Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Café III - Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:\nWe’re back with our third Climate Café hosted by the Wellness Impact Lab ( https://wellnessimpactlab.dighr.org/ ), and it’s going to be a great one!\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research boardroom (Room 2150) for an informal, relaxed gathering where students and community members can discuss the impact of the climate crisis in a warm and supportive space. Co-led by experienced facilitators Dr. Harvey Skinner and Susan Harris, this is your chance to share thoughts, connect with others, and engage in meaningful conversations.\n\n\n\nWhether you’re super passionate about the environment or just want to learn more, everyone’s welcome! No pressure, just good vibes, hot drinks, pizza, and snacks. \n\n\n\nBring a friend, sip some coffee, and let’s figure out how we can make a difference together.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n If you have any questions, please reach out to Professor Harvey Skinner at hskinner@yorku.ca.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/climate-cafe-iii-fall-2024/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Clinical Public Health: Local and Global Applications, with Ross Upshur
DESCRIPTION:\nThis presentation will introduce the concept of clinical public health. The idea that public health is some how clinical and that clinical work entails public health seems antithetical to many peoples understanding of both practices. Ross Upshur will discuss the evolution of clinical public health as a concept and outline promising applications for health systems locally and globally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nRoss Upshur BA (Hons.), MA, MD, MSc, MCFP, FRCPC, FCAHS is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. At the University of Toronto, he is a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Associate Director of the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health and Sustainable Care, Affiliate Member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics.  \n\n\n\nHe serves as Co-chair of the WHO Ethics and Governance Working Group, chairs the Canadian College of Family Physicians Ethics Committee and is Special Advisor to the Ethics Review Board of Doctors Without Borders. Research interests span multiple domains at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, clinical medicine and public health with applications to climate change, pandemics and artificial intelligence. He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 13, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-bridging-local-and-global-applications-of-clinical-public-health-with-ross-upshur/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/clinical-public-health-local-and-global-applications-with-ross-upshur/
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UID:MEC-553c3741e8d893fe9789a3eb8a162821@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20241023T170000Z
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SUMMARY:Resource Insecurity, the Socio-Ecological Determinants of Health, and Sustainable Livelihoods, with Godfred Boateng
DESCRIPTION:\nThe unprecedented effects of human activities on the planet’s biophysical system have destabilized the earth’s climate, leading to warming and more extreme temperatures at local scales, more severe drought and flooding, rising sea levels, oceans becoming more acidic, plummeting biodiversity, pervasive changes in land use and land cover, and an overloading of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. These global environmental changes (GECs) have become critical determinants of health. They affect the most vulnerable populations, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the most vulnerable sub-groups, such as women, infants, children, and older adults. Effects such as resource insecurity, greater poverty, and deprivation, the spread of new and recurring infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, and poor health outcomes create an existential humanitarian crisis calling for a more anticipatory approach to humanitarian action. \n\n\n\nDrawing from research across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa, this seminar will:\n\n\n\n\nexamine resource insecurity as symptomatic of broader economic disadvantages and social inequalities emanating in part from the cascading effects of climate change and biodiversity loss; \n\n\n\nexamine the various dimensions of resource insecurity and its effect from a socio-ecological perspective; and \n\n\n\ndiscuss how resource insecurity is intricately tied to the attainment of several of the sustainable development goals. \n\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. Boateng has recommended reading Resource insecurity and genderedinequalities in health: A challenge to sustainable livelihood.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Godfred Boateng is a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Humanitarianism, an Assistant Professor of Global Health, a Director of the Global and Environmental Health Lab, and a Faculty Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University. Dr. Boateng is an expert in designing and applying culturally relevant scalable methodologies to understand the multidimensional factors and processes that shape health and health equity across spatial scales (household, community, institutional, national) and how these factors can be addressed sustainably. His research program is transdisciplinary and focuses on resource insecurity, health, and sustainable livelihoods; the socio-ecological determinants of cardiometabolic conditions in aging adults; social inequity in health systems; quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development; and COVID-19-related health effects.\n\n\n\nDr. Boateng’s research is supported through external funding sources including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, International Development Research Centre, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, United States Health Resources & Service Administration, the National Institute of Transportation and Communities, and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Dr. Boateng is the Lead Associate Editor for a special issue on Measuring Health Inequalities among Vulnerable Populations in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Prior to joining York University, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, Northwestern, and Cornell University. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 23, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-systems-approach-to-address-resource-insecurity-and-health-inequities-with-godfred-boateng/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/resource-insecurity-the-socio-ecological-determinants-of-health-and-sustainable-livelihoods-with-godfred-boateng/
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SUMMARY:Climate Café II - Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:\n2024 Wellness Impact Lab: Climate Café\n\n\n\nJoin us for an engaging and thoughtful Climate Café hosted by the Wellness Impact Lab! This gathering is open to all students and community members who want to explore the intersection of climate change, personal well-being, and community impact.\n\n\n\nWhat to Expect:\n\n\n\n\nShare thoughts and experiences in a supportive, safe, and confidential environment.\n\n\n\nIn this Climate Café, participants will:\n\n\n\nLearn more about the goals and mission of the Wellness Impact Lab.\n\n\n\nEngage in meaningful discussions around eco-emotions and how the climate crisis impacts individuals and communities.\n\n\n\n\nThis event is designed to foster respectful dialogue, where everyone’s opinions and boundaries are honored. It’s an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and reflect on the emotional and collective dimensions of the climate crisis.\n\n\n\n If you have any questions, please reach out to Professor Harvey Skinner at hskinner@yorku.ca.\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the event\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/climate-cafe-fall-2024-651/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Climate Café - Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:\n2024 Wellness Impact Lab: Climate Café\n\n\n\nJoin us for an engaging and thoughtful Climate Café hosted by the Wellness Impact Lab! This gathering is open to all students and community members who want to explore the intersection of climate change, personal well-being, and community impact.\n\n\n\nWhat to Expect:\n\n\n\n\nShare thoughts and experiences in a supportive, safe, and confidential environment.\n\n\n\nIn this Climate Café, participants will:\n\n\n\nLearn more about the goals and mission of the Wellness Impact Lab.\n\n\n\nEngage in meaningful discussions around eco-emotions and how the climate crisis impacts individuals and communities.\n\n\n\n\nThis event is designed to foster respectful dialogue, where everyone’s opinions and boundaries are honored. It’s an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and reflect on the emotional and collective dimensions of the climate crisis.\n\n\n\n If you have any questions, please reach out to Professor Harvey Skinner at hskinner@yorku.ca.\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the event\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/climate-cafe-fall-2024/
LOCATION:York University
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DTSTART:20241029T170000Z
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SUMMARY:'Voices on the Move' Podcast Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:\nMigration Matters and York University is proud to announce the launch of its latest podcast series, Voices on the Move ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/project/voices-on-the-move/ ), an in-depth exploration of the complex and urgent relationship between climate change and migration. The podcast features expert insights and personal stories from communities directly affected by climate-induced displacement, offering a fresh perspective on the consequences of environmental shifts on mobility, habitability and global migration patterns. \n\n\n\nJoin us for our podcast launch event on October 29 at York University ( https://airtable.com/applLDyYeruEvjXhf/shr1Sbqbm2kkV7IJ3 ) to learn more about the new series and to celebrate the amplification of the voices of researchers, climate migrants, and community leaders from around the world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizers\n\n\n\n\n\nYvonne Su is the Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Her research is on forced migration, climate change-induced displacement and queer migration. She has worked extensively with vulnerable communities in Southeast Asia and Latin America and the Caribbeans including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, indigenous peoples and LGBTQ+ communities. She takes an interdisciplinary, participatory and decolonial approach to scholarship that is focused on developing strong partnerships with local communities, NGOs, and policymakers.\n\n\n\n\n\nSabrina Sam is an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in Criminology at York University with a strong passion for social advocacy, human rights, and legal frameworks. She has collaborated with Dr. Yvonne Su on research exploring the impacts of the Venezuelan Migration on host countries in Latin America, deepening her commitment to addressing global migration challenges.\n\n\n\nsab88[@]my.yorku.ca\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday, October 29, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/votm-launch/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Are Distinctions Between Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases Still Useful? Why We Should Care, with Paul McDonald
DESCRIPTION:\nSince its inception in the early 1960s there has been a rapid increase in use of the term non-communicable disease (NCD). The term generally refers to conditions which are not passed from person to person, caused by biological pathogens, are of long duration and slow in progression. It is a kind of grab bag of conditions left after distinguishing communicable/infectious diseases and injuries. Major NCDs include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, various autoimmune and neurodegenerative conditions, as well as many mental health conditions.\n\n\n\nPrevention, treatment and research for NCDs have largely focused on hereditary and biological foundations, as well so called “lifestyle choices” (many of which are common across major NCDs).  More recently, research has shown that the origins, manifestations, prevention and treatment success for NCDs are related to an array of social, economic, political, commercial, geographic, environmental, developmental, and biological factors. Moreover, it is increasing difficult to differentiate between communicable and non-communicable conditions.  Both can be chronic. Both can be related to biological pathogens. Both can have different rates of progression. Finally, some NCDs spread through social networks and exposures.  \n\n\n\nPaul McDonald will argue that, given this new knowledge, the term non-communicable disease may no longer be useful. Indeed, it may inhibit our ability to think about new directions for research, prevention, and treatment.\n\n\n\nIn preparation for this seminar, Dr. McDonald has recommended reading Convergence of non-communicable and infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries ( https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dys135 ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nPaul McDonald is a Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Faculty of Health, as well as a Senior Research Fellow in the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University.  Prior to joining York he served as the founding Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Health at Massey University in New Zealand, Professor and founding Director of the School of Public Health and Health Systems, as well as Chair of the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, and Director of the Population Health Research Group at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Paul has also served as a senior manager in public health and on various boards of hospitals, regional health authorities, non-profit health organizations, and international agencies.  He has been a policy consultant to governments and non-profit organizations in North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia. He has organized multiple national and international conferences related to public and global health.\n\n\n\nPaul holds a PhD in health studies with a specialization in population health (University of Waterloo), a master’s degree in clinical psychology (University of Western Ontario) and an Honours BA in psychology (Waterloo). His research focuses on using research and broad intervention methods to improve public, population, and global health primarily through the prevention and management of chronic diseases, the advancement of wellbeing, and the organization of health care systems. Professor McDonald has published >200 scientific papers and reports. His research has been used to develop an array of innovative public health interventions around the world including telephone helplines and self-help programs for smoking cessation, pictorial warnings on tobacco packages, evidence informed healthy public policy, and health promotion campaigns.  Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (U.K.) and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. \n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-are-distinctions-between-communicable-and-non-communicable-diseases-still-useful-why-we-should-care/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/are-distinctions-between-communicable-and-non-communicable-diseases-still-useful-why-we-should-care-with-paul-mcdonald/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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SUMMARY:'Rethinking Good Intentions', with Nancy Edwards
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this solo story-telling play, Nancy Edwards – a Canadian community health nurse – takes us to the rural villages of Sierra Leone in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Her heart-felt stories of village life convey the ravages of tuberculosis; threats of witchcraft; and tragedies of deaths related to pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn tetanus. She celebrates mothers and local advocates for health improvements. While acknowledging her role as a cultural outsider, Nancy takes us behind-the-scenes and shares how her West African experiences shaped her life and research career.\n\n\n\nGet your complimentary Oct. 8th tickets here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis play is based on a portion of Nancy’s memoir, Not One, Not Even One: A Memoir of Life-Altering Experiences in Sierra Leone, West Africa ( https://www.nancyedwards.ca/ ) (FriesenPress 2022, 318 pages).​\n\n\n\nThe performance will be followed by a panel of discussants at York University, including Omosalewa Olawoye (director, Tubman Institute), Agnès Berthelot-Raffard ( https://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?dept=&mid=1906076 ) (associate professor, Faculty of Health), Oghenowede Eyawo ( https://www.yorku.ca/health/globalhealth/faculty-research/our-faculty-members/full-time-faculty-members/eyawo-oghenowede/ ) (associate professor, Faculty of Health), James Orbinski (director, Dahdaleh Institute), and Mary Wiktorowicz (chair & associate director, Dahdaleh Institute).\n\n\n\nA co-sponsored event with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Faculty of Health, the School of Global Health, and the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas.\n\n\n.kt-accordion-id12511_0e58cb-9a .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);row-gap:10px;display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));}.kt-accordion-id12511_0e58cb-9a .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:1px solid transparent;border-bottom:1px solid transparent;border-left:1px solid transparent;background:#ffffff;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 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.kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible{border-top-color:#d4d4d4;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#d4d4d4;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#d4d4d4;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#d4d4d4;border-left-style:solid;}.kt-accordion-id12511_0e58cb-9a .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible,\n				.kt-accordion-id12511_0e58cb-9a > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{border-top-color:#eeeeee;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#eeeeee;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#0e9cd1;border-left-style:solid;}}\n\nPerformer Profile\nNancy Edwards is a nurse and epidemiologist who worked in the field of global health and development for forty years. She is a Distinguished Professor and Professor Emerita at the University of Ottawa and the recipient of numerous awards including three honorary doctoral degrees. Nancy is an avid photographer and enjoys the outdoors while biking and cross-country skiing. She lives in Ottawa.​\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday, October 8, at 1 p.m. ET in the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, York University ( https://maps.app.goo.gl/oysnjTxKQbyU82qR8 ).\n\n\n\nDoors open at 12:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\nGet your free tickets on Eventbrite!\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the recap and event recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-rethinking-good-intentions-storytelling-and-epistemic-humility-as-critical-interventions-in-global-health/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/rethinking-good-intentions/
LOCATION:110 Accolade East Building, York University
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DTSTART:20240925T170000Z
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Water Engineering: Priorities for Health in Humanitarian Emergencies, with Syed Imran Ali
DESCRIPTION:\nToday, more than 120 million people around the world are forcibly displaced and in need of urgent humanitarian assistance—the highest levels ever recorded in history. When people are displaced, the normal functioning of life falls away and everything becomes a matter of survival. People need protection, food, shelter, medicine, water—and providing these essentials is the central focus of humanitarian response efforts. In this seminar, Dr. Ali will present the fundamental role that water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) plays in controlling infectious diseases in emergencies and the work that his group at the Humanitarian Water Engineering Lab is doing to bridge the humanitarian and academic worlds and solve critical water and health challenges in emergencies. Through this presentation, Dr. Ali will lay out a vision for the newly emerging field of Humanitarian Engineering and the role that all disciplines have to play in responding to the unprecedented and overlapping crises we face globally today.\n\n\n\nIn preparation for the seminar, Dr. Ali has recommended reading the article Gaza demands a new kind of Humanitarian action ( https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2024/05/30/gaza-demands-new-kind-humanitarian-action ), published in The New Humanitarian on May 30, 2024.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Syed Imran Ali is an experienced aid worker and engineering researcher. He has worked as a water and sanitation specialist and led operational research with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in South Sudan, Pakistan, Jordan, Rwanda, Uganda, and elsewhere. At York University, Dr. Ali directs the Humanitarian Water Engineering (HWE) Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and is Adjunct Professor in the Lassonde School of Engineering. Dr. Ali draws on his experience as a humanitarian responder to design and lead collaborative research with operational partners to solve urgent water and health challenges in emergencies. He has over 15 publications in leading engineering and global health journals; 60+ presentations at practitioner, policymaker, and scientific fora; and has held over a dozen research grants totalling >$2m. Dr. Ali specializes in translating engineering research into operational tools that advance public health engineering practice, such as the Safe Water Optimization Tool, a machine learning-enabled water quality modelling platform that helps humanitarian responders ensure water safety in emergency settings. Dr. Ali has a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 25, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-humanitarian-water-engineering-priorities-for-health-in-humanitarian-emergencies-with-syed-imran-ali/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/humanitarian-water-engineering-priorities-for-health-in-humanitarian-emergencies-with-syed-imran-ali/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-fd512441a1a791770a6fa573d688bff5@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240918T170000Z
DTEND:20240918T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20240911T200300Z
CREATED:20240911
LAST-MODIFIED:20241213
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:10
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SUMMARY:Are We Living in a Global Hinge Moment? Thinking Critically About Very Bad Times, with Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
DESCRIPTION:\nMany of us routinely overhear, encounter, and participate in conversations about the ‘end of the world,’ or ‘of life as we know it,’ or about ‘the new normal,’ and so on. Even as we may know that the state of affairs we are describing is, at least in part, the consequence of human actions and institutional choices over long periods of time, we speak about it with immediacy and in terms of massive and diffuse abstractions: climate change, the global economy, disasters, war, pandemics, refugee flows/displacement, and so on. And viewing these complex problems together creates a visceral sense that these crises are converging before our eyes. How can we study and hope to understand such phenomenon? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nSaptarishi Bandopadhyay is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology & Society Program at Harvard University, a research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University Law School. Saptarishi holds a doctorate from Harvard University, LLMs from Harvard Law School and American University’s Washington College of Law, and a BALLB (Hons.) from the National University of Juridical Sciences, India. Saptarishi has received awards and fellowships from the Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council, the American Society for Legal History, the American Society for Environmental History, the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, and Brown University. Saptarishi’s writing has appeared in encyclopedias, edited volumes, and in legal and interdisciplinary journals. His book, All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 18, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-living-in-a-global-hinge-moment-thinking-critically-about-global-crises-with-saptarishi-bandopadhyay/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/are-we-living-in-a-global-hinge-moment-thinking-critically-about-very-bad-times-with-saptarishi-bandopadhyay/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-1d41974ae0796141ff60a9845c9964b4@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20241205T170000Z
DTEND:20241205T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20240910T202000Z
CREATED:20240910
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:29
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SUMMARY:Interbeing Wellness Series - Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nMondays:\n\n\n\n\nQi Gong, with Harvey Skinner noon - 12:30pm\n\n\n\nMindfulness Meditation, with Susan Harris 12:30 - 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\nThursdays:\n\n\n\n\nQi Gong, with Harvey Skinner noon - 12:30pm\n\n\n\n\nDates\n\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Monday Sept 30 and Thursday Oct 3\n\n\n\nWeek 2: Monday Oct 7 and Thursday Oct 10\n\n\n\nWeek 3: Thursday Oct 17\n\n*no session Monday Oct 14 Thanksgiving Holiday\n\n\n\n\n\nWeek 4: Monday Oct 21 and Thursday Oct 24\n\n\n\nWeek 5: Monday Oct 28 and Thursday Oct 31\n\n\n\nWeek 6: Monday Nov 4 and Thursday Nov 7\n\n\n\nWeek 7: Monday Nov 11 and Thursday Nov 14\n\n\n\nWeek 8: Thursday Nov 21\n\n*no session Monday Nov 18\n\n\n\n\n\nWeek 9: Monday Nov 25 and Thursday Nov 28\n\n\n\nWeek 10: Monday Dec 2 and Thursday Dec 5\n\n\n\n\nFor more information, please visit: interbeingwellness.info.yorku.ca/\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/interbeing-wellness-series-fall-2024/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-cd7214aaa777172bb782f7d0efddab82@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20241204T180000Z
DTEND:20241204T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20240909T212400Z
CREATED:20240909
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:6
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SUMMARY:Empathy by Design: Tailoring Life-Centered Solutions for Seniors and Individuals with Dementia, with Shital Desai
DESCRIPTION:\nAs our global population ages, the need for innovative, thoughtful, and human-centred design solutions becomes increasingly urgent. This presentation, titled "Empathy by Design: Tailoring Life-Centered Solutions for Seniors and Individuals with Dementia," focuses on the growing field of life-centred design and its transformative potential in creating products, services, and environments that enhance the quality of life for seniors and individuals living with dementia. The talk will explore how design, when grounded in empathy and a deep understanding of humans and the environments around them, can foster independence, dignity, and well-being for these vulnerable populations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Desai is an Associate Professor in Interaction Design at the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, a Research Chair in Accessible Interaction Design at York University and the co-lead of the Connected Minds Training Committee.\n\n\n\nWith nearly 30 years of experience in Robotics and Participatory Design, she leads the innovative Social and Technological Systems (SaTS) lab, supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.\n\n\n\nHer groundbreaking work focuses on developing accessible and inclusive technologies and services that champion the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in Health and Well-being. Dr. Desai's research is dedicated to creating assistive technologies for vulnerable populations, including seniors, children, Neurodivergent populations, people with speech, physical and cognitive impairments, and individuals with dementia, utilizing participatory codesign and system thinking approaches.\n\n\n\nAs a committed member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dementia Knowledge Exchange, she actively contributes to global health policies and care systems. She was recently invited to be a panel member for the new WHO Grand Challenges in Social Connection program at the UN. \n\n\n\nShe is the recipient of several awards including the 2021-22 AMPD Dean’s Research Award and the Petro Canada Young Innovator Award. She was nominated for the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA). She was one of the 24 semi-finalists selected from applicants worldwide for the prestigious Longitude Dementia Award in the UK, where she is working with researchers in Canada, the UK and the Netherlands to develop technologies for cueing people with dementia in everyday activities.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, December 4, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-addressing-challenges-faced-by-seniors-and-individuals-with-dementia-with-shital-desai/ )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/empathy-by-design-tailoring-life-centered-solutions-for-seniors-and-individuals-with-dementia-with-shital-desai/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-08d537b63384743f5636110435721adb@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20241030T170000Z
DTEND:20241030T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20240904T173300Z
CREATED:20240904
LAST-MODIFIED:20241213
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:11
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SUMMARY:Systems Thinking and Evidence-Based Global Health Policy: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health Research, with Tarra Penney
DESCRIPTION:\nFood insecurity, the emergence of zoonoses, anti-microbial resistance, and the related consequences of climate change are all major global health challenges, many with common drivers.\n\n\n\nGlobal health policy is an essential instrument for our collective efforts to reorient systems and address the underlying causes of these shared global health challenges. \n\n\n\nAs global health researchers we want to ensure policy is informed by robust empirical evidence, but also that our approach has relevance and legitimacy - motivating us to think differently about how we do global health research. \n\n\n\nBy drawing on experience conducting systems focused collaborative research, this seminar will reflect on how the use of systems methods and approaches may enable us ask and answer questions that inform system change.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 30, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr Penney is a population health scientist focused on the prevention of disease at the global level. She is an associate professor of Global Food Systems and Policy Research, an investigator with the Global Strategy Lab and a faculty member of the Dahdaleh institute for Global Health Research at York University. Dr Penney completed her PhD and Postdoctoral training in epidemiology and preventive medicine at the MRC Epidemiology Unit and School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK. By engaging in highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary, systems focused research, Dr. Penney seeks to support evidence-informed global health policy that is fit to tackle some of our greatest global challenges.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-leveraging-systems-thinking-for-effective-global-health-policies-with-tarra-penney/ ) \n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/systems-thinking-and-evidence-based-global-health-policy-challenges-and-opportunities-for-global-health-research-with-tarra-penney/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-748c5881461367ab9eed5af82966a480@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240911T170000Z
DTEND:20240911T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20240904T154200Z
CREATED:20240904
LAST-MODIFIED:20241213
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:12
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SUMMARY:Our Flammable Present & Future: Wildfire in a Warming World, with Eric Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:\nToday's wildfires are shaped by many factors: a changing climate, our historical decisions about how to manage fire, where and how we build, and how we conceptualize the 'wildfire problem.' What's clear, though, is that wildfires continue to impact communities with devastating results, including here in Canada with Jasper National Park this summer. In this seminar, we'll discuss the causes of wildfire, its impact on health in particular, and some of the solutions we'll need to consider for both planetary and personal health in our fiery future.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Eric Kennedy is an Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management at York University. Kennedy serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Management, as well as Associate Director of York University’s Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Governance, Response Institute (Y-EMERGE). Kennedy’s work focuses on wildfire management and the human and social dimensions of fire. In particular, his lab works on decision-making and use-of-evidence for wildfire preparedness, response, and recovery. Kennedy conducts extensive work in the context of wildfire management, exploring how communities and governments can better prepare for a changing climate and increasing fire load. He has also led a national COVID-19 monitoring project, tracking the public attitudes, risk perceptions, and knowledge related to the pandemic. In all his work, he focuses on producing research that addresses real-world needs, supports government decision-making, and helps create a safer and more equitable world.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 11, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-facing-the-flames-wildfire-challenges-in-a-warming-world-with-eric-kennedy/ ) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/our-flammable-present-future-wildfire-in-a-warming-world/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-41fa3925a7ec42ce029c43d6676e4b2c@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20241002T170000Z
DTEND:20241002T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20240829T145000Z
CREATED:20240829
LAST-MODIFIED:20241213
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:14
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SUMMARY:War, Humanitarianism, and the Need for the Canadian Peace Museum, with Chris Houston
DESCRIPTION:\nChris Houston, Community Fellow and President of the Canadian Peace Museum charity, will explore themes of war, humanitarianism, and peace. He will reflect on his time spent in war, the need to promote peace, and the links between peace, human health, planetary health, equity, community cohesion, art, truth, and reconciliation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nChris Houston is a Community Fellow of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and a Certified Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management. He has worked internationally for Médecins sans Frontières, the Canadian Red Cross and the World Health Organization. Chris has governance experience at many non-profit organizations, including Médecins sans Frontières Canada and ALIMA Canada. Chris is the CEO of Humanitarian Associates consulting firm and is part-time faculty at the University of Toronto's Global Health Education Initiative. He has appeared on the BBC, the CBC, and CTV News. His writing has been featured in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and his weekly newspaper column Stories of Peace appears in The Bancroft Times alongside occasional news reporting.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 2, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here. ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/recap-a-discussion-on-conflict-humanitarianism-and-the-call-for-a-canadian-peace-museum-with-chris-houston/ ) \n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/war-humanitarianism-and-the-need-for-the-canadian-peace-museum-with-chris-houston/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-324450bbc4885ae02b0fc2e7f589374b@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240905T170000Z
DTEND:20240905T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20240731T163200Z
CREATED:20240731
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:26
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SUMMARY:2024 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:\nThe third Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research will begin with a brief (10 min.) introduction by Dahdaleh director James Orbinski, who will present the Institute’s current activities and programs, and an overview of objectives for the upcoming year. The event leave ample time for open discussion among Dahdaleh members.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2024-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-37bc5e7fb6931a50b3464ec66179085f@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240812T140000Z
DTEND:20240816T200000Z
DTSTAMP:20240717T183500Z
CREATED:20240717
LAST-MODIFIED:20240722
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:14
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SUMMARY:AI Math with Public Health Applications Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nThis workshop is designed for learners 18 years old or older who are entering post-secondary in September 2024 and undergraduate students from a non-STEM discipline eager to explore the intersection of mathematics and artificial intelligence in the context of public health. Participants will delve into the fundamentals of machine learning, focusing on supervised learning techniques. \n\n\n\nThe workshop centres around a practical application: an infectious disease outbreak prediction model, highlighting its critical role in enhancing public health preparedness. No prior experience in AI or programming is required; the curriculum is tailored for learners encountering this material for the first time. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have gained proficiency in essential mathematical concepts such descriptive statistics for exploratory data analysis, machine learning model as an approximation of a mathematical function, vectors as representations of objects and matrices as stacks of vectors that model a dataset, model training as fitting functions to data, regression to make the prediction, derivatives to maximize predictive performance, root mean square error (RMSE) for model evaluation, uncertainty as a measure of prediction confidence, and related concepts. \n\n\n\nThe workshop is developed as a supportive and inclusive environment aimed at nurturing diverse talent in AI and mathematics. 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.kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger{background:#ffffff;}.kt-accordion-id_935912-14:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_935912-14:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before{background:#444444;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-accordion-id_935912-14 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{display:block;}.kt-accordion-id_935912-14 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap .kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:0px;}}\n\nCourse Instructor\nThe course instructor Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( mailto:jrousseau@schulich.yorku.ca ), is a philosopher of science with advanced public policy experience who teaches in the Organizational Studies area at the Schulich School of Business. He recently completed three years as Special Advisor on Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI) in the Office of the Dean, where he remains as the Academic Program Director of the Schulich Business Excellence Academy (SBEA), a virtual summer program that introduces business education to senior Ontario high school students. \n\n\n\nA former Economist and Investment Attraction Lead for the Province of Ontario, he was recruited to be the Inaugural Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness to the President of the Republic of Haïti (2017 - 2019), and he currently Adjunct Faculty Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Fellow at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), and Faculty Associate for the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora.\n\n\n\nJean-Jacques holds a B.A. in Law and Philosophy from Carleton University, MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University, and PhD in Philosophy of Science from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Explainability & Trust in AI Systems at the Lassonde School of Engineering, an intensive in Philosophy of Physics at the University of Geneva, the EinsteinPlus workshop in modern physics at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a graduate-level introduction to Machine Learning at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.\n\n\n\n\n\nFor inquiries, please contact Jean-Jacques Rousseau at jrousseau@schulich.yorku.ca ( mailto:jrousseau@schulich.yorku.ca ).\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/ai-math-public-health-workshop/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Māori Experiences of the Pandemic: Learning from the Past to Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness Among Indigenous Peoples, with Dr. Clive Aspin
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this cosponsored seminar, the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, Harriet Tubman Institute, and Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, welcomes Dr. Clive Aspin (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā) to draw on lessons learned from past and present pandemics to highlight and discuss Indigenous-centred approaches to overcoming the likely challenges posed by future pandemics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Clive Aspin (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā) is an Associate Professor of Health at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa. Dr Aspin has a notable record in Māori and indigenous public health research and management, focusing on Māori health workforce issues, indigenous sexuality, and community resilience. He led a collaborative project with Australia and Canada on HIV's impact on indigenous communities and the role of resilience. As a founding member of the International Indigenous Working Group on HIV and AIDS, he has advanced efforts to address HIV's impact on Māori and other indigenous peoples. He has served on several boards, including the Health Research Council of New Zealand, and was the inaugural Executive Research Officer at Ngā Pae o te Maramatanga. He was also the Founding Editor of AlterNative, a peer-reviewed journal of indigenous scholarship. Dr Aspin is dedicated to addressing health and social inequities in Aotearoa, aiming to improve outcomes for Māori and other marginalized populations. His current research focuses on rangatahi (youth) suicide in Aotearoa, where rates of suicide among young Māori are among the highest in the world. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Monday, July 29, at 1 p.m. ET\n\n\n\n\nRSVP here\n\n\n\n\nFor inquiries, please contact Dean Ray at cikl@yorku.ca.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/maori-experiences-of-the-pandemic-learning-from-the-past-to-strengthen-pandemic-preparedness-among-indigenous-peoples/
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DTSTART:20240821T150000Z
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SUMMARY:6th Summer Global Health Intern Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\nOur Summer 2024 global health interns will be giving a short 3-minute presentation summarizing their experience working on research and global health projects at the Dahdaleh Institute under the guidance of Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will cover their research findings and results, what they learned in their role, and how they will apply their experiences in a future opportunity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us to celebrate the work of our interns participating in the Dahdaleh Institute Internship Program. \n\n\n\nOur global health interns will be giving a short presentation about their experience working on research and global health projects under the guidance of Dahdaleh Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will provide insight on the findings and results of their specific research or projects in a short, exciting, five-minute presentation. The presentation topics is as follows:\n\n\n\nPresentation TitlePresenterIntergenerational Beliefs of Policing and Mental Health and its Implications for Mental Healthcare among Black YouthAnn KwartengEquitable Global Health Project InternshipPashtana Fakhrizada The Impact of Qi Gong on WellnessShreya Pandrala  Integrating Gender in Tobacco ControlLaura Rosa AMR, Communications and Knowledge AccelerationLauratou Bah AMR and Food Systems; AI Methods in NCD Prevention PolicyArabi RajanSystems-Informed Evaluation of Canada's Food and Nutrition Surveillance SystemSerina Noori      Cell Culture on Collagen Scaffolds with Basement Membrane LiningShah Kheradmand  \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, August 21, at 11 a.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. Please find the recap and recording here.  ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/internship-program-summer-2024-in-review/ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/6th-summer-global-health-intern-symposium/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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DTSTART:20240627T160000Z
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PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:2024 Wellness Impact Lab: Climate Cafe
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Wellness Impact Lab welcomes all to participate in their upcoming Climate Cafés! Attendees will have an opportunity to learn more about the goals and missions of the Wellness Impact Lab, as well as participate in activities designed to spark climate-related conversations. They will cover topics on eco-emotions, the personal, and community impact of the climate crisis, and more.\n\n\n\nStudents and community members will gather to discuss the impact of the climate crisis in a safe, supportive, and respectful space. While talking about the climate crisis, please be respectful of everyone's opinions and boundaries. Remember, everything you say in the group will be confidential. Simply register and share your thoughts with a like-minded group!\n\n\n\n If you have any questions, please reach out to Professor Harvey Skinner at hskinner@yorku.ca.\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the event\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2024-wil-lab-climate-cafe/
LOCATION:York University
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DTSTART:20240904T140000Z
DTEND:20240904T213000Z
DTSTAMP:20240610T193500Z
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Water Engineering Course - Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nThe Humanitarian Water Engineering Intensive Online Course, running from September to December 2024, offers a comprehensive 12-week program focused on safe water supply in humanitarian emergencies. Participants will delve into subjects such as water quality assessment, source development, treatment methods, distribution, and outbreak preparedness. The course combines curated readings, interactive lectures, and problem-based learning (PBL) activities guided by experienced facilitators. It targets WASH practitioners, engineers, and graduate students, providing essential skills for real-world applications in humanitarian contexts. The course is an initiative of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Lassonde School of Engineering, and CIFAL York. Fees range from $600 to $2,600 CAD, with financial aid available.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note that the application deadline is Saturday, August 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about the course\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/humanitarian-water-engineering-fall-2024/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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DTSTART:20240502T160000Z
DTEND:20240610T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20240502T160200Z
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SUMMARY:Interbeing Wellness Series - Spring 2024
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this time of intersecting crises, Interbeing Wellness emphasizes practices that acknowledges Healing Ourselves is intertwined with Healing Others and Healing our World. \n\n\n\nThe Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) will be running their signature initiative, the Interbeing Wellness series (formally known as Stress Busting), in an online format over the course of 8 weeks. The series will start Thursday, May 2 and end Monday, June 10. On Mondays and Thursdays, Harvey Skinner will lead Qi Gong practices from noon - 12:30 p.m. On Mondays, Susan Harris will lead a guided Mindfulness Meditation from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nThis series is free and open to all. No prior experience is necessary. \n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/interbeing-wellness-series-spring-2024/
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DTSTART:20240523T180000Z
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DTSTAMP:20240502T135000Z
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SUMMARY:Human Trauma/Climate Trauma: Inuit Traditional Knowledge and Advocacy on Climate Action, with Siila Watt-Cloutier
DESCRIPTION:\nIn a joint seminar hosted by the SeeChange Initiative, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Siila Watt-Cloutier, a celebrated Inuk advocate and Officer of the Order of Canada will present a thought-provoking talk on Human Trauma/Climate Trauma: Inuit Traditional Knowledge and Advocacy on Climate Action. \n\n\n\nHer national bestseller, ‘The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet’, passionately argues that climate change is a human rights issue, and one to which we are all inextricably linked.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nSiila Watt-Cloutier is an Inuk advocate, an Officer of the Order of Canada and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Born in Kuujjuaq, Québec, she had a traditional Inuit upbringing until age 10, traveling only by dogteam. Siila was later sent away to school, including three years in a residential school in Churchill, Manitoba. Her national bestseller The Right to Be Cold, One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet passionately argues that climate change is a human rights issue and one to which we all are inextricably linked. Her 2016 TEDxYYC talk was themed ‘Human Trauma and Climate Trauma As One’. Siila has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national, and international levels as International Chair for the Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) from 2002-2006. Siila is a treasured advocate who has received numerous national and international awards and honours for her lifelong work to protect the Inuit of the Arctic and defend environmental, cultural and human rights, acutely threatened by climate change.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Thursday, May 23, at 2 p.m. ET\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has now closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/human-trauma-climate-trauma-inuit-traditional-knowledge-and-advocacy/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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DTSTART:20240522T183000Z
DTEND:20240522T193000Z
DTSTAMP:20240416T191400Z
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SUMMARY:Analysing Environmental Integration in Antimicrobial Resistance Strategies in Kenya, with Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri
DESCRIPTION:\nIncreasing recognition of the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on public health and resulting economic losses have led to global and subsequent national efforts to prevent and contain AMR. While these strategies emphasise a One Health based approach for governance, effective coordination among actors across relevant sectors, core principle of the approach, seems elusive, risking the effectiveness and sustainability of the mitigation strategies. Further, despite the wide acknowledgement of the critical role environmental resources play in the emergence and transmission of AMR pathogens, the first wave of national strategies have largely bypassed the design and implementation of measures to control environmental AMR. Systematic analyses of governance of AMR mitigation are scarce and have only begun recently, which nevertheless show that majority of the countries studied, especially the low and lower-middle income countries, did not even have an environmental surveillance component. Therefore, the study aims – (i) to understand existing institutions and governance mechanisms for integrating the relevant sectors and levels, (ii) identify potential barriers of cross-sectoral coordination and especially the integration of environment sector, and (iii) explore potential solutions of how to overcome such barriers in order to sustainably contain and prevent AMR development and spread through a OH approach.\n\n\n\nThe study applies a qualitative case study approach, focusing on AMR governance in Kenya and analyses from a polycentric governance perspective adapting Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. Data analysed included primary and secondary literature pertaining to the topic and the case study region and transcribed semi-structured interviews with key informants from human health, animal health, environment sectors, at national and county levels.\n\n\n\nPreliminary results from analysis show that the governance of AMR in Kenya is fragmented across multiple sectors and legislations, often incoherent and even conflicting with each other. The coordination mechanisms at the national and county levels established under the national action plan (NAP) for AMR did not effectively integrate the environmental dimension, thereby missing components of AMR stewardship and surveillance for environment. Asymmetrically distributed information and resources negatively affect coordination among multi-sectoral actors.\n\n\n\nIt is crucial to overcome the key barriers for effective coordination, namely policy incoherence across sectors and asymmetries in distribution of resources for AMR mitigation across sectors. Besides including an integrated surveillance component across three relevant sectors in the new NAP, it is crucial to embed the new mandate of AMR surveillance and regulation within the existing framework of environmental governance, and arrangements for developing appropriate capacities of relevant actors in different sectors.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Srinivasa Srigiri received his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2010. His primary research interests involve governance of natural resources, sustainability transformations in rural and agricultural sectors, and strategies for climate adaptation at national and subnational levels. Since August 2019, he holds a position as senior researcher within the Research Programme on Environmental Governance at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Prior to joining IDOS, he held research positions with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India, and Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Humboldt University Berlin in Germany. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, May 22, at 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThis event registration has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/analysing-environmental-integration-in-amr-strategies-in-kenya/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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DTSTART:20240424T140000Z
DTEND:20240424T150000Z
DTSTAMP:20240412T194500Z
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SUMMARY:Gender as a Dimension of Inclusive Innovation, with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Devina Srivastava
DESCRIPTION:\nThis seminar is a transdisciplinary survey of the notion of inclusive innovation as a means to not only inject equity but rather approach innovation with inclusion by design. It will acknowledge the value of dimensions like socio-economic status and 'race', and explore how gender can be an effective starting point for innovative equity-seeking public policy and programs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nJean-Jacques Rousseau\n\n\n\nJean-Jacques is a philosopher of science, with a practice in inclusive innovation at the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship and big ideas. He recently completed three years as Special Advisor on Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI) in the Office of the Dean at the Schulich School of Business, where he remains as Instructor and the Academic Director of the Schulich Business Excellence Academy (SBEA), a virtual summer program that introduces business education to senior Ontario high school students. \n\n\n\nThe former Inaugural Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness to the President of the Republic of Haïti (2017 - 2019), he is Adjunct Faculty Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Fellow at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC).\n\n\n\nJean-Jacques completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Explainability & Trust in AI Systems at the Lassonde School of Engineering (2020 - 2022), and holds a B.A. in Law and Philosophy from Carleton University, MBA from the Schulich School of Business, and PhD in Philosophy of Science from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science & Technology at the University of Toronto.\n\n\n\nDevina Srivastava\n\n\n\nDevina is passionate about reducing the systemic exclusion from basic rights amongst vulnerable and underserved populations in the world. She has worked extensively at the intersection of gender, inclusion, and digital development. She is a development practitioner with experience with non-profits, research institutes, multilateral organizations, and funding organizations, using behavioral science, human-centered design, and technology to design inclusive programs that enable all populations, especially those marginalized, access human rights. Throughout her career, she has applied rights-based approaches in results-based management, program design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and research. As a Global Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS) at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Devina studies the social norms surrounding the use of mobile phones, the internet, and financial instruments by women and girls across urban cities in India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Egypt. She earned a master of public administration in development practice from Columbia University, where she specialized in technology, gender, and human rights. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in human rights law from the National Law School of India, and a bachelor of science in economics and politics from the University of Bath.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 24, at 10 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/gender-as-a-dimension-of-inclusive-innovation/
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DTSTART:20240619T170000Z
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DTSTAMP:20240412T141600Z
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SUMMARY:Rooted and Rising: Co-Developing Experiential Education for Climate Leadership for Youth and Planetary Health
DESCRIPTION:\nPlease join the Rooted and Rising Lab (R+R Lab) for a reflection on co-developing a new and unique kind of education for youth climate leadership. As we collectively spiral deeper into climate and ecological collapse, a global movement is taking place, often inspired and led by youth, to make way and spiral out into just, thriving, and joyful climate futures (now). Amidst this dual spiral of collapse and regeneration, we contemplate: what might education for climate change leaders look like? How might we co-create education as a set of knowledge, practice, and relationships to reach those desired futures now?  \n\n\n\nThe R+R Lab is an intergenerational network of relationships that co-create and support climate education programs to help us remember the importance of caring for the natural world and all its biospheres and creatures. In this presentation, we will reflect on the 2nd Rooted and Rising Youth Climate Leadership Certificate program that took place in this past fall and winter 2024. The program is certified by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Faculty of Education, and various youth-serving community partners. This 13-week hybrid leadership program offers youth (aged 13-30) a space to build on their existing passions and to work and learn about climate change and ecological degradation. We will discuss our approach, showcase student projects, share lessons for theory and practice, welcome open discussion, and future collaborations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nKristen Sison, Co-Community Fellow \n\n\n\nKristen Sison (she/her) is a Filipina woman born in Scarborough, Toronto on Dish With One Spoon Treaty Territory. She is a community archivist + artist-healer in the community arts and climate justice realms, storytelling ways of embodying reverence. A founding member of grassroots groups Kapwa Collective, Conscious Minds Co-operative, and Rooted and Rising, she has been devoted to co-creating intergenerational spaces for decolonization and deep listening to commune with the sacred. With 15 years spent witnessing the evolution of these alternative community spaces, she walks with the knowing that we can and are re-imagining and living into thriving, joy-filled futures. Sometimes her work takes the shape of community publications: in 2016 she edited and self-published Womxn, about reclaiming our power and stepping into our sacred responsibilities to land and water, and in 2021 she edited and self-published It’s Bigger Than All Of Us, featuring the work of 50+ BIPOC creators reflecting on their path to wholeness. In the Spring of 2023, she designed Filipinx/a/o Farmers and Earthworkers in Tkaronto, a zine about Filipinx/a/o food sovereignty in Tkaronto, and what it means to be farming and earth working on Indigenous lands. www.bonesthrown.com ( http://www.bonesthrown.com )\n\n\n\nRoxanne Cohen, Community Fellow \n\n\n\nRoxy Cohen (she/her) is a white Jewish settler treaty person raised along Ouentironk (Lake Simcoe), now living in Tkaron:to, Dish with One Spoon Wampum Territory. Roxy is an educator and consultant (and aunty) who is dedicated to transforming the education system and uplifting cooperative community leadership for thriving and joyful futures(now). Roxy has been a climate activist since high school, and now, she creates education programs with youth and educators that re-imagine how we teach in and with climate change. At 21, she co-founded Conscious Minds Camp & Co-op – a youth-led summer camp for imagining and practicing the world we want. After many years of camp and community organizing for food sovereignty with the St. James Town Co-op, Roxy co-instigated Rooted and Rising in her PhD on Re-Storying Education in the Era of Climate Change. She is proud to now be a Community Fellow at DI, coordinating and amplifying the Rooted and Rising Lab. Roxy also trains managers and team members in Change Leadership, Mental Health, and Communication in a diversity of settings.\n\n\n\nBella Lyne, Global Health Intern \n\n\n\nBella (they/them), they are a white settler, treaty person living in Dish with One Spoon Wampum Covenant Territory, Tkaron:to. Bella has been passionate about climate and environmental justice for as long as they can remember, founding an arts-based initiative in high school that advocated for the rights of mother earth. Currently, Bella organizes in their community around issues of affordability, disability justice and climate justice. Bella joined Rooted and Rising in 2019 to help create the kind of loving community of youth climate leaders that they have always craved. Bella is honoured to continue this work as a Global Health Intern, supporting the growth of the Rooted and Rising Lab. Bella is completing a Master’s degree in communications and culture at York University. Their thesis, Networks of care: Mutual aid and Social Media Infrastructures, focuses on the challenges and possibilities that have emerged through the practice of online mutual aid throughout the covid-19 pandemic. All of Bella's work is rooted in a commitment to building movements centered in deep solidarity, and care and to living out their treaty responsibilities.\n\n\n\nKate Tilleczek, Executive Faculty Fellow \n\n\n\nKate’s ancestors came from Ireland in the 1840s to escape famine and live on Turtle Island (Prince Edward Island via New York).  Kate is a grandmother, educator, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Youth, Education & Global Good in the Faculty of Education at York University. Kate is also the Director (and founder in 2009) of the Young Lives Research Laboratory (YLRL) which has been co-created with scholars, communities, youth  and youth-serving organizations to form a unique intergenerational and intercultural space for research and communication alongside young people as they navigate the complex, digital and warming world.  Kate is leading the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing which aims to better understand how young people from various ecological and social contexts are living well and sustainably.  Together, the partners conduct research and share findings through co-development of education for youth wellbeing, attend to what and how youth most wish to learn, and share.   \n\n\n\nAndrea Bastien\n\n\n\nAndrea Bastien has an extensive, continuous, and evolving relationship with music and community engagement. She has worked with an abundance of organizations including Redwire NYM, UMAYC, Indigenous Media Arts Group, Raven Spirit Dance, imagineNATIVE, Toronto Aboriginal Youth Council, TDSB Aboriginal Education, Naadmaagit Ki Group, and Indigenous Climate Action. Some past roles: youth advocate, advisor, administrator, performer, program facilitator, & communications coordinator. Andrea is currently in her Master of Education (MEd) at York University in the Urban Indigenous Education Cohort. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, June 19, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThe registration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/rooted-and-rising-co-developing-experiential-education-for-climate-leadership/
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SUMMARY:2024 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the fifth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. \n\n\n\nParticipants will engage with the research community at York University to generate new insights, foster collaboration, and discover new research opportunities in global health research with critical social science perspectives that uses social science theory and methodology with social justice aims in global health. It is transdisciplinary, participatory, experimental, or experiential. It seeks greater effectiveness, equity, and excellence in global health by engaging directly with global public health actors, structures, and systems to transform global public health.\n\n\n\nThis year, Professor Cary Wu (Department of Sociology, York University) will be delivering the keynote presentation titled "A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing."\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the keynote, we will hear from the 2023 seed grant recipients regarding the progress of their global health research projects funded by the Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant. The seed grant program supports critical global health research within the three themes at the Dahdaleh Institute (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting). \n\n\n\nFinally, York faculty and global health researchers will then have the opportunity to deliver a brief 5-minute presentation on any current or planned research project that takes a critical social science approach to global health at the workshop. Register as a presenter to receive valuable feedback on your proposal from expert researchers. Please complete the registration form to present a new research idea by Monday, April 22, 2024, by 11:59 p.m.\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n9:30Continental Breakfast10:00Welcome and Overview to Workshop10:10Keynote Presentation and Q&A with Cary Wu11:00Break11:15Research Updates from the 2023 CPGH Seed Grant Recipients12:20Research Idea Presentations from York researchers12:45Closing Remarks1:00Lunch at Dahdaleh Institute \n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, April 30 at 10 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2024-cpgh-workshop-2/
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SUMMARY:Learning to Shift the Goal Post: One Health Research and Policy, with John Amuasi
DESCRIPTION:\nJohn Amuasi is head of the Global Health Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana and a W2 Professor of Global One Health in Hamburg, Germany. Via a talk and discussion titled "Learning to Shift the Goal Post: One Health Research and Policy", he shares his rich experience in infectious disease research from a One Health perspective.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nJohn Humphrey Amuasi is based at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), where he is Head of the Global Health Department of the School of Public Health and Leader of the Global One Health Research Group at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR). Amuasi is also a W2 Professor of Global One Health at the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine and the University of Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, an adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in the USA, and an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK. Amuasi trained as a physician in Ghana, and later graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, USA, with post-graduate degrees terminating in a PhD in Health Research and Policy. \n\n\n\nAmuasi set up and was the inaugural head of the Research and Development Unit at the 1,200-bed Komfo Anokye teaching Hospital in Kumasi. For over 20 years, he has engaged in Tropical Medicine and Global Health research in LMICs - including in malaria, NTDs, AMR and One Health. He has also consulted for several Global Health-focused organizations and supported civil society organizations with technical expertise on matters related to access to drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, as well as strategic advice related to Global Health research priorities. Amuasi’s current research involves clinical and field epidemiologic studies on malaria, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, AMR, snakebite and other neglected tropical diseases. He further serves as Co-Chair of The Lancet One Health Commission, an adjunct to a number of academic institutions, and as a regular technical advisor/contributor to the WHO, Africa CDC, African Academy of Sciences, and several other Global Health organizations. John is a board member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in the USA, The Soulsby Foundation in the UK, and an advisory board member of The British Medical Journal. Amuasi is passionate about mentorship and sustainably building both clinical and non-clinical health research capacities in Africa.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, May 1, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistrations for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/learning-to-shift-the-goal-post/
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SUMMARY:'Looking Into the Fire'? From Climate Distress to Action, with Harvey Skinner and Susan Harris
DESCRIPTION:\nThis seminar is in recognition of Earth Month 2024\n\n\n\nOur planet is on fire due to climate change and the window of opportunity may be closing to secure a more livable and sustainable future. Most people now acknowledge global warming, yet many are paralyzed about taking action because of hopelessness, fear, guilt, and other strong emotions. What can be done to help us ‘look into the Fire’?\n\n\n\nThis online interactive seminar will address the question by: a) providing an update of emerging concepts and research on climate distress and action, b) demonstrating evidence-based practices for fostering resiliency and healing ourselves (mindfulness meditation and qi gong – tai chi), and c) discussing what can be done individually and collectively for healing our planet.\n\n\n\nTo help guide research and activities in the Wellness Impact Lab, Pihkala’s (2022) Process Model of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief is reviewed. This model provides an integrative approach for understanding the mental health impacts of climate change and environmental disasters along with coping strategies and actions. To provide a safe forum for people to talk about and understand their feelings about climate change, our Lab is initiating a Climate Café dialogue series drawing on best practices and latest research. An important outcome is to reduce barriers to action. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nDr Harvey Skinner PhD, CPsych, FCAHS is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Global Health; Senior Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute; and was Founding Dean of York University's Faculty of Health (2006-2016). Harvey co-Leads the Wellness Impact Lab. He teaches and maintains a daily practice of qi gong wellness practices.\n\n\n\nSusan Harris MSW, RSW is a Community Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute and was a practicing social worker and Program Director at Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin. Susan co-Leads the Wellness Impact Lab. She has been cultivating her meditation practice with retreats and study for over 30 years along with completing advanced meditation teacher training programs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 24, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event is now closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/looking-into-the-fire-from-climate-distress-to-action/
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SUMMARY:Increasing Ambient Temperature Disrupts Sleep and Impairs Cognitive Function, with Godfred Boateng and Gabriel John Dusing
DESCRIPTION:\nCognitive decline and sleep disorders are prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, but the role of extreme heat in these conditions remains poorly understood. In this seminar, Professor Godfred Boateng and Dr. Gabriel John Dusing will discuss their latest research findings analyzing extreme heat events which are increasing in frequency and intensity, and impacting the health of older adults. Their study explored the relationship between temperature, sleep quality, and cognitive function in Ghanaian adults over the age of 50, particularly  women.\n\n\n\nUsing structural equation models and accounting for data clustering, they examined the direct and indirect relations between increasing average temperatures in the past, sleep difficulties, and cognitive impairment, while adjusting for appropriate covariates. They created a novel dataset by combining data from the WHO Ghana Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (2014/2015) with temperature measurements derived from the Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia) gridded Time Series (CRU TS v.4.07). The speakers will then recommend the acceleration of climate mitigation and adaptation practices that aims to reduce the effects of global warming for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Join us for this talk addressing global health inequities for socially disadvantaged populations, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, amidst a rapidly changing environment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nGodfred Boateng\n\n\n\nDr. Godfred Boateng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Health, Director of the Global and Environmental Health Lab, a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Humanitarianism, and a faculty fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University. Dr. Boateng is an expert in the design and application of culturally relevant scalable methodologies to study the multidimensional factors and processes that shape health and health equity across spatial scales (household, community, institutional, national), and how they can be promoted and sustained. His research program is transdisciplinary and focuses on resource insecurity, health, and sustainable livelihoods; the socio-ecological determinants of cardiometabolic conditions in aging adults; social inequity in health systems; quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development; and COVID-19-related health effects. Dr. Boateng’s research in these areas has been critical in transforming the understanding of the key social and structural determinants of health among vulnerable populations, including women, infants, children, and older adults. \n\n\n\nDr. Boateng’s research is supported through both internal and external funding sources from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Canadian Foundation for Innovation; International Development Research Centre; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; United States Health Resources & Service Administration; the National Institute of Transportation and Communities; and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research.\n\n\n\nGabriel John Dusing\n\n\n\nDr. Dusing's research utilizes linked longitudinal health administrative data and employs techniques such as survival analysis and difference-in-differences to examine complex social and health issues. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Tennessee. His publications in journals such as, Psychological Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, PLoS One, and the American Journal of Psychiatry, highlight his expertise in addressing critical topics such as mental health, population health, and the social determinants of health.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, May 15, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistrations for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/increasing-ambient-temperature-disrupts-sleep-and-impairs-cognitive-function-2/
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SUMMARY:Gender Inequality in Health Across Life Cycles in India, with Rajnish Prasad
DESCRIPTION:\nOn Wednesday, May 8, Dahdaleh community fellow Rajnish Prasad will provide a brief overview of gender inequity in health, followed by detailed analysis of health inequity among girls and women across life cycle in India. He will discuss the role of social and gender norms in perpetuating inequities and the health outcomes. Drawing from his own experiences working at the UN Women's Asia-Pacific Regional Office, Rajnish will share the insights gained from implementation of community-level health initiatives in India. Register below to join us in an engaging discussion about the implications of gender inequality.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nRajnish Ranjan Prasad is currently working as Programme Specialist- Gender Equality and Health & HIV/AIDS at the UN Women’s Asia-Pacific Regional Office. He has around 17 years of experience in addressing inequalities, empowering marginalized communities and providing technical support to Governments. Rajnish is working with UN Women Country Offices in the Asia Pacific region to address gender inequality in planning, and utilization of health services. He has previously worked with UNFPA and supported Government of Rajasthan, India in strengthening of large-scale programmes for holistic development of young people specially girls, addressing gender inequalities and to promote youth leadership. He has also worked with National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Government of India and managed large-scale HIV/AIDS programme.\n\n\n\nRajnish holds a Doctorate in Public Health from IIHMR University, India, a Postgraduate Certificate in Global Health from the University of Manchester, Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from University of York, Master’s in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) and Bachelor’s in Computer Application from Devi Ahilya University, Indore.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, May 8, at 10:30 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/gender-inequality-in-health-across-life-cycles-in-india-2/
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SUMMARY:6th Annual Global Health Intern Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nOur Fall/Winter 2023-2024 global health interns will be giving a short 3-minute presentation summarizing their experience working on research and global health projects at the Dahdaleh Institute under the guidance of Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will cover their research findings and results, what they learned in their role, and how they will apply their experiences in a future opportunity. \n\n\n\nPlease join us to celebrate the work of our  interns participating in the Dahdaleh Institute Internship Program. The presentation topics is as follows: \n\n\n\nPresentation TitlePresenterAssisting Social Science Research in TuberculosisGurher SidhuGlobal Health: Wellness Impact LabShamim Samadi and Laura Rosa PereiraOverview of Internship Experience at the Dahdaleh InstituteShaista AlokozaiDesigning for Global Health and the SaTS LabGaurika AgarwalDeveloping Methodologies for Analyzing Experiences with Chronic PainYashi PapolaDrinking Water Systems and Issues in the Canadian NorthRavjot ChanaBuilding Equitable and Resilient Community-Based Emergency Response Strategies in Rural GuatemalaAmen Okungbowa\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/6th-annual-global-health-intern-symposium/
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] From Planetary Urbanization to Planetary Health: A Conversation About Work in Progress, with Chiara Camponeschi, Hillary Birch, and Raphael Aguiar
DESCRIPTION:\nThe phenomenon of ‘planetary urbanization’ has opened a crucial debate over how cities and their growth are implicated in the identification, emergence, and mitigation of global health threats. Systemic risks such as climate change, disease outbreaks and epidemics, and antimicrobial resistance bring to life the dynamic and multi-level relationship between urbanization and health, illustrating the urgent need to bring planetary urbanization and planetary health in conversation with one another. This session will provide an overview of a recent collaboration between three Dahdaleh Institute members whose work in progress explores the symmetries and opportunities between these epistemic domains. In preparation for the upcoming American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, the presenters welcome feedback from the Dahdaleh community and invite participants to share their insights during the session.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nChiara Camponeschi\n\n\n\nDr. Chiara Camponeschi is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute. Her work is situated at the intersections of climate action, community engagement and health, with a focus on how the principles of wellbeing, solidarity, and care can provide a blueprint for building 'integrative resilience' in ways that are more equitable, inclusive, and just.\n\n\n\nHillary Birch\n\n\n\nHillary Birch is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her PhD explores how projects of global health intersect with processes of urbanization in Lusaka, Zambia, shaping flows of water and changing its quality. Hillary is a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar in Planetary Health, and her research is also supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and an IDRC International Doctoral Research Award.\n\n\n\nRaphael Aguiar\n\n\n\nRaphael Aguiar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, earning his PhD in Health Policy and Equity from York University. He is currently engaged in projects supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada-Infectious Disease and Climate Change Fund and SSHRC-New Frontiers in Research Fund, focusing respectively on the development of a One Health governance system addressing infectious diseases and climate change and on jointly analysing governance of emerging global health threats (infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food insecurity, and climate change).\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 3, at 10 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest, this event has been postponed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/from-planetary-urbanization-to-planetary-health-a-conversation/
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DTSTART:20240320T170000Z
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] Increasing Ambient Temperature Disrupts Sleep and Impairs Cognitive Function, with Godfred Boateng and Gabriel John Dusing
DESCRIPTION:\nCognitive decline and sleep disorders are prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, but the role of extreme heat in these conditions remains poorly understood. In this seminar, Professor Godfred Boateng and Dr. Gabriel John Dusing will discuss their latest research findings analyzing extreme heat events which are increasing in frequency and intensity, and impacting the health of older adults. Their study explored the relationship between temperature, sleep quality, and cognitive function in Ghanaian adults over the age of 50, particularly  women.\n\n\n\nUsing structural equation models and accounting for data clustering, they examined the direct and indirect relations between increasing average temperatures in the past, sleep difficulties, and cognitive impairment, while adjusting for appropriate covariates. They created a novel dataset by combining data from the WHO Ghana Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (2014/2015) with temperature measurements derived from the Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia) gridded Time Series (CRU TS v.4.07). The speakers will then recommend the acceleration of climate mitigation and adaptation practices that aims to reduce the effects of global warming for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Join us for this talk addressing global health inequities for socially disadvantaged populations, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, amidst a rapidly changing environment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nGodfred Boateng\n\n\n\nDr. Godfred Boateng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Health, Director of the Global and Environmental Health Lab, a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Humanitarianism, and a faculty fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University. Dr. Boateng is an expert in the design and application of culturally relevant scalable methodologies to study the multidimensional factors and processes that shape health and health equity across spatial scales (household, community, institutional, national), and how they can be promoted and sustained. His research program is transdisciplinary and focuses on resource insecurity, health, and sustainable livelihoods; the socio-ecological determinants of cardiometabolic conditions in aging adults; social inequity in health systems; quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development; and COVID-19-related health effects. Dr. Boateng’s research in these areas has been critical in transforming the understanding of the key social and structural determinants of health among vulnerable populations, including women, infants, children, and older adults. \n\n\n\nDr. Boateng’s research is supported through both internal and external funding sources from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Canadian Foundation for Innovation; International Development Research Centre; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; United States Health Resources & Service Administration; the National Institute of Transportation and Communities; and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research.\n\n\n\nGabriel John Dusing\n\n\n\nDr. Dusing's research utilizes linked longitudinal health administrative data and employs techniques such as survival analysis and difference-in-differences to examine complex social and health issues. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Tennessee. His publications in journals such as, Psychological Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, PLoS One, and the American Journal of Psychiatry, highlight his expertise in addressing critical topics such as mental health, population health, and the social determinants of health.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 20, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has been postponed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/increasing-ambient-temperature-disrupts-sleep-and-impairs-cognitive-function/
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SUMMARY:Building a Career with the World Health Organization - My Journey! with Firdosi Mehta
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this seminar, Dahdaleh adjunct faculty fellow Dr. Firdosi Mehta will share his journey leading to his extensive career in public health in six diverse countries. With over 30 years of experience, learn from his first-hand experiences working with the World Health Organization on polio eradication efforts, communicable diseases control, Tuberculosis, NCDs, etc. to contribute towards a healthier and equitable world. \n\n\n\nDr. Mehta will impart some key lessons including how kindness, compassion and empathy are at the roots of public health necessary to create effective health interventions. He will also highlight the necessity for patience, perseverance, passion, and perspiration – the indomitable foursome –  essential for navigating the challenges in any field. \n\n\n\nParticipants will gain practical networking and reputation building tips, as well as key insights into emergency and humanitarian action, communicable disease control, mental health, and noncommunicable diseases prevention and control. Register to join the discussion and hear more about Dr. Mehta's illustrious career in global public health.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Firdosi Mehta has over 30 years of Public Health experience, more than half of which were with the WHO. He has worked in several countries and regions of the world. Dr. Mehta completed his medical education in India after which he served in the Indian Navy Defense Services. He then served in the Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman in various capacities for 10 years, the last being Director of Surveillance and Disease Control.\n\n\n\nDr. Mehta then joined the World Health Organization and worked in Somalia from 1998 – 2002, where he was responsible for supporting the control of TB and all other communicable diseases in a complex emergency situation. He moved from Somalia to Indonesia in 2002 in the capacity of Country Advisor Tuberculosis Control program (Mega High burden country) for seven years.\n\n\n\nDr. Mehta then moved to Sri Lanka in 2009 as the WHO country Representative until 2014. His experience in emergency and humanitarian action, communicable disease control, health system issues, mental health and a keen focus on addressing non communicable diseases in Sri Lanka have been well recognized and acknowledged. He is an Adjunct Professor & Fellow at York University and University of Toronto in Canada, as well as a senior Mentor on several mentoring platforms. In recognition of his contributions to the Global Health Program at York, a Global Health student prize has been named after him in 2022.\n\n\n\nHe is a member on the Governance and Advisory committee on Human Trafficking at the Peel Institute on Violence prevention, Family services Peel Toronto. Also a member on a Lived experience Advisory committee on research at the Centers for Addictions and Mental health (CAMH) Toronto. Member on the Steering Committee on Research for Mental Health Equity in the Asia Pacific – Digital (REMAP-D) based at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Advisor on “The Young Innovation Leaders Fellowship” Nigeria, which is a platform created by Hutzpah Centre for Innovation and Development - a social enterprise aimed at promoting innovation across sectors in Africa. Inducted onto the Stop TB Canada Steering Committee in end 2023. Stop TB Canada brings together individuals committed to ending TB at home and abroad, including TB researchers, TB advocates, TB practitioners, and TB survivors.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 3, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistrations for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/building-a-career-with-the-world-health-organization/
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] 2024 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the fifth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop on Friday, March 1, 2024. \n\n\n\nParticipants will engage with the research community at York University to generate new insights, foster collaboration, and discover new research opportunities in global health research with critical social science perspectives that uses social science theory and methodology with social justice aims in global health. It is transdisciplinary, participatory, experimental, or experiential. It seeks greater effectiveness, equity, and excellence in global health by engaging directly with global public health actors, structures, and systems to transform global public health.\n\n\n\nThis year, we are excited to welcome Professor Kate Mulligan (Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto) who will be delivering the keynote presentation titled "Won't you be my neighbour? Remaking relationships in global community health through social prescribing."\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the keynote, we will hear from the 2023 seed grant recipients regarding the progress of their global health research projects funded by the Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant. The seed grant program supports critical global health research within the three themes at the Dahdaleh Institute (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting). \n\n\n\nFinally, York faculty and global health researchers will then have the opportunity to deliver a brief 5-minute presentation on any current or planned research project that takes a critical social science approach to global health at the workshop. Register as a presenter to receive valuable feedback on your proposal from expert researchers. Register to present a new research idea by Thursday, February 22, 2024 by 9 a.m.\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n9:00Continental Breakfast9:30Welcome and Overview to Workshop9:40Keynote Presentation and Q&A with Kate Mulligan10:30Break10:45Research Updates from the 2023 CPGH Seed Grant RecipientsnoonResearch Idea Presentations from York researchers12:15Closing Remarks12:30Lunch at Dahdaleh Institute \n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Friday, March 1 at 9:30 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2024-cpgh-workshop/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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DTSTART:20240306T180000Z
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] Building Community-Engaged Emergency Response Systems in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Insight from Guatemala, with Jeannie Samuel,  Benilda Batzin, and Karin Slowing
DESCRIPTION:\nAs part of York University Organized Research Units' Climate Change Research Month, Dahdaleh faculty fellow Jeannie Samuel, in collaboration with Benilda Batzin and Karin Slowing from Guatemala, will discuss their action research and national data analysis project which explores community-engaged emergency response to extreme weather events in the northern province of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. \n\n\n\nThis is a mountainous, economically poor, and predominantly Indigenous province where storms, floods, and landslides are becoming common occurrences. Their work in this region points to a worrying predicament experienced in some climate-affected areas, where communities may face a dangerous confluence of climate vulnerability, social exclusion, and state neglect that imperils human health. In this talk, they share insights from experiences in Alta Verapaz to shed light on these interconnected problems and how they are being confronted. In particular, the Guatemalan case suggests that technical solutions are important but insufficient responses. Forms of community-led advocacy vis-à-vis the state, as practiced in struggles for health rights, may provide important tools in helping to address the challenges these communities face.\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nJeannie Samuel\n\n\n\nJeannie Samuel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science’s Health and Society (HESO) program at York University and a faculty member with the Graduate Program in Development Studies. She is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary research agenda focused on the intersection between health justice and the climate crisis, including as investigator on the NFRF/IDRC funded project: “Building equitable and resilient community-engaged emergency response strategies in rural Guatemala.” Prior to her academic track, she spent fifteen years working in Canada and the Global South on equity-related social and environmental issues. She held a permanent staff position with the United Nations World Food Program, with postings in Africa and Latin America, and has also worked extensively in Ontario and BC on numerous health equity and environmental initiatives.  \n\n\n\nBenilda Batzin\n\n\n\nBenilda Batzin is the Executive Director of a leading Guatemalan health oriented civil society organization, CEGSS – Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en Sistemas de Salud. She is the is the first Indigenous woman elected to this leadership position and applies her extensive professional expertise to numerous action research and practice related initiatives. She is an investigator on the NFRF/IDRC funded project: “Building equitable and resilient community-engaged emergency response strategies in rural Guatemala.” She holds a Social Work degree from Mariano Gálvez University in Guatemala. She is a recognized leader in Guatemala and internationally on initiatives that promote citizen-led advocacy for the right to health, integrating a focus on women's rights and gender equality.\n\n\n\nKarin Slowing\n\n\n\nKarin Slowing is a development analyst with 30 years of experience in public policy and research on health, food and nutritional security, and social protection. She is the co-founder of Laboratorio de Datos GT, a civil society research institute that uses big data analysis to investigate social and health issues. She has been an investigator on the NFRF/IDRC funded project: Building equitable and resilient community-engaged emergency response strategies in rural Guatemala.” From 2008-2012, Dr. Slowing was the Secretary of Planning and Programming of the Presidency in Guatemala, a social policy analyst for Guatemala’s National Human Development Reports program (2000-2005) and General Coordinator of said program (2005-2008). She has been a national and international consultant for several organizations on issues of social policy and public management. Trained as a medical doctor and surgeon, she has also been a professor in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of San Carlos, Guatemala.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 6, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThis event has been postponed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/building-community-engaged-emergency-response-systems-in-the-context-of-the-climate-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Black History Month 2024: Black Educators and Black Education
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the Harriet Tubman Institute for the 2024 Black History Month Opening Ceremony on Thursday, February 1. \n\n\n\nThis event will feature expert panellists at York University, including Dr. Ola Mohamed (Department of Humanities), Dr. Solomon Boakye-Yiadom (Department of Mechanical Engineering), Dr. Molade Osibodu (Faculty of Education), and Dahdaleh faculty fellow Dr. Godfred Boateng (School of Global Health). They will delve into the history of Black education and discuss the significance for Black educators. \n\n\n\nThe Harriet Tubman Institute presents the 2024 Black History Month in collaboration with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies; York University's African Studies Program; and York University's Resource Centre for Public Sociology\n\n\n\nThis event will take place in-person at York Lanes, Room 314 (Keele Campus, York University, Toronto).\n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/black-history-month-2024-black-educators-and-black-education/
LOCATION:York University
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DTSTART:20240313T170000Z
DTEND:20240313T183000Z
DTSTAMP:20240122T142000Z
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] Rooted and Rising: Co-Developing Experiential Education for Climate Leadership for Youth and Planetary Health
DESCRIPTION:\nPlease join the Rooted and Rising Lab (R+R Lab) for a reflection on co-developing a new and unique kind of education for youth climate leadership. As we collectively spiral deeper into climate and ecological collapse, a global movement is taking place, often inspired and led by youth, to make way and spiral out into just, thriving, and joyful climate futures (now). Amidst this dual spiral of collapse and regeneration, we contemplate: what might education for climate change leaders look like? How might we co-create education as a set of knowledge, practice, and relationships to reach those desired futures now?  \n\n\n\nThe R+R Lab is an intergenerational network of relationships that co-create and support climate education programs to help us remember the importance of caring for the natural world and all its biospheres and creatures. In this presentation, we will reflect on the 2nd Rooted and Rising Youth Climate Leadership Certificate program that took place in this past fall and winter 2024. The program is certified by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Faculty of Education, and various youth-serving community partners. This 13-week hybrid leadership program offers youth (aged 13-30) a space to build on their existing passions and to work and learn about climate change and ecological degradation. We will discuss our approach, showcase student projects, share lessons for theory and practice, welcome open discussion, and future collaborations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nKristen Sison, Co-Community Fellow \n\n\n\nKristen Sison (she/her) is a Filipina woman born in Scarborough, Toronto on Dish With One Spoon Treaty Territory. She is a community archivist + artist-healer in the community arts and climate justice realms, storytelling ways of embodying reverence. A founding member of grassroots groups Kapwa Collective, Conscious Minds Co-operative, and Rooted and Rising, she has been devoted to co-creating intergenerational spaces for decolonization and deep listening to commune with the sacred. With 15 years spent witnessing the evolution of these alternative community spaces, she walks with the knowing that we can and are re-imagining and living into thriving, joy-filled futures. Sometimes her work takes the shape of community publications: in 2016 she edited and self-published Womxn, about reclaiming our power and stepping into our sacred responsibilities to land and water, and in 2021 she edited and self-published It’s Bigger Than All Of Us, featuring the work of 50+ BIPOC creators reflecting on their path to wholeness. In the Spring of 2023, she designed Filipinx/a/o Farmers and Earthworkers in Tkaronto, a zine about Filipinx/a/o food sovereignty in Tkaronto, and what it means to be farming and earth working on Indigenous lands. www.bonesthrown.com ( http://www.bonesthrown.com )\n\n\n\nRoxanne Cohen, Community Fellow \n\n\n\nRoxy Cohen (she/her) is a white Jewish settler treaty person raised along Ouentironk (Lake Simcoe), now living in Tkaron:to, Dish with One Spoon Wampum Territory. Roxy is an educator and consultant (and aunty) who is dedicated to transforming the education system and uplifting cooperative community leadership for thriving and joyful futures(now). Roxy has been a climate activist since high school, and now, she creates education programs with youth and educators that re-imagine how we teach in and with climate change. At 21, she co-founded Conscious Minds Camp & Co-op – a youth-led summer camp for imagining and practicing the world we want. After many years of camp and community organizing for food sovereignty with the St. James Town Co-op, Roxy co-instigated Rooted and Rising in her PhD on Re-Storying Education in the Era of Climate Change. She is proud to now be a Community Fellow at DI, coordinating and amplifying the Rooted and Rising Lab. Roxy also trains managers and team members in Change Leadership, Mental Health, and Communication in a diversity of settings.\n\n\n\nBella Lyne, Global Health Intern \n\n\n\nBella (they/them), they are a white settler, treaty person living in Dish with One Spoon Wampum Covenant Territory, Tkaron:to. Bella has been passionate about climate and environmental justice for as long as they can remember, founding an arts-based initiative in high school that advocated for the rights of mother earth. Currently, Bella organizes in their community around issues of affordability, disability justice and climate justice. Bella joined Rooted and Rising in 2019 to help create the kind of loving community of youth climate leaders that they have always craved. Bella is honoured to continue this work as a Global Health Intern, supporting the growth of the Rooted and Rising Lab. Bella is completing a Master’s degree in communications and culture at York University. Their thesis, Networks of care: Mutual aid and Social Media Infrastructures, focuses on the challenges and possibilities that have emerged through the practice of online mutual aid throughout the covid-19 pandemic. All of Bella's work is rooted in a commitment to building movements centered in deep solidarity, and care and to living out their treaty responsibilities.\n\n\n\nKate Tilleczek, Executive Faculty Fellow \n\n\n\nKate’s ancestors came from Ireland in the 1840s to escape famine and live on Turtle Island (Prince Edward Island via New York).  Kate is a grandmother, educator, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Youth, Education & Global Good in the Faculty of Education at York University. Kate is also the Director (and founder in 2009) of the Young Lives Research Laboratory (YLRL) which has been co-created with scholars, communities, youth  and youth-serving organizations to form a unique intergenerational and intercultural space for research and communication alongside young people as they navigate the complex, digital and warming world.  Kate is leading the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing which aims to better understand how young people from various ecological and social contexts are living well and sustainably.  Together, the partners conduct research and share findings through co-development of education for youth wellbeing, attend to what and how youth most wish to learn, and share.   \n\n\n\nAndrea Bastien\n\n\n\nAndrea Bastien has an extensive, continuous, and evolving relationship with music and community engagement. She has worked with an abundance of organizations including Redwire NYM, UMAYC, Indigenous Media Arts Group, Raven Spirit Dance, imagineNATIVE, Toronto Aboriginal Youth Council, TDSB Aboriginal Education, Naadmaagit Ki Group, and Indigenous Climate Action. Some past roles: youth advocate, advisor, administrator, performer, program facilitator, & communications coordinator. Andrea is currently in her Master of Education (MEd) at York University in the Urban Indigenous Education Cohort. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 13, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nThis event has been postponed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/rooted-and-rising-co-developing-experiential-education-for-climate-leadership-for-youth/
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] Gender Inequality in Health Across Life Cycles in India, with Rajnish Prasad
DESCRIPTION:\nOn Wednesday, February 28, Dahdaleh community fellow Rajnish Prasad will provide a brief overview of gender inequity in health, followed by detailed analysis of health inequity among girls and women across life cycle in India. He will discuss the role of social and gender norms in perpetuating inequities and the health outcomes. Drawing from his own experiences working at the UN Women's Asia-Pacific Regional Office, Rajnish will share the insights gained from implementation of community-level health initiatives in India. Register below to join us in an engaging discussion about the implications of gender inequality.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nRajnish Ranjan Prasad is currently working as Programme Specialist- Gender Equality and Health & HIV/AIDS at the UN Women’s Asia-Pacific Regional Office. He has around 17 years of experience in addressing inequalities, empowering marginalized communities and providing technical support to Governments. Rajnish is working with UN Women Country Offices in the Asia Pacific region to address gender inequality in planning, and utilization of health services. He has previously worked with UNFPA and supported Government of Rajasthan, India in strengthening of large-scale programmes for holistic development of young people specially girls, addressing gender inequalities and to promote youth leadership. He has also worked with National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Government of India and managed large-scale HIV/AIDS programme.\n\n\n\nRajnish holds a Doctorate in Public Health from IIHMR University, India, a Postgraduate Certificate in Global Health from the University of Manchester, Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from University of York, Master’s in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) and Bachelor’s in Computer Application from Devi Ahilya University, Indore.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 28, at 9:30 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event is not available at this time.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/gender-inequality-in-health-across-life-cycles-in-india/
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DTSTART:20240205T170000Z
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SUMMARY:Interbeing Wellness Series - Winter 2024
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this time of intersecting crises, Interbeing Wellness emphasizes practices that acknowledges Healing Ourselves is intertwined with Healing Others and Healing our World. \n\n\n\nThe Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) will be running their signature initiative, the Interbeing Wellness series (formally known as Stress Busting), in an online format over the course of 8 weeks. The series will start Monday, February 5 and end Thursday, March 28. On Mondays and Thursdays, Harvey Skinner will lead Qi Gong practices from noon - 12:30 p.m. On Mondays, Susan Harris will lead a guided Mindfulness Meditation from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nThis series is free and open to all. No prior experience is necessary. \n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/interbeing-wellness-series-winter-2024/
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UID:MEC-6f221fcb5c504fe96789df252123770b@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240214T180000Z
DTEND:20240214T193000Z
DTSTAMP:20240110T211500Z
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SUMMARY:Bridging Gaps: Technology Supports for Learning and Wellbeing in Northern Communities, with Jennifer Corriero
DESCRIPTION:\n"Climate Change and Mental Health: Listening to the Canadian North" is a three-part seminar series organized by the Wellness Impact Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute, York University. This series focuses on the interplay between climate change and mental health, particularly in the context of the Canadian North, highlighting Indigenous perspectives.\n\n\n\nThe final session, "Bridging Gaps: Technology Supports for Learning and Wellbeing in Northern Communities," presented by Jennifer Corriero of Connected North, will focus on utilizing technology to enhance wellbeing and education within remote, Indigenous communities in the North. The session will introduce Connected North, its goals, and discuss how technology can be a vital tool in supporting communities. It will also cover effective collaboration strategies with local communities, share success stories of technological interventions, and explore future growth opportunities.\n\n\n\nIt is strongly encouraged for participants to register for the three sessions. A certificate of completion will be provided to those who attend all sessions of this seminar series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nJennifer Corriero\n\n\n\nJennifer has been a social innovator for over 20 years who has a commitment to meaningful community engagement. She is the Executive Director of TakingITGlobal, an organization she co-founded in 1999 that co-designs and delivers youth engagement programs that leverage the power of technology and creativity. She has led microgrants programs supporting community-led initiatives since 2004; and since 2015, TakingITGlobal has grown the Connected North program to offer virtual interactive learning experiences for classrooms based in remote, Indigenous communities. Jennifer holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University and has served as Adjunct Professor for the Faculty of Health at York University between 2011-2016 where she helped to launch the Agents of Change course. Currently, Jennifer is a Community Fellow working with the Wellness Impact Lab (WIL), Dahdaleh Institute at York University.\n\n\n\nWaukomaun Pawis\n\n\n\nWaukomaun is a proud member of the Ojibwe community from Wasauksing First Nation. With a background in the film and television industry, Waukomaun's passion for storytelling is deeply rooted in his cultural heritage. Whether he's helping to amplify the voices of others or sharing his own narrative, Waukomaun believes in the power of storytelling to connect, inspire, and empower.\n\n\n\nDriven by a desire to strengthen the connection between young people and their language, culture, and identity, Waukomaun is committed to providing opportunities in education. He sees himself as a facilitator, connecting youth with role models who can support them on their journey of self-discovery and growth. In his role with Connected North, Waukomaun serves as a bridge between students and classrooms across Canada, collaborating with partnering schools to provide access to Indigenous role models and educational experts. Through these connections, he strives to enrich the learning experiences and opportunities of the next generation, recognizing that youth are the cornerstone of our future.\n\n\n\nWaukomaun's dedication to nurturing the gifts of young people reflects his belief in the importance of community and cultural preservation. He is committed to creating a brighter future by empowering youth to embrace their heritage, pursue their passions, and make a positive impact on the world around them.\n\n\n\nJennifer Manitowabi \n\n\n\nJennifer is a mother of 3 who enjoys working from home in Lac Seul First Nation as a Connected North Community Lead. She has teaching experience in a variety of schools and in a variety of classrooms. As a Connected North Provider Jennifer teaches about the Ojibway Jingle Dress and Ojibway Floral Drawing. Jennifer has worked as a teacher, a principal, an education director and an executive director for Northern Nishnawbe Education Council that assists 21 northern Ontario First Nations to reach post secondary achievements. She is currently pursuing her PhD studies at Lakehead University. \n\n\n\nEileen Beaver\n\n\n\nEileen, is a Dene language specialist who grew up in the hair of Denendeh, in the community of Rocher River. Her first languages are Denesuline and Latin, though her presentations are done in English. She’s been a K-12 language teacher for 25 years. She is the lead actor, translator, an Elder advisor behind the Three Feathers movie production. She has worked with Connected North as a Content Provider and an Elder in Residence over the past year and a half. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 14, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/bridging-gaps-technology-supports-for-learning-and-wellbeing-in-northern-communities/
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SUMMARY:Bridging Worlds: Insights from Nunavut to Personal Reflections on Identity and Culture, with Sara Ferwati
DESCRIPTION:\n"Climate Change and Mental Health: Listening to the Canadian North" is a three-part seminar series organized by the Wellness Impact Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute, York University. This series focuses on the interplay between climate change and mental health, particularly in the context of the Canadian North, highlighting Indigenous perspectives.\n\n\n\nThe second session, titled "Bridging Worlds: Insights from Nunavut to Personal Reflections on Identity and Culture," led by Sara Ferwati, will explore the connection between land, culture, and mental health in Nunavut through epidemiological evidence and frameworks. This session will draw on these frameworks to identify parallels between the cultural experiences of Inuit Nunavut and those of Syrians, offering a unique cross-cultural perspective. Through this, the session will effectively link these diverse experiences to wider discussions about mental health, cultural identity, and the impact of environmental changes.\n\n\n\nIt is strongly encouraged for participants to register for the three sessions. A certificate of completion will be provided to those who attend all sessions of this seminar series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nSara Ferwati is a mental health epidemiologist based in Nunavut, Canada. Her work focuses on developing health indicators and crafting integrated monitoring tools to enhance the understanding and management of mental health needs in the region. Sara's passion extends beyond her role in public health to encompass climate action. She co-founded Climatable, a Montreal-based non-profit organization, dedicated to promoting Canadian participation in climate initiatives. Currently, Sara is investigating the effects of the climate crisis on mental health through her Community Fellowship at the Wellness Impact Lab, Dahdaleh Institute, York University, and a project funded by Canada's Art Council. This project specifically examines the mental health impacts of climate change on Syrian immigrants, effectively combining Sara's professional expertise with her personal experiences as a Syrian immigrant. Sara holds Master's degrees in Public Health and Biochemistry from McGill University.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 7, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/bridging-worlds-insights-from-nunavut/
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SUMMARY:Voices from the Land: Inuit Perspectives on Tradition, Change, and the Future
DESCRIPTION:\n"Climate Change and Mental Health: Listening to the Canadian North" is a three-part seminar series organized by the Wellness Impact Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute, York University. This series focuses on the interplay between climate change and mental health, particularly in the context of the Canadian North, highlighting Indigenous perspectives.\n\n\n\n"Voices from the Land: Inuit Perspectives on Tradition, Change, and the Future," is the first session of this series and will feature the insights of Becky Han, Bernice Kootoo Clarke, and Michael Kusugak, in a discussion moderated by Jennifer Corrierro, Sara Ferwati, and Harvey Skinner. The session will focus on Inuit perspectives on wellbeing, exploring the views of Elders and Knowledge Keepers on youth engagement with tradition and climate challenges. It will also examine the changing relationship between the Inuit and their land due to colonization and climate change, and discuss the preservation and transmission of Indigenous knowledge.\n\n\n\nIt is strongly encouraged for participants to register for the three sessions. A certificate of completion will be provided to those who attend all sessions of this seminar series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nBecky Han - Musician and Children’s Book Author \n\n\n\nBecky (Koonoo) Han is an Inuk singer-songwriter who grew up in Arctic Bay, Nunavut.  Believing that music is a creative and educational outlet, she enjoys writing most of her work in Inuktitut. She published a children's book, The Bee, an adventure across Nunavut which is available in Inuktitut and English and is a recipient of multiple awards at both the Nunavut Department of Culture and Heritage’s Qilaut Inuktut children’s songwriting contest (2016 and 2019) and at the Qikiatani Inuit Association’s Inuktitut song/poem contest (2018 and 2019).  As a Content Provider with the Connected North program, Becky has enjoyed storytelling and sharing live music while playing the guitar and singing along with students.   \n\n\n\nBernice Kootoo Clarke - Founder of Uasau Soap\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Iqaluit Nunavut, Bernice Kootoo Clarke has a passion for preserving and sharing Inuit culture through her home-based business Uasau Soap Inc. She enjoys making and selling all-natural bath and body products while integrating Inuit teachings and traditional knowledge into her products to teach and preserve her culture. Uasau Soap uses cultural healing in a modern way to help ease skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, dry skin and scalp. Bernice incorporates Bowhead whale and Nuna into her products, allowing many Inuit across the Arctic and throughout Canada to ease their pain from skin conditions. While running Uasau Soap, Bernice has had the opportunity to participate in dialogues with other Indigenous entrepreneurs.\n\n\n\nMichael Kusugak - Elder and Storyteller \n\n\n\nMichael Kusugak grew up in Naujaat, Nunavut. During his childhood, his family travelled by dog sled, living a traditional Inuit lifestyle. He is the author of twelve children's books, including: The Littlest Sled Dog, The Curse of the Shaman, T is for Territories, Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails, winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award; Hide and Seek; My Arctic 1, 2, 3; and Baseball Bats for Christmas; and was co-writer of A Promise Is a Promise (with Robert Munsch). Michael is listed on the National Speakers Bureau and has delivered over 200 virtual education sessions with K-12 students across northern, remote Indigenous communities as part of the Connected North program. \n\n\n\nJennifer Corrierro - Community Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research\n\n\n\nJennifer Corriero has been a social innovator for over 20 years who has a commitment to meaningful community engagement. She is the Executive Director of TakingITGlobal, an organization she co-founded in 1999 that co-designs and delivers youth engagement programs that leverage the power of technology and creativity.\n\n\n\nSara Ferwati - Community Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research\n\n\n\nSara Ferwati is a mental health epidemiologist based in Nunavut, Canada. Her work focuses on developing health indicators and crafting integrated monitoring tools to enhance the understanding and management of mental health needs in the region.\n\n\n\nHarvey Skinner - Senior Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research\n\n\n\nProfessor Emeritus of Psychology & Global Health and Founding Dean (2006-2016) Faculty of Health, York University. Harvey is co-lead with Susan Harris of the Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) at the Dahdaleh Institute, and co-leads the ‘Interbeing Wellness’ Qi Gong (Tai Chi) and Mindfulness Meditation online practices series.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 31, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/voices-from-the-land-inuit-perspectives/
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DTSTART:20240117T180000Z
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SUMMARY:Advancing Patient-Centered Access to Tuberculosis Healthcare in Low and Middle-Income Countries, with Charity Oga-Omenka
DESCRIPTION:\nTuberculosis (TB) treatment is not only about medical interventions but encompasses various social, economic, and psychological aspects. Patients in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) often face numerous barriers to accessing healthcare, including financial constraints, limited infrastructure, and social stigmas. \n\n\n\nOn January 17, Professor Oga-Omenka (University of Waterloo) will speak on how a patient-centered approach acknowledges these challenges, emphasizing individual needs and preferences. It prioritizes the patient's voice and fosters a more inclusive, compassionate, and respectful healthcare environment. In settings where resources may be limited, a patient-centered approach also aims to optimize the allocation of healthcare resources, ensuring that interventions are efficient and effective, reducing unnecessary costs and enhancing the overall quality of care. In this exciting seminar, Professor Oga-Omenka will present insights and lessons from her research in several high-burden TB countries.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Charity Oga-Omenka is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences. Her research interests focus on global public health, healthcare access and services research - particularly related to infectious diseases like tuberculosis, HIV and COVID-19, social determinants of health and the intersections between health inequities - using mixed methods research. She is invested in research that focuses on transformative conceptual frameworks and methods to address the inequalities and underutilization of evidence-based approaches in global public health - particularly in resource-limited settings or with marginalized groups, one that will reflect on socioeconomic diversity in population health.\n\n\n\nOriginally from Nigeria, Charity moved to Canada in 2015 with her family, to start her PhD at the Université de Montréal, after which she did a postdoctoral fellowship at the McGill University. Charity has over 15 years of experience working in managing large scale projects in TB/HIV, as well as maternal and child health in Nigeria, Uganda, South Sudan, India, and Indonesia. She earned an MPH degree from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 17, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n\n\n\n \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/advancing-patient-centered-access-to-tuberculosis-healthcare-in-lmics/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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DTSTART:20240124T180000Z
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SUMMARY:Decentralized Water Markets and Seasonality in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with Brian Waters
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this seminar, Brian Waters (PhD Candidate in Geography, York University) will explore the water markets of the informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In Freetown, there are twelve distinct types of water sources that those in the informal settlements could choose from, and this research project sought to understand these choices so that future projects can be rooted in the consumers' preferences and habits. The survey results showed a distinct change in water sources by season, indicating how vital a temporal component is to understanding and improving water sources. This project also worked with local disaster management organizations to map and inventory water sources in 8 communities across Freetown and recorded various characteristics of each. \n\n\n\nWaters' presentation will be an engaging, narrative journey through this project's research and discovery process, ending with key insights and findings. He hopes that by deeply understanding existing systems, researchers and practitioners may develop culturally sensitive and community-based projects that will steadily and sustainably improve water resources and their management.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Material:\n\n\n\nDecentralized Water Markets Research Summary\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nBrian Waters is a dedicated scholar and practitioner with a diverse academic and professional background. He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Studies and Non-profit Leadership, which strongly influences his inclusive and communication-based research interests. He earned Master’s degrees in both Urban Planning and Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois, where he graduated as a Fulbright scholar.\n\n\n\nCurrently, he is pursuing his PhD in Geography at York University, where he aims to lead the academic field in decolonial research practices and decentralized water sources (wells, boreholes, packaged water, etc.) throughout the Global South. He is currently designing his PhD research project that will provide evidence-based guidance to organizations grappling with the question of water source ownership, control, and administration. At the core of Brian's work is his passion for participatory action research. He firmly believes in the power of collaboration and leverages research as a tool to benefit all actors involved in water security. Over the years, Brian has led numerous studies and development projects covering a broad spectrum of topics, including urban transportation, energy access, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, and access to clean drinking water.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 24, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistrations for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/decentralized-water-markets-and-seasonality-in-freetown/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-2d13d901966a8eaa7f9c943eba6a540b@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240110T180000Z
DTEND:20240110T190000Z
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SUMMARY:Predicting Adaptations to Rapid Climate Velocities in Canadian Fishing Communities, with Sherif Shuaib
DESCRIPTION:\nCommunities along Canada's three coastlines heavily rely on the $3,500 million marine aquaculture and fishery sectors, but the changing climate threatens their viability. It makes adaptation to climate change in fisheries increasingly critical in the international setup. As ocean conditions are expected to undergo dramatic shifts, including significant changes in sea surface temperatures, ocean acidification levels, ocean currents, weather patterns, and overall ecosystem dynamics, governments must enact proactive measures to address the impacts on fish populations, marine resource sustainability, and the livelihoods of coastal communities. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar, graduate scholar Sherif Shuaib will be sharing the results of his research where he investigates the relationship between fishing and climate velocity, with a specific focus on its effects on marine fish abundance and distribution. He and his research team seeks to understand how fishers and fishing communities adapt to variations in species ranges while identifying incentives that promote the sustainability of marine life and economic stability in the context of climate change. Through a systemic review of 4956 articles research published between 2012 and 2022, they discovered a strong correlation between climate change and habitat modification, significantly impacting multiple fish species. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about this extrapolative research method, join us to gain insights to uncover any knowledge gaps related to fish distribution and abundance in Canadian waters. This research aims to inform policies and strategies that can help safeguard the future of these vital industries and the communities they support in the face of ongoing climate change.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nSherif Shuaib embarked on his academic journey at the Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria, where he earned a Bachelor of Technology in Mathematics/Computer Science in 2014. He later pursued his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics at the Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, completing it in 2020. During his time in Thailand, Sherif also contributed as an editor at the Publication Unit on the Pattani Campus of the same university. He is currently pursuing doctoral research at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, where he specializes in exploring the multifaceted repercussions of environmental stressors on marine species distribution and abundance using mathematical approaches and machine learning methodologies.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 10, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/predicting-adaptations-to-rapid-climate-velocities-in-canadian-fishing-communities/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-8123b781e08f4d9e89ea88f53e6431a9@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20231128T210000Z
DTEND:20231129T010000Z
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SUMMARY:220 Years of Ayiti: Freedom without Emancipation. Symposium on the Haitian Revolution Across Time, Cultures, & Geographies
DESCRIPTION:\nYou are invited to participate in an in-person only symposium on Tuesday, November 28 at 4 p.m. ET about the Haitian Revolution across time, cultures, and geographies.\n\n\n\nThe event will bring together scholars, activists, and artists to reflect on the legacy of the Haitian Revolution as a world historical event that transformed Enlightenment thought and inspired liberation movements since.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe keynote address will be delivered in French by Frantz Voltaire, a Montreal-based author, activist and the founder of the Centre International de Documentation et d'Information Haïtienne, Caribéenne et Afro-Canadienne (CIDIHCA). His address will be followed by a panel discussion made up of York University faculty members and community members: Djiny Saint Jean, Panelist | Founder, Haitians of Toronto; Steeve Toussaint, Panelist | Student in Computer Science, York University; and Célia Romulus, Panelist | Assistant Professor, Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. The panel will deliberate in English, moderated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, former inaugural Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness to the President of the Republic of Haiti.\n\n\n\nThe final items of the symposium include a Q&A session followed by a cocktail-style reception with culturally specific Haitian cuisine for networking and further discussion.\n\n\n\nBy exploring topics ranging from the Haitian Revolution, contemporary socio-political issues, and the contributions of the Haitian diaspora, 220 Years of Ayiti will promote a meaningful dialogue on Haiti, in accordance with the mandates of event sponsors Jean Augustine Chair in Education and Diaspora, the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), and Blackhurst Academy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information, please visit, https://220yearsofayiti.ca/\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/220-years-of-ayiti/
LOCATION:York University
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DTSTART:20231213T160000Z
DTEND:20231213T173000Z
DTSTAMP:20231109T150000Z
CREATED:20231109
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:18
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SUMMARY:4th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the 4th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium to learn more about some of the groundbreaking research being conducted at the Dahdaleh Institute. This year, four accomplished Dahdaleh graduate scholars will share the progress of their funded research projects in line with the Institute's three themes (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting). The exciting presentation lineup include:\n\n\n\nAlexandra Scott – The Myth of “Good Enough”: Law, Engineering, and Autonomous Weapons SystemsCaroline Duncan – An Insight Into Water Quality Data in Cambridge Bay, Gaps and Future Steps Eyram Agbe – Digital Deprivation: COVID-19, Education, and Teacher Health in GhanaNawang Yanga – TB in Tibetan Refugee Settlements in India: What We Know and What Is Missing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, December 13, at 11 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event.\n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/4th-annual-global-health-graduate-scholars-symposium/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-a8d3b1e36a14da038a06f675d1693dd8@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240221T180000Z
DTEND:20240221T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20231031T164500Z
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PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Invasive Aquatic Weeds Biomass Briquette Production for Cooking: Implications on Health and Livelihood, with Reginald Quansah
DESCRIPTION:\nDr. Reginald Quansah's research group conducts work on producing biomass briquettes from invasive aquatic weeds for use as cooking fuel. In this seminar, he will discuss health and livelihood implications as well as his preliminary findings from this project.\n\n\n\nInvasive aquatic weeds (IQW), particularly water hyacinth, are a significant problem in Ghana, causing water quality issues and disrupting ecosystems by affecting fish health, abundance, and aquatic biodiversity, as well as the phytoplankton population (Kusemiju, 2002). They release methane into the environment through a process called methanogenesis. The growth of weeds also causes algal blooms, causing fish mortality. The dense and massive growth of weeds is responsible for floods and diseases such as malaria, typhoid, and schistosomiasis in riparian communities. Fishermen, and particularly women fish traders, have experienced a significant reduction in their trade.\n\n\n\nRiparian populations have turned to manual removal of weeds, which has grown to be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Aquatic weeds, especially water hyacinth, have a number of beneficial uses. These include the production of biogas, paper, organic fertilizers, fiber, human food, and animal feed, as well as the treatment of wastewater (e.g., Sawyerr et al., 2019; Sürmen & Kara, 2021). With the advancement of technology, biomass briquettes for commercial, industrial, and residential usage have been produced from a variety of biomass materials, including agricultural leftovers, sawdust, wood, coconut husk, industrial and municipal waste, and wheat straw. Aquatic weeds have a high energy efficiency because of their high proteins and fat composition. The vast availability and fast rate of reproduction of aquatic weeds make them a great substitute for conventional fossil fuels.\n\n\n\nHigh-quality biomass fuel briquettes made from invasive aquatic weeds can offer a low-cost alternative domestic fuel and help low-income riparian families prepare safe and nutritious meals. Converting invasive aquatic weeds into briquettes would also offer employment opportunities and income to youth and women. Register for this seminar to learn more about this valuable opportunity to address the menace of invasive aquatic weeds and domestic dirty fuel challenges in poor resource settings in LMICs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nReginald Quansah is an environmental epidemiologist. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. education from the Lulea University of Technology and the University of Birmingham, respectively, and postdoctoral training at the Centre for Environment and Respiratory Health Research (CERH), Oulu University of Technology (Finland). His research generally focuses on children and women's environmental health, assessing exposures in vulnerable populations like mothers, children, low-income communities, and occupational workers. Specifically, he is interested in assessing the impact of environmental exposures in homes and at schools and the health impacts of pesticides, air pollution, and climate change on vulnerable populations. He also seeks to take his research a step further by designing and implementing interventions that mitigates environmental exposures, particularly household air pollution, and minimizes the risk of potential adverse health outcomes.\n\n\n\nReginald worked closely with the WHO in the development of a training manual on air pollution and health for clinicians and as a resource person for WHO training on building health workforce capacity on air pollution and health (both online and in person in Ghana). He served as a member of the WHO External Review Group (ERG) for the update of the WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines. He led the development of a curriculum for a M.Sc. program in Environment and Public Health at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology—African Institute of Sanitation and Waste Management (K-AISWAM). \n\n\n\nHe has participated in several national and international forum talks on climate change and clean cooking technology. He is a member of Ghana's National Technical Committee for Environmental Management. He serves on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Environmental Health and PLoS Global Public Health.\n\n\n\nBefore joining the School of Public Health, Reginald was leading systematic review and meta-analysis projects at CERH. He has led several international systematic reviews and meta-analyses projects, published in high-impact factor journals. Reginald was part of a team that conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses to support the WHO's new recommendation for the management and eradication of human schistosomiasis.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 21, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistrations for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/invasive-aquatic-weeds-biomass-briquette-production-for-cooking/
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DTSTART:20231122T180000Z
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SUMMARY:HPV Vaccine Access and Cervical Cancer Policymaking Process in Ghana, Rwanda, and Canada, with Eric Asempah
DESCRIPTION:\nCervical cancer is a global health issue that claims over 600,000 lives yearly. The number of those deaths are disproportionately concentrated in underserved regions, with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) bearing a significant burden of global cervical cancer cases are reported. Yet, the prophylactic vaccines that can prevent HPV-related cervical cancer, is currently not easily accessible in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). \n\n\n\nGraduate scholar Eric Asempah has successfully defended his PhD dissertation in the Faculty of Health, School of Health Policy & Management. In this presentation, he will share his research on HPV vaccination policymaking and priority setting using the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as a marker. Through a comparative case study looking at Canada, Rwanda, and Ghana he seeks to understand the convergence and divergence in policymaking and the context within which the HPV vaccine and cervical cancer program were planned, formulated, and organized for implementation as a health intervention instrument to a major public problem. Eric's research aims to facilitate access to life-saving vaccines in underserved regions by leveraging creative approaches to effectively address a public health problem, with or without plentiful resources.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nEric is a health policy researcher and pharmaceutical professional with over 14 years of industry experience and has a deep passion and interest in public health policy and equity. He engages in research that focuses on innovative policy models and frameworks that support public policymaking process and health equity. His current research is on HPV vaccination policymaking and priority setting to promote access to life-saving vaccines in underserved regions. Eric is also a graduate scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 22, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistrations for the event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/hpv-vaccine-access-and-cervical-cancer-policymaking-process/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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DTSTART:20231124T150000Z
DTEND:20231124T213000Z
DTSTAMP:20231026T160400Z
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SUMMARY:Planetary Health for a Planetary Emergency Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nHuman activity is pushing ecological limits to a breaking point, and climate change is a fundamental threat to human life.\n\n\n\nNow more than ever we need to draw clear associations between climate change and health, develop critical problem-solving interventions, and advocate for climate action that advances wellbeing for all. How do we do this while holding a critical view of the systems and structures which have led us into this climate catastrophe, including the ideologies of colonialism and capitalism that underpin the modern era? How do we advance effective and equitable solutions for planetary health that work against these systems and structures instead of upholding them?\n\n\n\nThis symposium on critical planetary health brings together scholars from the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and across York University who work at the intersection of climate change and health, to discuss the potentials of planetary health as a driver of just climate action. This event will also launch the Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Research Council which supports a collaborative research community of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students committed to planetary health research at York University and beyond. \n\n\n\nThis symposium will be held in-person at York University (Keele campus). The event will also be streamed on Zoom.\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the symposium\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\nAll times are listed in the Eastern Time zone\n\n\n\n10:00                                      Introduction10:20Panel 1: Water   This panel explores the role water plays at the confluence of environmental and human health. Speakers will discuss efforts to support vital biological and social functions of water in the face of our rapidly changing climate and how such efforts might be positioned to work towards more just, sustainable, and integrated water management.NoonCatered lunch 13:00Panel 2: Land   This panel examines the role of land in achieving planetary health, taking a wide view across issues of food security, extractivism, urbanization, and conservation. This includes examples of how land is inherently interconnected with people and the environment and how access to land and tenure rights are themselves a determinant of human and environmental health.14:30Break14:45Panel 3: Air   This last panel addresses how air is brought into our approaches to planetary health, drawing together a range of fields related to emissions reduction, human well-being, air pollution, and climate adaptation. Speakers will consider how air pollution disproportionately impacts low income and marginalized populations as well as the climate policy synergies of tackling air pollution that both damages health and impairs ecosystems.16:15Closing comments16:30 Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:10px;}.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;background:#ffffff;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);}.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > 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.kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{color:#444444;background:#ffffff;border-top-color:#eeeeee;border-right-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom-color:#eeeeee;border-left-color:#0e9cd1;}.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basiccircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclosecircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrowcircle )  > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basiccircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclosecircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrowcircle )  > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before{background:#444444;}.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger{background:#444444;}.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before{background:#ffffff;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{display:block;}.kt-accordion-id_64f2f8-5b .kt-accordion-inner-wrap .kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:10px;}}\n\nWater\n\n\n\n\nByomkesh Talukder is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Global Health at Florida International University. In this role, he teaches courses on planetary and global health and is also engaged in significant research projects concerning planetary health across continents, including Asia, Africa, and North America. Before stepping into his current position, Dr. Talukder was an Inaugural Planetary Health Research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University. At York, he spearheaded research on planetary health, health impacts of climate change, and the sustainability of food and agriculture systems utilizing systems thinking tools such as multi-criteria decision analysis, system dynamics, agent-based modeling, and index. He also has two decades of interdisciplinary field research and education experience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeborah McGregor is a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice and a Professor cross-appointed with Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change at York University. She is at the forefront of Indigenous environmental justice research as well as Indigenous research theory and practice. Her work has focused on Indigenous knowledge systems and their various applications in diverse contexts including water and environmental governance, environmental justice, climate justice, and Indigenous research theory and methodologies. She spends a great deal of time engaging students in her work and supporting them in their own, with significant focus in the following: Indigenous climate justice, food security/sovereignty, Indigenous legal orders/governance, water justice/governance, Indigenous knowledges systems, rights of nature/legal personhood, conservation and sustainability.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImran Ali is a Research Fellow in Global Health and Humanitarianism at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. He is an aid worker and academic focused on humanitarian challenges at the intersection of environment and public health. He has worked in emergency responses and led operational research with Médecins Sans Frontières and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in South Sudan, Pakistan, Jordan, Rwanda, and Uganda. Dr. Ali has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Development Impact Lab and the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Dr. Ali received his doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph and his bachelor’s in engineering from Queen’s University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSapna Sharma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at York University and York Research Chair in Global Change Biology. Her research highlights how lakes worldwide respond to climate change, including rapid ice loss, warming water temperatures, degrading water quality, and changing fish distributions. Her research has led to an induction to the Royal Society of Canada – College of New Scholars, named one of Canada's Top 10 Women Water Scientists, a prestigious Ontario Government Early Researcher Award, and York University President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award. She is a dedicated science communicator and is the founder of SEEDS, an outreach program for refugees. For her commitment to science outreach, she was invited to serve as Vice-Chair for the Royal Canadian Institute for Science and awarded the Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs Science Promotion Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerated by:\n\n\n\nCaroline Diana Duncan is a PhD candidate in civil engineering with a strong focus on optimizing drinking water in the Arctic using participatory approaches to system dynamics modelling. She is also a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar. As part of the Lassonde School of Engineering, and under the guidance of Prof. Stephanie Gora, her research seeks to understand the complex factors that affect the quality and accessibility of drinking water in the Arctic using an interdisciplinary approach. Through her research, Caroline will work closely with the Municipality of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, collaborating with community members, government, and NGO stakeholders involved with drinking water from source to tap. Through this collaboration, a model will be developed to test treatment and policy interventions to optimize drinking water safety. \n\n\n\n\nLand\n\n\n\n\nDayna N. Scott is an Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice with Osgoode Hall Law School at York University where she is also cross appointed with the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. She is a Co-Director of Osgoode’s Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic and a Co-Coordinator of the joint MES/JD program. Her research interests focus on contestation over extraction; exercises of Indigenous jurisdiction over lands and resources; the distribution of pollution burdens affecting marginalized communities and vulnerable populations; gender and environmental health; and the justice dimensions of the transition to a greener economy. Professor Scott is currently the co-Principal Investigator, along with Professor Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark at the University of Victoria, of a SSHRC New Frontiers in Research Fund project called “Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism.”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Stinson is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health Education at York University, cross appointed to the Faculty of Education and the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research. He is a cultural, environmental and public anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. His research explores intersections of Indigenous-led conservation, digital media and technologies, and nature-based recreation in efforts to preserve biodiversity and promote planetary health. Building on over a decade of engaged research with Indigenous Maya communities and conservation organizations in Belize, his current research examines how digital surveillance technologies and artificial intelligence – including the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) – are impacting environmental governance and shifting relations of power in and around parks and protected areas.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaphael Aguiar is a PhD Candidate in the Health Policy and Equity program at York University and a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar. His interests revolve around the design and management of global health programs and interventions and the global health impact of recent patterns of urbanization, the climate crisis, and accelerated human activity. His current research focuses on urban political ecologies of One Health and the governance of antimicrobial resistance and other emerging global health threats. Raphael has over a decade of experience in the field in Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East leading projects in both humanitarian and development settings, including with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and at the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordination Office in Cameroon.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Rotz is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Her academic and organizing work is grounded in environmental justice, with a focus on land and food systems. Her research aims to situate political economic processes within a lens of settler colonial patriarchy and racial capitalism. Sarah’s work has focused on topics ranging from the political economy and ecology of farmland tenure and critical perspectives of big data in agriculture, to the ways that settler colonial logics and gendered narratives uphold extractive practices and relationships on the land. Her recent work draws from decolonial, feminist and community-based methodologies with ongoing community-based work with various organizations and campaigns including food and farmer’s associations, fossil fuel divestment, as well as climate justice and food sovereignty movements.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerated by:\n\n\n\nNilanjana (Nell) Ganguli is a PhD student in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. She is also a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar. Her doctoral research focuses on modelling the gendered health impacts of climate change in Malawi using a combination of community participatory methods and soft systems methodologies. Nell worked in the mining sector for six years in West Africa, where she was involved in multiple facets of the business, including HR, communications, and corporate social responsibility. Nell is passionate about global health equity and gender equality and aspires to develop interventions to promote male participation in women’s roles in climate change adaptation. She is currently working as the project manager for the Dahdaleh Institute project, Complex Adaptive Modelling of the Health Impacts of Climate Change in Malawi\n\n\n\n\nAir\n\n\n\n\nCora Young is an Associate Professor and the Rogers Chair in Chemistry at York University. Her research group focuses on the development and application of new analytical techniques to increase our understanding of issues in air quality, climate change, and pollutant transport. Her team has been funded by numerous agencies, including the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council and Environment and Climate Change Canada. She has received several awards, including the 2022 Chemical Institute of Canada Environment Division Early Career Award, as well as being named to Chemical and Engineering News’ “Talented 12” in 2019. Work from her group has been featured by numerous media outlets, including CBC (Nature of Things, Quirks and Quarks), CTV, and the BBC.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric B. Kennedy is an Associate Professor and area coordinator of the Disaster and Emergency Management program at York University. His work focuses on the social dimensions of hazards and emergencies. His research group - the Collaboration on Emergency Management, Preparedness, and Policy Research - helps advance our understanding of decision-making, policy, expertise, and research methods in disaster contexts. He conducts extensive work in the context of wildfire management, exploring how communities and responders can better prepare for a changing climate and increasing fire load. He has also led a national COVID-19 monitoring project, tracking the public attitudes, risk perceptions, and knowledge related to the pandemic. In all his work, he focuses on producing research that addresses real-world needs, supports government decision-making, and helps create a safer and more equitable world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJean-Thomas Tremblay is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at York University and holds graduate appointments in Humanities, English, Social and Political Thought, and Science and Technology Studies. His interdisciplinary research and teaching span the environmental humanities, sexuality studies, literary studies, and film studies, and concentrate on the overlapping environmental, economic, and political crises of the 1970s to the present while recovering the longer histories of nature writing and the life sciences. Dr. Tremblay’s first monograph, Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022), investigates aesthetic responses to a “crisis in breathing” marked by the intensified pollution, weaponization, and monetization of the air. Breathing Aesthetics contends that breathing has emerged as a medium that configures embodiment and experience as effects of biopolitical and necropolitical forces—forces that optimize certain lives and trivialize or attack others.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerated by: \n\n\n\nHillary Birch is a PhD student in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, where she is a SSHRC doctoral fellow. She is also a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar. Her PhD explores how projects of global health intersect with processes of urbanization in Lusaka, Zambia, specifically how water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions shape flows of water in the city and change its quality. She aims to support the execution of WASH projects that both improve immediate health outcomes and deliver safe WASH services for all. This includes ensuring WASH interventions support plans, institutions, and infrastructures that promote climate resilience. Hillary has previously studied the urban governance of Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, and she has worked in various roles in global health and knowledge mobilization.\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\n\nLina Brand Correa is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her areas of research and teaching interest have “travelled” through the whole energy chain: from exploring issues of energy extraction to exploring issues of why we use energy in the way we do. She finds the potential for political economy and wellbeing frameworks to unlock alternative routes to decoupling beyond technological fixes and efficiency improvements particularly promising. Such frameworks involve considering what energy demand is for and critically analysing the social-technical systems that influence our relationship with energy. They also involve questioning how and why we consume the things we do, including energy, and to reconsider whether our current way of things doing enables or hinders or wellbeing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Friday, November 24 at 10 a.m.\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the symposium\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event.\n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/planetary-health-for-a-planetary-emergency-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Interbeing Wellness Series - Fall 2023
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this time of intersecting crises, Interbeing Wellness emphasizes practices that acknowledges Healing Ourselves is intertwined with Healing Others and Healing our World. \n\n\n\nThe Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) will be running their signature initiative, the Interbeing Wellness series (formally known as Stress Busting), in an online format over the course of 8 weeks. The series will start Monday, October 23 and end Thursday, December 14. On Mondays and Thursdays, Harvey Skinner will lead Qi Gong practices from noon - 12:30 p.m. On Mondays, Susan Harris will lead a guided Mindfulness Meditation from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nThis series is free and open to all. No prior experience is necessary. \n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2023-fall-interbeing-wellness-series/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Course - Winter 2024
DESCRIPTION:\nSystematic review and meta-analysis techniques produce precise estimates of empirical studies to address issues that are pertinent for policy, practice, and future study. The application can also reveal unnoticed patterns in the results of previous studies, producing new insights. For these reasons, there has been an increase in the use of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the social, medical, and natural sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by Dahdaleh faculty fellow Godfred Boateng and facilitated by Dr. Reginald Quansah, this four-day course will discuss the fundamentals methods in systematic reviews and meta-analysis. It will include a series of lectures, exercises, group discussions, and supervised statistical training sessions.\n\n\n\nThis is a non-degree course is appropriate for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and senior researchers who have interest in evidence synthesis. Participants should have completed introductory courses in research methods and statistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\nSystematic review and meta-analysis method research is extremely useful in the era where a huge amount of research is produced each year, often with conflicting findings. In those instances, it can offer scientifically sound and powerful alternatives that can overcome the difficulties in addressing bias, heterogeneity and quality of the studies. However, often a poorly conducted systematic review and meta-analysis could yield misleading results. Therefore, various guidelines have been suggested to help standardized the independent study findings and to improve quality research. \n\n\n\nIn this course, participants will gain a better understanding of systematic review and meta-analysis and gain the following skills:\n\n\n\nRecognize features of systematic reviews and meta-analyses as a research designIdentify the elements of a well-defined review questionUnderstand and develop search strategiesPerform a comprehensive search for relevant studiesManage the results of systematic searchesExtract data and assess risk of bias of included studiesUnderstand and carry out quantitative analysis of extracted dataApply the methodology and conduct reviews independently\n\n\n\nCertificate will be issued upon completion.\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions, please email Godfred Boateng ( mailto: gboaten@yorku.ca )\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, February 20 at 9:00 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/introduction-to-systematic-review-meta-analysis-course/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Creating and Resisting  the Humanitarian-Development Complex, with Agnieszka Sobocinska
DESCRIPTION:\nHumanitarianism and international development arose in different contexts: modern humanitarianism is often traced back through the nineteenth century to abolition campaigns, whereas international development is typically traced back to colonial development schemes of the early 20th century. What is significant, however, is that humanitarianism and international development both have roots in empire. The colonial context is significant for contemporary practitioners as it reveals the unequal power dynamics through which both fields were structured. Dr. Agnieszka Sobocinska's research examines the history of international development and humanitarianism, to provide critical context for discussions about equity in contemporary public health.\n\n\n\nSince the 1950s, humanitarianism and international development have been increasingly intertwined. In Dr. Sobocinska's last book, Saving the World? Western volunteers and the rise of the humanitarian-development complex (Cambridge University Press, 2021), she argued that humanitarian and international development merged into a nexus of governments, NGOs, private corporations and public opinion that encouraged continuous and accelerating intervention in the Global South. This conglomerate was a powerful force, but her current research is discovering historical instances of resistance to foreign aid projects, including in the field of public health, across the Global South. On November 16, Dr. Sobocinska will explore how an understanding of historical resistance to foreign aid projects can contribute to contemporary praxis in public health.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Agnieszka Sobocinska is Reader in International History and Historical Geography and Director of the Menzies Australia Institute at King’s College London. She is a historian of international development, North-South contacts, and Australia-Asia relations. Her books include Saving the World? Western volunteers and the rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia (UNSW Press, 2014). Her current research explores historical challenges to foreign aid intervention across the Global South.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Thursday, November 16, at 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/creating-and-resisting-the-humanitarian-development-complex/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Youth, Health and Life in Masiphumelele, with Asiphe Ntshongontshi
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Global Strategy Lab and Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research are delighted to host a conversation between Alison Humphrey and Asiphe Ntshongontshi (Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre) on Youth, Health, & Life in Masiphumelele, South Africa – Asiphe will share stories about her journey from being a student to firsthand experiences in the field of global health.  \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Friday, October 20, at 1 P.M. ET. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker – Asiphe Ntshongontshi\n\n\n\nAfter completing high school, Asiphe Ntshongontshi dedicated her time to making a difference as a peer health intern at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre in the township of Masiphumelele, located in the southern area of Cape Town, South Africa. Following her internship, Asiphe worked for three years with the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) as a research assistant on clinical trials in Masiphumelele, including COVID vaccine trials. \n\n\n\nSince 2011, the DTHF Youth Centre has provided adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, educational and recreational activities for thousands of young people aged 12-23, though vital funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is now in jeopardy.  \n\n\n\nBefore the pandemic, Asiphe collaborated on the arts-based vaccine project Shadowpox with Alison Humphrey, now a research fellow at York University’s Global Strategy Lab.\n\n\n\nModerator – Alison Humphrey\n\n\n\nAlison Humphrey plays with story across drama, digital media, and education. Since starting out as an intern at Marvel Comics, she has directed classical and live-mocapped interactive theatre, produced alternate reality games, and written transmedia television.\n\n\n\nA PhD candidate (ABD) in York University’s Department of Cinema and Media Arts, her research-creation dissertation, titled “The Shadowpox Storyworld as Citizen Science Fiction: Building Co-Immunity through Participatory Mixed-Reality Storytelling,” involves a mixed-reality storyworld co-created with young people on three continents, imagining immunization through a superhero metaphor.\n\n\n\nHer ongoing research interests include applying this “citizen science fiction” methodology to the social challenges of vaccination, antimicrobial resistance, and climate change.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information, please visit, globalstrategylab.org/events\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/youth-health-and-life-in-masiphumelele/
LOCATION:York University
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DTSTART:20231004T190000Z
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SUMMARY:Impacts of Wildland Fires and Air Pollution on Microvascular Health
DESCRIPTION:\nAs part of a delegation visit to celebrate a new Memorandum of Understanding, Dr. Toussaint Barboni will be presenting his work looking at air quality in the context of wildfires combined with Dr. Emilie Roudier’s work on the impact of wildfire on vascular health. They will be giving a brief seminar on their collaborative research along with two PhD students and the Faculty of Health would like to invite faculty and students who may be interested in this topic area to learn about this work.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/impacts-of-wildland-fires-and-air-pollution/
LOCATION:York University
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UID:MEC-a422e60213322845b85ae122de53269f@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20240501T120000Z
DTEND:20240503T210000Z
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SUMMARY:2024 World Health Assembly Simulation
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the 2024 World Health Assembly Simulation beginning virtually on May 1, 2024 and in-person from May 2 to May 3 in Toronto, Ontario. This immersive experience replicates the highest level of governance at the World Health Organization. Students will engage in captivating discussions on urgent global health matters, connect with an array of diverse experts, and gain valuable insights into potential global health career paths and more. The theme for the WHA SIM 2024 is "One Health", which emphasizes the interconnected nature that binds together human, animal, and environmental health. This event is brought to you by the School of Global Health.\n\n\n\nSeats are limited, so don't delay and secure your place today to be a part of this transformative event! \n\n\n\n\nRead more about WHA SIM 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2024-world-health-assembly-simulation/
LOCATION:York University
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UID:MEC-b97f138920c54acf5eb77d23bc318b12@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20231025T170000Z
DTEND:20231025T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20230922T185500Z
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PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Public Awareness of One Health, with Cary Wu
DESCRIPTION:\nOne Health is recognized as an increasingly important approach to global health. It has the potential to inform interventions and governance approaches to prevent future pandemics. Successfully implementing the One Health approach in policy will require active engagement from the public, which begs the question: how aware is the public of One Health? In this talk, Dahdaleh faculty fellow Cary Wu will discuss the significance of promoting public awareness of One Health and share survey findings concerning the level and distribution of One Health awareness among the general public in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWu, Cary, Astbury, Chloe Clifford, Lee, Kirsten Melissa, Gong, Z., Chen, S., Li, A., Tsasis, P., & Penney, Tarra (2023). Public awareness of one health in China. One Health, 17, 100603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100603\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nCary Wu is a York Research Chair in Political Sociology of Health. His research focusing on trust and health inequality has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Daedalus: Journal of American Academy of Arts and Science, PNAS, JAMA Network Open, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Ethnic and Racial Studies as well as in public TV and news outlets such as The Washington Post, The Economist, Toronto Star, CBC, and BNN Bloomberg. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 25, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/public-awareness-of-one-health/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-be4e02ac094a09d32e3c09b34f3883a2@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20231018T170000Z
DTEND:20231018T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20230919T162200Z
CREATED:20230919
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:24
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SUMMARY:Planetary Health Film Lab 2023 Belize Edition Debrief, with Mark Terry
DESCRIPTION:\nNow in its fourth year, the Dahdaleh Institute's Planetary Health Film Lab (PHFL) will examine this year's research in Central America, specifically in Belize. The project worked with Indigenous youth and their communities training them to tell stories of climate impacts in their communities using film. The films that were made in this lab have been reviewed by the United Nations and approved for addition to the UNFCCC's database of youth-made films known as the Youth Climate Report. In this seminar, Dahdaleh research fellow, and the project co-lead, Mark Terry will discuss the events of this year's PHFL and showcase several films that will be presented at this year's UN climate summit, COP28 in Dubai. These following films were created in the native Maya languages of Q’eqchi’ and/or Mopan and all have English subtitles:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPromoting Maya Food Sovereignty by Christy Cho Climate Change and Action in Na Luum Ca, Belize by Ernesto Pau The Forest, Land, and Water are Hurting by Florenio Xuc To Be Maya, To Be Well by Nazario Peck The Importance of Securing Land Tenure by Sebastian Cho Cacao Farming by Viola Cus \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nMark Terry, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and The Explorers Club. He is also Contract Faculty with the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto and serves as the Chair of the ADERSIM Arctic Group and Associate to the UNESCO Chair for Reorienting Education towards Sustainability. Mark teaches and speaks regularly through these groups and organizations about the environmental issues affecting the fragile eco-systems of the polar regions and, by extension, the world. \n\n\n\nMark has worked with the United Nations since 2011 on the Youth Climate Report, providing films of global scientific research to its annual climate summits known as the COP conferences. His pioneering work in documentary remediation for the UN earned him the Gemini Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. His current work with GIS mapping was recently recognized by the UN with a Sustainability Development Goals Action Award. He has also been decorated by Queen Elizabeth for this work with her Diamond Jubilee Medal and by The Explorers Club with its Stefansson Medal, the organization's highest honour. In 2015, Canadian Geographic Magazine named him one of Canada’s Top 100 Greatest Explorers of all time.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 18, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/planetary-health-film-lab-2023-belize-edition-debrief/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-48b454e539ea33c2028f007fd948336c@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20231004T170000Z
DTEND:20231004T181500Z
DTSTAMP:20230918T140500Z
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:13
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SUMMARY:Improving Postpartum Outcomes for Women in Ghana: The Focused-Postpartum Care Model, with Yenupini Joyce Adams
DESCRIPTION:\nSub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest rate of maternal deaths and accounts for 70% of global maternal mortality. Although most maternal deaths occur during the postpartum period (after childbirth), it receives much less attention in developing countries. Postpartum care enables healthcare providers to identify and treat complications promptly, offer help with a wide range of health and social needs, and encourage mothers to adopt evidenced-based postpartum practices at home. \n\n\n\nIn many settings in Sub-Saharan Africa, quality postpartum care, education, and support for the mother are often the missing components of postnatal care delivery, which is heavily baby focused. In this talk, Dr. Adams will discuss the development of Focused-PPC, an innovative integrated group postpartum care, education, and support model for postpartum women up to one year after delivery, and share results from her trial of the Focused-PPC model of care. \n\n\n\nAdditional Readings:\n\n\n\nFocused-Postpartum Care for Mothers in Ghana Information Note ( https://airtable.com/appm6lD1s7O2ZGqOz/shr7DNSGgTjW7UG7I/tblha0iHSAZI79eQE/viwIpmAU8rrLOonCH/recXsDs4VGLnHl511/fldMlcbMQT1YbFdZi/attNlyS9h8kb7ZGGn )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. Yenupini Joyce Adams is an Assistant Professor of the Practice and the Global Maternal Research Lead for the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in Nursing Science from Michigan State University. Dr. Adams’ research addresses maternal health disparities that lead to mortality. More specifically, her research is dedicated to improving postpartum health outcomes among women most impacted by maternal mortality. She is highly motivated and passionate about using research interventions to improve maternal health, promote safe motherhood, and decrease maternal mortality and morbidity among populations disproportionately affected in the United States, and in Sub-Saharan Africa where the burden of maternal mortality is most severe. As PI and Co-I on multiple projects, she has experience conducting patient focused research examining both patient and healthcare facility factors that influence access to quality postpartum care and education. She is focused on developing interventions that can be scaled-up and adopted into existing systems of care to improve maternal health, promote safe motherhood, and decrease maternal mortality and morbidity.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 4, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/improving-postpartum-outcomes-for-women-in-ghana-the-focused-postpartum-care-model-with-yenupini-joyce-adams/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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DTSTART:20230927T170000Z
DTEND:20230927T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20230911T200000Z
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:15
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SUMMARY:Addressing Inequities in Access to Medical Countermeasures During Health and Humanitarian Emergencies: My Lived Experience, with Emmanuel Musa
DESCRIPTION:\nIn a world where health and humanitarian emergencies can happen at any time, everyone should have access to life-saving medical countermeasures. However, inequities continue, leading to deaths and significantly negative impacts on people's lives and communities. On September 27, Dahdaleh community fellow Emmanuel Musa will discuss methods to improve global health and how everyone can contribute to creating a more equitable world for all.\n\n\n\nMedical countermeasures (MCMs) refer to the strategies and tools used to address health threats, including infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and chemical and biological threats. MCMs aim to prevent, treat, or mitigate the impact of such events on people and communities. Global health research in the area of MCMs presents numerous opportunities to enhance our preparedness for health and humanitarian emergencies and safeguard public health worldwide. Through reflecting on his personal experiences, Dr. Musa will explore how research may be used to understand and address inequities in access to medical countermeasures during health and humanitarian emergencies. He will also discuss innovative solutions and practical recommendations for a more equitable future. \n\n\n\nThis seminar isn’t just about attending and listening; it’s about empowering everyone to take action, expanding their perspectives, and inspiring them to contribute to the solution. Join us to learn about influencing meaningful change through lived professional experience and global health advocacy and research.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nDr. Emmanuel Musa is a medical doctor, clinical scientist, epidemiologist, and public health expert. He served as team lead for High Impact Epidemics for the World Health Organization's Health Emergency Programme in Geneva, Switzerland, and as senior medical officer for Emergency Risk Management, responsible for technical support to 47 countries under the Africa Regional Office of WHO in Brazzaville, Congo. The Health Emergencies Programme of the WHO is responsible for delivering global assistance to countries to help them prepare for and respond effectively to health emergencies such as disease outbreaks, pandemics, and disasters.\n\n\n\nDr. Musa began working with the WHO in Nigeria in April 2001 and spent the next two decades in various operational and leadership roles in disease outbreaks, emergencies, humanitarian aid, polio eradication initiative, primary healthcare, and building resilient health systems in several countries. His contributions significantly strengthened health systems and enhanced emergency preparedness, response capacities, and disease prevention and control initiatives. Before joining WHO, he served in teaching, research, oversight, and leadership roles in clinical, community health, primary healthcare system management, and undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Africa.\n\n\n\nDr. Musa holds an MD, MPH, and a Master of Science in Health Systems Management (Liverpool, United Kingdom). He is a PhD candidate in health research at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. He also holds a Global Health Diplomacy Certificate from The State University of New York, Albany, and a fellow by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. Dr. Musa's current areas of interest include global health research, infectious disease epidemiology, clinical public health, humanitarian aid, climate change and impact on health, developing health system resilience, digital public health intelligence/surveillance systems, and global health security. With a relentless determination to positively impact global health, Dr. Musa continues to apply innovative approaches and an unwavering commitment to improving the well-being of individuals and communities throughout the world.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 27, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/addressing-inequities-in-access-to-medical-countermeasures/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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SUMMARY:2023 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:\nThis year, Dahdaleh associate director Mary Wiktorowicz will be leading the second Annual General Meeting (AGM). Join us to learn more about our transdisciplinary approach to global health research, our current and upcoming activities at the Institute, and the results of the ORU rechartering process that took place earlier this year. The event will conclude with an open discussion period with Mary and all Dahdaleh members.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2023-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-b7f7ada7d848002260ee5eb7d8835709@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230913T160000Z
DTEND:20230913T180000Z
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SEQUENCE:43
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SUMMARY:Mobile Dreams: Punjabi International Students in the Greater Toronto Area, with Tania Das Gupta
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us on September 13 for a film screening of 'Mobile Dreams', a documentary film produced by Professor Tania Das Gupta. \n\n\n\nIn the film, Professor Das Gupta presents the narratives of Punjabi international students in the greater Toronto area during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was edited by Pradeepto Roy and features research interviews conducted through Zoom. It discusses the themes of coming to Canada, settling down, securing housing, finding jobs, dealing with COVID-19, and their relationship with permanent residents in Canada while the students pursue their dreams. \n\n\n\nThis is a two-hour event that will start with a film screening, followed by a discussion with Professor Das Gupta and Dahdaleh faculty fellow Yvonne Su.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the York Centre for Asian Research\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReadings\n\n\n\nDas Gupta, T. and Su, Y. (2023, April 30) Canada’s costly housing market leaves international students open to exploitation. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/canadas-costly-housing-market-leaves-international-students-open-to-exploitation-204242\n\n\n\nDas Gupta, T. and Su, Y. (2023, March 28) International students face exploitation in Canada and abroad. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/international-students-face-exploitation-in-canada-and-abroad-202599\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nTania Das Gupta is full professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University. Her teaching and research interests are in the following areas: South Asian diaspora, transnationalism, race/racism, anti-racism, migration, state policies, women and work, community activism, racism in the labour movement. In 2021, she published Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced: Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in India (UBC Press). Earlier publications include Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing. (2009); Racism and Paid Work (1995); Race and Racialization: Essential Readings (co-edited, 2018). Her current research is about Indian/Punjabi international students.\n\n\n\nRegister below to join us on Wednesday, September 13 at noon.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/mobile-dreams-with-tania-das-gupta/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-abcc5329cfe5846db63ff4dee74eb906@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230714T140000Z
DTEND:20230714T153000Z
DTSTAMP:20230711T134900Z
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Responses to Emerging Water Crises as a Result of Extreme Climatic Events
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 10 a.m. ET for a special event hosted by York University during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development with a panel entitled, “Humanitarian responses to emerging water crises as a result of extreme climatic events.”\n\n\n\nExtreme climatic events, including heatwaves, droughts, and storms, are increasing in frequency and intensity over the past few decades, with consequences for freshwater. Extreme climatic events have been associated with changes in freshwater availability and degradation of water quality, including elevated concentrations of nutrients, contaminants of emerging concern, and potential for algal blooms, some of which may be toxic. As humans and wildlife rely on freshwater for life, alterations in the freshwater supply in response to extreme climatic events can have catastrophic impacts, particularly during humanitarian crises. \n\n\n\nBringing together four renowned experts who work at the heart of humanitarian solutions through technology, engineering, global governance, and advocacy, this virtual panel aims to explore the humanitarian responses, challenges, and solutions to alleviating the freshwater crisis, particularly in the face of global environmental degradation and extreme climatic events. \n\n\n\nRegister for the panel.\n\n\n.kt-accordion-id_f8208f-83 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:10px;}.kt-accordion-id_f8208f-83 .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;background:#ffffff;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 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.kt-accordion-inner-wrap .kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:10px;}}\n\nProgramme\nUN Global Water Academy_program14July2023 ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/wp-content/uploads/sites/181/2023/07/UN-Global-Water-Academy_program14July2023.pdf )Download\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\nJessica Vandenberghe \n\n\n\nJessica P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) is born of the Dene Thá First Nation, is a sixties scoop survivor and raised in an inclusive German farming family in northern Alberta. Her exceptional career is based on two engineering degrees from the University of Alberta. She has worked in the oil sands, mining, regulatory, infrastructure, consulting industries and academia. She is the Assistant Dean, Community and Culture with the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Victoria. She is a mother of two and at the intersection of two equity deserving groups in the Engineering Profession, which drives her passion for equity, diversity and inclusion. Her lived experience allows her to contribute significantly to Truth and Reconciliation to build strong, healthy relationships with Indigenous Communities and to build safe, brave places where we can be our authentic selves. Her approach, knowledge, and expertise brings value in terms of healing, instilling ethical behaviour, introducing two-eyed seeing and integration of Indigenous ways, inclusive leadership practice, and setting organizations and institutions on a strategic path to ensure community is built.\n\n\n\nSwanzeta “Swani” Keelson \n\n\n\nSwani is a first-year doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins University Advanced International Studies - International Affairs Program under Professor Dr. Erwin Villiger. Swani’s doctoral research examines the relationship between water insecurity, global governance, and gender inclusivity.  Swani holds a Master’s in International Public Policy and a Master’s in Legal studies both from Johns Hopkins University. She is the founder of Global Water Promise—A US based international nonprofit working in development countries to bring water security, sanitation and hygiene to help end period poverty in vulnerable populations. Her research is supported by the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. She can be contacted at: info@globalwtaerpromise.org.\n\n\n\nNicolas Jarraud \n\n\n\nNicolas is Senior Specialist, Engagement and Partnerships Development, at the Global Water Partnership (GWP). He was Assistant Vice President for Institute Affairs at the Cyprus Institute (CyI), an international research institute based in Cyprus, until 2022, where he was responsible for International Relations (and before that for solar energy projects). Dr. Jarraud has almost 15 years of environmental peacebuilding programme management experience (including over 10 years at the United Nations peacebuilding programme in Cyprus, UNDP-ACT) as well as a career in environmental research and the social sciences. He was involved in the creation of SeeD (The Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development), and SDSN Cyprus. He has a PhD in environmental science from Imperial College, London, as well as a Masters in Science Communication and a BSc in Biology from the same university. Nicolas has also had experience as a freelance journalist, for example contributing to the French news magazine “Le Point”.\n\n\n\nSyed Imran Ali \n\n\n\nSyed Imran is an experienced aid worker and engineering researcher who seeks ways to improve public health engineering in humanitarian response. He has worked as a water and sanitation specialist and led operational research with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) and UNHCR (the UN High Commissioner for Refugees) in South Sudan, Pakistan, Jordan, Rwanda, Uganda, and elsewhere. Dr. Ali has taught at the University of California-Berkeley, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship, and holds a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph. Dr. Ali is a Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Adjunct Professor in the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. Dr. Ali is Founder and Lead of the Safe Water Optimization Tool Project (https://www.safeh2o.app/), a water quality data analytics platform that helps ensure drinking water safety during humanitarian emergencies.\n\n\n\n\nUN Global Water Academy\n\n\n\n\nThe UN Global Water Academy is a multi-stakeholder collaboration between the United Nations, academic institutions, and private sector partners, with York University (Canada) as Academic Lead. The three key pillars of the Global Water Academy will tackle diverse aspects of the water sustainability crisis, including training, research, and knowledge mobilization ultimately used to inform decision-making and public policy. The Global Water Academy will aspire to foster training and capacity development, empower community-based networks, weave traditional knowledge, and inspire innovation to co-create sustainable water solutions and ensure equitable access to water for all. By doing so, the Global Water Academy will empower policy and decision-makers, government officials, industry, and the communities most affected by water insecurity, with the knowledge, expertise, and capacity to ameliorate the water crisis.\n\n\n\nRead more about the first-of-its-kind UN Global Water Academy at York University (YFile, March 2023)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Friday, July 14, at 10 a.m. ET\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nThis event is cosponsored by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; One WATER Research Centre; Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, York University; United Nations Development Programme; and United Nations Institute for Training and Research.\n\n\n\nPlease email sharma11@yorku.ca ( mailto:sharma11@yorku.ca ) with any questions about this event.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***Thank you for attending our webinar. Please stay tuned for the launch of the UN Global Water Academy website in the coming months with more panels, training modules, and workshops to come. Watch the recording (1:30:46)***\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/humanitarian-responses-to-emerging-water-crises/
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SUMMARY:5th Summer Global Health Intern Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us at the 5th Summer Global Health Intern Symposium to celebrate the work of interns participating in the Dahdaleh Institute Internship Program. \n\n\n\nOur global health interns will be giving a short presentation about their experience working on research and global health projects under the guidance of Dahdaleh Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will provide insight on the findings and results of their specific research or projects in a short, exciting, five-minute presentation. The presentation topics is as follows: \n\n\n\nPresentation TitlePresenterContributions to the World Health Assembly Simulation and Investigating the Importance of Experiential Simulation-Based LearningMegan GeorgeImpact of Human Behaviour on Antimicrobial Resistance Stephanie HycharGendered Differences in the Relationship Between Housing Insecurity and Diarrheal Diseases in the Informal Settlements in KenyaMirianna GeorgesThe Effect of Housing and Energy Insecurity on Psychosocial Health Outcomes Amongst Those Living in Urban Informal Settlements in GhanaRichard WuMental Health of Agricultural Workers in Costa RicaKanako IsobeGlobal Health: Wellness Impact LabShamim SamadiExperiences and Emotions of People With Chronic PainLaura LoganPost-Pandemic Public Health ReformsSepinoud Siavoshi\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event.\n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/5th-summer-global-health-intern-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Can Post-Vaccination Sentiment Affect the Acceptance of Booster Jab? with Blessing Ogbuokiri
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this seminar, Blessing Ogbuokiri will share his recently published research, supported by the Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant program, it analyzes the attitude and sentiments of Twitter users in nine African countries when discussing the second and booster vaccine. The data collected was used to supplement existing vaccination data in order to better understand citizens' attitudes toward accepting the booster vaccination. His research found that the number of positive tweets discussing booster shots correlated with an increase in positive intensities. User's expressions could likely affect the acceptance of booster shots either positively and negatively. Therefore, health-policy makers should gather insight from social media data for the management and planning of vaccination programs during a disease outbreak.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOgbuokiri, Blessing, Ahmadi, A., Mellado, B., Wu, Jianhong, Orbinski, James, Asgary, Ali, & Kong, Jude (2023). Can post-vaccination sentiment affect the acceptance of booster jab? Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 200–211. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35501-1_20\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nDr. Blessing Ogbuokiri holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa. With extensive experience in academia, industry, and community-based organizations, he has demonstrated his diverse talents and is committed to advancing research and innovation. Throughout his educational journey, he has consistently maintained an exceptional academic record.\n\n\n\nIn recognition of his outstanding contributions, Dr. Ogbuokiri was awarded the PSYBERGATE Computer Science Alumni Prize for the Best Student Tutor in 2016 at Wits. He also received the prestigious Google AI award in 2018 due to his outstanding contribution to the field. Presently, he serves as a postdoctoral fellow and instructor at York University where he is supervised by Professor Jude Kong. His expertise encompasses a range of areas, including qualitative research, data visualization, machine learning, deep learning, data science, database management, AI ethics and policy, TensorFlow, project management, and module content development. \n\n\n\nDr. Ogbuokiri actively collaborates with researchers from various interdisciplinary groups, such as the Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC) at York University, Black in AI (BAI), Canadian Black Scientist Network (CBSN), Black Creek Community Health Center (BCHC), and High Performance & Intelligent Computing Group (HiPIC Lab). Together, they employ artificial intelligence to assist government and local communities in containing and managing the spread of community-based infectious disease outbreaks.\n\n\n\nRegister below to join us on Wednesday, July 26 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event is closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/can-post-vaccination-sentiment-affect-the-acceptance-of-booster-jab-with-blessing-ogbuokiri/
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Water Engineering Course - Fall 2023
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nThe Humanitarian Water Engineering Intensive Course offers participants an opportunity to gain essential knowledge and skills on safe water supply in humanitarian emergencies. The course covers the theoretical fundamentals of, and practical considerations for, the design and operation of water supply systems in humanitarian response including source water selection, water quality, water treatment, distribution and the safe water chain, and outbreak preparedness and response.\n\n\n\nOver the course of twelve weeks in Fall 2023, participants will engage in a rich, multifaceted online learning experience consisting of curated readings, knowledge-testing quizzes, lectures from experienced humanitarian practitioners and engineering faculty, and small group problem-based learning (PBL) activities guided by talented facilitators. A certificate will be offered to participants upon successful completion of the course.\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of how to get safe water from sources to populations in precarious situations. The course provides a comprehensive overview of five core technical elements of safe water supply in emergencies:\n\n\n\nWater quality characterization and risk assessmentWater source development (groundwater and surface waters)Water treatment methods, process selection, and designSafe water supply chain (distribution and delivery)Waterborne disease outbreak preparedness and response\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of the operational context of humanitarian response by engaging with the following cross-cutting themes throughout the course:\n\n\n\nHumanitarian principles, structures, and standardsWater, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and public healthNeeds assessments, monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL), and project managementHuman factors and community engagementOperational research and emerging questions\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about the course\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/humanitarian-water-engineering-fall-2023/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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SUMMARY:2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nThe 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance will take place in-person, with virtual access and presentations available, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The conference is organized by the Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges (RCSC) and will be part of the University’s celebrations of its 100-year anniversary.\n\n\n\nThe Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University are proud to be co-hosting partners of the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance (ESG) – ESG research seeks to explore political solutions and novel, more effective governance systems to cope with global environmental change. As cohosts, we are committed to jointly ensuring the success and impact of this year’s conference, as well as facilitating the semi-plenary to present cutting edge research on sustainability transformations. With an emphasis on transdisciplinarity, the conference aims to bridge the gap between academic research and decision-making and to ensure that research can be made more relevant at various levels.\n\n\n\nThe 2023 conference theme ‘Bridging Sciences and Societies for Sustainability Transformations’ aims especially to further increase and foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work among the research network, community of scholarship, and society at large. \n\n\n\n\nLearn more about the 2023 Radbound Conference\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2023-radboud-conference-on-earth-system-governance/
LOCATION:In-person – The Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Harriet Tubman Institute International Conference: Africa and its Diasporas’ Contributions to World Civilization
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Harriet Tubman Institute is heading to Dakar for an international conference this June. The conference will be held at l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, and explore Africa's contributions to world civilization.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/harriet-tubman-institute-international-conference-africa-and-its-diasporas-contributions-to-world-civilization-2/
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SUMMARY:Addressing the Aftermath: The Governance of Urban Inequality During and After COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:\nPreliminary Results of Affected and Engaged Communities in Toronto, Chicago, and Johannesburg\n\n\n\nThe pandemic has affected social and geographical areas and urban sectors differently. This project sought to understand why cities have responded the ways they have, and how the pandemic has changed existing forms of urban governance. In our study, Chicago and Toronto represent the wealthier cities in the Global North. Johannesburg represents the urban experience in the Global South. During COVID-19, these three cities launched various programs and projects to deal with the impact of the pandemic, forging new partnerships between grassroots organizations, citizens, and municipal authorities. Through this research, we will generate a database of policies and programs from Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg, and offer explanations on the convergence and divergence of their policy choices.\n\n\n\nIn our research, a common set of experiences pointed to the coexistence of inequalities suffered by some communities – racialized, poor, precariously housed, employed in frontline jobs – and innovative grassroots community responses in light of government failure to address these inequalities immediately during the crisis and beyond in more structural terms. This panel will focus on the Toronto case but importantly draw on similar experiences in Chicago and Johannesburg.\n\n\n\nRead more about "The City after COVID-19" project.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the CITY Institute at York University ( https://www.yorku.ca/cityinstitute/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profiles\n\n\n\nHillary Birch is a PhD student in Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University where she is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar. She holds a Master’s degree in urban governance from Sciences Po, in Paris, France where she studied the urban governance of Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia. She also holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from McGill University. Hillary has worked in various roles related to global health concerning sexual and reproductive health and early child development. Her PhD explores how projects of global health intersect with processes of urbanization that shape flows of water in a city and change its quality. \n\n\n\nNicholas Hune-Brown is an award-winning magazine writer and editor in Toronto. He is the Senior Editor at The Local, an online magazine about health and social issues. \n\n\n\nPhilip Harrison is the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning funded by the National Research Foundation and hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand. From 2006 to 2010 he was Executive Director in Development Planning and Urban Management at the City of Johannesburg. Prior to that, Professor Harrison held academic positions at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Natal. He served as a member of the National Planning Commission in the Office of the President from 2010 to 2015, participating in the formulation of the National Development Plan. Professor Harrison has published widely in the fields of city planning and regional and urban development. His most recent book publication is the jointly edited Densifying the City: Global Cases and Johannesburg.\n\n\n\nRoger Keil is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, infrastructure, and regional governance. Among his publications are Suburban Planet (Polity, 2018) and After Suburbia (UTP, ed. with Fulong Wu, 2022) as well as Pandemic Urbanism (Polity, 2023, with S.Harris Ali and Creighton Connolly) and Turning Up the Heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency (MUP, ed. with Maria Kaika, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis, 2023). Keil is a Fellow of CIFAR’s Humanity’s Urban Future program.\n\n\n\nGurpreet S. Malhotra has been a professional in Human Services for over 32 years and is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Indus Community Services, which is a leading provider of culturally responsive community and health services. The agency has seven locations and a dedicated staff complement of over a hundred and forty. Preceding that he was the principal of his own consultancy and worked at the Region of Peel as the Director of Strategic Planning, Policy and Partnerships in the Human Services Department. Prior to that, he served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services. Gurpreet has more than a decade of experience as a Professor and Program Coordinator of the innovative Community Development Diploma Program at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning where he also served as a Human Rights Advisor. He also holds two degrees in Public Policy and Administration and appears frequently in National and Local news as a community advocate on behalf of the many communities he serves.\n\n\n\nKate Mulligan is an Assistant Professor in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is the senior director of the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing and advisor to the Canadian Red Cross on knowledge mobilization and determinants of health. Kate was a public member of the Toronto Board of Health from 2019-2022 and a contributing author to the 2021 report of the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, "A Vision to Transform Canada's Public Health System.”\n\n\n\nXuefei Ren is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University. She studies urban governance and the built environment from a comparative perspective. Her latest book, Governing the Urban in China and India (Princeton University Press, 2020) won the 2022 Robert E. Park Best Book Award in urban sociology from American Sociological Association and Honourable mention of Dennis Judd Best Book Award in Urban and Local Politics from American Political Science Association. She is a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on US.-China Relations, and a fellow of CIFAR's Humanity's Urban Future program.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, May 24 at noon\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar.\n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/addressing-the-aftermath-the-governance-of-urban-inequality/
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SUMMARY:Global Governance for Pandemic Prevention and the Wildlife Trade, with Mary Wiktorowicz and Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao
DESCRIPTION:\nAlthough ideas about preventive actions for pandemics have been advanced during the COVID-19 crisis, there has been little consideration for how they can be operationalised through governance structures within the context of the wildlife trade for human consumption. To date, pandemic governance has mostly focused on outbreak surveillance, containment, and response rather than on avoiding zoonotic spillovers in the first place. However, given the acceleration of globalisation, a paradigm shift towards prevention of zoonotic spillovers is warranted as containment of outbreaks becomes unfeasible. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar, Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao (University of Washington) and Mary Wiktorowicz will argue that such an institutional arrangement should be explicit about zoonotic spillover prevention and focus on improving coordination across four policy domains, namely public health, biodiversity conservation, food security, and trade. They posit that this pandemic treaty should include four interacting goals in relation to prevention of zoonotic spillovers from the wildlife trade for human consumption: risk understanding, risk assessment, risk reduction, and enabling funding. As per their recently published in the The Lancet Planetary Health (Gallo-Cajiao et al. 2023), despite the need to keep political attention on addressing the current pandemic, society cannot afford to miss the opportunity of the current crisis to encourage institution building for preventing future pandemics.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nMary Wiktorowicz is Professor of Global Health Governance, Associate Director of the Dahdaleh Institute and member of the WHO Collaborating Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR). She adopts a comparative lens to study the global governance of AMR with a focus on identifying strategies to improve governance of antimicrobial stewardship. As a member of the Global One Health Network (global1HN.ca) she further assesses the global governance of deep pandemic prevention through approaches that support the prevention of zoonotic emergence including regulation of wildlife trade. She develops frameworks to enhance our understanding of the transnational governance guiding global standards for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, tracing parallels in the International Council on Harmonization (ICH) and member jurisdiction governance frameworks to clarify their distinctive approaches and dissonance in post-market regulatory policy. She advises government policy including Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, Health Canada, Ontario Local Health Integration Collaborative on Mental Health, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and Nova Scotia Department of Health as a CIHR Best Brain.\n\n\n\nEduardo Gallo-Cajiao is an environmental scientist with an interest in biodiversity conservation research from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on political science and ecology. His main research interests gravitate towards understanding the governance for conserving biodiversity, with a particular focus on effectiveness, agency, fit, implementation, institutional complexity, and interactions with other issue areas, such as health and human rights. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Universidad del Valle in Cali (Colombia), a Master’s degree in environmental science from Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia), and a PhD on global environmental governance from the University of Queensland in Brisbane (Australia). He is currently a David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 26 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-governance-for-pandemic-prevention/
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SUMMARY:Climate Distress: Helping Ourselves - Healing our Planet, with Harvey Skinner and Susan Harris
DESCRIPTION:\nOn the 20th March, 2023, the UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change released its 2023 final climate warning Synthesis Report underscoring that we face a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all. People across the world are suffering profound mental and emotional distress due to concern about the future of our planet. Indeed, a recent 2023 National survey of young Canadians age 16-25 found 75% reported the future is frightening and that climate change impacts their overall mental health. Climate Distress is now a major impediment for personal wellbeing and collective action to address global warming.\n\n\n\nThis seminar, honouring Earth Day 2023, will: \n\n\n\nprovide an overview of the concepts and research on climate distress, explore through a reflection exercise how climate change is affecting each of us personally,lead participants in Earth-based practices for fostering self-care and resiliency, and discuss what we can do individually and collectively as action steps for ‘helping ourselves’ and ‘healing our planet’.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nDr. Harvey Skinner is Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Global Health and was Founding Dean (2006-2016) of the Faculty of Health, York University. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Previously, he was Chair of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto (now the Dalla Lana School of Public Health). Harvey is a Registered Psychologist in Ontario and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS). He is placed in the Top 2% World Scientists by the Stanford University worldwide analysis with respect to citations and impact metrics. Harvey is an internationally recognized educator and scholar (7 books, over 150 articles) on what motivates individuals, organizations and communities to change, which is detailed in his 2002 book Promoting Health Through Organizational Change). Harvey has a longstanding interest in peacebuilding and global health for all. A landmark article was published in The Lancet 2005 on ‘Promoting Arab and Israeli Cooperation: A Model for Peacebuilding through Health Initiatives’.\n\n\n\nCurrently, Harvey co-leads the new Wellness and Self-Care Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute. His focus is promoting global mental health drawing on Eastern, Indigenous and Western worldviews and practices. He has completed advanced training in Qi Gong (Tai Chi) practices with master teachers Lee Holden, Teja Bell and Robert Peng, as well as training in Capacitar body-based healing practices with Dr Patricia Cane. Currently, he is leading online sessions for ‘Stress Busting: 30 Minutes of Magical Practices’ open to students, staff/faculty and the community (https://stressbusting.info.yorku.ca/). At a personal level, Harvey maintains a regular practice of Mindfulness Meditation and Qi Gong. His passion is ‘healing ourselves, healing others, healing our world’.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusan Harris is a Community Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University where she co-leads the Wellness and Self-Care Lab. She has a Honours BA in Psychology from the University of Windsor, an MSW from the University of Toronto and is a registered social worker in Ontario. Susan has worked with issues of mental health, abuse, and trauma for over 40 years. Most recently she was Director of Programs at Catholic Family Services Peel Dufferin (now retired). Susan co-developed the Mindfulness Based Trauma Counselling Group Program for people who have experienced abuse and trauma. She has been cultivating her meditation practice for over 25 years through retreats, daily practice, and study, primarily in the Vipassana tradition. Susan completed the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification training program led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.  \n\n\n\nCurrently, Susan is leading a monthly 3-hour sangha group in the GTA, as well as teaching weekly mindfulness and compassion sessions for staff, students, and community members through the Stress Busting series housed at York University (https://stressbusting.info.yorku.ca/). Susan is keen to explore bringing the teachings on mindfulness and compassion to meeting the distress caused by environmental disruption and climate crisis. She has a particular interest in combatting white supremacy and engaging in the inner work of racial healing.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, April 18 at noon.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/climate-distress-healing-ourselves-healing-our-planet/
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety VI:  Climate Change and Maritime OHS Challenges: The Case of Canadian Arctic Shipping
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute is proud to cosponsor CIFAL York's new Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety speaker series ( https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/ ). Over the course of the six webinars, the series aims to increase awareness and organize frameworks and models in understanding the impacts of climate change in the context of occupational health and safety. This series will focus on current issues on climate change and its related mobility responses as one of the main public health crises of the 21st century. It will address these challenges and explore a transdisciplinary approach that includes health, industry, and government partners.\n\n\n\nDates: biweekly Wednesdays from April 12 - June 21, 2023 \n\n\n\nAPR 12 Climate Change and Occupational Health: Exploring Their Inter-Relationships, with moderator Eric KennedyAPR 26 Global Health Governance for Climate-Induced Global Occupational Health ChallengesMAY 10 Climate Change and Impacts on Mental Health in Occupational SettingsMAY 24 Climate Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy & Climate DiplomacyJUN 7 Climate Change Related Occupational Health Impacts on Farmers and Resulting Consequences, with speaker Byomkesh TalukderJUN 21 Climate Change and Maritime OHS Challenges: The Case of Canadian Arctic Shipping\n\n\n\nTime: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ETLocation: VIRTUAL (ZOOM WEBINAR)\n\n\n\n\nRead more and register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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DTSTART:20230607T160000Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety V:  Climate Change Related Occupational Health Impacts on Farmers and Resulting Consequences, with speaker Byomkesh Talukder
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute is proud to cosponsor CIFAL York's new Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety speaker series ( https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/ ). Over the course of the six webinars, the series aims to increase awareness and organize frameworks and models in understanding the impacts of climate change in the context of occupational health and safety. This series will focus on current issues on climate change and its related mobility responses as one of the main public health crises of the 21st century. It will address these challenges and explore a transdisciplinary approach that includes health, industry, and government partners.\n\n\n\nDates: biweekly Wednesdays from April 12 - June 21, 2023 \n\n\n\nAPR 12 Climate Change and Occupational Health: Exploring Their Inter-Relationships, with moderator Eric KennedyAPR 26 Global Health Governance for Climate-Induced Global Occupational Health ChallengesMAY 10 Climate Change and Impacts on Mental Health in Occupational SettingsMAY 24 Climate Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy & Climate DiplomacyJUN 7 Climate Change Related Occupational Health Impacts on Farmers and Resulting Consequences, with speaker Byomkesh TalukderJUN 21 Climate Change and Maritime OHS Challenges: The Case of Canadian Arctic Shipping\n\n\n\nTime: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ETLocation: VIRTUAL (ZOOM WEBINAR)\n\n\n\n\nRead more and register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety IV:  Climate Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy & Climate Diplomacy
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute is proud to cosponsor CIFAL York's new Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety speaker series ( https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/ ). Over the course of the six webinars, the series aims to increase awareness and organize frameworks and models in understanding the impacts of climate change in the context of occupational health and safety. This series will focus on current issues on climate change and its related mobility responses as one of the main public health crises of the 21st century. It will address these challenges and explore a transdisciplinary approach that includes health, industry, and government partners.\n\n\n\nDates: biweekly Wednesdays from April 12 - June 21, 2023 \n\n\n\nAPR 12 Climate Change and Occupational Health: Exploring Their Inter-Relationships, with moderator Eric KennedyAPR 26 Global Health Governance for Climate-Induced Global Occupational Health ChallengesMAY 10 Climate Change and Impacts on Mental Health in Occupational SettingsMAY 24 Climate Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy & Climate DiplomacyJUN 7 Climate Change Related Occupational Health Impacts on Farmers and Resulting Consequences, with speaker Byomkesh TalukderJUN 21 Climate Change and Maritime OHS Challenges: The Case of Canadian Arctic Shipping\n\n\n\nTime: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ETLocation: VIRTUAL (ZOOM WEBINAR)\n\n\n\n\nRead more and register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-5af12af744c7a634787ec678b7dbdaf0@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230510T160000Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety III:  Climate Change and Impacts on Mental Health in Occupational Settings
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute is proud to cosponsor CIFAL York's new Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety speaker series ( https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/ ). Over the course of the six webinars, the series aims to increase awareness and organize frameworks and models in understanding the impacts of climate change in the context of occupational health and safety. This series will focus on current issues on climate change and its related mobility responses as one of the main public health crises of the 21st century. It will address these challenges and explore a transdisciplinary approach that includes health, industry, and government partners.\n\n\n\nDates: biweekly Wednesdays from April 12 - June 21, 2023 \n\n\n\nAPR 12 Climate Change and Occupational Health: Exploring Their Inter-Relationships, with moderator Eric KennedyAPR 26 Global Health Governance for Climate-Induced Global Occupational Health ChallengesMAY 10 Climate Change and Impacts on Mental Health in Occupational SettingsMAY 24 Climate Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy & Climate DiplomacyJUN 7 Climate Change Related Occupational Health Impacts on Farmers and Resulting Consequences, with speaker Byomkesh TalukderJUN 21 Climate Change and Maritime OHS Challenges: The Case of Canadian Arctic Shipping\n\n\n\nTime: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ETLocation: VIRTUAL (ZOOM WEBINAR)\n\n\n\n\nRead more and register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-af94ed0d6f5acc95f97170e3685f16c0@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230419T150000Z
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Global Health Intern Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us at the 5th Annual Global Health Intern Symposium to celebrate the work of interns participating in the Dahdaleh Institute Internship Program. \n\n\n\nOur Fall/Winter 2022-2023 global health interns will be presenting a short presentation about their experience working on research and global health projects under the guidance of Dahdaleh Institute faculty staff and fellows. They will provide insight on the findings and results of their specific research or projects in an exciting, three-minute presentation. The presentation topics is as follows: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation TitlePresenterGlobal Health Design Seminar Series with Bruce MauMichelle TieuEcoSaludGurher SidhuSynergies of Planetary HealthFarzana RohitLessons from the Montreal Protocol for International PolicymakingGabriel FezzaThe Role of Artificial Intelligence in Non-Communicable Disease Prevention PolicyUrmi ShethHouse Insecurity Among People Living with HIV/AIDS in KenyaGeorgina Birago OdoomCoordination of COVID-19 Decisions Across Canadian Post-Secondary SchoolsTaylor CargillCommunication and Global Health at the Dahdaleh InstituteLaToya HindsGlobal Health Lending Library at the Dahdaleh InstituteSundas BegumGlobal Health Sub-website System at the Dahdaleh InstituteYashini Ravindran\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/5th-annual-global-health-intern-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety II:  Global Health Governance for Climate-Induced Global Occupational Health Challenges
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute is proud to cosponsor CIFAL York's new Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety speaker series ( https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/ ). Over the course of the six webinars, the series aims to increase awareness and organize frameworks and models in understanding the impacts of climate change in the context of occupational health and safety. This series will focus on current issues on climate change and its related mobility responses as one of the main public health crises of the 21st century. It will address these challenges and explore a transdisciplinary approach that includes health, industry, and government partners.\n\n\n\nDates: biweekly Wednesdays from April 12 - June 21, 2023 \n\n\n\nAPR 12 Climate Change and Occupational Health: Exploring Their Inter-Relationships, with moderator Eric KennedyAPR 26 Global Health Governance for Climate-Induced Global Occupational Health ChallengesMAY 10 Climate Change and Impacts on Mental Health in Occupational SettingsMAY 24 Climate Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy & Climate DiplomacyJUN 7 Climate Change Related Occupational Health Impacts on Farmers and Resulting Consequences, with speaker Byomkesh TalukderJUN 21 Climate Change and Maritime OHS Challenges: The Case of Canadian Arctic Shipping\n\n\n\nTime: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ETLocation: VIRTUAL (ZOOM WEBINAR)\n\n\n\n\nRead more and register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-f18ee45840e18329939acf1095cdc5a9@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230412T160000Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety I: Exploring Their Inter-Relationships
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute is proud to cosponsor CIFAL York's new Climate Change and Global Occupational Health and Safety speaker series ( https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/ ). Over the course of the six webinars, the series aims to increase awareness and organize frameworks and models in understanding the impacts of climate change in the context of occupational health and safety. This series will focus on current issues on climate change and its related mobility responses as one of the main public health crises of the 21st century. It will address these challenges and explore a transdisciplinary approach that includes health, industry, and government partners.\n\n\n\nDates: biweekly Wednesdays from April 12 - June 21, 2023 \n\n\n\nAPR 12 Climate Change and Occupational Health: Exploring Their Inter-Relationships, with moderator Eric KennedyAPR 26 Global Health Governance for Climate-Induced Global Occupational Health ChallengesMAY 10 Climate Change and Impacts on Mental Health in Occupational SettingsMAY 24 Climate Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy & Climate DiplomacyJUN 7 Climate Change Related Occupational Health Impacts on Farmers and Resulting Consequences, with speaker Byomkesh TalukderJUN 21 Climate Change and Maritime OHS Challenges: The Case of Canadian Arctic Shipping\n\n\n\nTime: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ETLocation: VIRTUAL (ZOOM WEBINAR)\n\n\n\n\nRead more and register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/cifal/ccohs/
LOCATION:Register for call-in details
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UID:MEC-af88d16112663ef32519c582073f44c4@yorku.ca
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SUMMARY:Yes! We Can #EndTB! Shifting Attention to the Structural Drivers of Tuberculosis, with Kelsie McGregor and Amrita Daftary
DESCRIPTION:\nEvery year, on March 24, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is celebrated to raise awareness about TB and to step up efforts to end this present-day pandemic that affects over 10 million people. The World Health Organization's theme for World TB Day 2023 is Yes! We can #EndTB! \n\n\n\nThe Social Science & Health Innovations for Tuberculosis (SSHIFTB) Centre is a global network of social science scholars and advocates that works to amplify attention to the neglected social dimensions of tuberculosis. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this exciting webinar to hear about the recent achievements made in unveiling and addressing the social drivers of TB as a pathway to #EndTB.\n\n\n\nKeynote presentation by Kelsie McGregor, Assembly of First Nations\n\n\n\nHighlights from the latest Standards of TB Care seeking to improve cultural competence in the Canadian TB health workforce\n\n\n\nAdditional presentations and discussions with:\n\n\n\nStephanie Law, McGill University — Mobilizing and engaging Nunavik youth through a TB video projectPushpita Samina, SSHIFTB, McMaster University — Updates on the TB social sciences from around the world\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Amrita Daftary, SSHIFTB and School of Global Health, York University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar.\n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/yes-we-can-endtb/
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UID:MEC-ca9541826e97c4530b07dda2eba0e013@yorku.ca
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SUMMARY:Smart Conservation and the Futures of Planetary Health, with James Stinson and Lee McLoughlin
DESCRIPTION:\nOn December 19, 2022, a new global biodiversity framework was adopted at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CoP 15) in Montreal. Centered around a global agreement to protect 30% of the Earth’s land and sea areas by 2030 (the 30x30 target), the framework has been hailed as a ‘paradigm-changing’ deal that will bend the curve of biodiversity loss and lead to a ‘nature-positive’ society. Others, however, have critiqued the deal as “business as usual” and a doubling down on a flawed approach to conservation that has thus far failed to protect biodiversity, while simultaneously displacing and marginalizing local and Indigenous peoples around the world. Moreover, with 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity, and 40% of remaining forests located on land occupied by Indigenous peoples, achieving the 30x30 target will require a massive expansion of protected areas on Indigenous territories, particularly in the global south. \n\n\n\nDrawing on results from the SSHRC-funded project “Smart Conservation and the Production of Nature 3.0 in Belize,” this presentation describes the emergence of a biodiversity-security-technology nexus, and the effects of this nexus on both conservation practitioners and communities bordering parks and protected areas. We argue that efforts to expand conservation areas to meet the new 30x30 target, combined with a shift toward the technological monitoring and policing of protected areas, has the potential to exacerbate conservation-related displacement and violence. In order to promote a more sustainable and just future that fosters planetary health and wellbeing for all life on Earth, we argue for a move away from policing and enforcement-first approaches to conservation, and towards the need to support Indigenous and community-based efforts that care for both people and the planet.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nJames Stinson is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health Education at York University, cross appointed to the Faculty of Education and the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research. He is a cultural, environmental and public anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. His research explores intersections of Indigenous-led conservation, digital media and technologies, and nature-based recreation in efforts to preserve biodiversity and promote planetary health. He is currently the Principal Investigator of two SSHRC-funded research projects, and Co-Principal Investigator of the York-funded “Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing.” Building on over a decade of engaged research with Indigenous Maya communities and conservation organizations in Belize, his current research examines how digital surveillance technologies and artificial intelligence – including the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) – are impacting environmental governance and shifting relations of power in and around parks and protected areas. A second project engages Indigenous youth in Belize and Canada to understand their experiences of climate change and support their efforts to promote planetary health and well-being. In addition to academic publications in Geoforum, Environment and Planning, and Challenges, he has written for The Conversation, the Canadian Climate Institute, Mountain Life, Wildlife Australia, and facilitated the production of Indigenous films for the United Nation’s Youth Climate Report.\n\n\n\nLee McLoughlin completed his MASc in Australia, he secured a position as a protected areas program director for a local NGO, Ya'axche Conservation Trust, in Belize, Central America. He oversaw the growth of the organization as it took on the co-management of Belize's largest nature reserve and an adjacent agroforestry concession. After 6 years of developing programs, Lee moved to the Wildlife Conservation Society Mesoamerica Program to support the improvement of protected area management capacity across Central America and build public support for the five largest remaining forests in the region. Reflecting on this experience, it led to a growing understanding of the importance of indigenous-led conservation, and in 2021 Lee switched to a PhD in Global Sociocultural Studies where he is applying a political ecology approach to understand and analyse motivations behind the different approaches to protected areas and conservation in Belize. Lee is currently working with Dr. James Stinson at York University as a Research Assistant on the SSHRC-funded project "Smart Conservation and the Production of Nature 3.0 in Belize".\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, April 12 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar.\n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/smart-conservation-and-the-futures-of-planetary-health/
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SUMMARY:2023 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nCritical research often involves the use of critical theory with social justice aims. Critical social science perspectives in global health are transdisciplinary, participatory, experimental, or experiential analyses that seek greater effectiveness, equity, and excellence in global health. This means engaging directly with global public health actors, structures, and systems to transform global public health while remaining committed to social science theory and methodology.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the fourth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop on Wednesday, March 29 at 9 a.m. to noon ET. \n\n\n\nParticipants will engage with the research community at York University from a variety of disciplines to create new insights, foster collaboration, and learn more about research opportunities. \n\n\n\nYork faculty and researchers (with the support of a York faculty member) are invited to deliver a brief five-minute, two-slide presentation on any current or planned research project that takes a critical social science approach to global health at the workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the workshop, the Dahdaleh Institute will again announce a call for Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant applications and award five research seed grants of up to C$5,000 each. The seed grants will support critical global health research that contributes to the research themes of the Dahdaleh Institute, which are planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n8:30Continental Breakfast at Dahdaleh Institute (DI)9:00Welcome and Overview to Workshop9:10Keynote Presentation with Professor Harris Ali9:45Research Updates from the 2022 CPGH Seed Grant Recipients"Covid-19 and Healthcare Waste Management in Urban Africa"- Jeffrey Squire "Can Post-Vaccination Sentiment Increase Acceptance of Booster Jab?" - Blessing Ogbuokiri"State Capacity and Health Equity in a Post-Slavery Context: The Case of the Quilombolas in Brazil" - Simone Bohn"How is the Drug Misoprostol Being Used in Humanitarian Emergencies for Reproductive Indications?" - Maggie MacDonald"Decolonizing Planetary Health Through Williche Ecologies of Repair" - Pablo Aránguiz10:50CPGH Seed Grant Overview and Application Process11:10Research Ideas Presentations from York researchers 11:55Closing Remarks12:00Lunch at Dahdaleh Institute (DI)\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2023-critical-social-science-perspectives-in-global-health-research-workshop/
LOCATION:York University
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SUMMARY:Modelling the Health Impacts of Global Warming in Malawi, with James Orbinski
DESCRIPTION:\nAs part of the York University's Organized Research Units (ORUs) Climate Change Research Month – an Overview of the Complex Adaptive Modelling Climate Change Health Impacts in Malawi Project at the Dahdaleh Institute.\n\n\n\nThe Wellcome Trust-funded project involves a transdisciplinary team that includes researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and community stakeholders, with capacity to use evidence to drive climate action. From the outset, the research team has engaged community members and policy decision-makers. They use Agent Based Modelling and Systems Dynamics Modelling, evidence, and simulations to empower community-led adaptation to the health impacts of climate change. \n\n\n\nThe impacts of climate change include changing patterns of infectious diseases such as cholera, schistosomiasis and malaria, and food security impacts, nutritional impacts such as malnutrition, growth stunting and kwashiorkor secondary to the decreasing quantity and quality of crop yields. For over three years, researchers have focused on engaging localized knowledge, experience and community valuations of health priorities, infrastructure and other needs, in determining the expressed needs and choices of people in the Chilwa Basin of Malawi. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar, Dr. Orbinski will explore the partnership between York University, University of California, and University of Malawi to expand dialogic and iterative engagement of the affected communities in the Chilwa Basin – with the objective to help further the understanding of policy makers and/or practitioners in the framing, delivery, and communication of our research on the health impacts of global warming.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile\n\n\n\nDr. James Orbinski is a professor and the inaugural Director of York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. As a medical doctor, a humanitarian practitioner and advocate, a best-selling author, and a leading scholar in global health, Dr. Orbinski believes in actively engaging and shaping our world so that it is more just, fair and humane.\n\n\n\nA champion of health and humanitarianism throughout his career, Dr. Orbinski has extensive leadership, advocacy, and research experience in global health. He has worked providing medical humanitarian relief in situations of war, famine, epidemic disease and genocide with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). He was elected International President of MSF from 1998-2001, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to MSF in 1999, and co-chaired the founding of the  Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative  in 2004, which has since launched six new drug treatments for tropical diseases. He also co-founded Dignitas International, which researched health systems and clinical care, trained more than 12,000 Health Workers, and supported more than 370,000 people with full treatment for HIV and AIDS in Malawi. Dignitas also worked with First Nations communities in Northern Ontario on community based interventions for diabetes.\n\n\n\nDr. Orbinski is a board Member of Grand Challenges Canada, and has been a member of several bodies committed to improving health equity both in Canada and around the world. These include the  Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, the  Stephen Lewis Foundation, Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and the Climate Change and Health Council. He is an invited member of the Davos World Economic Forum’s  Global Agenda Council on Health Care Systems and Cooperation and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences 2011  Expert Panel on Canada’s Strategic Role in Global Health. \n\n\n\nDr. Orbinski holds a BSc from Trent University, an MD degree from McMaster University, and an MA in International Relations from the University of Toronto. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received the  Meritorious Service Cross  for his leadership in providing direct medical relief in Kigali during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He is a member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 1, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/modelling-the-health-impacts-of-global-warming-in-malawi/
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SUMMARY:4th Planetary Health Film Lab Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nThe 2023 edition of the Planetary Health Film Lab is an intensive program designed for Indigenous youth from Costa Rica and Belize who have a story to tell about climate change and planetary health and want to do so through film.\n\n\n\nThe workshop teaches specific theories, techniques, and modes of social issue filmmaking and provides hands-on experience with new digital technologies and platforms.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead more about the 4th Planetary Health Film Lab Program\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/4th-planetary-health-film-lab/
LOCATION:In-person – Belize
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DTSTART:20230327T140000Z
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SUMMARY:Politics4Future Online Course
DESCRIPTION:\nThe landscape of education for building 21st-century skills is changing significantly in the wake of climate emergencies combined with an exponential growth of youth population, digitally mediated communication and most recently the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the role of politics and political participation for sustainable development has been a well-researched topic, there is a lack of learning material and teacher training aimed at understanding the role of political education towards creation of a just, sustainable and peaceful world, the key ideas central to the discourse of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development ( https://www.yorku.ca/unescochair/research-expertise/history-of-esd/ ) (ESD).  \n\n\n\nA new certificate program is being launched at York University for pre-service teachers, teacher trainees, and students interested in learning how to better enhance their capacities as agents for transformative change. The multi-cultural pilot online course is administered by the UNESCO Chair for Reorienting Education towards Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship, and Political Learning at York. It will involve students from 6 universities in 5 countries. This pilot online course with 9 modules with be delivered asynchronously and synchronously between March 27 and June 6, 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here for more information and apply.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/politics4future-infusing-sustainability-and-global-citizenship-into-teacher-education/
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SUMMARY:Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Disease on a Planet of Cities, with Harris Ali and Roger Keil
DESCRIPTION:\nBook Launch and Discussion\n\n\n\nEmerging infectious disease outbreaks in recent decades have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism, the new book by  Dahdaleh York University faculty fellows S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil, co-authored with their University of Hong Kong colleague Creighton Connolly, critically investigates these relationships in the world faced with an unprecedented pandemic, the first on a majority urban planet.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe authors reveal the historical context of recent infectious disease events and how they have variously transformed the urban social fabric. They highlight the important role played by socio-ecological processes associated with the global urban periphery – suburban or post-suburban zones and hinterland areas of "extended" urbanization –bringing to light the increased significance of social media, changing mobility patterns, and new forms of urban governance and pandemic response. The book takes forward theoretical approaches to understanding pandemics grounded in urban political ecologies of disease and landscape political ecology, developing novel insights for post-pandemic urban governance and planning. In doing so, it reveals a paradox at the heart of pandemic urbanism: we are so closely connected so as to enable contagions to spread easily, yet our urban way of life also makes it easier to contain and respond to disease outbreaks.\n\n\n\nMultidisciplinary in its approach, written by three proven experts in the field, this book is an invaluable, accessible primer on the origins, pathways and management of infectious disease.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this one-hour seminar, Professors Ali and Keil will present the book to the Dahdaleh community and invite participants to join them in a conversation about the pathways for action for global public health governance and pandemic preparedness that they advocate in the book.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nHarris Ali is a sociologist at York University who teaches in the areas of environmental sociology, disaster and emergency management, social theory, and environmental health. His research focuses on how the interplay of social, political and environmental factors promote the emergence of disease outbreaks and environmental disasters, as well as how this interplay influences the response to such phenomena. He has conducted various studies based on extensive fieldwork on different types of infectious disease outbreaks in various parts of the world, including E. Coli in Walkerton, Ontario, Tuberculosis amongst the homeless in Toronto, community-based responses to Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (with Dr. Mosoka Fallah and Dr. Joseph Macarthy), and with his long-time research colleague - Roger Keil - a comprehensive study of the 2003 outbreak of SARS in global cities – Singapore, Toronto, Hong Kong - which culminated in an edited volume on SARS (Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) that has recently been recognized by the Canadian newspaper of record, The Globe and Mail, as one of the "top ten books that offer lessons from past pandemics." His most recent book coauthored with Roger Keil and Creighton Connolly is entitled Pandemic Urbanism (Polity Press) and focuses on the disease ecology and socio-political dimensions of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases under the conditions of contemporary globalization and heightened urban inequality.\n\n\n\nRoger Keil is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, infrastructure, and regional governance. Among his publications are Suburban Planet (Polity, 2018) and After Suburbia (with Fulong Wu, UTP: 2022) as well as Pandemic Urbanism (Polity, with S. Harris Ali and Creighton Connolly, Polity: 2022) and Turning Up the Heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency (with Maria Kaika, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis, Manchester: 2023).\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 8, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/pandemic-urbanism/
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SUMMARY:A Planetary Health Advocacy Framework, with Carol Devine and Yasmin Al-Sahili
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Planetary Health Advocacy Framework aims to visualize key advocacy principles, actors and actions for humanitarian, global health and climate actors and beyond. Please join this interactive session for an overview of the crowd-sourced updated framework and contribute your feedback to the final (but living) version.\n\n\n\nAdditional Readings and Materials\n\n\n\nThe relationship between climate change, health, and the humanitarian response (Baxter et al., 2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01991-2 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01991-2 )The determinants of planetary health: An indigenous consensus perspective (Redvers et al., 2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00354-5 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00354-5 )Why Planetary Health Matters to All of Us (Youtube 2mins 29secs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOi7K60Xqk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOi7K60Xqk )MSF policy brief for the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change (MSF International 2022) https://www.msf.org/msf-policy-brief-lancet-countdown-health-and-climate-change ( https://www.msf.org/msf-policy-brief-lancet-countdown-health-and-climate-change )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profiles\n\n\n\nCarol Devine is a Community Scholar, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research working on a framework for health and humanitarian actor climate action and a related framework for Planetary Health Advocacy. She leads Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) HACE, Humanitarian Action on Climate and Environment and advisor to Climate Smart MSF. Carol co-authored MSF's Humanitarian Policy Briefs in the Lancet Countdown and was a member of MSF's COP27 delegation in Egypt in Nov 2022.\n\n\n\nYasmin Al-Sahili joined the Dahdaleh Institute as a research assistant working on equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization projects in 2021 and collaborating in 2022 with Carol on the Planetary Health Advocacy Framework. She recently completed her fourth year in the global health program, specializing in health policy, management, and systems.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, March 29 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/a-planetary-health-advocacy-framework/
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SUMMARY:Coping in Silence: COVID’s Impact on Marginalized Communities
DESCRIPTION:\nPlease join us for the York Circle lecture series, with host and moderator Jennifer Steeves, associate vice-president research (AVPR), as some of York’s leading faculty members present on a wide variety of interesting topics related to this year’s theme – The Pandemic: COVID’s impact on Canada’s health care system. In part two, the following speakers will be featured:\n\n\n\nResilience in the face of crisis—again: Sources of support and strength during COVID among Canadians with a recent history of forced displacementMichaela Hynie, Interim Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies, Professor at the Faculty of Health, Department of Psychology Forcibly displaced people may be more affected by COVID than others, even when they have resettled in a new country. Dr. Hynie conducts research on communities experiencing social conflict, social exclusion, or forced displacement and migration and their access to healthcare. She will discuss the work she has done with recent newcomers to Canada and what we can learn about social policies and social networks and the impact on their well-bring during a crisis in the face of limited resources and displacement\n\n\n\n“The Shadow Pandemic”: Gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemicNazilla Khanlou, Women's Health Research Chair in Mental Health, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health Globally, violence against women has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic - UN Women has referred to this as the “Shadow Pandemic.” Dr. Khanlou’s research is based on mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings. She will draw from a project she led on the mental health impacts of gender-based violence on racialized women during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on implications for policy and practice, such as considering gender-based violence as a public health issue.Trigger warning: Some audience members may find certain aspects of the presentation on gender-based violence upsetting. This information is provided to describe the importance of the issue and its impact\n\n\n\nCoping and Resilience During the Pandemic for Families of Children with Developmental DisabilitiesJonathan Weiss, Professor in the Faculty of Health, Department of Psychology Families of children with autism and other developmental disabilities faced unique challenges during the pandemic. Dr.Weiss’s research focuses on mental health in people with autism or intellectual disabilities, and their families, across the lifespan. His talk will examine the increased demand placed on caregivers and families of children with developmental disabilities as a result of COVID-19. He will explain the disproportionate negative mental health impacts these families face and the current lack of resources that are available to address their mental health needs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/york-circle-coping-in-silence-covids-impact-on-marginalized-communities/
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UID:MEC-a957aa96221d0b7cb99ab072eaed7bf9@yorku.ca
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SUMMARY:Implications of Colonialism for Disease Outbreak Response in Black Communities, with Harris Ali and Yvonne Simpson
DESCRIPTION:\nBlack History Month is a distinct period for honouring history, negotiating current realities, and imagining potential futures for Black communities. For the second year, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is proud to collaborate with the Harriet Tubman Institute (HTI) at York University on their BHM seminar series – in 2023, we will focus on Black resistance with the aim of remembering achievements in the face of multiple struggles. \n\n\n\nPlease join us on Tuesday, February 28 from 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. ET and learn more about Dahdaleh faculty fellow Harris Ali's research as it relates to Implications of Colonialism for Disease Outbreak Response in Black Communities. Harris will discuss his recent work on vaccine hesitancy and other COVID issues pertaining to the Black community in both Toronto and West Africa. Based on his research on the West African Ebola epidemic, he will also provide some reflections on the importance of the work of Frantz Fanon for global health research and decolonizing epidemic response within the context of the post-colonialist condition marked by suspicion and social resistance.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harriet Tubman Institute presents Black History Month in collaboration with the The African Studies Program; Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change; Faculty of Graduate Studies; Glendon Office of the Principal’s Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Guest Speakers Fund; Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.\n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/bhm2023-implications-of-colonialism-for-disease-outbreak-response-in-black-communities/
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UID:MEC-c600b4b49faa3a2a165242e90ca21ac3@yorku.ca
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SUMMARY:Wellness & Self Care III: Developing Your Stress Busting Action Plan, with Harvey Skinner
DESCRIPTION:\nWe all encounter stress in our daily lives that at times can be difficult to manage – affecting the health of our body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Participants in this interactive series will learn practical techniques for ‘Stress Busting’ via Qi Gong (Tai Chi) and Mindfulness Meditation practices, empowering us to care for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others despite what is occurring around us. This is a great way to prepare for the foreseen and unforeseen challenges ahead.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the third session in the 3-part Wellness & Self Care series hosted at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research –\n\n\n\nDeveloping Your Stress Busting Action Plan \n\n\n\nSpecific tools will be used for a) assessing readiness for change, b) identifying which practice to focus on, and c) developing an action plan for implementing a successful wellness and self-care practice.\n\n\n\nWednesday, March 15, 2023 11 a.m. – noon ET60 minutes interactive Workshop using behavior change planning toolsHybrid\n\n\n\nThis session will engage participants in developing their plan for a successful wellness and self-care practice.\n\n\n\nHarvey Skinner PhD has over 45 years experience in academia with a current focus on promoting global mental health that draws on Eastern, Indigenous and Western worldviews and practices. He has Level 1 Qi Gong Teacher Certification with Lee Holden, and has completed many workshops with Qi Gong masters Teja Bell and Robert Peng.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.-Rumi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/wellness-self-care-iii/
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SUMMARY:Wellness & Self Care II: Mindfulness Meditation, with Susan Harris
DESCRIPTION:\nWe all encounter stress in our daily lives that at times can be difficult to manage – affecting the health of our body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Participants in this interactive series will learn practical techniques for ‘Stress Busting’ via Qi Gong (Tai Chi) and Mindfulness Meditation practices, empowering us to care for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others despite what is occurring around us. This is a great way to prepare for the foreseen and unforeseen challenges ahead.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the second session in the 3-part Wellness & Self Care series hosted at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research –\n\n\n\nMindfulness Meditation\n\n\n\nMindfulness is an ancient practice that has taken hold of the modern imagination as a method to decrease stress and increase happiness. \n\n\n\nWednesday, March 1, 2023 11 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. ET30 minutes Practice followed by 15 minutes Discussion Q&AHybrid\n\n\n\nThis session will focus on mindfulness of breath, awareness of body sensations, loving-kindness and self-compassion practices.\n\n\n\nSusan Harris MSW has over 30 years of personal and professional experience based on Buddhist teachings and practices. Susan has completed the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification training program led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.-Rumi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar.\n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/wellness-self-care-ii/
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SUMMARY:Wellness & Self Care I: Qi Gong (Tai Chi) Practices, with Harvey Skinner
DESCRIPTION:\nWe all encounter stress in our daily lives that at times can be difficult to manage – affecting the health of our body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Participants in this interactive series will learn practical techniques for ‘Stress Busting’ via Qi Gong (Tai Chi) and Mindfulness Meditation practices, empowering us to care for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others despite what is occurring around us. This is a great way to prepare for the foreseen and unforeseen challenges ahead.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the first session in the 3-part Wellness & Self Care series hosted at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research –\n\n\n\nQi Gong (Tai Chi)\n\n\n\nQi Gong is an ancient system of postures, exercises, breathing techniques, and meditations that help improve health and overall well-being.\n\n\n\nWednesday, February 15, 2023 11 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. ET30 minutes Practice followed by 15 minutes Discussion Q&AHybrid\n\n\n\nThis session will focus on increasing energy and reducing stress using breath work, energizing movements, purging exercises, flowing movements and mediation.\n\n\n\nHarvey Skinner PhD has over 45 years experience in academia with a current focus on promoting global mental health that draws on Eastern, Indigenous and Western worldviews and practices. He has Level 1 Qi Gong Teacher Certification with Lee Holden, and has completed many workshops with Qi Gong masters Teja Bell and Robert Peng.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.-Rumi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/wellness-self-care-i/
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UID:MEC-6194a1ee187acd6606989f03769e8f7f@yorku.ca
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SUMMARY:Methodologies for Co-Designing Community Responses in Sierra Leone, with Megan Corbett-Thompson, Jessica Farber, and Osman Sow
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this presentation,  Megan Corbett-Thompson, a CommunityFirst Fellow cosponsored by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the SeeChange Initiative, will reflect on the importance of applying participatory methodologies that enable the effective involvement of community members to respond to the health challenges identified by communities. Together with Jessica Farber and Osman Sow, they will examine the context of building effective solutions to humanitarian health crises in Sierra Leone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profiles \n\n\n\nMegan Corbett-Thompson holds a BSc in environment, ecological determinants of health from McGill University and currently works as a project coordinator for SeeChange Initiative, an organization supporting community-led responses to health and climate-related emergencies. She conducts research on ethical and equitable humanitarian interventions and community-led approaches to the pandemic and other public health emergencies. As well, she has experience in the humanitarian field in Latin America, focusing on human rights work, migration, and environmental health promotion. She has advocated for migrant rights, directed community-based integration programs, and provided humanitarian aid in Mexican border towns. She has also developed projects aimed at protecting human health and the environment from contaminated sites and harmful mining practices. Megan completed an internship at UNICEF Geneva in the Strategic Planning and Partnerships Division. \n\n\n\nJessica Farber is leading SeeChange project with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), piloting the CommunityFirst approach in vulnerabilised communities globally. She works with community leaders and institutional partners to organise, prepare and respond to health crises. She also has experience in outreach, advocacy and project coordination with forced migrants and asylum seekers in Montreal and Mexico. Jessica holds a B.A. in International Development from McGill University.\n\n\n\nOsman Sow holds a BSc Honors in Community Health and Clinical Sciences at Njala University. During the Ebola pandemic Osman worked for US Center for Disease Control and Prevention as a Disease Surveillance Officer in Freetown and with Save the Children at Kerry town by treating Ebola patients as a community health officer (CHO). Currently working for MSF Holland for more than 7 years at the Magburaka government hospital in the paediatric and neonatal unit as clinical officer. He is also volunteer as an instructor to train and implement the national Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment Course (ETAT+). Osman has also been supporting SeeChange Initiative in the COVID-19 response in the Tonkolili District.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 8, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/methodologies-for-co-designing-community-responses-in-sierra-leone/
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UID:MEC-06a9d51e04213572ef0720dd27a84792@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230201T180000Z
DTEND:20230201T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20230119T220800Z
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SUMMARY:Global Environmental Changes, Resource Insecurity and Health Outcomes, with Godfred Boateng
DESCRIPTION:\nGlobal environmental changes have become critical determinants of health affecting the most vulnerable populations in poor resource settings. These environmental changes produce effects such as resource insecurity, greater poverty and deprivation, the spread of new and recurring infectious diseases, and poor health outcomes, which create an existential humanitarian crisis requiring an anticipatory approach instead of a reactionary one.\n\n\n\nIn this presentation, Prof. Godfred Boateng will highlight some of the key components of his research program in Global Health and Humanitarianism. Drawing from quantitative data collected from Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi, Godfred will show the prevalence and deleterious consequences of resource insecurity among households in informal settlements. Through this presentation, he will show the significance of being able to measure and quantify the different forms of resource insecurity, the different pathways by which components such as food, water, energy, and housing insecurity can enhance our understanding of vulnerabilities faced by underserved populations, and the relationship of his research outcomes to several of the Sustainable Development Goals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile \n\n\n\nDr. Godfred Boateng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Health, Director of the Global and Environmental Health Lab, and a Faculty Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University. \n\n\n\nDr. Boateng is an expert in the design and application of culturally relevant scalable methodologies to study the multidimensional factors and processes that shape health and health equity across spatial scales (household, community, institutional, national), and how they can be promoted and sustained. His research program is transdisciplinary and focuses on resource insecurity, health, and sustainable livelihoods; the socio-ecological determinants of cardiometabolic conditions in aging adults; social inequity in health systems; quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development; and COVID-19 related health effects. Dr. Boateng’s research in these areas have been critical in transforming the understanding of the key social and structural determinants of health among vulnerable populations, including women, infants, children, and older adults. \n\n\n\nDr. Boateng’s research is supported through both internal and external funding sources from the United States Health Resources & Service Administration, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Transportation and Communities, and York University. \n\n\n\nDr. Boateng is an Academic Editor at PloS ONE, Plos Global Health, a Guest Associate Editor in Life-Course Epidemiology and Social Inequalities in Health for the Frontiers in Public Health; a Review Editor for the Frontiers in Psychology, specifically, Quantitative Psychology and Measurement; and the Lead Associate Editor for a special issue on “Measuring Health Inequities among Vulnerable Populations – 2nd Edition” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. \n\n\n\nPrior to Joining York University, Dr. Boateng worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (2019-2022), as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health at Harvard University (2018-2019), Northwestern University (2016-2018), and Cornell University (2016). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2016 from Western University, London, Ontario. He holds an MPhil degree in Sociology from the University of Ghana, which consisted of a one-year scholarship at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway (Universitet I Tromsø), with additional training in Peace, Health and Medical Work.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 1, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-environmental-changes-resource-insecurity-and-health-outcomes/
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UID:MEC-c4f8a2db7f8704b0bdaa266d61ef48c3@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230125T180000Z
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SUMMARY:How to Influence Public Policy ... What Happens When You Leave the Room? with Jean-Jacques Rousseau
DESCRIPTION:\nPublic policy is about making the world better. However, this only happens when policymakers consider all relevant points of view. \n\n\n\nAfter defining some key terms, the discussion will focus on how scientists and other technical experts should engage government for maximal positive impact. Drawing from his varied policy experiences in both Canada and Haiti, Jean-Jacques will provide tips on how to advocate for policy change. The key takeaway is that, while science is necessary, it is not sufficient in making a positive impact in the policy realm. This is true even in areas like pandemic preparedness where science is predominant. \n\n\n\nConsiderations such as the clarity of your messaging, the stakeholder environment, stage in the electoral cycle, and quality coalition building will all be discussed for their impact on advocacy success. Your own experiences using science to impact policy are welcome!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile \n\n\n\nJean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher of science, innovation policy expert, and serial entrepreneur. He is passionate about innovation for impact and committed to unlocking the value of AI for positive change. \n\n\n\nHis broad work experience includes leading the teams that successfully launched Clinical Trials Ontario and Alpha Haïti, the largest tech incubator in the Caribbean region. In Canada, he held the roles of Economist, Community Safety Advisor to a Deputy Minister, Senior Manager of Life Sciences Programs, and Director of Government Affairs for a national industry association. Abroad, he was the inaugural Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science, and Competitiveness to the President of the Republic of Haiti. \n\n\n\nJean-Jacques holds a BA in Law from Carleton University, MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University, and PhD in Philosophy of Science from the University of Toronto. He completed three years as Postdoctoral Fellow in Explainability & Trust in AI Systems at the Lassonde School of Engineering. He is the inaugural Network Manager of the AI for Pandemic and Epidemic Preparedness (AI4PEP) global network. \n\n\n\nThrough his boutique consultancy, Rousseau Ventures, he co-created the Digital Tech by GeniusLab pre-employment training program and led the development of digital strategy at the Université de l’Ontario Français. More recently, he advises on the opportunity that Decolonisation, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion presents for strategic innovation.\n\n\n\nJean-Jacques is Past Board Chair at CARE for Internationally Educated Nurses. He is a former Member of both Groupe Média TFO and the World Summit AI Board of International Government and UN Advisors. He was also Mentor at NextAI (Montreal) and Past Chair of the Board of the Obsidian Theatre Company. He currently lectures in strategic innovation in the MBA program at the Schulich School of Business. \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 25, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/how-to-influence-public-policy/
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UID:MEC-9d741ec37c2318c1bcff253bbe7ab92b@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230111T180000Z
DTEND:20230111T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20221223T172800Z
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SUMMARY:Healing Ourselves, Healing Others, Healing Our World, with Harvey Skinner
DESCRIPTION:\nA Vision for the Dahdaleh Institute\n\n\n\nThe Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has a bold vision for achieving global health through planetary health, humanitarianism, and foresighting themes. One might characterize these as ‘healing others, healing our world’. However, Harvey seeks to raise the prospect of an additional theme where the Dahdaleh Institute would foster ‘healing ourselves’ as a health promoting organization. This follows on the wisdom of Angel Kyodo Williams: Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.\n\n\n\nWe all encounter stress in our daily lives that at times can be difficult to manage – affecting the health of our body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Many people have experienced traumatic stress due to circumstances such as: school/workplace pressure, prolonged illness/injuries, mental/physical abuse, bullying, conflicts, environmental disasters, poverty, racism and other forms of oppression. This is especially timely as we continue to be challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Practical approaches are needed that can help people, communities and even whole populations better manage their stress and foster wellbeing for all.\n\n\n\nTo be effective as an ‘Agent of Change’, we must focus on practices for fostering our own wellness and resiliency. Awaken our inherent wisdom and capacity to heal - energizing and balancing our body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Then, we are grounded and better able to help and heal others as well as our planet.\n\n\n\nIn this seminar, Harvey will begin with interactive learning for ‘Stress Busting’ via Qi Gong (Tai Chi) mind-body practices. This is a great way to prepare for the new year ahead with its foreseen and unforeseen challenges. A planning tool will be introduced that draws on the a) Tree of Contemplative Practices for identifying goals and b) SMART framework for moving goals into achievable actions. Then, Harvey will briefly review some of the evidence from empirical studies and systematic reviews supporting ‘Eastern’ practices including Qi Gong, Mindfulness Meditation, Acupuncture, Yoga, and Ayurvedic Medicine. Finally, participants will engage in dialogue about the Dahdaleh Institute broadening its vision to support members and associates in developing their personal practice plans for wellness and resiliency.\n\n\n\n\nHandouts (personal practice plan for wellness and resiliency and research evidence for Eastern mind-body practices) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile \n\n\n\nHarvey Skinner is Professor Emeriti of Psychology & Global Health at York University and was Founding Dean (2006-2016) of the Faculty of Health. He is a Senior Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Previously, he was Chair of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto (now the Dalla Lana School of Public Health). Harvey is an internationally recognized scholar placed in the top 2% World Scientists by the Stanford University analysis with respect to his research citations and impact. His current focus is promoting global mental health drawing on Eastern, Indigenous and Western worldviews and practices (see mini-course link). With his partner Susan Harris, Harvey leads online sessions on Qi Gong (Tai Chi) and Mindfulness Meditation called Stress Busting: 30 Minutes of Magical Practices engaging York University students, staff, faculty, alumni and the broader community.\n\n\n\nStress Busting practices website\n\n\n\nGlobal Mental Health online mini-course\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, January 11, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/healing-ourselves-healing-others-healing-our-world/
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UID:MEC-1c336b8080f82bcc2cd2499b4c57261d@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230202T140000Z
DTEND:20230428T220000Z
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Water Engineering Course - Winter 2023
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Humanitarian Water Engineering Intensive Course offers participants an opportunity to gain essential knowledge and skills on safe water supply in humanitarian emergencies. The course covers the theoretical fundamentals of, and practical considerations for, the design and operation of water supply systems in humanitarian response including source water selection, water quality, water treatment, distribution and the safe water chain, and outbreak preparedness and response.\n\n\n\nOver the course of twelve weeks in Winter 2023, participants will engage in a rich, multifaceted online learning experience consisting of curated readings, knowledge-testing quizzes, lectures from experienced engineering practitioners and faculty, and small group problem-based learning (PBL) activities guided by talented facilitators. A certificate will be offered to participants upon successful completion of the course.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApply for a spot in the course\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/humanitarian-water-engineering-online-intensive-course-winter-2023/
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UID:MEC-894a9b94bcc5969b60bd18e8ea9c0ddc@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230222T180000Z
DTEND:20230222T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20221206T201900Z
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SUMMARY:The Orthodox Legal and Policy Framework Governing the Harm of Displacement and NATO’s Policy for the Protection of Civilians 2016, with Sarah Khan
DESCRIPTION:\nIn 2022, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) estimated that 59.1 million persons remain internally displaced (53.2 million due to conflict), and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that 27.1 million are displaced across international borders as refugees. The highest figure of displacement on record since record keeping began.  \n\n\n\nThis research examines the existing orthodox International Legal and Policy Framework regulating the harm of displacement in contemporary crisis situations. It queries whether the “harm of displacement”, as envisaged in this orthodox framework sufficiently captures the scale, gravity, and multi-faceted nature of this harm. The research hypothesizes that the failure to specifically reference the “harm of displacement” in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s landmark Policy for the Protection of Civilians 2016 is emblematic of the limitations of this orthodox International Legal and Policy framework.\n\n\n\nIn this seminar, Sarah will present her year-long research for the LLM Research Program at Osgoode Hall Law School. Her findings encompass: (i) trends and pattens of displacement in significant contemporary crisis; (ii) the legal, policy and practice response undertaken by key actors such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United Nations (UN), the African Union (AU) and the Red Cross; and (iii) an analysis of the rhetoric and reality in the legal, policy and practise response to the “harm of displacement”. Her findings are based on extensive desk-based research and empirical data collection via interviews with subject matter experts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile \n\n\n\nSarah Khan is a lawyer by training, with a BA LLB Hons. degree from the National Law School at India University and a master of arts in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Sarah is excited to apply her extensive field operations practice to research as an LLM research student at Osgoode Hall Law School and as a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute. Prior to this, she has worked for over 12 years with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a senior protection officer and senior cluster coordinator. She has worked in areas of human rights, refugee, and international humanitarian law. In her work she supported the development of protection policies for UN/NGO humanitarian country teams; assisted governments with the development of legislation and policy related to internally displaced persons (IDP); designed capacity-building programs on international protection and displacement for armed actors and civil society; developed protection monitoring systems for response and advocacy; and coordinated UN/NGO actors on inter-agency protection platforms.\n\n\n\nHer last position was as head of office in Northern Somalia, managing a multifaceted program covering refugees, IDPs, and persons in mixed flows (refugees/migrants). She has also worked with Oxfam, CAFOD UK, and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre. At Pearson, she facilitated integrated training courses for NATO/ISAF and UN Mission senior commanders. \n\n\n\nSarah has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, covering various displacement situations, including in Afghanistan, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria. She has also worked at UNHCR Headquarters at the Global Protection Cluster covering various internal displacement situations, such as those in the Central African Republic, Colombia, Iraq, and the Philippines.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, February 22, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/framework-governing-the-harm-of-displacement/
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UID:MEC-5763abe87ed1938799203fb6e8650025@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230430T130000Z
DTEND:20230502T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20221202T190900Z
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SUMMARY:World Health Assembly Simulation Week
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nBuilding global solidarity for worldwide health and security\n\n\n\nThe School of Global Health at York University is launching the first WHO World Health Assembly Simulation in Canada. \n\n\n\nJoin us on April 30, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario to listen to experts from around the world; connect with like-minded colleagues; improve communication skills; expand your knowledge on current global health issues; and gain a deeper understanding of how governance at the World Health Organization works.\n\n\n\nPlease take a few minutes to register below. Hope to see you there! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more at worldhealthassemblysimulation.com\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/world-health-assembly-simulation-week/
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UID:MEC-b613e70fd9f59310cf0a8d33de3f2800@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221213T163000Z
DTEND:20221213T190000Z
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SUMMARY:Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of Polycrisis with Achim Steiner
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nEmpire Club of Canada presents In Conversation with Achim Steiner\n\n\n\nJoin In-Person or Virtually\n\n\n\nWe are living through a new era of ‘polycrisis’ and uncertainty:\n\n\n\nA climate emergency.The socio-economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic.The highest levels of conflict since WWII.One hundred million displaced people.A rising cost of living.The war in Ukraine.\n\n\n\nDespite this uncertainty, the future of people and the planet is not predetermined.\n\n\n\nThe world’s population will pass the eight billion mark for the first time in November 2022. It is a moment to reflect on the remarkable development and progress our global community has made – from lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty to expanding access to quality healthcare and education. If we have the power to create a new geological era- the age of humans- then we can harness humanity’s immense collective power to slow the climate emergency in its tracks, the defining challenge of our times.\n\n\n\nMr. Achim Steiner will explore what CoP27 achieved and critically analyze if it is enough. He will attempt to define what “leave no one behind” means and outline the opportunities and challenges in our complex and ambiguous environment. Finally, he will discuss a framework of potential pathways for a new form of development through decarbonization and review why the United Nations, including UNDP, still must achieve these overarching objectives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nAchim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAchim Steiner became UNDP Administrator on 19 June 2017 following the confirmation of his nomination by the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Steiner is the Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group, which unites 40 entities of the UN system that work to support sustainable development. Over nearly three decades, Mr. Steiner has been a global leader on sustainable development, climate resilience and international cooperation. Prior to joining UNDP, he was Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Mr. Steiner has served across various international organizations, looking at global challenges from both a humanitarian and a development perspective. He led the United Nations Environment Programme (2006-2016), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2001 – 2006) and the World Commission on Dams (1998 – 2001).\n\n\n\n\n\n\nempireclubofcanada.com/event/achim-steiner-2022\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/empire-club-of-canada-presents-opportunities-and-challenges-in-the-era-of-polycrisis/
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UID:MEC-ad0f7a25211abc3889cb0f420c85e671@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230527T130000Z
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SUMMARY:2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
DESCRIPTION:\nReckonings and Re-Imaginings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYork University will host the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, in partnership with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Congress is the largest academic gathering in Canada, and one of the largest in the world. The event in 2023 will be the 92nd annual edition, bringing together around 70 academic associations from humanities and social sciences disciplines, including literature, history, theatre, film studies, education, music, sociology, geography, social work and more. York’s Keele and Glendon campuses will welcome over 10,000 scholars, graduate students and practitioners. \n\n\n\nThis year’s theme, Reckonings and Re-Imaginings, invites attendees to place Black and Indigenous knowledges, cultures and voices at the centre of critical discussions to reckon with the past and re-imagine a future that embraces decoloniality, anti-racism, justice, sustainability and equity. York’s commitment to action on these issues and to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals reflects our dedication to creating positive change in higher education and scholarship. \n\n\n\nAs the first in-person event held in four years, adherence to public health guidelines will be prioritized. The conference will also include robust virtual components. We encourage you to come to campus during the week and participate in the open-access activities and performances that are part of Congress 2023 programming. Here is some of what you can see and access for free at the Keele Campus during the week: \n\n\n\nA ‘Re-Imaginings’ Social Tent in the middle of the Commons for community members to gather and enjoy a bite to eat or a beverage together. Live Swag Stage ( https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2023/04/19/congress-2023-sustainable-decision-to-create-memories-without-swag/ ) performances at four locations on campus, including in front of Vari Hall, at the Vanier basketball court, outside of Accolade East and the Dahdaleh Building.  Encounters ( https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/encounters-day-1 ) augmented reality experiences that explore new perspectives on social presence and the power of collective self-organization in public spaces. Use your phone to access the experience at any Info Kiosk.  The Art of Scott Library ( https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/art-scott-library-day-1 ) self-guided tour where visitors scan a QR code and learn about acclaimed artists, including Michael Hayden’s “York Electric Murals” and Hugh LeRoy’s “Rainbow Piece.” York Library Exhibits ( https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2023/04/26/york-library-exhibits-to-reflect-on-congress-theme-reckonings-re-imaginings/ ) reflecting on the Congress 2023 theme including Reckoning & Re-Imagining: Deborah Barndt’s Engaged Use of Photography and Celebrating Black Emancipation through Carnival. The Longhouse poem, shaped like a Haudenosaunee longhouse that honours the Oneida core values of a good mind, a good heart, and a strong fire in the Accolade East CIBC Lobby. \n\n\n\nLook for the SARIT Test Track ( https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/sarit-test-track-day-1 ) in front of Vari Hall on May 30 and June 1, where Congress participants will test drive these electric vehicles during the week. You can also help build the Congress Community Mural ( https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/community-mural-congress-day-1 ) outside the Second Student Centre during the week and contribute to this artwork that will live on campus after Congress. \n\n\n\nCommunity passes ( https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2023/register#pass ) are available to those interested in attending these and other York Programming ( https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2023/york-programming ) activities organized for Congress and will be free to Black and Indigenous community members. We look forward to seeing you there and as a reminder, term dates ( https://registrar.yorku.ca/enrol/dates ) have been adjusted to align with the timelines for this year’s event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nyorku.ca/congress2023/\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheck out these events at Congress 2023 featuring members of the Dahdaleh Institute:\n\n\n\nPlease note that this listing only includes open programming at Congress that directly involves members of the Dahdaleh Institute. 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.kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{color:#ffffff;background:#444444;border-top-color:#444444;border-right-color:#444444;border-bottom-color:#444444;border-left-color:#444444;}.kt-accordion-id_feaeea-a7:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basiccircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclosecircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrowcircle )  > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_feaeea-a7:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basiccircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclosecircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrowcircle )  > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before{background:#ffffff;}.kt-accordion-id_feaeea-a7:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger{background:#ffffff;}.kt-accordion-id_feaeea-a7:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_feaeea-a7:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before{background:#444444;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-accordion-id_feaeea-a7 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{display:block;}.kt-accordion-id_feaeea-a7 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap .kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:0px;}}\n\nMay 27-June 2 (8 a.m. - 7 p.m.) – LA&PS Research Next Generation Lecture Series \nSpeakers: Yvonne Su, Cary Wu\n\n\n\nModality: In-person - Scott Library, Keele Campus\n\n\n\nIn alignment with the Congress theme of Reckonings and Re-Imaginings, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is proud to share a series of short lectures featuring the outstanding work of early-career researchers. Four lectures, approximately six minutes each, will play on a large digital kiosk in the entrance lobby to Scott Library for the duration of Congress to allow delegates access.\n\n\n\nFor more information, visit: https://www.yorku.ca/laps/congress-2023/#events ( https://www.yorku.ca/laps/congress-2023/#events )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay 27-June 2 (8 a.m.-7 p.m.) – The Gallery of Risk (Representing Risk)\nSpeakers: Angela Norwood, Jen Gilbert, Sarah Flicker, Laina Bay-Cheng\n\n\n\nModality: In-person - Rob And Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building, 3rd Floor\n\n\n\nLed by PIs Prof. Angela Norwood (Design) and Dr. Jen Gilbert (Education), and facilitated through AMPD’s Year of the Arts, the project is a 10 x3 pop-up, interactive Gallery that will present the findings of a collaborative study, For the Record (4theRecord). The study features the narratives of racialized and LGBTQ2S+ young women and nonbinary youth to examine the shifting meanings of risk as young people navigated relationships during COVID. Racialized and LGBTQ+ young women and non-binary youth are routinely cast as 'at risk.' The overarching goal of this outreach project is to exchange knowledge and disseminate the narratives of racialized and LGBTQ2S+ young women and nonbinary youth on how they navigated friendships, school, family, and sex during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\n\n\n\nThis pop-up Gallery is a collaboration between Education and Design/AMPD. A new, AIF-funded course was developed for this project — entitled "Representing Risk, a data-driven virtual and physical gallery." The course allows Design students from each year in their program to work collaboratively on development of the 4theRecord Gallery of Risk. Through this innovative, “vertical studio” format, Design students will work with the research team to translate study findings into a dynamic, digital and pop-up exhibition that will engage youth, sexual and public health organizations, educators, policy makers, and the community in an on-going conversation and vital knowledge exchange about the meanings of risk in a world indelibly marked by COVID. The research upon which the course is based is headed by an international team of researchers, three of whom are here at York, including Dr. Laina Bay-Cheng, AVP Faculty Affairs, Dr Sarah Flicker from Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and Dr Jen Gilbert.\n\n\n\n\nMonday, May 29 (9:30-11:30 a.m.) – Climate Change is Not the Change We Want! Community Connection Dialogue Between Changemakers and Youth Leaders for Inclusive Social Change\nSpeakers: Idil Boran, Julia M. Satov, Matias de Dovitiis, Nick Mulé, Lee Truong, and Amanpreet Chonkrian\n\n\n\nModality: In-person - Seymour Schulich Building-SSB W141\n\n\n\nThis community engagement event is a living lab that brings to the table professionals from various sectors, community youth voices from the Humber River-Black Creek Youth Council, and other Youth groups in the Greater Toronto Area. The goal is to debate and co-design radical collaboration to accelerate credible and impactful implementation of the UN SDGs by 2030. The dialogue is premised on the knowledge that social transformation needs radical collaboration between a diverse range of voices, disciplines, and sectors, bridging generations of changemakers. Practitioners who act as changemakers in their profession will present action plans across a range of sectors, including women & tech; public health and nursing; housing and social equity; secondary education; post-secondary education. Youth leaders will respond and debate with changemakers for improving and scaling up implementation for social and environmental justice.\n\n\n\nThis event is organized by CIFAL York’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee as an experimental living lab to build new bridges between the university and society and between professional change makers and youth leaders with cross-sectionalities of women, LGBTQIA+, Black and Indigenous voices through radical collaboration and changemaking. It will exemplify the contribution of community dialogues and living labs to knowledge creation within the humanities and social sciences.\n\n\n\nPlease note this event will be presented in English. Event descriptions and translation (if applicable) provided by the host organization and published in authenticity by the Federation.\n\n\n\n\nMonday, May 29 (1:30-3 p.m.) – Photovoice, Documentary-Making and Participatory Video in the Age of TikTok: Emerging Digital, Visual and Participatory Methodologies in Refugee and Migration Research\nSpeakers: Yvonne Su, Amanda Alencar, Natalia Cintra\n\n\n\nModality: Hybrid\n\n\n\nIn-person: Curtis Lecture Halls-CLH DOnline: Join Zoom (opens new tab)\n\n\n\nSurveys and interviews can fail to capture the everyday nuances and complexities of migration. As a result, researchers have turned to digital and visual methodologies such as photovoice, video voice, documentary-making and participatory video. These emerging methods allow us to move beyond words, and in utilizing a medium free from the burdens of language or literacy, asylum seekers, refugees and migrants can present their world to the global community on their own terms.\n\n\n\nIn the age of Instagram and TikTok, asylum seekers, refugees and migrants are already familiar with the universal reach of photos and videos so how do we empower them to use skills they already have for our projects and how to we ensure a decolonial approach that addresses tensions over creative direction and authorship?\n\n\n\nBringing together international scholars that have engaged deeply with these new methods, this event will showcase short films and videos by migrants and refugees through participatory video, as well as samples of documentary and photovoice and video voice projects.Event descriptions and translation (if applicable) provided by the host organization and published in authenticity by the Federation.\n\n\n\n\nTuesday, May 30 (10:30 a.m. - noon) – Social Problems, Development and Policy in Africa\nSpeakers: Kaitlin Di Pierdomenico, Yao Jean Kouadio, Emmanuel Kyeremeh, Godfred Boateng\n\n\n\nModality: In-person - McLaughlin College-MC112\n\n\n\nThe overall goal of this session is to stimulate a critical discussion about case studies, approaches, and best practices related to pressing social problems in Africa. This session will focus on the policy implications of issues pertaining to mental healthcare, sexual and reproductive health, access to childcare services, substance use, and resource extraction, as well as examine the effectiveness of initiatives that have been implemented.\n\n\n\n\nTuesday, May 30 (3-5 p.m.) – Window on Some Bilingual Research in the Humanities at Glendon\nSpeakers: Myra Bloom, Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Gillian McGillivray, Gertrude Mianda, Gabriel Levine, Swann Paradis\n\n\n\nModality: In-person - York Hall A-100, Glendon Campus\n\n\n\nPresentations from 15:00-17:00 followed by a reception from 17:00-18:00. To reserve your seat please RSVP: https://tl.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=155031.\n\n\n\nMyra Bloom (English) : « Nelly Arcan confronts ‘the tyranny of beauty »Marie-Hélène Larochelle (Études françaises) : « Recherche monstrueuse, comprendre les marges de la littérature »Gillian McGillivray (History) : « Sugar and Power in Brazil »Gertrude Mianda (Études des femmes et de genre) : « Féminisme africain dans l’espace francophone et la perspective décoloniale »Gabriel Levine (Drama and Creative Arts) : «Ecology, play, and object-performance »Swann Paradis (APRGS) : « À propos d’un artéfact exposé au Musée Buffon de Montbard : la ‘‘Nomenclature des singes’’»Event descriptions and translation (if applicable) provided by the host organization and published in authenticity by the Federation.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday, May 31 (3-5 p.m.) – EUC Keynote Event: Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures \nSpeakers: Candis Callison, Deborah McGregor, and Naomi Klein\n\n\n\nModality: Hybrid\n\n\n\nIn-person - Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University Online: register here ( https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3wG71qNXQySnUGeXnHV0ag#/registration )\n\n\n\nThe event will feature two distinguished Indigenous researchers and communicators, Candis Callison (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse at UBC) and Deborah McGregor (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice at York), along with award-winning author and activist Naomi Klein (Professor of Climate Justice at UBC). They will discuss how Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing can make the threat our planet faces from climate change, and ways of confronting it, matter to broader publics both inside and outside the university \n\n\n\n\nThursday, June 1 (10-11 a.m.) – Understanding the UN SDGs Through the Lens of DEDI\nSpeakers: Rhonda Lenton, Sapna Sharma, Bernie Derible, Larissa Crawford \n\n\n\nModality: In-person - Seymour Schulich Building-SSB W141\n\n\n\nThe United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) capture complex global problems that are going to require cross-sector collaboration joining industry, education, government and practitioners. Universities have a special role to play in facilitating these conversations and cooperation, but also unpacking the implications of the problems and the solutions for diverse stakeholders if we are to advance equity for all. This session looks at promising opportunities from a DEDI lens for strengthening our impact on the UN SDGs.\n\n\n\n\nThursday, June 1 (2:30 p.m.) – Speaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy at the United Nations The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities\nSpeaker: Mark Terry\n\n\n\nModality: In-person - Curtis Lecture Hall A\n\n\n\nMark Terry will be launching his new book titled "The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities" in his presentation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2023-congress-of-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/
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SUMMARY:Global Health Design: Artificial Intelligence for Global Health Priority Diseases
DESCRIPTION:\nThis is the fifth seminar of the six-part seminar series Massive Action: Global Health Design, led by visionary designer Bruce Mau.\n\n\n\nIn this seminar, we will learn about the project Artificial Intelligence for Global Health Priority Diseases, led by faculty fellow Jude Dzevela Kong, and community fellow Bruce Mau will offer insights and lead a workshop on the project's design opportunities.\n\n\n\nAbout Artificial Intelligence for Global Health Priority Diseases\n\n\n\nThis initiative will address existing knowledge and practice gaps in the Global South by establishing a multi-regional network to deepen the understanding of how responsible artificial intelligence solutions can improve public health preparedness and response. It will strengthen the capacity of interdisciplinary researchers and policy makers across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa to support early detection, response, mitigation, and control of developing infectious disease outbreaks. Projects within the initiative will work closely with governments, public health agencies, civil society, and other actors to generate new knowledge and collaborations to inform practice and policies at subnational, national, regional, and global levels.\n\n\n\nMore about the Africa-Canada AI & Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar series is co-organized by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/ ) and York University’s Department of Design ( https://design.ampd.yorku.ca/ ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-health-design-artificial-intelligence-for-global-health-priority-diseases/
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SUMMARY:Global Health Design: Designing One Health Governance for Antimicrobial Stewardship (NEW DATE)
DESCRIPTION:\n* This seminar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 3 p.m. ET.*\n\n\n\nThis is the third seminar of the six-part seminar series Massive Action: Global Health Design, led by visionary designer Bruce Mau.\n\n\n\nIn this seminar, we will learn about the project Designing One Health Governance for Antimicrobial Stewardship, led by faculty fellow Mary Wiktorowicz, and community fellow Bruce Mau will offer insights and lead a workshop on the project's design opportunities.\n\n\n\nAbout Designing One Health Governance for Antimicrobial Stewardship\n\n\n\nAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a problem of the global commons, whose resolution depends on coordinating a collective global strategy through employing effective governance approaches and models.\n\n\n\nTo address the challenges a One Health (OH) approach poses for AMR governance, we will conduct a situational, institutional, legal, and impact analysis of antibiotic stewardship policies in six countries across human, animal, and environmental settings. Second, a comparative analysis will identify innovative international policy, legal, design and regulatory elements of OH governance across high-, medium- and low-income countries. Third, we will apply systems analysis to understand the complex relationships and contingencies inherent in antibiotic stewardship governance in local and international contexts. Finally, design-thinking principles will be employed in national workshops, informed by evidence emerging from the situational, comparative and systems analysis and engaging decision-makers and local stakeholders.\n\n\n\nMore about Young Lives Research\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar series is co-organized by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/ ) and York University’s Department of Design ( https://design.ampd.yorku.ca/ ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* This seminar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 3 p.m. ET.*\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-health-design-designing-one-health-governance-for-antimicrobial-stewardship/
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SUMMARY:Global Health Design: Safe Water Optimization Tools: Ensuring Water Safety & Protecting Public Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
DESCRIPTION:\nThis is the fourth seminar of the six-part seminar series Massive Action: Global Health Design, led by visionary designer Bruce Mau.\n\n\n\nIn this seminar, we will learn about the Safe Water Optimization Tools, led by research fellow Syed Imran Ali, and community fellow Bruce Mau will offer insights and lead a workshop on the project's design opportunities.\n\n\n\nAbout the Safe Water Optimization Tools\n\n\n\nWaterborne illnesses like cholera are among the leading threats facing displaced people during humanitarian emergencies. Many water engineering practices used in humanitarian response however are not based on field evidence and fail to reliably protect public health. The Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) is an innovative web-based water quality modelling platform that uses machine learning and numerical modelling to unlock life-saving information from routine monitoring data. The SWOT currently generates evidence-based, context-specific water chlorination targets that help keep water safe all the way to the point-of-consumption, and our vision is to build a full toolkit that helps unlock insights from the data already collected in the humanitarian sector.\n\n\n\nMore about the Safe Water Optimization Tool\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar series is co-organized by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/ ) and York University’s Department of Design ( https://design.ampd.yorku.ca/ ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-health-design-safe-water-optimization-tools-ensuring-water-safety-protecting-public-health-in-humanitarian-emergencies/
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SUMMARY:We Walk the Earth Film Premiere
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for a two-part virtual event of the screening and film premiere of We Walk the Earth – a documentary directed by DI faculty fellow Felipe Montoya featuring Indigenous Bribri, Cabécar, Brunka and Bröran voices. We Walk the Earth speaks of Indigenous persistence in their homelands after more than 500 years of colonialism. It recounts struggles in Costa Rica for Indigenous rights to land, to self-governance and autonomy. Through the words of Bribri, Cabécar, Brunka and Bröran men and women, stories emerge of the pains suffered in the struggle to rightfully recover Indigenous Territories. The restoration of life and wellbeing through Indigenous Peoples’ stewardship of their land offers alternative ways to understand our relationship with the Earth.\n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the struggles and objectives to secure land rights and autonomous governance structures that Indigenous peoples in Costa Rica share with others. \n\n\n\nThis free event is open to the public. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 6:00 p.m.; RSVP here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArf--rrjouEtUDVIwLKrv_xAbF728Pm-Tp\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/we-walk-the-earth-film-premiere/
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DTEND:20221205T210000Z
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PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Arctic Water Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\nYou’re invited to join the Borealis Council to learn about recent water research projects in the Arctic with confirmed speakers:\n\n\n\nSusanne Berglund (Naalakkersuisut, Environmental Technologist, Government of Greenland)Anne Carabin (PhD Candidate, University of Victoria)Stéphanie Guilherme (Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa)Jennifer Korosi (Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University)Amanda Little (PhD Candidate and NSTP Fellow, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University)Judith Yvonne Aline Maréchal (PhD Candidate, Technical University of Denmark)Gord Marinic (Regional Municipal Engineer, Community and Government Services, Government of Nunavut)Morten Siersbæk (Lawyer, Siersbæk Law Professional Corporation)Kathy Lynn Young (Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University)\n\n\n\nThis event has a limited in-person capacity of 40 people and 15 spots have been reserved for undergraduate and graduate students from York University. The event will be streamed over Zoom for registrants who wish to join remotely.\n\n\n\nIn-Person Registration*: robarts@yorku.ca*In your email please state your name and current position (student, faculty, member of the general public, etc.)\n\n\n\nZoom Registration: www.tinyurl.com/Arctic-5Dec\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information, please visit: https://www.yorku.ca/research/robarts/events/yorku-arctic-water-research-symposium/\n\n\n\nJoin us on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET at Room 125 Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence (11 Arboretum Ln. Toronto, ON), York University or Zoom.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/yorku-arctic-water-research-symposium/
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UID:MEC-f56d8183992b6c54c92c16a8519a6e2b@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221210T210000Z
DTEND:20221210T230000Z
DTSTAMP:20221122T144300Z
CREATED:20221122
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Playing for Real Book Launch with Paul Hogan
DESCRIPTION:\nThis event will launch Dahdaleh Institute research fellow Paul Hogan's book: Playing for Real: An Out-of-the-Box Curriculum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin author Paul Hogan on Friday, December 10, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. at the The Great Hall - St. George by the Grange (30 Stephanie St. Toronto, ON)\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/playing-for-real-book-launch-with-paul-hogan/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-806a19775027cf2f84c129d410ce1c8a@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230120T230000Z
DTEND:20230121T030000Z
DTSTAMP:20221122T143000Z
CREATED:20221122
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Planetary Health Film Lab (Youth and Geomedia) Book Launch with Mark Terry
DESCRIPTION:\nThis event will launch two new books by Dahdaleh Institute research fellow Mark Terry: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities ( https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666913422/The-Emerging-Role-of-Geomedia-in-the-Environmental-Humanities ). Published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield. (2022). ISBN: 978-1-66691-342-2.Speaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Change at the United Nations ( https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/speaking-youth-to-power-mark-terry/1141757457 ). Published by Palgrave Macmillan. (2022). ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-031-14297-0.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin author Mark Terry on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at the Arts & Letters Club (14 Elm St. Toronto, ON). Note: Doors open at 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/planetary-health-film-lab-youth-and-geomedia-book-launch-with-mark-terry/
LOCATION:Toronto
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-2327fdecafc97928d5ba62af00a05704@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221207T200000Z
DTEND:20221207T220000Z
DTSTAMP:20221116T164000Z
CREATED:20221116
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Global Health Design: The Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:\nThis is the second seminar of the six-part seminar series Massive Action: Global Health Design, led by visionary designer Bruce Mau.\n\n\n\nIn this seminar, we will learn about the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing, led by faculty fellow Kate Tilleczek, and community fellow Bruce Mau will offer insights and lead a workshop on the project's design opportunities.\n\n\n\nAbout the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing\n\n\n\nEcological devastation and climate change are among the world’s most pressing problems, with thousands of youth pitching in to fuel a movement to address the issues. We do not yet understand the size, scope or meaning of the youth movement for planetary health. The Partnership connects new, diverse, intergenerational groups of scholars, youth, trainees, communities, and civil societies to:\n\n\n\nMap the range, efficacy and gaps in youth-centred practices and policies for youth and planetary wellbeingWork with inclusive groups of young people and their communities to record and analyze the impacts on youth wellbeing including their responsesLeverage our data for co-development with youth of new education to intentionally amplify their knowledge, practices and solutions to advance the UN Sustainable Development GoalsEvaluate and share new evidence and educational tools with global and local policy and practice audiences who are well placed to make a difference.\n\n\n\nMore about Young Lives Research\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar series is co-organized by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/ ) and York University’s Department of Design ( https://design.ampd.yorku.ca/ ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/global-health-design-the-partnership-for-youth-and-planetary-wellbeing/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-99a2103fcf4f2c44d1f9f75553274025@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221116T144500Z
DTEND:20221116T161500Z
DTSTAMP:20221111T183900Z
CREATED:20221111
LAST-MODIFIED:20221111
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Bringing Nature-Based Climate Action Into Cities in Challenging Times
DESCRIPTION:\nDahdaleh Institute director James Orbinski, faculty fellow Idil Boran, and visiting scholars Sander Chan and Andrew Deneault and colleagues host a side event at the UN Climate change Conference COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch the livestream on the UN Climate Change Events Youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJlvsGJAR8NsiyLzuBf_cQg ).\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/bringing-nature-based-climate-action-into-cities-in-challenging-times/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-58d2d622ed4026cae2e56dffc5818a11@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230625T130000Z
DTEND:20230630T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20221111T155400Z
CREATED:20221111
LAST-MODIFIED:20230628
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:22
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SUMMARY:World Non-Communicable Diseases Congress 2023
DESCRIPTION:\nEquitable and Sustainable Health For All\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe third World Non-Communicable Diseases Congress (WNCD 2023) is scheduled to take place from June 25 to 30, 2023 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada.\n\n\n\nWNCD 2023 will gather international experts to advance knowledge and expertise on non-communicable diseases (NCD), to assess their impact globally and to develop public health measures and recommendations to mitigate and contain them.\n\n\n\nThe Congress will cover major NCDs (for example, Cardiovascular, Cancer, Diabetes, Respiratory, and Mental Illness) and their risk factors, through the lenses of traditional health sciences (basic research, clinical, epidemiology, physiology, neurosciences, public health, social and behavioral sciences) as well as policy, health promotion and use of modern application tools such as Big Data, Machine Language and Artificial Intelligence, Wearable Technologies to assess NCD, and more.\n\n\n\nCongress objectives will incorporate the interaction between infectious diseases and NCDs, with a special focus on the impact of infectious diseases on the global population. Representation and a focus on low- and middle-income countries will be a theme throughout Congress programming.\n\n\n\nThe Congress will be of interest to researchers, academics, health care professionals, policy developers and makers, research funders, health system managers and governors, consumer advocates from around the globe concerned with knowledge, innovation, and the exchange of ideas and perspectives to address the origin, prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and management of non-communicable or chronic diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease, lung disease, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, neurological conditions including dementia, mental health, addiction, muscular-skeletal conditions, chronic inflammatory conditions, metabolic and autoimmune conditions) across the human lifespan. Over 800 expected in-person participants and over 1,500 online participants.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwww.torontownc2023.org\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/world-non-communicable-diseases-congress-2023/
LOCATION:Toronto
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-653c579e3f9ba5c03f2f2f8cf4512b39@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20230405T190000Z
DTEND:20230405T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20221021T185700Z
CREATED:20221021
LAST-MODIFIED:20230114
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Global Health Design, with Bruce Mau
DESCRIPTION:\nA six-part seminar series\n\n\n\nJoin us at this public seminar to learn about Bruce Mau’s vision of global health design. Bruce Mau will reflect on his MC24 Principles for LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN and on the four case studies covered in the seminar series to suggest learnings for Massive Action: Global Health Design.\n\n\n\nRead more about the six-part seminar series and register to participate. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Wednesday, April 5, at 3 p.m. ET for the closing seminar!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar series is co-organized by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/ ) and York University’s Department of Design ( https://design.ampd.yorku.ca/ ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nBruce Mau is a brilliantly creative optimist, designer, author, educator, and artist whose love of thorny problems led him to create a methodology for life-centred design. Across thirty years of design innovation, he’s collaborated with global brands and companies, leading organizations, heads of state, renowned artists, and fellow optimists.  \n\n\n\nMau became an international figure with the publication of his landmark S,M,L,XL, designed and co-authored with Rem Koolhaas. His most recent books are Mau MC24: Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in Your Life and Work and, with co-author Julio Ottino, dean of Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World – The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science. Mau is co-founder and CEO of Massive Change Network, a holistic design collective based in the Chicago area. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/reflections-on-global-health-design-with-bruce-mau/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-80e888e0e8706954e2b97ebc980a172e@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221102T190000Z
DTEND:20221102T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20221021T185100Z
CREATED:20221021
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
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SUMMARY:Principles of Global Health Design, with Bruce Mau
DESCRIPTION:\nA six-part seminar series \n\n\n\nJoin us at this public seminar to learn about Bruce Mau’s vision of global health design. Mau will draw on his MC24 Principles for Life-Centred Design to address caring as the fundamental operating system for global health design. \n\n\n\nDesign methodology is critical to the conversation around global health.\n\n\n\nIn this opening seminar, Bruce Mau will explore the exponential capacity of design to take on the greatest challenges in human history, how we are already doing that, and why for some reason, we don’t believe it is possible.  \n\n\n\nRead more about the seminars and register to participate.\n\n\n\nJoin us on Wednesday, November 2, at 3 p.m. ET for the opening seminar!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar series is co-organized by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/ ) and York University’s Department of Design ( https://design.ampd.yorku.ca/ ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nBruce Mau is a brilliantly creative optimist, designer, author, educator, and artist whose love of thorny problems led him to create a methodology for life-centred design. Across thirty years of design innovation, he’s collaborated with global brands and companies, leading organizations, heads of state, renowned artists, and fellow optimists.  \n\n\n\nMau became an international figure with the publication of his landmark S,M,L,XL, designed and co-authored with Rem Koolhaas. His most recent books are Mau MC24: Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in Your Life and Work and, with co-author Julio Ottino, dean of Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World – The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science. Mau is co-founder and CEO of Massive Change Network, a holistic design collective based in the Chicago area. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/principles-of-global-health-design-with-bruce-mau/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-84c578f202616448a2f80e6f56d5f16d@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221130T180000Z
DTEND:20221130T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20221018T140800Z
CREATED:20221018
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
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SUMMARY:Use of Real-Time Evidence in Humanitarian Practice at the Canadian Red Cross, with Ahmad Firas Khalid
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Canadian Red Cross (CRC) provides health care services to the most vulnerable. A key priority of CRC is to ensure that all programs are scientifically based and that decisions are informed by the best available evidence to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of interventions. This seminar will detail efforts to support real-time evidence use at the Canadian Red Cross (CRC), showcasing real-world examples of evidence summaries answering pressing questions in the midst of a health and humanitarian emergency.\n\n\n\nDr. Ahmad Firas Khalid will present his CIHR Health Systems Impact–funded work on the implementation of efforts to support real-time evidence use at the Canadian Red Cross.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile \n\n\n\nAhmad Firas Khalid is a medical doctor, a health policy and system researcher and lecturer, and a knowledge translation professional. Firas completed his medical degree at St. George’s University School of Medicine and his PhD in health policy at McMaster University. Firas worked as a senior research manager at Evidence Aid working on creating a World Health Organization (WHO) Knowledge Hub on emergency disasters research management and with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on the creation of Resilient Health Systems collection to advise member states. He is also a CIHR Health System Impact Fellow and a Mitacs Elevate Training Fellow working on implementing efforts to support real-time evidence use in humanitarian practice at the Canadian Red Cross. Firas is a board member for Doctors Without Borders, where his responsibility is to set the strategic direction for the entire Canadian branch of the organization.\n\n\n\nIn the past, Firas worked as a senior research and learning consultant at the Canadian Red Cross, working on epidemic prevention and control COVID-19 research. In addition, Firas previously worked as a health policy researcher at the Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH) at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Geneva, Switzerland. He also worked in the Department of Child and Maternal Health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Firas is the founder and executive director of Knowledge Translation Hub – a knowledge synthesis hub designed to meet the demands of decision-makers and organizations.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/use-of-real-time-evidence-in-humanitarian-practice-at-the-canadian-red-cross-with-ahmad-firas-khalid/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-495360cbf18a7d5004ff72f49254e069@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221214T160000Z
DTEND:20221214T173000Z
DTSTAMP:20221016T044400Z
CREATED:20221015
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
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SUMMARY:3rd Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\nPlease join us at the Dahdaleh Institute's 3rd Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dahdaleh Institute proudly supports graduate research and scholarly and creative activities in line with the three themes of the Institute (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting) at York University.\n\n\n\nFour Dahdaleh Institute graduate students will showcase their global health research, share more about their research journeys, and present the progress they have made so far.\n\n\n\nEric Asempah – Imperatives for a nationwide HPV vaccination program: A foremost approach to cervical cancer prevention in GhanaHillary Birch – Using quality to see the body and health in urban political ecologyYuliya Chorna – Global tuberculosis response in the context of the 2023 United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on TBNilanjana Ganguli – Modelling gendered impacts of climate change in the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead more about the Institute's Global Health Graduate Scholarships program.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/3rd-gradscholars-symp/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-0aca829c00e4fe15c9523e665f681643@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221123T180000Z
DTEND:20221123T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20221014T183100Z
CREATED:20221014
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:Ecological Economics for Public and Planetary Health: Moving Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm, with Lina Brand Correa
DESCRIPTION:\nThere are multiple ways in which our economic system influences the health of both people and planet. We know this intuitively and empirically, and therefore public and planetary health scholars often discuss ways in which we can develop an economic system that benefits people and planet. However, these discussions are often developed within the neoclassical economics paradigm, and direct engagement with heterodox economic schools of thought has been lacking. \n\n\n\nThis seminar presentation aims to highlight the contributions that one such heterodox economics school of thought (ecological economics) can make to the fields of public and planetary health, making a contrast with what the neoclassical economics orthodoxy proposes.  \n\n\n\nEcological economics offers an opportunity to make the transition to an economic system that is designed to promote human and planetary health from the outset, rather than one where social and environmental externalities must be constantly corrected after the fact. Important ideas from ecological economics include the use of a multidimensional framework to evaluate economic and social performance, the prioritization of wellbeing and environmental goals in decision making, policy design and evaluation that take complex relationships into account, and the role of provisioning systems (the physical and social systems that link resource use and social outcomes). Ecological economics also proposes possible interventions at the national scale that could promote public health and that align with the prioritization of social and ecological objectives, including universal basic income or services and sovereign money creation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nLina Brand Correa is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto. She completed her PhD ("Following the ‘golden thread’: Exploring the energy dependency of economies and human well-being") at the University of Leeds, following an MSc in ecological economics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the impact of energy systems on climate change, energy return on investment, energy (service) requirements for the satisfaction of human needs, energy poverty, and the impact of provisioning systems on wellbeing.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 23, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/ecological-economics-for-public-and-planetary-health-with-lina-brand-correa/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-5cc4bb753030a3d804351b2dfec0d8b5@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221025T150000Z
DTEND:20221025T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20221014T135600Z
CREATED:20221014
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:From Promise to Impact? How Collaboration Between State, Non-State, Private Sector and Local (Transnational) Actors Can Drive Transformation Towards a Green, Healthy, and Climate-Resilient Future, with Sander Chan
DESCRIPTION:\nGlobal governance of sustainability challenges—including climate change, biodiversity protection, and planetary health—seem to converge on growing the engagement of transnational actors, including businesses, investors, civil society organizations, and networks that include such actors. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar, Dr. Sander Chan will discuss the enormous potential of transnational engagement in global governance, risks, and opportunities to strengthen transnational action. Particular attention will be given to the upcoming 27th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP27) in Egypt, which will feature large-scale transnational mobilization campaigns, including the "Race to Zero" and the "Race to Resilience", respectively promising significant non-state and transnational contributions towards climate neutrality, climate change adaptation, and resilience among vulnerable peoples. Are such campaigns likely to make good on their promises, or do they risk widescale greenwashing, and the relinquishing of public responsibilities? Preliminary evidence will be presented from the Climate- and the Nature-Cooperative Initiatives Databases (C-CID/N-CID), which have been developed since 2014 to track progress of transnational initiatives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nSander Chan is a global environmental governance scholar. Sander’s research includes the investigation of transboundary state and non-state cooperation in sustainable development and climate change politics. He also investigates local contexts for sustainability governance approaches, particularly in developing and emerging economies. At the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Sander is the co-principal investigator of the Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, October 25, at 11 a.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/from-promise-to-impact-with-sander-chan/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-3a9044746ffc9e6f539ecace6d3e2c82@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221018T170000Z
DTEND:20221018T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20221014T135100Z
CREATED:20221014
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Transnational Action for Climate, Nature, and Health: How Cooperative Initiatives by Cities, Regions, Businesses, and Civil Society Organizations Can Contribute to Global Goals, with Andrew Deneault
DESCRIPTION:\nFurther investigating the climate-nature-health nexus, Andrew will discuss:\n\n\n\n(1) findings of the the Climate and Nature - Cooperative Initiatives Database (N-CID) with a focus on health; \n\n\n\n(2) how the mobilization of cooperative action by cities, regions, businesses, and civil society organizations help to achieve global health goals; and\n\n\n\n(3) how this action can be strengthened in the global South.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nAndrew Deneault is a researcher in the program "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability" at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn, Germany. He is involved in projects addressing transnational action for climate, nature, and health. His cooperation with the Dahdaleh Institute has included supporting publications, co-organizing events at UN climate conferences, and developing and managing the Nature - Cooperative Initiatives Database (N-CID), tracking actions by cities, regions, businesses, and organizations. Prior to joining IDOS in 2020, Andrew was a researcher in the Global Climate Action division of the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, October 18, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/transnational-action-for-climate-nature-and-health-with-deneault/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-29586cb449c90e249f1f09a0a4ee245a@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221108T160000Z
DTEND:20221108T173000Z
DTSTAMP:20221011T155600Z
CREATED:20221011
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Safe Water Optimization Tool V2 Launch
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is pleased to announce the official launch of the Safe Water Optimization Tool Version 2, a new and improved water quality modelling platform that helps humanitarian responders ensure water safety and protect public health during emergencies. \n\n\n\nThe SWOT Team will showcase how lessons learned from two years of field deployments of the v1 prototype have helped shape the new v2 tool. We’ll talk about advancements made to the tool’s machine learning and numerical modelling engines based on latest research, the re-imagined and re-designed user experience and interface, and new functionalities that help water system operators in emergencies do their work.\n\n\n\nWe are honoured to have opening remarks from Dahdaleh Institute director, Dr. James Orbinski and York University associate vice-president research, Professor Jennifer Hyndman.\n\n\n\nTo learn more about the SWOT, please visit: https://safeh2o.app/ ( https://safeh2o.app/ ) and read the press release (Nov. 3)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, November 8, at 11 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/swot-v2-launch/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-c00193e70e8e27e70601b26161b4ae86@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221026T170000Z
DTEND:20221026T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20221006T125300Z
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SUMMARY:Integrating Antimicrobial and Environmental Stewardship Through an Urban Political Ecology Lens, with Raphael Aguiar
DESCRIPTION:\nAntimicrobial resistance, pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change pose simultaneous existential threats, yet coordinated responses that jointly address them through a One Health approach do not exist. An urban political ecology (UPE) lens informs a critical analysis of the governance of antimicrobial stewardship (AMR) by situating AMR risks in relation to global governance and economic forces that shape the social and political co-determinants of antimicrobial and other systemic existential threats already confronted in broader commitments to pandemic prevention and environmental stewardship. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar, Raphael will discuss how UPE scholarship can contribute to efforts to address AMR. He will present a guiding framework that focuses on rescaling socio-ecological governance approaches to addressing AMR by considering societal relations with nature that affect AMR at the human-animal-environmental interface. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nRaphael Aguiar is a Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar and a PhD candidate in the Health Policy and Equity program at York University. His interests revolve around the design and management of global health programs and interventions and the global health impact of recent patterns of urbanization, the climate crisis, and accelerated human activity. His current research, supported by DI faculty fellows Mary Wiktorowicz and Roger Keil,  focuses on urban political ecologies of One Health and the governance of antimicrobial resistance and other emerging global health threats. \n\n\n\nWith over a decade of experience in the field in Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Raphael started working in international development as a project manager for the international NGO Humanity and Inclusion (Handicap International). There, he led projects in both humanitarian and development settings. Working with rights-based and field-based approaches, he advanced health and disability equity through primary healthcare delivery as well as adoption and implementation of international conventions and national policies. Raphael then joined the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, where he led units focused on knowledge and information management of serious crimes, human rights violations, and administrative issues. Most recently, he worked in crisis risk management at the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordination Office in Cameroon.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 26, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. Please find the recap and recording here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/integrating-antimicrobial-and-environmental-stewardship-through-an-urban-political-ecology-lens-with-raphael-aguiar/
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UID:MEC-a0608743660c09feb35a28905143a085@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221109T180000Z
DTEND:20221109T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20221005T150900Z
CREATED:20221005
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
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SUMMARY:Priority 21st-Century Issues in the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, with Arun Chockalingam
DESCRIPTION:\nThe human body is a replica of the universe or a planet. Any imbalance in the human body leads to a disease state, be it communicable or noncommunicable. Similarly, the imbalance we create in the planet results in planetary damage, which in the long run leads to the fury of the planet and natural calamities. Humans are the masters of their own destiny.\n\n\n\nNoncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have mostly been acquired as we evolved. Their root causes are based on the way we live, the way we behave, the way we eat. As countries evolve economically, our lifestyles and behaviour change in comparison to the previous generation.\n\n\n\nAs a consequence of economic growth, a small percentage of people tend to accumulate wealth, widening the gap between the haves and have nots. This divide makes it unaffordable for most to meet their basic needs. This disparity occurs both between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and within countries.\n\n\n\nThe issues of the 21st century demand a major change in the way we think and act to protect the health of individual citizens, the nation, and the planet. The call to order includes equitable and sustainable health for all. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar, Dr. Arun Chockalingam will discuss all three thematic areas of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research: planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile\n\n\n\nArun Chockalingam is a professor of global/public health and medicine at the University of Toronto. He was the founding director of Global Health at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health (2013-2018), founding director of the Office of Global Health at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US NIH (2010-2013), founding director of Global Health at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2005-2010), and an academic and health researcher for over 40 years. He has served in key executive positions at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Health Canada, and the World Hypertension League. \n\n\n\nDr. Chockalingam is passionate about global health research, particularly on non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control in low-and middle-income countries. He has established research collaborations in China, India, Germany, the United States, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh, and many other countries. He has published over 180 papers, 11 book chapters, and 2 books, and he is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases and an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous medical and health journals. He has been a reviewer for research granting agencies such as CIHR, the NIH/NHLBI, and the European Commission. He has also organized several national and international conferences in Canada and abroad. To his credit, he was one of the authors of the United Nation’s Resolution 66-A (2011) on Prevention and Control of NCD. He is the Chair of the World NCD Congress 2023 at Toronto.\n\n\n\nDr. Chockalingam is a fellow of the AHA (FAHA), the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences (FIACS). He has also received many prestigious awards including the CCS’s Harold Segal Award of Merit (1998), the CIHR President’s Recognition Award (2005), the Blood Pressure Canada’s George Fodor Award (2007), the Canadian Association of Physicians of Indian Heritage’s Medal of Honour (2007), and the ACC's Simon Dack Award (2013). He is a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canada India Network Society (2018).\n\n\n\nHe climbed and summited the glacier-covered Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 metres (19,341 ft) above sea level), also called the Roof of Africa, in 2002. He climbed and circumambulated Mount Kailash (5,319 m (17,451 ft) above sea level) in 2016.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, November 9, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has ended. \n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/priority-21st-century-issues-in-the-prevention-and-control-of-noncommunicable-disease-in-low-and-middle-income-countries-with-arun-chockalingam/
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UID:MEC-57827ddd068a17ad6dfc6690962241e5@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221019T170000Z
DTEND:20221019T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20220928T181100Z
CREATED:20220928
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
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SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:Migrant Buses, Trochas, and the Darién Gap: The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis, with Yvonne Su and Gerson Scheidweiler
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the Centre for Research in Latin America and the Caribbean invite you to join us at this seminar.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSince 2014, 6.8 million Venezuelans have fled the country due to economic, political, and social collapse, making this the world's second-largest external displacement crisis. Venezuelans are often forced to take dangerous routes—through trochas (informal trails guarded by paramilitary or gangs) and the Darién Gap (a deadly trek through Panama's jungle)—to reach host countries. When they are received, they face other challenges, especially accessing health care and employment, as well as suffering violence and discrimination. Yet, despite these unprecedented numbers and the risks displaced Venezuelans have to take, international funding for the crisis is severely lacking, and now Venezuelan refugees are being weaponized in the United States by Republicans who are bussing refugees across state lines under false pretences.\n\n\n\nYvonne Su and Gerson Scheidweiler will provide an overview of the Venezuelan refugee crisis and discuss the experiences of LGBT Venezuelan refugees in Brazil, particularly those in Pacaraima, Boa Vista, and Manaus.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Research in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profiles \n\n\n\nYvonne Su is faculty fellow of the Dahdaleh Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University. She is an expert on forced migration, queer migration, climate refugees, and post-disaster recovery. She currently holds three SSHRC grants that examine the Venezuelan refugee crisis and compare local, national, and international responses to LGBT Venezuelan refugees in Colombia and Brazil.\n\n\n\nGerson Scheidweiler is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Equity Studies at York University. He is an expert on gender, communication policies, human rights, and sexual health. His postdoctoral research explores the extent to which local, national, and international responses to receive and integrate Venezuelan refugees in Brazil have taken into account the sexual health of vulnerable populations (e.g., women and LGBTQI+ migrants). \n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 19, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/migrant-buses-trochas-and-the-darien-gap-the-venezuelan-refugee-crisis-with-yvonne-su-and-gerson-scheidweiler/
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UID:MEC-f86890095c957e9b949d11d15f0d0cd5@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20221005T170000Z
DTEND:20221005T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20220926T130400Z
CREATED:20220926
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
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SUMMARY:Computer Modelling in the Assessment of the Health Impacts of Climate Change in Malawi, with Mohammadali Tofighi
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this seminar, Mohammadali Tofighi will introduce an agent-based computer model for studying the health impacts of climate changes in the Lake Chilwa Basin. He will present an overview of the model's features and capabilities and discuss the challenges in developing and verifying the model and the road map that could be used to address these challenges.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMalawi is a land-locked country in the south of Africa with a total area of 118,484 km² and a population of 20 million people. Malawi, and particularly the Chilwa Basin in the south of Malawi (approximately 8,800 km² and 1 million people), has been highly affected by global climate change over the past few decades. The region has seen a range of devastating climate shocks, and their frequency is increasing. The most prominent shocks are irregular rainfall, drought, prolonged dry periods, and high winds.\n\n\n\nThe changing climate has significant negative impacts on the economy and human health, including population displacement, disruptions in the delivery of healthcare services, increasing prevalence of infectious diseases, and both acute and chronic malnutrition.\n\n\n\nThe Dahdaleh Institute's complex adaptive modelling project aims to understand and shed light on the relationship between climate change and health impacts (infectious diseases: malaria, cholera, schistosomiasis, and acute diarrheal disease) and food security in the Lake Chilwa Basin.\n\n\n\nComputer simulation models are increasingly being proposed as efficient tools for predicting variations in climate indicators. Recently, they have been used to study the variety of impacts of climate change. They can provide a safe environment for researchers, decision-makers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to examine different scenarios of climate change and to monitor the impacts and evaluate solutions, prevention methods, and adaptation interventions.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, October 5, at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile: \n\n\n\nMohammadali Tofighi is a postdoctoral research fellow at York University. He holds a PhD in civil engineering - water resources management from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. He has worked as an adjunct assistant professor at the Sharif University of Technology and assistant professor at the Ale-Taha Institute of Higher Education, Iran.\n\n\n\nMohammadali has expertise in water resources management, particularly water-related disaster management and modelling. He has participated in numerous multidisciplinary projects in flood modelling, disaster management, health care modelling, and risk analysis. He is interested in integrating simulation approaches such as agent-based and discrete events modelling, system dynamics, and machine learning methods for a better understanding of the behaviour of the systems.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has ended.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/computer-modelling-health-impacts-climate-change-malawi/
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UID:MEC-c5df4f4eabf1cbcfeb50fbbf97c5289f@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220921T170000Z
DTEND:20220921T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20220901T134800Z
CREATED:20220901
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:Gender Differences in Working and Employment Conditions in Central America, with Douglas Barraza and Eduardo Castro
DESCRIPTION:\nIn Central America, the economically active population includes roughly similar numbers of men and women, but unemployment is higher among women owing to structural imbalances in the labour market. In fact, women’s representation in the occupied economically active population is only half of men’s, with serious consequences for women as they lack access to social security, and, most importantly, to retirement pensions.\n\n\n\nDouglas will discuss how his team is measuring the social and health implications of gender differences in working and employment conditions in Central America and the policy recommendations emerging from his research.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profiles \n\n\n\nDouglas Barraza is an assistant professor at the Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances at the National University in Costa Rica (UNA) and is currently completing his doctoral studies at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands. He is also an assistant professor at the National Technical University in San Carlos, Costa Rica, where he coordinates a project to foster critical thinking among students and faculty. Douglas has extensive expertise in occupational and environmental health as well as in developing occupational and environmental indicators to facilitate international and regional comparative research. He is a founding member of the EcoHealth Community of Practice in the Americas (CoPEH-LAC) and a partner of Ekosanté with Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Fellow Martin Bunch.\n\n\n\nEduardo Castro is the coordinator of the English as a Foreign Language program at the National Technical University in Costa Rica. He has worked with visiting York students and supported the involvement of York and Costa Rican students in the Las Nubes Grounded Project, promoting participatory documentary filmmaking that spotlights rural community lives. He has co-organized a number of conferences for English teachers and is committed to sustaining teachers’ enthusiasm about enriching the hearts and minds of their students.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 21 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration is now closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/gender-differences-in-working-and-employment-conditions-in-central-america-with-douglas-barraza-and-eduardo-castro/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-5a2a330b175fe588c2551b78d18d3207@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220913T160000Z
DTEND:20220913T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20220831T205700Z
CREATED:20220831
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:Planetary Health Film Lab 2022: Filmmaking with Indigenous Youth from Ecuador, with Mark Terry
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us to hear from Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow Mark Terry about this year’s Planetary Health Film Lab, held in Ecuador. \n\n\n\nThe Planetary Health Film Lab ( https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/project/planetary-health-film-lab/ ) is an interdisciplinary program culminating in an intensive week-long workshop designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools to make short documentary films for the United Nations. The 2022 edition of the Planetary Health Film Lab was offered to 16 Indigenous youth from Ecuador with a story to tell about climate change and health. Their films were produced in the Indigenous languages of Kichwa and Shúar.\n\n\n\nMark will share details about the youths’ filmmaking process and about the end-of-workshop festival showcasing the 16 films. He will also present his plans to present the films at the UN climate summit, COP26, in November.\n\n\n\n\nWatch the films here\n\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Tuesday, September 13 at noon.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile: Mark Terry—a research fellow of the Dahdaleh Institute and professor at York University—is a documentary filmmaker and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. As a project co-lead of the Dahdaleh Institute's Planetary Health Film Lab, he has trained and worked with youth from India, Canada, Italy, Colombia, Ecuador, Australia, and throughout the Arctic. Mark has attended every UN climate summit since 2009, presenting environmental documentaries he has made or curated from young filmmakers around the world. These films are part of another research project of his called the Youth Climate Report, a digital database adopted for the COP conferences by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2015.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration is now closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/planetary-health-film-lab-2022-filmmaking-with-indigenous-youth-from-ecuador-with-mark-terry/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-e6385d39ec9394f2f3a354d9d2b88eec@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220928T170000Z
DTEND:20220928T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20220829T144500Z
CREATED:20220829
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Visions of Crisis, Blueprints of Rule, with Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
DESCRIPTION:\nDisasters are all around us. In everyday parlance, disasters are understood as exceptional occurrences that destroy human life, property, and resources. For centuries, people have looked to political authorities for protection from disasters and for relief in the aftermath. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic and an endless torrent of storms, floods, and forest fires have shown that modern states and intergovernmental institutions frequently fail this burden. Worse, world leaders routinely ignore evidence that accelerated climate change is an already-rolling planetary catastrophe. So, what is a "disaster"? Who determines when and why a disaster has occurred or ceased? And what is the relationship between such occurrences and modern states who promise to "manage" them?\n\n\n\nIn his book All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay argues that there is no such thing as a “disaster” outside of rituals of legal, administrative, and scientific contestation through which such occurrences are morally distinguished from the rhythms of everyday life. Disasters, Bandopadhyay asserts, are artifacts of "normal" rule. They result from the same, mundane strategies of knowledge-making and violence by which authorities, experts, and lay people struggle to develop state-like power, to define and defend the social order.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 28 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker profile: Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He has followed and engaged disaster management efforts in India, in the borderlands between India, Pakistan, and China, and in the Philippines. He has learned from and advised officials and civil society in India, Thailand, the Philippines, and Canada and has published widely on disaster risk, international law, and related areas. Saptarishi has received research and advocacy grants and fellowships from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Harvard University, the Public International Law and Policy Group, the Center for International Environmental Law, Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, York University's Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, among other institutions.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration is now closed.\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/visions-of-crisis-blueprints-of-rule-with-saptarishi-bandopadhyay/
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UID:MEC-95e1533eb1b20a97777749fb94fdb944@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220907T170000Z
DTEND:20220907T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20220826T161600Z
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SUMMARY:Forecasting Water Quality in Humanitarian Response, with Michael De Santi
DESCRIPTION:\nEnsuring sufficient free residual chlorine (FRC) up to the time and place that water is consumed in refugee and internally displaced person settlements is essential for preventing waterborne illnesses like cholera and hepatitis E. However, providing too much FRC can lead to disinfection by-products and issues with taste and odour acceptability. To balance these competing challenges of over- and under-chlorination, water system operators need accurate predictions of the risk of having insufficient FRC when determining chlorination targets.\n\n\n\nThis presentation will discuss recent innovations used in the SWOT models by improving how machine learning models actually learn. The Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) ( https://www.safeh2o.app/ ) uses artificial neural network (ANN) ensemble forecasting systems (EFS), a type of probabilistic machine learning tool, to predict point-of-use FRC in refugee and internally displaced person settlements and to generate risk-based FRC targets for water system operators in these settlements.\n\n\n\nAs machine learning tools gain increasing prevalence in a range of applications, including humanitarian response, this discussion will provide important insight into how to design these models to provide the best possible alignment with the modeller's desired impact.\n\n\n\nRegister below and join us on Wednesday, September 7 at 1 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile: Michael De Santi is a graduate student fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute and a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at York’s Lassonde School of Engineering. He obtained his MASc in Civil Engineering at York University, where he investigated the use of machine learning to predict water quality in refugee and internally displaced person settlements. He deployed this work while working as the modelling researcher on the Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) project at the Dahdaleh Institute, developing new user-facing tools to help water system operators ensure safe water in humanitarian response settings. Prior to joining the SWOT team, Michael obtained a BASc in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto and worked for several years as a water design specialist with Jacobs Engineering Group. His current research focuses on integrating engineering and health-based approaches to develop new tools and modelling approaches to holistically assess water safety risk in humanitarian response settings.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nRegistration is now closed.\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this seminar. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/forecasting-water-quality-in-humanitarian-response-with-michael-de-santi/
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UID:MEC-d2a10b0bd670e442b1d3caa3fbf9e695@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220915T183000Z
DTEND:20220915T200000Z
DTSTAMP:20220812T150500Z
CREATED:20220812
LAST-MODIFIED:20221017
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SUMMARY:2022 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Dahdaleh Institute's inaugural annual general meeting (AGM) is an important opportunity to discuss where we have come from, where we are, and our way forward. The meeting will begin with a brief introduction by Dr. James Orbinski (director), who will present the Institute’s vision, our current activities and programs, and our transdisciplinary approach to global health research. He will also share details about the current ORU rechartering process. The remaining time will be for questions and open discussion between James, the Executive Committee, and all members. \n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2022-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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UID:MEC-b3af1c7992383988a4bd73c7e9f14759@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220803T183000Z
DTEND:20220803T200000Z
DTSTAMP:20220704T162900Z
CREATED:20220704
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Perspectives on Planetary Healing
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn anticipation and celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (August 9), please join us to celebrate Indigenous knowledges and create space for sharing perspectives on striving toward human and environmental wellbeing.\n\n\n\nDr. Nicole Redvers (University of North Dakota) and Dr. Lewis Williams (University of Western Ontario) will conduct presentations on healing as it relates to environmental injustice, climate change, and/or biodiversity loss that sparks creativity, reciprocity, and knowledge-sharing among Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and practitioners (people working on the ground).\n\n\n\nLed by DI Faculty Fellow Prof. Idil Boran and DI Graduate Student Scholar Marlie Whittle, this event is a joint initiative between York's Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages and the Dahdaleh Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more and register to attend\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/indigenous-perspectives-on-planetary-healing/
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UID:MEC-80f2f15983422987ea30d77bb531be86@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220831T130000Z
DTEND:20220831T210000Z
DTSTAMP:20220630T202200Z
CREATED:20220630
LAST-MODIFIED:20231023
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Water Engineering Course - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Humanitarian Water Engineering Intensive Course offers participants an opportunity to gain essential knowledge and skills on safe water supply in humanitarian emergencies. The course covers the theoretical fundamentals of, and practical considerations for, the design and operation of water supply systems in humanitarian response, including source water selection, water quality, water treatment, distribution and the safe water chain, and outbreak preparedness and response.\n\n\n\nOver the course of twelve weeks in Fall 2022, participants will engage in a rich, multifaceted online learning experience consisting of curated readings, knowledge-testing quizzes, lectures from experienced engineering practitioners and faculty, and small group problem-based learning (PBL) activities guided by talented facilitators. A certificate will be offered to participants upon successful completion of the course.\n\n\n\nApplications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Qualified candidates will be invited to register for the course. Enrolment is capped at 42 participants and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The last day to apply is August 31, 2022.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApply for a spot in the course\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/humanitarian-water-engineering-online-intensive-course-fall-2022/
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UID:MEC-bf25356fd2a6e038f1a3a59c26687e80@yorku.ca
DTSTART:20220819T220000Z
DTEND:20220820T000000Z
DTSTAMP:20220623T150600Z
CREATED:20220623
LAST-MODIFIED:20221017
PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:2022 Planetary Health Film Lab Micro Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Español abajo]\n\n\n\nJoin us for this festival showcasing the short films made by Indigenous youth from Ecuador in this year's edition of the Planetary Health Film Lab.\n\n\n\nNow in its third year, the Planetary Health Film Lab is an interdisciplinary program culminating in an intensive week-long workshop designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools to make short documentary films for the United Nations.\n\n\n\nLed by Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow Mark Terry, the 2022 edition of the Planetary Health Film Lab is being offered to Indigenous youth from Ecuador who have a story to tell about climate change and health and want to do so through film.\n\n\n\nTheir films will be produced in the Indigenous languages of Kichwa and Shúar with English and Spanish subtitles.\n\n\n\nThe group has already begun meeting online, with 20 young people representing 11 different Indigenous communities throughout Ecuador.\n\n\n\nAfter a series of online meetings over the summer, the group will gather in August for a week-long workshop at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito. The participants will learn to tell stories from their communities that communicate data, research, and life experiences related to global and planetary health. The workshop will teach specific theories, techniques, and modes of social issue filmmaking and provide hands-on experience with new digital technologies and platforms.\n\n\n\nThis annual micro film festival on August 19 will wrap up the workshop and showcase their productions.\n\n\n\nCheck out the promotional film the participants created together:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMicro Festival de Filmes del Laboratorio de Cine sobre Salud Planetaria 2022\n\n\n\nAcompáñenos en este festival que muestra los cortometrajes realizados por jóvenes indígenas de Ecuador en la edición de este año del Laboratorio de Cine sobre Salud Planetaria.\n\n\n\nEn su tercer año, el Laboratorio de Cine sobre Salud Planetaria es un programa interdisciplinario que culmina con un taller intensivo de una semana de duración diseñado para proporcionar a los participantes conocimientos, habilidades y herramientas para realizar cortometrajes documentales para las Naciones Unidas.\n\n\n\nDirigido por Mark Terry, investigador asociado del Instituto Dahdaleh, la edición 2022 del Laboratorio de Cine sobre Salud Planetaria se ofrece a jóvenes indígenas del Ecuador que tengan una historia que contar sobre cambio climático y salud, y quieran hacerlo a través del cine.\n\n\n\nSus cortometrajes se producirán en las lenguas indígenas Kichwa o Shúar, con subtítulos en Inglés y Español.\n\n\n\nEl grupo ya ha comenzado a reunirse en línea, con 20 jóvenes participantes que representan a once comunidades indígenas a lo largo y ancho de Ecuador.\n\n\n\nTras una serie de reuniones en línea durante el verano, el grupo se reunirá en persona en el mes de agosto para un taller de una semana de duración en la Escuela Politécnica Nacional, en Quito, Ecuador. Los participantes aprenderán a contar historias de sus comunidades que comuniquen datos, investigaciones y experiencias de vida relacionadas con la salud global y planetaria. El taller enseñará teorías, técnicas y modos específicos de realización de películas sobre temas sociales y proporcionará experiencia práctica con nuevas tecnologías y plataformas digitales.\n\n\n\nEste Micro Festival de Filmes anual del 19 de Agosto será la culminación del taller y mostrará las producciones de los participantes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYfile (August 10, 2022) ( https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2022/08/10/this-years-planetary-health-film-lab-and-micro-film-festival-features-work-by-indigenous-youth-from-ecuador )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/2022-phfl-micro-film-festival/
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SUMMARY:4th Summer Global Health Intern Symposium
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nPlease join us at the 4th Summer Global Health Intern Symposium to celebrate the work of researchers participating in the Dahdaleh Institute internship program.\n\n\n\nPresentation Title\nPresenter(s)\n\n\nWar, Disaster, and Climate Change\nVictoria Cassar\n\n\nCOVID-19 Urban Equity \nKaysie Ngo\n\n\nGlobal Antimicrobial Resistance\nNoor Aman\n\n\nOne Health Governance Aspects of Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance\nFiona Harris\n\n\nHealthcare Litigation in Brazil and its Impacts on Healthcare Inequality and Access\nMichelle Mao\n\n\nThe Role of AI in Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention Policy\nAngel Conje\n\n\nVR & Specialized Dentistry: Using Virtual Reality to Manage Pain and Anxiety in Patients with Dementia and Stroke\nEssete Makonnen Tesfaye & Isabella Garito\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event has closed.\n\n\nThank you for your interest in this event. \n\n\n\nPlease find the recap and recording here.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/4th-summer-global-health-intern-symposium/
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