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Student Opportunity W26 - BioCAM4 Project Coordinator

Job Title: BioCAM4 Project Coordinator Application Deadline: Monday, January 26, 2026 @ 11:59 p.m. ET Submit your application here: https://airtable.com/app056pBy3C9IrZE1/shrFljrJgflM7FGyl. Hourly wage: $19 per hour Hours per week: 5 hours per week Start date: February 2, 2026 End date: April 24, 2026 Job description Under the supervision of Prof. Idil Boran, the BioCAM4 Project Coordinator […]

Student Opportunity W26 - BioCAM4 Research & Project Coordination Assistant

Job Title: BioCAM4 Research & Project Coordination Assistant Application Deadline: Monday, January 26, 2026 @ 11:59 p.m. ET Submit your application here: https://airtable.com/app056pBy3C9IrZE1/shrFljrJgflM7FGyl. Hourly wage: $19 per hour Hours per week: 6 hours per week Location: In person, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research Start date: February 2, 2026 End date: April 24, 2026 About […]

Canada’s First Digital Wellbeing Hub Is Live!

Canada now has its first dedicated Digital Wellbeing Hub—a national pilot platform offering accessible tools and research for young people, educators, researchers, parents, policymakers, and anyone committed to digital wellbeing. 
 Anchored in UNICEF Canada’s Index for Youth and Child Wellbeing, the Hub explores the impact of digital technologies across nine wellbeing dimensions. It features open-access research […]

Hot Off The Press — Using a Board Game as Critical Design for Relational Communication in Dementia Care

This programme of research advances relational approaches to communication in dementia care through an interdisciplinary, community-engaged framework that brings together global health, design, and digital media. A defining feature of the work is the collaborative involvement of York University students from Design, Digital Media, and Global Health who worked alongside Dr. Shital Desai in an […]

Recap — Immersive Learning for Global Health: Bridging Data, Complexity, and Wisdom with Pravin Pillay

On November 5, 2025, Dahdaleh community fellow Pravin Pillay presented his work on immersive learning using embodied systems as a method of furthering sustainable development goals in global health. Pillay began with incorporating an immersive exercise that allowed participants to experience data points via audio. Following this, Pillay dove into the differences between data visualization […]

The Role of the Arts at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health

DI Faculty Fellow Ian Garrett has just published an article in Art & Health on the role of the arts at the intersection of climate change and public health ahead of forthcoming WHO Policy Brief. This international survey study investigates how practitioners working across the arts, public health, and climate action understand the role of […]

2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health: Reflecting on the Potential of Collaborations Between the TB Community and Academia

From November 18-21, Yuliya Chorna, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology and graduate global health scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, participated in the 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The annual conference drew a broad variety of stakeholders engaged in tuberculosis (TB), including scientists and […]

Recap — Centering Palestinian Voices: Rethinking Global Health and Humanitarian Responsibility in Gaza

On Wednesday, November 19, the Dahdaleh Institute was joined by experts in food systems, WASH, and health, Dr. Ahmad Abu Shaban, Dr. Reem Abu Shomar and Dr. Mohammed Al Barayka, for a session entitled “The Limits and Responsibilities of Global Health & Humanitarianism: What the Genocide in Gaza Reveals.” The panel event sought to present the perspectives of […]

DI Members at the Global Union Conference on TB and Lung Health in Copenhagen

Thanks to the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health for the funding I received to attend and present my research at the 2025 World Conference on TB and Lung Health in Copenhagen (Nov 17-21, 2025). The event was a meaningful professional experience. I, along with several other DI members, were able to share our work with […]