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Empowering Communities Through AI: How Senegal Is Pioneering Digital Health Surveillance in West Africa

AI4PEP Senegal has been prominently featured in the 2025 Q1 “AI in Africa” Summary Report by Convergence AI, under the AI for Digital Transformation section. The recognition highlights the team’s efforts to apply artificial intelligence in strengthening community-based epidemiological surveillance systems across Senegal. Led in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Social Action, AI4PEP Senegal’s […]

Recap — Reimagining Systems of Care: Public Innovation and Community Action in Times of Polycrisis, with Jesper Christiansen and Javier Vergara Petrescu

On April 2, 2025, Dahdaleh research fellow Dr. Chiara Camponeschi opened a timely seminar by exploring the role of public innovation in addressing complex and overlapping global challenges. She framed the discussion around “infrastructures of care” calling for a deeper understanding of how care can be embedded into systems and policies in ways that are […]

Recap — Commercial Determinants of Health and the Right to Health: Insights from Fossil Fuel Accountability Work, with Marta Schaaf

On March 26, 2025, Marta Schaaf, Director of the Programme on Climate, Economic and Social Justice and Corporate Accountability at Amnesty International, delivered a seminar exploring how a public health framework, specifically the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) can inform human rights work with a focus on fossil fuels. Schaaf explained that corporate actors not […]

Global Health Intern Presents at the CUGH 2025 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia

I am grateful for the opportunity to attend the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2025 conference that was held in Atlanta, Georgia between February 20-23. My abstract which summarized my work on the effects of particulate matter on lower respiratory tract infections was selected for a poster presentation. This was my first paper […]

Recap — Calling for a Public Health Approach to Suicide in China’s Scientific Community, with Cary Wu

On March 19, 2025, Dahdaleh faculty fellow Cary Wu delved into the pressing issue of suicide within China’s scientific community, highlighting the urgent need for a public health approach tailored to this context. Drawing from a working paper co-authored with students from the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, Wu presented findings from a […]

Recap — Insights from India's Success in Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality with Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa

On March 12, 2025, Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa, Assistant Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, delved into India’s progress in improving maternal and neonatal health. He explained that this research was part of the Exemplars in Global Health initiative funded by Gates Ventures, which examines countries that have achieved […]

Nurturing Infrastructures of Care: Centering Healing, Imagination and Solidarity in Polycrisis Response

On March 26 Dr. Chiara Camponeschi, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute, convened a two-part session at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Detroit, MI in collaboration with Dr. Natalie Gulsrud of Copenhagen University, in Denmark. A key theme of Dr. Camponeschi’s postdoctoral project titled Turning Moments of Crisis […]

Recap — A Global Analysis of Health Worker Protests, Unions, and Policy Challenges, with Veena Sriram

On March 5, 2025, Veena Sriram, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, delivered a seminar examining how health worker protests evolved during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. She explored global protest trends, their political and systemic influences and the role of unions in shaping workforce policies. Using data from the Armed Conflict Location […]

Student Opportunity SU25 - Humanitarian Water Engineering Lab RAY Student

Job ID: 77373 Job Title: Humanitarian Water Engineering Lab RAY Student Application Deadline: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 @ 11:59 p.m. ET Applications are only accepted through the Career Centre. Go to the Experience York portal through Passport York and search for the posting with the Job ID listed above. Note: applicants must be eligible to participate in […]

A Basic Income for Nature and Climate? Reimagining Conservation and Climate Futures at the AAG, 2025

This year, the American Association of Geographers (AAG) held their annual conference in Detroit around the theme “Making Spaces of Possibility,” encouraging participants to reflect on how geographers can contribute to making spaces of possibility, spaces that allow for imagining and enacting more equitable worlds, that are tuned into local and global processes, and respect […]