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Dahdaleh Community Fellow Featured in Report on Wellbeing in K-12

TakingITGlobal’s Connected North program has been selected as one of the 15 leading innovations featured in HundrED’s January 2025 Wellbeing in Schools Spotlight, a global initiative highlighting impactful and scalable solutions that support student wellbeing. This recognition underscores Connected North’s vital role in fostering social-emotional learning and community connection among Indigenous students in remote Canadian communities. Dahdaleh Community Fellow Jennifer Corriero is featured […]

New Digital Platform Supporting Online Well-Being Launches This Spring

A first-of-its kind digital wellness platform, created at York University’s Young Lives Research Lab, will launch this spring to help Canadians navigate the challenges and complexities of the internet and social media. Originally published in YFile, authored by Ashley Goodfellow Craig The Hub – an initiative funded by Heritage Canada’s Digital Citizenship Fund – was designed […]

Recap — Addressing Challenges Faced by Seniors and Individuals with Dementia, with Shital Desai

On December 4, Dahdaleh faculty fellow Shital Desai led a seminar on empathy driven design, focusing on life centered solutions for seniors and individuals with dementia. Desai explored participatory and co-design methodologies to address systemic challenges such as the digital divide and its impact on marginalized populations. Desai highlighted how digital exclusion disproportionately affects older […]

Opportunities — Islamophobia Research Hub at York University

The Islamophobia Research Hub at York University currently has four opportunities for postdoctoral researchers and research assistants: The Islamophobia Research Hub is a community-engaged, change-making initiative to combat Islamophobia. Based at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University, the Hub's central role is to produce cutting-edge analyses of Islamophobic praxis and build innovative […]

Recap — Fifth Annual Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium

The Dahdaleh Institute proudly supports graduate research and scholarly and creative activities in line with the three themes of planetary health, humanitarianism, and foresighting at York University. We held our 5th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium on December 11, 2024. The presenters and their seminar titles are as follows, with time stamps to view […]

Hot off the Press — Can Systems Analysis Help Avoid Potential Policy Failure for Emerging Zoonoses and Pandemic Prevention?

Dahdaleh Institute research fellows Chloe Clifford Astbury and Kirsten Lee, faculty fellows Shital Desai, Tarra Penney, and Cary Wu, and interim director Mary Wiktorowicz recently published a paper in BMJ Global Health titled, "Wildlife policy, the food system and One Health: a complex systems analysis of unintended consequences for the prevention of emerging zoonoses in China, […]

Recap — Bridging Local and Global Applications of Clinical Public Health, with Ross Upshur

On November 13, the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health Dr. Ross Upshur presented an insightful seminar on the integration of clinical medicine and public health, highlighting its potential to transform health systems. He began by describing his dual roles as a family physician and public health specialist, emphasizing their historically divergent missions and […]

Hot off the Press – Protecting the Safe Water Chain in Refugee Camps: An Exploratory Study of Water Handling Practices, Chlorine Decay, and Household Water Safety in South Sudan, Jordan, and Rwanda

A new article has been authored by experts from the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Médecins Sans Frontières in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, exploring factors that protect or compromise the safe water chain in refugee camps. The paper presents a secondary analysis of water quality and water handling data […]

Recap — Collaborative Action Research for Community-Centered Emergency Health Response in Latin America, with Jeannie Samuel

On November 27, Dahdaleh faculty fellow Jeannie Samuel presented an ongoing project in Guatemala. This initiative, conducted in partnership with the civil society organizations CEGSS, RED-C Salud, and Laboratorio de Datos in Guatemala and York University, focuses on improving emergency response systems in rural Guatemala through participatory research and advocacy. Samuel provided a brief overview […]

Recap — Global Insights on Equity in AMR Surveillance, with Mary Wiktorowicz

On November 20, Dahdaleh associate director Mary Wiktorowicz delved into the topic of equity in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance, offering insights into how equity can be embedded in global surveillance systems. The discussion emphasized equity as both a distinct domain and a critical component integrated across all domains. Using a Political Ecology lens, Dr. Wiktorowicz […]