Pravin Pillay, Creative Director of MOVE37XR and Community Fellow at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, has recently taken the stage at three influential events to share his vision of how immersive media can inspire systemic change and address the urgent challenges of planetary health. From the Vancouver AI Community Meetup to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]