The Dahdaleh Institute proudly support intern positions, 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 inaugural Global Health Trainee Symposium on August 20, 2025. The presenters and their seminar titles are as follows, with time stamps to view […]
Our world today faces a “Wicked Problem” in addressing humanitarian action amidst a confluence of polycrisis. Beyond armed conflict, the world is increasingly faced with environmental degradation, the spread of new zoonotic diseases, growing economic disparities, unstable financial systems, funding cuts, mass migration often due to forced displacement, extreme ideological rhetoric, social and political unrest, […]
On July 10, 2025, the Wellness Impact Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DI), York University, hosted a deeply moving World Café event titled “Navigating Climate Change, Identity, and Belonging.” Led by Sara Ferwati (DI Community Fellow) and co-facilitated by Susan Harris (DI Community Fellow) and Sarah Merghani (DI Research Assistant), the […]
Global and Environmental Health Lab interns Hefot Ahmed and Amoian S. F. Kouatin, skillfully guided by Dr. Godfred Boateng at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, showcased their groundbreaking research at the 2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Conference, held on August 13 at York University. The conference attracted a diverse audience of faculty members and […]
The Humanitarian Water Engineering Lab is happy to announce a new publication entitled “Training for the test: Using multi-objective training to improve ANN ensemble forecasts of household residual chlorine in emergencies” in the journal PLOS Water. The paper co-authored by Michael De Santi, Syed Imran Ali, Jean-François Fesselet, Matthew Arnold, Dawn Taylor, and Usman Khan […]
We are pleased to formally announce the initiation of a new partnership development grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), under the leadership of Dr. Amrita Daftary of the School of Global Health, Faculty of Health. This project, entitled "Developing a Global Framework to Address Gender-Based Violence in Women Affected by […]
The AI4PEP Network (Global South Artificial Intelligence for Pandemic and Epidemic Preparedness and Response) was spotlighted at the V Global Conference on Health and Climate, held from July 29–31, 2025 in Brasília, Brazil. Hosted by the Government of Brazil, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the conference convened global […]
Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar Yuliya Chorna’s doctoral research project aims to understand how financial resources for the global Tuberculosis (TB) response are allocated and delivered. Yuliya’s ethnographic field work in Geneva (April 11, 2025 – June 06, 2025) involved interviews with a wide range of actors working within the global TB community to ask […]
Job ID: 82175 Job Title: Global Health Special Projects Research Assistant 2 Application Deadline: Thursday, August 14, 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 […]
This summer, Dahdaleh global health graduate scholar Naeema Hassan had the privilege of participating in the WHO Summer School on Systems Thinking and Innovation for the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Promotion of Healthy Ageing in the WHO European Region. Held in Nice, France, from July 15 to 18, this four-day immersive program […]