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Opportunity - Film Editor, Humanitarian & Global Health Organizations at the Nexus of Planetary Health and Climate Change-Related Extreme Weather Events

Background The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada, held a workshop on Humanitarian & Global Health Organizations at the Nexus of Planetary Health and Climate Change–Related Extreme Weather Events: The Case of Bangladesh on Jan 20–21, 2021. It united medical humanitarian and planetary health practitioners and academics […]

Dr Idil Boran appointed Associate Director of CIFAL York - the First Canadian UN Leadership Training Centre launched at York University

Dahadaleh Institute for Global Health Research Faculty Member Dr Idil Boran has been appointed Associate Director of the new CIFAL Centre at York University. CIFAL is the French acronym for International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (Centre international de formation des acteurs locaux) and is part of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research […]

Narratives of vulnerability and resilience: An investigation of the climate action plans of New York City and Copenhagen

This paper by Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow Chiara Camponeschi, argues that the rise of a global mainstream resilience narrative is advancing a strategically simplified concept of vulnerability that is being exploited to open up lucrative new opportunities for profit. In particular, it presents three ways in which mainstream narratives are currently masking--if not exacerbating--the vulnerability […]

Opportunity: Back-end Developer, Safe Water Optimization Tool Project

Background The  Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) is an initiative of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR), in partnership with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders), to build, refine, and scale a web-based data analytics platform that helps humanitarian field workers generate site-specific and evidence-based water chlorination targets. The SWOT tool is used around the world by humanitarian response agencies to ensure water is safe to […]

Publication - Health impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers

Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Byomkesh Talukder has recently co-authored a new article on the health impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers. Director of the Dahdaleh Institute Dr. James Orbinski was also one of the contributors to the research. The authors state that the health of smallholder farmers is crucial for ensuring food […]

Updated WHO HIV Service Delivery Guidelines

The World Health Organization recently published the latest version of the "Updated recommendations on service delivery for the treatment and care of people living with HIV". Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Member Dr. Amrita Daftary served as one of the evidence reviewers for this version of the guidelines. These guidelines provide new and updated recommendations and good […]

Dr. Amrita Daftary featured in Podcast discussing stigma and TB

Dr. Amrita Daftary, Faculty Member here at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, was recently featured on the "Everybody Hates Me: Let's Talk About Stigma" podcast hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie. Dr. Daftary discusses TB and how this preventable and curable illness still affects more than 10 million persons each year and 1-2 million […]

Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) featured in Compendium of Water Supply Technologies in Emergencies

This year, the Emergency WASH Knowledge Portal featured the Safe Water Optimization Tool led by Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow Dr. Syed Imran Ali, in its "Compendium of Water Supply Technologies in Emergencies". The Emergency WASH Knowledge Portal is a comprehensive capacity development and decision support tool consisting of three distinct online platforms for the three […]

Internship Program: 2020-2021 Year In Review

Over the 2020-2021 academic year, the Dahdaleh Institute worked with exceptional students through our Internship Program, which is founded in an experiential education approach. Students completed program practicums with us, were hired through the Research at York program, or volunteered. Congratulations and thank you to all the trainees for jobs well done! 2020/2021 Interns Ryan […]

Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Fellow to present at the 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival

On April 30th and the 5th day of the 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival, Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Byomkesh Talukder will be presenting his work on the "Water–Food–Energy Nexus Effects on Farmers Health of the Southwest Coastal Agricultural Systems in Bangladesh" in addition to also discussing "Climate Change, Land Degradation and […]