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Student Opportunity: Social Sciences Health and Innovation for Tuberculosis (TB) Research Assistant

Job ID: 27502 Application Deadline: Sunday, April 18, 2021 @11:59pm Eligibility Criteria: sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs/how-to-apply-for-ray-positions Applications are only accepted through the Career Centre. Go to careers.yorku.ca/online-system/ and search for the posting with the Job ID (listed above). Hourly Wage: $18 per hour Weekly Hours: 16 hours per week Start Date: May 10, 2021 End Date: August 20, […]

Student Opportunity: Global Legal Epidemiology Research Assistant

Job ID: 27501 Application Deadline: Thursday, April 22, 2021 @11:59pm Eligibility Criteria: sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs/how-to-apply-for-ray-positions Applications are only accepted through the Career Centre. Go to careers.yorku.ca/online-system/ and search for the posting with the Job ID (listed above). Hourly Wage: $18 per hour Weekly Hours: 12 hours per week Start Date: May 5, 2021 End Date: August 31, […]

Multi-indicator supply chain management framework for food convergent innovation in the dairy business

Abstract A comprehensive integrated framework of indicators currently used in lean, agile, sustainable and resilient supply chain paradigms is developed under the umbrella of convergent innovation (CI) and applied to the management of the supply chain of a dairy company, including procurement, processing and distribution of their products to customers. CI is a meta-framework that […]

New Publication: Melting of Himalayan Glaciers and Planetary Health

Check out the newly published article by our Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Byomkesh Talukder and Director of the Dahdaleh Institute Dr. James Orbinski. Abstract Climate change has accelerated the melting of Himalayan glaciers, with profound impacts on the planetary health subsystems of the Himalayan region, and with implications for hundreds of millions of people. Using […]

New Publication: COVID-19's implications on agri-food systems and human health in Bangladesh

Led by Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow, Dr. Byomkesh Talukder, this paper describes and analyses the impacts of COVID-19 on agri-food systems in Bangladesh with particular attention to  human health issues and related SDGs. The authors describe the impacts and then how these can be addressed through a set of recommendations for a coordinated effort […]

New Study on drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB)-HIV care among patients in South Africa

Researchers led by Dr. Amrita Daftary, Faculty Member at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, recently published a study which describes experiences of DRTB-HIV care among patients in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. The study aims to address the lack of evidence of patient acceptability for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB) care in the context of new […]

Releasing Soon - The Changing Face of Iceland, film by Mark Terry

The Changing Face of Iceland represents the third installment in Mark Terry’s trilogy of polar documentaries focusing on the impacts climate change on the island nation of Iceland. Touching the Arctic Circle at its north end, changes to Iceland’s glaciers, land, flora, fauna, fish, economy, and people are examined in this feature documentary film.Interviews with climate […]

Why is Uptake of Digital Contact Tracings Apps Low? The Digital Global Health and Humanitarianism Lab has Evidence-based Answers and Recommendations

Digital Contact Tracing (D-CT) apps - digital interventions that allow governments and epidemiologists to track and trace the spread of COVID-19 - represent a promising and also controversial pandemic response tool. Yet, little research has been done regarding the relationship between user-engagement and the efficacy and impact of such applications. In response to this problem, the […]

Biocultural nation making: Biopolitics, cultural-territorial belonging, and national protected areas

Dahdaleh Institute Postdoctoral Fellow James Stinson recently co-authored a published paper which advances the concept of biocultural nation making. While the academic literature on biopolitics has investigated how the life of the population and its biological capacities have increasingly become the target of political concern and intervention largely at the scale of the nation, the […]

Application for the 2021 Planetary Health Film Lab

The 2021 edition of the Planetary Health Film Lab is an intensive program designed for youth who have a story to tell about climate change and health and want to do so through film. During a week-long virtual workshop to be held in August, 2021, a group of Indigenous participants from the Circumpolar Arctic and […]