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York U researchers’ revamped AI tool makes water dramatically safer in refugee camps

As the world’s refugee crisis intensifies and climate change linked natural disasters become more frequent, unique machine-learning enabled tool helps aid workers deliver safe water in displaced-population settlements A team of researchers from York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Lassonde School of Engineering have revamped their Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) with multiple innovations that will help aid workers […]

DI Researchers Contribute to New Report on Scaling Humanitarian Innovations

ELRHA will be launching the third paper in its series on scaling up humanitarian innovations at an online event on November 23, 2022. The new learning paper, “How to Scale: Tactics to Enable the Adoption of Humanitarian Innovations”, provides a playbook of tactics for those aiming to scale up humanitarian innovations by enabling organizations to […]

Recap – How Urban Political Ecology Scholarship can Contribute to Efforts to Address Antimicrobial Resistance

On October 26, Raphael Aguiar presented a guiding framework that focuses on rescaling socio-ecological governance approaches to addressing AMR by considering societal relations with nature that affect AMR at the human-animal-environmental interface. Antimicrobial resistance, pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change pose simultaneous existential threats, yet coordinated responses that jointly address them through a One Health approach do […]

Applications Now Open for 2023 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships

The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is excited to invite applications for the 2023 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarship program. We are seeking applications from exceptional incoming and continuing domestic and international graduate students who wish to contribute to York University’s growing global health research community. Specifically, we invite applications from students aiming to […]

Global Strategy Lab awarded $8.7M to create AMR Policy Accelerator

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats humanity faces today. Decades of use, overuse and misuse of antimicrobials in animals and humans has led to the development of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that no longer respond to lifesaving antimicrobial medicines. Now a new $8.7-million initiative, based at the Global Strategy Lab at York University, […]

New book explores catastrophe and the making of the normal state

As the world reels from catastrophes on multiple fronts, a recent book by Osgoode Hall Law School Associate Professor Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is redefining the role and meanings of disaster in relation to statecraft, says York University’s associate vice-president of research. “Disaster management is a science of the future; what it needs is a past,” said Jennifer Hyndman, associate […]

Research Opportunity – Special Global Health Research Projects, Graduate Research Assistant

Job Title Special Global Health Research Projects, Graduate Research Assistant Overview and Job Purpose The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DI) is seeking a graduate student to assist with Special Global Heath Research Projects. The successful candidate will be supervised by, and work in a timely fashion to support, the DI director, Dr. James […]

Recap – The Protection Gaps that Venezuelan LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers Face in Brazil

On October 19, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the Centre for Research in Latin America and the Caribbean co-sponsored a seminar with Yvonne Su (faculty fellow) and Gerson Scheidweiler (postdoctoral fellow). Yvonne and Gerson shared their research on the experiences of LBTQI+ Venezuelan refugees in Brazil and the homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, and gender-based […]

Check out the SWOT at the UNC Water and Health Conference

The Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) team will be at the upcoming UNC Chapel Hill Water and Health Conference, October 24 to 28, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. James Brown, our field technical advisor, will be running a technical training on the SWOT during the lunch-hour special session on water quality toolkits on Monday, […]

The Victor Dahdaleh Foundation to support University facilities, selected programming with $4M gift

The gift will support upgrades to the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building on York University’s Keele Campus, provide operating funding to CIFAL York and support a new operations facility for the Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation initiative. York was honoured to welcome alumnus and philanthropist Victor Dahdaleh and his wife Mona to campus on July 21 to celebrate the Victor Dahdaleh Foundation’s new $4-million […]