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Hot Off The Press — Challenges and Opportunities for Cervical Cancer Prevention Through HPV Vaccination in Ghana: A Public Health Policy Analysis
In October 2025, Ghana took a decisive step in women’s health by launching its first nationwide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program. The moment is both historic and deeply symbolic, marking the country’s renewed commitment to protecting girl...
Hot Off The Press — International Research Consortium BioCAM4 Calls for Integrated Nature-Climate Action as COP30 Draws Near
To keep global warming to below 1.5 degrees and halt biodiversity losses, policies must put nature at the heart of ambitious climate actions, urges international research group BioCAM4 (Biodiversity Integration in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Acti...
Hot Off The Press — How to Teach AI: Multi-Objective Water Quality Modelling for Emergencies
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. Th...
Commentary — Why Canada Needs a “Deep Prevention” Approach to Pandemic Preparedness
A shift from a reactive to proactive approach to address health risks on the horizon is imperative, argue researchers from York University’s Faculty of Health. Published in Policy Options, the commentary examines Canadian governance capacity to prepare...
Unpacking AMR Podcast: New Episode - New Conceptions to Manage AMR (Part 2)
Urbanization is having an impact on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). According to the World Bank Group, more than half of the global population now lives in cities, and by 2050, nearly 70% of people worldwide will call urban areas home. But as our citie...
Hot off the Press — First-Ever Academic Publication on Climate Cafés Released by Wellness Impact Lab
Lead Author Anna (Andy) De Jong The Wellness Impact Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research is proud to announce its first major academic publication: “Climate Cafés as a Space for Navigating Climate Emotions: A Scoping Review”, publis...
Hot off the Press — Can Systems Analysis Help Avoid Potential Policy Failure for Emerging Zoonoses and Pandemic Prevention?
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, th...
Hot off the Press – New Opinion Article Publication: DATA: A Key for Unlocking Quality in WASH Programming
A new article has been authored by experts from the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and collaborators from mWater, the Mortenson Center, Aquaya Institute, Global Water Challenge, and ETH Zurich. The paper, titled Challenges and opportunit...
Hot off the Press — Evaluation of the Safe Water Optimization Tool to Provide Evidence-Based Chlorination Targets in Surface Waters: Lessons from a Refugee Setting in Uganda
Dahdaleh Institute director James Orbinski, research fellow James Brown, global health graduate scholar Michael De Santi, and faculty fellow Syed Imran Ali have just published a new paper in the leading engineering journal Environmental Science & T...
Hot off the Press — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Its Associated Inequities Do Not Occur in Isolation; Solutions Must Also Be Interconnected
Dahdaleh Institute research fellow Raphael Aguiar, faculty fellow Roger Keil, research associate Ryan Gray, and associate director Mary Wiktorowicz recently published a paper in Taylor & Francis Online titled, "One health governance of antimicrobia...