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New Publication - The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change 2020
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical humanitarian teams around the world and across multiple disciplines share their experiences with how climate change has likely exacerbated health and humanitarian crises. Through coun...
New Publication: Dahdaleh Institute researchers publish groundbreaking study on safe water and public health in refugee camps
The top water science and engineering journal Water Research has just published a paper led by Syed Imran Ali, Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow, with contributions from Syed Saad Ali (DIGHR) and Jean-Francois Fesselet from Médecins sans Frontières (M...
James Stinson Co-Publishes in The Conversation
James Stinson, Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health & Education, co-published Coronavirus closures could lead to a radical revolution in conservation in The Conversation Canada on 10 May 2020. The Conversation Canada is an independent source of...
Rhonda Ferguson Publishes on Food Security and COVID19 in The Conversation
Research Fellow Rhonda Ferguson published a piece concerning food security, COVID-19 and opportunities to transform the global food trade system in The Conversation Canada. The Conversation Canada is an independent source of news and views, from the ac...
SciDev Article Features James Orbinksi & Carol Devine
The work and words of Director James Orbinski and Community Scholar Carol Devine are featured in Humanitarians turn sights on climate risk. Published by SciDev.Net, the article explores the growing momentum to factor climate change into humanitarian wo...
Steven Hoffman Publishes on Governance of Antimicrobial Use
Faculty Member & Director of Global Strategy Lab, Steven J. Hoffman, has co-authored a paper recently published in PLOS Medicine titled Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: A systematic review and evidence map. Excerpt Gro...
James Orbinski & Jennifer Turnbull Write for Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine
The Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine was launched on May 31 at Université Laval in Montreal. The publication features contributions from Director James Orbinski, titled "Humanitarianism Today," and Jennifer Turnbull, who is involved in the...
Researchers Publish First-Of-Its-Kind Study in "Water"
Two DIGHR researchers, Dr. Syed Imran Ali and Matthew Arnold, have published a paper which reports a first-of-its-kind evaluation of disinfection by-products (DBP) levels in humanitarian water supplies. Read the Abstract The reliance on chlorination in...
Byomkesh Talukder Publishes Article on Ecological Indicators
Byomkesh Talukder, Planetary Health Research Fellow, has published Energy efficiency of agricultural systems in the southwest coastal zone of Bangladesh. Read the abstract: Indicators for energy-use efficiency and levels of CO2 emissions were...
Byomkesh Talukder Publishes Article on the PROMETHEE Framework
Byomkesh Talukder, Planetary Health Research Fellow, has published The PROMETHEE Framework for Comparing the Sustainability of Agricultural Systems Read the abstract: The PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation)...