Global South Artificial Intelligence for Pandemic and Epidemic Preparedness and Response Network

This initiative will address existing knowledge and practice gaps in the Global South by establishing a multi-regional network to deepen the understanding of how responsible AI solutions can improve public health preparedness and response. It will strengthen the capacity of interdisciplinary researchers and policy makers across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the […]

Global & Environmental Health Lab

As a top-tier research group, the Global & Environmental Health Lab is committed to developing cross-culturally validated resource insecurity tools including housing, good, energy, and water insecurity scales that can be used in most low and middle-income countries. Using a socio-ecological model, we are poised in examining how changes in the physical and social environment […]

Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing

Ecological degradation and climate change are among the greatest challenges on earth. Fresh, collective, interdisciplinary responses are urgently required to better understand and address the range of effects and responses to human and societal wellbeing (healthy individuals and healthy communities) and the ecological systems (global health) on which we all depend. The planet is now […]

SMART Conservation and the Production of Nature 3.0 in Belize

This two-year project led by Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow James Stinson will provide a qualitative and ethnographic examination of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) and its use in terrestrial and marine protected areas in Belize. Framed through the interdisciplinary lens of political ecology, the project will explore the social and ecological impacts of […]

Designing One Health Governance for Antimicrobial Stewardship

Background The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a silent pandemic, driven by antimicrobial (AM) overuse and misuse in agriculture and human and animal health, heightens the need for improved global and national governance to strengthen AM stewardship. Although recognition of One Health (OH) principles in governing the prevention of AMR has grown, their practical […]

Humanitarian Water Lab

The Humanitarian Water Lab find ways to get safe, healthy water to vulnerable people in humanitarian crises and resource-constrained settings around the world. We work with people affected by crises and frontline responders to identify critical gaps in knowledge and practice wherever water intersects with human health. We bring together people with the right kinds of expertise and experience to catalyze transdisciplinary research; design, test, and refine solutions, and translate research to change real-world practice, all with the aim of helping to […]

Evaluating the Governance of Emergent Pandemic Zoonoses: A systems and legal analysis of wildlife markets

Actionable evidence focused on the regulation of wildlife trade, from which SARS and SARS-CoV-2 are believed to have emerged, is critical to prevent future pandemics. Connecting social, legal, and cultural dynamics that affect the regulation of wildlife trade in countries where zoonotic epidemics (Ebola) and pandemics (SARS and SARS-CoV-2) have emerged is needed.  The purpose of […]

Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium

Researchers from the Dahdaleh Institute and York University have joined with partners across nine African countries in an international collaboration to predict the spread of COVID-19 and to develop modelling tools that can support national policy-makers in their management of the pandemic. The project — Predictive Modelling and Forecasting of the Transmission of COVID-19 in […]

Planetary Health Partnership: Anishinaabe youth guardians, land-based learning, and the practice of living well with the world

Project Planetary Health Partnership: Anishinaabe youth guardians, land-based learning, and the practice of living well with the world will promote youth-led education, research and action that highlights and supports Indigenous knowledge and planetary health. In addition to its academic and policy related goals, the project will provide important training in research methods and digital media production […]

One Health Network for Global Governance of Infectious Diseases and AMR

The network strengthens Canadian leadership in improving the global governance of Infectious Disease and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by building and sustaining a global transdisciplinary and inter-sectoral One Health network originating in Canada. The objectives of Global 1HN are to: Develop and sustain a Network of local, national and international state and non-state actors to facilitate […]