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Blogs including our seminar series event recaps are posted here.

Recap — Pandemic Urbanism: Looking at past infectious diseases and preparing for a post-pandemic world

Posted on 13 March 2023

On March 8, over 35 participants attended the launch of Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities (Polity Press, 2022), co-authored by S.Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly and Roger Keil. Prof. Syed Harris Ali began the presentation by defining microbial traffic and the various mechanisms that infectious diseases can spread e.g., cross-species transfer, spatial […]

Recap — Local adaptation to the realities of climate change in the Chilwa Basin, Malawi

Posted on 3 March 2023

On March 1, as part Climate Change Research Month series of events hosted by York University Organized Research Units (ORU), Dahdaleh Institute's inaugural director James Orbinski presented the agent-based modelling and systems dynamic modelling research his team has been working on in the Chilwa Basin, Malawi. The effects of climate change have taken a massive […]

Recap — Post-colonial legacy and the challenges to health and safety in Black communities

Posted on 2 March 2023

In the final instalment of the 2023 Black History Month seminar series at the Harriet Tubman Institute, the Dahdaleh Institute's cosponsored a virtual seminar on February 28 with faculty fellow Harris Ali and Yvonne Simpson. It featured discussions on the challenges to the health and safety of Black communities within Canada and abroad as a […]

Recap — The Benefits of Qi Gong (Tai Chi) in Theory and Practice

Posted on 28 February 2023

Efforts towards addressing the most pressing global health issues must not overshadow the importance of personal health and wellbeing. Recognizing this, the Dahdaleh Institute invited the YorkU community to participate in a special three-part Wellness and Self Care series for Wellness and Self Care led by Harvey Skinner and Susan Harris. The first session took […]

Recap — Utilizing academic research to support real-time decision-making in health and humanitarian crises

Posted on 24 February 2023

On November 30th, Dr. Ahmad Firas Khalid delivered an interactive seminar about how the Canadian Red Cross makes decisions using scientific, real-time evidence amidst health and humanitarian crises. Twenty-six participants discussed the Red Cross' involvement in intelligence, development, and research. But more importantly, how research is presented to help bridge the gap between academia and […]

Recap — Ecological economics: centering environmental and planetary health, and moving past the neoclassical paradigm

Posted on 21 February 2023

On Nov 23, 2022, Prof. Lina Brand Correa delivered a seminar research highlighting ecological economics as a more suitable economic paradigm for planetary health than mainstream neoclassical economics. Over 32 attendees learned about how the ecological economic framework (vs. neoclassical economics) captures a more holistic perspective of the relationship between the economy, society and the […]

Recap — CommunityFirst approaches to health crises in Sierra Leone

Posted on 16 February 2023

On February 8, in a collaborative seminar with the Dahdaleh Institute and the SeeChange Initiative, Megan Corbett-Thompson (Community Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute) along with Jessica Farber and Osman Sow delivered an insightful seminar. Megan began by introducing the CommunityFirst approach and framework when addressing critical humanitarian health crises; it is crucial to cultivate relationships with local […]

Recap – Climate change threatens to cause greater resource insecurity, greater poverty, and poor health outcomes

Posted on 13 February 2023

On February 1, over 40 attendees were introduced to Godfred Boateng's research programs – he discussed some examples of current global environmental changes that have destabilized the earth's climate and threaten to cause resource insecurity, greater poverty, poor health outcomes with the spread of new and infectious diseases. For instance, he discussed the syndemic relationships […]

Recap – Science is necessary but not sufficient for positive public policy impacts

Posted on 8 February 2023

On January 25, Dr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau used his broad experiences in government in Canada and abroad to comment on instances when scientific and technical advice fails to have a positive influence on public policy: "Science is necessary but not sufficient for positive public policy impacts". For him, the winning combination is science and a deep […]

Recap – Fall 2022 Graduate Research by Dahdaleh Global Health Scholars

Posted on 12 January 2023

The Dahdaleh Institute proudly supports graduate research and scholarly and creative activities in line with the three themes of planetary health, humanitarianism, and foresighting at York University. We held our 3rd Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium on December 14, 2022, and it featured four outstanding researchers and rich discussions about their ongoing work. Please […]