Update – Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing with Local NGOs and Community Organizations in Belize

In March 2023, Dahdaleh Institute postdoctoral research fellow James Stinson returns from a week-long research trip to commence activities for the Partnership For Youth and Planetary Wellbeing – in Belize, he visited and worked with Partners at the Julian Cho Society, Maya Leaders Alliance, and Toledo Alcaldes Association. This work includes establishing a Youth Advisory […]

Climate Change Research Month showcases York as community of changemakers

A month-long series of events hosted by York University Organized Research Units (ORU) and campus groups aim to generate awareness on climate change research and mobilize community action. March 1 marks the start of the second annual Climate Change Research Month at York University, which features seminars, book launches, art installations and panels throughout the month. “Climate […]

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 […]

York University funds $4.05M to support interdisciplinary research for the UN SDGs

The research projects advance knowledge in areas ranging from water remediation, management of infectious disease through technological innovation, the effects of climate change on ecosystems and human populations, visual neuroscience, and understanding the pathway from colonial genocide to building just relationships. York University will fund ground-breaking research through the Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) program, […]

Dahdaleh Institute researchers contribute to York's achievements towards the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals

In June 2020, York University launched its new University Academic Plan 2020-2025 (UAP), which included a university-wide challenge to elevate York’s contributions to the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new UAP serves as a blueprint for action, positioning York University as an agent of positive change in a world facing a convergence of […]

Publication: Digital technologies for biodiversity protection and climate action: Solution or COP out?

Dahdaleh Institute Research Fellow James Stinson and DI Graduate Research Assistant Lee Mcloughlin have recently published their recent work on the promotion of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, as solutions to biodiversity and climate crises at COP conferences in The Conversation. Stinson, J. & Mcloughlin, L (2022, December 12). Digital technologies for biodiversity protection and […]

Research recap – Modelling Health Impacts of Climate Change Workshop in Malawi (August 2022)

This was our first in-person and onsite meeting of all PIʼs, fellows, and graduate students since the onset of the global COVID pandemic. From August 15 until August 25, we engaged in stakeholder consultations, partnership engagement meetings with the University of Malawi Leadership, and visits to the Chilwa Basin and Chisi Island. The participants included: […]

Politics of climate change offer lessons for fight against antimicrobial resistance

The emerging pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and challenges to addressing it have parallels with climate change, said experts at a recent online panel on AMR Policy Leadership and Innovation, hosted by York University’s Global Strategy Lab (GSL), as part of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week. Similar to climate change, AMR is frequently talked about as a problem […]

Lassonde team developing new tool for detection of microplastics in water

Researchers at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University are working to develop innovative methods for the detection of microplastics in bodies of water. Recently, a group of researchers successfully designed and prototyped an affordable and simple device for the detection of microplastics. Water sources often contain pollutants due to the breakdown of large […]

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 […]