Research
York University welcomes latest York Research Chair appointees
Eight researchers across York University will join the York Research Chairs (YRC) program – the University’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program which recognizes outstanding researchers. These YRCs belong to the ni...
Join Us This September for Our Global Health Research Seminar Series
We are kicking off the 2022-23 academic year at the Dahdaleh Institute with some wonderful global health research talks this September: disaster management, humanitarian response, occupational health, and planetary health. All events will be deliv...
Publication: How COVID-19 Lockdown Measures — and Their Outcomes — Varied in Cities Around the World
Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Fellow Roger Keil and his colleagues have been studying the disparate responses to COVID-19 in Johannesburg, Toronto, and Chicago. Their recent publication in The Conversation describes the impacts of different public health...
Publication – Integrating Blue: How Do We Make Nationally Determined Contributions Work for Both Blue Carbon and Local Coastal Communities?
Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Byomkesh Talukder was one of 33 experts in academia, project development, and policy who each developed ten key questions about how to implement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to optimize Blue Carb...
Call for Workshop Presentations: Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research invites the York University community to join our ongoing discussion on critical social science perspectives in global health research. This is an open call to York researchers for presentati...
Publication: A Pandemic Treaty, Revised International Health Regulations, or Both?
Focusing on a possible “pandemic treaty”, Mary Wiktorowicz, associate director of the Dahdaleh Institute, has co-authored a commentary in BMC Globalization and Health. The World Health Assembly will be convening a special session in late 2021 to consid...
New Publication: Mutual Care: Rethinking Our Relationship with Outdoor Spaces, by James Stinson
Dahdaleh Institute Postdoctoral Fellow James Stinson has published an article in the magazine Mountain Life. The article discusses the growing awareness of the health benefits of spending time in nature and argues that while increasing visitation to na...
Inaugural Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships Awarded to Two Outstanding Students
The Dahdaleh Institute has launched the Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarship Program, awarding inaugural scholarships to two exceptional global health graduate scholars—Beauty Umana and Sarah Khan—for their promise of excellence in research addr...
New Publication - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to Optimize COVID-19 Clinical Public Health and Vaccination Roll-Out Strategies in Africa
COVID-19 is imposing massive health, social and economic costs. While many developed countries have started vaccinating, most African nations are waiting for vaccine stocks to be allocated and are using clinical public health (CPH) strategies to contro...
New Book Chapter: Review and Selection of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Technique for Sustainability Assessment
Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Health Fellow Byomkesh Talukder recently published a chapter in a new book, titled Energy Systems Evaluation(Volume 1). The chapter discusses the procedures of multi-criteria decision analysis and how it can...