Research
New Research Grant: Safe Water Optimization Tool awarded WASH Evidence Challenge Grant from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund/Elrha
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has been awarded a major WASH Evidence Challenge grant from the Elrha Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) for the Safe Water Optimization Tool. HIF’s WASH Evidence Challenge grants support the generation...
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...
Dahdaleh Institute Fellow Syed Imran Ali featured on the Globe and Mail as part of their "Stepping Up" series
The Globe and Mail have been highlighting the work of many Canadians as part of the Stepping Up series, which aim to introduce Canadians to their country’s new sources of inspiration and leadership. As part of its coverage last week, Syed Imran Ali, Da...
Research on AI in humanitarian crises featured in Brainstorm
Tino Kreutzer, PhD candidate based at the Dahdaleh Institute, was featured in Brainstorm, a special issue of YFile which showcases research and innovation at York University. Kreutzer is building a tool which uses Natural Language Processing, a form of...
Inaugural Seed Grant in Critical Perspectives in Global Health Recipients Announced
The Selection Committee for the Seed Grant in Critical Perspectives in Global Health has completed its review of applications and selected five inaugural grant recipients. Each will receive $5,000 to support critical global health research which contri...
Byomkesh Talukder Publishes on Medium
Planetary Health Research Fellow Byomkesh Talukder published Planetary Health Perspectives and Implications of COVID-19 on Medium on 9 May 2020. Medium is a popular online publication with a readership of over 120 million. Excerpt Planetary Health Pers...
Jennie Phillips & A.M. Viens Awarded COVID-19 Funds by YorkU
York University has awarded $300,000 in research grants to advance 20 new research projects dedicated to Canada’s fight against COVID-19 and its impacts. The University recently announced a $250,000 research fund and call for proposals to support immed...
First Annual Planetary Health Film Lab (February 2020)
Seven emerging filmmakers from six countries came to the Dahdaleh Institute in Toronto from 16 - 22 February 2020 to participate in the Planetary Health Film Lab. The Film Lab took these young filmmakers through an intensive five-day process to create...
YorkU Magazine Features $2mil Grant for GGRID Project
YFile, York University's pan-institutional magazine, published New global one health network project will tackle infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance on 19 February 2020. It announced a $2mil grant awarded to Mary Wiktorowicz and Sean Hillier...