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Director James Orbinski Comments on COVID-19 on CTV
Director James Orbinski spoke on a panel of experts on CTV's Power Play on 11 March 2020, the same day the Director-General of the World Health Organization declared the spread of coronavirus to be a pandemic. Several weeks before, on 26 February 2020,...
Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research Statement on COVID-19
Given the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has postponed all international meetings, workshops, and conferences for March 2020. Regular daily research activity continues at the Dahdaleh Institu...
Foresighting Fellow Quoted in Financial Post
Aria Ilyad Ahmad, Global Health Foresighting Research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, was quoted in the 25 Feb 2020 edition of the Financial Post. In an article titled Prescription for disruption: How Amazon could shake up...
SWOT Second All-Team Meeting Moves Project Forward
The second all-team meeting of the Safe Water Optimization Tool took place 30 January 2020. It included team members from the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Lassonde School of Engineering, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistic...
YorkU Magazine Features Planetary Health Film Lab
YFile, the pan-university YorkU magazine, published Watch wildfires and wading waiters at Planetary Health Film Lab premiere on 17 February 2020. The article introduced readers to the Planetary Health Film Lab, a project developed and delivered by the...
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...
Dahdaleh Institute Attracts its First Climate Denier on Twitter
At once daunting and a sign of increased visibility, the Dahdaleh Institute has been retweeted by what appears to be a climate denier. A tweet about the Planetary Health Film Lab was re-tweeted with the comment, "Please make sure that the stories are n...
Postdoctoral Fellow's New Book Published Online
Ahead of the Spring launch of the print publication of The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change, Palgrave Macmillan has released the e-book for purchase. Written by Dr. Mark Terry, Postdoctoral Fellow in Documentary Film & Global Heal...
Insight at "Embodied Ecological Heritage" Seminar
On January 22, 2020, guest lecturer Dr. Kristina Baines shared her work on Embodied Ecological Heritage in a seminar co-presented with the Department of Anthropology. Her visit was featured by CUNY Guttman CC. Through a framework of Embodied Ecological...
Eighteen Established and Emerging Scholars Joined Dahdaleh Institute in Six Months
Since the end of the last academic year, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has welcomed 18 new members at all levels. This growth is indicative of the momentum the Dahdaleh Institute is building around our three research themes, as we p...