Workshop participants will have the opportunity to learn about new research happening at York University that uses critical social science perspectives and methodologies to understand the global health enterprise. Researchers working in this vein tend to engage directly with global public health actors, structures, and systems, using transdisciplinary, participatory, experimental or experiential methods. The Workshop is intended to generate new insights, foster collaboration, and discover new opportunities in global health research.
This year, Dr. Andrew Pinto will be delivering the keynote presentation, Global Health and Ethical Actions: Connecting our work to movements for social justice. Dr. Pinto is the founding and current director of the Upstream Lab, a research team focused on tackling social determinants of health, population health management, and using data science to enable Learning Health Systems. He holds the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Upstream Prevention. He is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist and family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UPLEARN), the lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and the founder of the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network.
Following the keynote, we will hear from the 2025 seed grant recipients regarding the progress of their global health research projects funded by the Critical Perspectives in Global Health Seed Grant. The seed grant program supports critical global health research within the three themes at the Dahdaleh Institute (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting).
Finally, York faculty and global health researchers will then have the opportunity to deliver Pitch Presentations: brief 5-minute presentations on any current or planned research project that takes a critical social science approach to global health. Register as a Pitch Presenter to receive valuable feedback on your proposal from expert researchers. Please complete the registration form to be a Pitch Presenter by Monday, April 27 at 3:00 p.m., or to attend the event by Wednesday, April 29, by 11:59 p.m.
Agenda
8:30
Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:00
Welcome and Overview to Workshop
9:15
Keynote Presentation and Q&A with Andrew Pinto
10:20
Break
10:30
Research Updates from the 2025 CPGH Seed Grant Recipients
11:00
Pitch Presentations from the York Community
11:30
Closing Remarks
12:00
Lunch at Dahdaleh Institute
RSVP
Register below and join us on Tuesday, May 5 at 8:30 a.m.
Thank you for your interest in our event programming at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Please visit, https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/ for more information.
