Join us for the Virtual Launch of the Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT), a new data analytics platform from the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders). The SWOT helps aid workers ensure water safety during humanitarian emergencies. Dr. Syed Imran Ali, Dahdaleh Institute Fellow and SWOT Lead, will […]
Dahdaleh Institute member Tino Kreutzer will be presenting a seminar on Scaling Qualitative Data Collection. More specifically, he will be discussing his research which aim to ask the question: How can humanitarian organizations better understand affected people in humanitarian health crises? Today, practitioners have to make a choice when interviewing people affected by conflict or disaster: […]
This special event is part of a closing lecture for the graduate course PHIL 6505: Major Problems of Political Philosophy, led by Dahdaleh Institute faculty member Idil Boran. The event will be exploring Planetary Health and showcase team projects led by graduate students and will also include a keynote lecture by Dahdaleh Institute Director Dr. James Orbinski. […]
The Dahdaleh Institute will be hosting a PhD Symposium, showcasing the current work of PhD students associated with the Institute. The program will capture the research journey of each student and encapsulate the progress made so far. For this years symposium, we will be hosting three Phd Students, check out their bio and research focus […]
The Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling will be hosting a special lecture conducted by Dr. Pej Rohani on Harnessing Dynamical footprints to detect disease emergence. This lecture is a part of the Distinguished Lecture Series which focuses on Modeling and Control of Infectious Diseases. Abstract Developing methods for anticipating the emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases […]
York University is hosting the Sustainable and Inclusive Internationalization Virtual Conference, co-organized by York International, the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability and international partners, from 20-22 January 2021 The Conference will bring together scholars, international mobility professionals and practitioners, policy makers, sustainability experts and other stakeholders to discuss the evolving status of international […]
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research will be hosting Dr. Shahram Khosravi as part of our 2-year Seminar Series on “Decolonizing Global Health Research”. This is an Institute-wide commitment towards decolonising global health and addressing racial inequality in and through the research that is conducted. What does decolonisation mean? Can scientific public health and […]
“Transformative Disaster Risk Governance (DRG) and Emergency Management” is a University-Wide initiative aiming to position York in an international leadership role by pursuing several goals in research, scholarship and academic and professional development activities. The first symposium will be focused on exploring the subject with a group of researchers, students and partner organizations featuring an […]
Challenging the divide between academic and applied research, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research invites the York University community to join the discussion on critical social science perspectives in global health research at the second annual “York Faculty and Researcher Workshop on Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health” – a two-day workshop that will be […]
Commemorating World Tuberculosis Day, Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Member Dr. Amrita Daftary will be giving a seminar presentation on "Elevating the social science gaze on tuberculosis". Dr. Daftary is Assistant Professor in Global Health at York University, and Associate at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has been […]
This week Dr. Jude Kong, Assistant Professor in the Mathematics & Statistics department at York University, will be presenting on "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to predict and forecast the transmission of COVID-19 and optimize vaccination roll-out in Africa". During different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, real-time delivery of reliable and comprehensive information is critical to predict spread and […]
Join us for a special seminar presented by the Dahdaleh Institute. We will be hosting Prof. Roger Keil as he present on a recently published paper examining Urbanization and Infectious disease. Roger will also reflect on what we might take from this analysis now, after a year of experiencing the pandemic. The published paper argues […]