Netta Kornberg, Knowledge Dissemination Strategist at the Dahdaleh Institute, will participate in the Virtual Expert Program on Health and Circular Design Challenges at Dutch Design Week 2020 (DDW2020). During DDW2020, the Dutch Design Foundation and handelsroute.nl will host two sessions bringing together thought leaders from Canada and the Netherlands in Health and the Circular Economy. […]
Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are the latest in a series of global crises that both illuminate and exacerbate inequity. We need new ways to approach global health in the 21st century, but how? On October 20, Bruce Mau will explore critical problem-solving as a way to address global health challenges, with a focus on […]
Byomkesh Talukder, Planetary Health Research Fellow, and Keith W. Hipel of the University of Waterloo, will present at the 6th World One Health Congress. They will present a poster titled Climate Change and Infectious Diseases Modelling in Bangladesh using System Dynamics. Using climate variables, infectious disease data, and data on population growth, the relationship of infectious diseases […]
The Geneva Health Forum (GHF) is the forum of innovative practices in Global Health. Created in 2006 by the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, and taking place every two years, the Geneva Health Forum is one of the most important international conferences on Global Health. Nowadays, […]
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research co-sponsors The WHO, Canada and the Way Ahead with The Empire Club of Canada, Ryerson University School of Occupational and Public Health, Canadian Bankers Association, and Waste Connections of Canada. The event features keynote speaker Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. The WHO, Canada […]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, foundations, government, not for profit organizations, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, military and private practice. The meeting is designed for researchers, professors, government and public health officials, military personnel, travel clinic physicians, practicing physicians in […]
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 […]