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Published on September 19, 2024

This summer, the Dahdaleh Institute has worked with wonderful students through our dynamic, experiential education Global Health Internship Program. The program offers students the ability to contribute to exciting research projects by working on literature reviews, data synthesis, cataloguing, content development, stakeholder engagement, and much more. They supported research projects studying equitable global health research; impacts of gender in tobacco control; mental and emotional health and wellness; knowledge translation and acceleration; and AMR and food systems.
Congratulations, and thanks to all the interns for a job well done!

The Dahdaleh Institute’s 6th Summer Global Health Intern Symposium, held on Wednesday, August 21, showcases the work of eight of these remarkable student interns who shared their experience working under the mentorship of Dahdaleh faculty and fellows. Interns delivered a five-minute presentation on the following topics:
- Ann Kwarteng (17:10) Intergenerational Beliefs of Policing and Mental Health and its Implications for Mental Healthcare among Black Youth
- Pashtana Fakhrizada (24:00) Equitable Global Health Research - RAY Internship
- Shreya Pandrala (31:50) The Impact of Qi Gong on Wellness
- Laura Rosa Pereira (40:07) Integrating Gender in Tobacco Control
- Lauratou Bah (1:10:23) Knowledge Translation & Acceleration as a Determinant of Health
- Arabi Rajan (1:20:03) AMR and Food Systems
- Serina Noori (1:24:52) Systems-Informed Evaluation of Canada's Food and Nutrition Surveillance System
- Shah Kheradmand (1:29:54) Cell Culture on Collagen Scaffolds with Basement Membrane Lining
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism, Global Health Foresighting, Planetary Health |
Status | Active |
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Theresa Dinh, Institute Coordinator - Active
Shreya Pandrala, Wellness Impact Lab, Global Health Intern [S24] - Alum Serina Noori, Global Health Foresighting, Global Health Intern - Active Laura J. Rosa Pereira, Global Legal Epidemiology, Global Health Intern - Active Arabi Rajan, Global Food System & Policy, Global Health Intern [S24;F24] - Alum Ann Kwarteng, Retooling Black Anxiety, Global Health Intern [W24;S24] - Alum |
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