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Canada Postdoctoral Research Award Program
Overview Value $70,000 per year Duration 24 months Tenure location Eligible Canadian or international institutions Application deadline CIHR: September 17NSERC: October 17SSHRC: September 11 How to apply See Application procedures below Resul...
Wrapping Up Water Safety Research Activities in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
A year after beginning a research project on drinking water safety in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar Caroline Duncan, along with her supervisor Dr. Stephanie Gora from the Safe and Sustainable Water Research Group, retu...
New Research Presented at EGU and EEHF
This past month, Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar, Michael De Santi, presented his newest research “ML-QMRA: A novel machine learning tool for linking water quality to health risk in humanitarian contexts” at the European Geosciences Union (EGU)...
Research Poster Presentation at ISHAM 2025 Conference, Brazil
I recently had the opportunity to participate in the 22nd Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM), held in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, from 20 to 24 May 2025. This global conference brought together basic scientists, clini...
UNITAR Global Water Academy offers free online courses on water sustainability
The UNITAR Global Water Academy invites you to enrol in three free courses on water sustainability: i) On Thin Ice: The Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ice, ii) An Introduction to Indigenous Relationships to Water on Turtle Island, iii) Introdu...

Recap — Imagining Health Otherwise: Critical Perspectives in Global Health Workshop
Kristina Baines What does it actually mean to be healthy? This is one of the questions that this year’s Critical Perspectives in Global Health Workshop sought to address and, more importantly, challenge. Anthropologist Kristina Baines raised this quest...
Opportunity - Program Manager, DIVERT Mental Health
Job Title: Program Manager Project Title: DIVERT Mental Health Application Deadline: June 16, 2025 For more information, please visit: https://www.yorku.ca/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/848/2025/05/DIVERT-Program-Manager_ENFR_May-13-2025.pdf Contra...
York University to train next generation of climate ambassadors
Originally published by Yfile (16 May 2025). Edited by Ashley Goodfellow Craig York University will offer funding from the highly competitive Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships (QES) program to students and researchers from York,...

Internship Program: 2024-2025 Year In Review
Over the course of the 2024-2025 academic year, the Dahdaleh Institute collaborated with a group of outstanding students as part of the Internship Program. In recent years, our internship program has expanded to include research positions across discip...
Shaping Future Health Leaders Through Experiential Learning: Success Stories from the World Health Assembly Simulation (WHA SIM) 2025
The World Health Assembly Simulation (WHA SIM) 2025 conference, held at York University’s Second Student Centre from April 30 to May 1, was a resounding success. Hosted by the School of Global Health, with support from the Dahdaleh Institute for Globa...