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Internship Program: 2025-2026 Year In Review
Over the course of the 2025-2026 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...
World Health Assembly Simulation 2026 – Global Health at a CrossRoads: Building a Sustainable Future for Global Health in an Era of Divestment
On April 29, 2026, the School of Global Health at York University, in collaboration with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health, and the Global Health Students’ Association, held the fourth World Health Assembly (WHA) Si...
Israel Uses Water as a Weapon Against the People of Gaza: New MSF Report
Authored by Dahdaleh Research Fellow and Director, Humanitarian Water Engineering Lab, Syed Imran Ali A critical new report from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders)—drawing on its extensive operational data and medical evidence in Ga...
Vacancy: BioCAM4 Project Coordinator
The BioCAM4 consortium (University-Based, International Research Project) seeks a Project Coordinator to support the next phase of a large, multi-partner, international research project funded through a competitive NFRF-I grant. This role is central to...
Using the Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) to support WASH Standard 2.2
Originally published on Sphere (24 April 2026) Authored by Dahdaleh Research Associate James Brown Providing safe drinking water is a core priority in humanitarian response. Sphere Water Supply Standard 2.2: Water quality (“WASH Standard 2.2”...
GEH Lab Postdoctoral Research Fellow Presents Posters at 2026 CUGH Conference in Washington DC
Authored by former Dahdaleh Research Fellow Taslima Mamataz. I participated in the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Annual Conference, held at the Hilton Hotel Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, from April 8 to April 12, 2026, as a rep...
Study of global aid reductions awarded more than $500,000
Originally published by YFile (27 March 2026) By Alexander Huls Rachel Silver, associate professor in Faculty of Education, has received a $500,000 grant to study how Malawian schools and educational organizations are adapting to international aid...
Recap – Navigating Complexities: Indigenous health, public policy, and intergovernmental collaboration
On Wednesday, April 1, Dr. Sandra Romain, Medical Anthropologist and senior policy leader in the Government of Canada, led a lecture on navigating the complexities of Indigenous health, public policy, and intergovernmental collaboration. Dr. Roma...
Student Opportunity SU26 - TB Initiative Research Assistant
Job ID: 135750 Job Title: TB Initiative Research Assistant Application Deadline: Monday, April 27 @ 11:59 p.m. ET Applications are only accepted through the Survey Monkey. Note: applicants must be eligible to participate in the Research @ York (RAY) pr...
Recap – The Afterlives of the Clinic: AMR, Conflict, and the Future of Global Health, with Omar Dewachi
On February 4, 2026, Dr. Omar Dewachi, medical anthropologist, historian and former physician, Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, led a lecture on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its implications on the afterlives o...