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Dahdaleh Institute Members Contribute to Doctors Without Borders Internal Newsletter
Three articles in the March 2020 edition of the internal Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) newsletter on water and sanitation were written or co-written by two Dahdaleh Institute members. Dr. Syed Imran Ali, Global Health and Hum...
Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair Makes over 100 Media Appearances About COVID-19
Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair in Global Governance & Legal Epidemiology Steven J. Hoffman has acted as a leading public expert on the global governance of COVID-19. Appearing publicly over 130 times since late January 2020, he has provided commentar...
Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research Statement on COVID-19
Given the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has postponed all international meetings, workshops, and conferences for March 2020. Regular daily research activity continues at the Dahdaleh Institu...
Director James Orbinski Comments on COVID-19 on CTV
Director James Orbinski spoke on a panel of experts on CTV's Power Play on 11 March 2020, the same day the Director-General of the World Health Organization declared the spread of coronavirus to be a pandemic. Several weeks before, on 26 February 2020,...
First Annual Planetary Health Film Lab (February 2020)
Seven emerging filmmakers from six countries came to the Dahdaleh Institute in Toronto from 16 - 22 February 2020 to participate in the Planetary Health Film Lab. The Film Lab took these young filmmakers through an intensive five-day process to create...
Foresighting Fellow Quoted in Financial Post
Aria Ilyad Ahmad, Global Health Foresighting Research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, was quoted in the 25 Feb 2020 edition of the Financial Post. In an article titled Prescription for disruption: How Amazon could shake up...
SWOT Second All-Team Meeting Moves Project Forward
The second all-team meeting of the Safe Water Optimization Tool took place 30 January 2020. It included team members from the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Lassonde School of Engineering, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistic...
YorkU Magazine Features $2mil Grant for GGRID Project
YFile, York University's pan-institutional magazine, published New global one health network project will tackle infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance on 19 February 2020. It announced a $2mil grant awarded to Mary Wiktorowicz and Sean Hillier...
YorkU Magazine Features Planetary Health Film Lab
YFile, the pan-university YorkU magazine, published Watch wildfires and wading waiters at Planetary Health Film Lab premiere on 17 February 2020. The article introduced readers to the Planetary Health Film Lab, a project developed and delivered by the...
Dahdaleh Institute Attracts its First Climate Denier on Twitter
At once daunting and a sign of increased visibility, the Dahdaleh Institute has been retweeted by what appears to be a climate denier. A tweet about the Planetary Health Film Lab was re-tweeted with the comment, "Please make sure that the stories are n...