Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar, Faculty of Health
Graduate Student Scholar
Joanne Ong is an incoming PhD student at York University in the Department of Global Health. She holds an MA from York University in sociology. She is passionate about how the social determinants of health, the political determinants of health and the commercial determinants of health shape health and health inequalities across scales. Her supervisor is Professor Cary Wu and she is assisting his research project which seeks to obtain a political sociology of health using trust as an analytical tool.
Themes | Planetary Health |
Status | Active |
Events |
6th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium Global Health PhD student's Independent Learning Plan |
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Updates |
Fifteen Exceptional Scholars Awarded 2026-2027 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships | September 4, 2026
Recap — Sixth Annual Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium | January 21, 2026 New study uncovers hidden barrier to global health collaboration | October 21, 2025 Seventeen Exceptional Scholars Awarded 2025-2026 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships | September 2, 2025 2024 Year in Review | December 19, 2024 Nineteen Exceptional Scholars Awarded 2024-2025 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships | August 29, 2024 Key Moments from the Trust and Political Sociology of Health Workshop | April 12, 2024 |
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