Global Health in the 21st century is characterized by complexity, connectedness, turbulence, and adaptability. It is a constellation of economic, environmental, political, social, technological and demographic phenomena. The Dahdaleh Institute focuses these huge concerns through three themes and with a clear priority: the ethical application of transdisciplinary research.
Research Themes
Our work takes place under three research themes:
Planetary Health
Planetary Health research calls urgent attention to the human health cost of environmental degradation and invites deeper reflection on the relationship between human and environmental wellbeing.
Global Health & Humanitarianism
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research works to improve clinical public health effectiveness of humanitarian response through scientific research, technological innovation, and critical perspectives which speak to the realities of contemporary humanitarian policy and practice.
Global Health Foresighting
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research gives license to imaginative and intentional approaches to designing global health futures.
Experiential Education
Education is a process of generating new insight, perspectives and knowledge through a relational process of teaching and learning. Experiential Education achieves this through the application of theory to a concrete experience.
Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research offers targeted Experiential Education programs for students, early-career practitioners and established professionals, as well as educational events for the broader global health community.
Planetary Health Film Lab
The Planetary Health Film Lab is an intensive program designed for youth who have a story to tell about climate...Read more about this Project
New Journey to Save Fish: Oshki Maadaadiziwin Jaa Bimaaji’ut Gigooyike
For eight years, commercial fishers of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation have observed increasingly dangerous fishing conditions caused by higher winds,...Read more about this Project
Humanitarian Water Engineering Intensive Course
York University Keele Campus, Toronto, Canada Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this course is being re-scheduled to a later...Read more about this Project
Research
Transdisciplinary Research: emergence of new perspectives, insights and tools by working across academic disciplines and involving non-academic participants as equal partners.
Enabling incremental adaptation in disadvantaged communities: polycentric governance with a focus on non-financial capital
Abstract Floods increasingly threaten disadvantaged communities around the globe. When limited financial resources are available, nature-based and community-based incremental adaptation...Read more about this resource
SSHIFTB: Social Science & Health Innovations for Tuberculosis
The Social Science & Health Innovations for Tuberculosis (SSHIFTB) Centre is a global community of practice focused on social science...Read more about this Project
Youth Climate Report
Youth are telling global leaders what future they want to see. Through the Youth Climate Report, those leaders are listening....Read more about this Project
Complex Adaptive Modelling of Health Impacts of Climate Change
The Chilwa Basin, Malawi, is among the regions most affected by climate change worldwide. Working with Chilwa Basin communities &...Read more about this Project