Two groups of York University students travelled to Cuba this spring as part of a new Faculty of Health course exploring human rights, Cuban culture and the country’s health-care system. The course – Experience Cuba: Enacting the human right to health and health equity, taught by Jessica Vorstermans, an associate professor in the School of Health […]
By Corey Allen, senior manager, research communications As a world leader in global health research, York University is fully committed to international collaborations across multiple sectors with academic, government, industry and community partners. Among those highlighting the impact of these partnerships is Professor Godfred Boateng. Forging strong relationships beyond geographical boundaries enables the York community to […]
A World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHOCC) at York University’s Global Strategy Lab (GSL) – specializing in the global governance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – had its impact recognized with a four-year extension, and expansion, of its mandate by WHO. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses and other microbes – and the infections they cause […]
The world, as the saying goes, is a classroom, and a special award from the Faculty of Health is making it easier for students to access it. The Global Health Travel Award provides students with funding to help cover travel and accommodation expenses, empowering them to pursue global learning opportunities that can make an impact […]
Access to clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are critical to health and well-being, and yet an estimated two billion people globally still lack access to it. Researchers in the Humanitarian Water Engineering Lab at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research are doing their part to address this crisis, and their efforts have […]
By Corey Allen, senior manager, research communications As a leading international teaching and research university, a key focus at York is global health research, particularly on pressing issues facing the Global South – developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and parts of Asia. To conduct this purposeful research abroad, York faculty work with […]
A York University-led program is helping bolster health care with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions throughout the Global South by providing more than $5.8 million in funding for 16 projects in as many countries. The projects aim to combat infectious diseases, including polio surveillance in Ethiopia and helping Indigenous communities in the Philippines. “We have led […]
TORONTO, Sept. 12, 2023 – A York University-led program is helping bolster health care in the Global South by providing more than $5.8 million in funding for 16 projects in as many countries, including polio surveillance in Ethiopia and helping Indigenous communities in the Philippines. “We have led the call to strengthen the health-care system in […]
York University hosted two major institutional conversations with South Africa during the 2022-23 academic year to explore opportunities for future partnerships. In late April, the University hosted a delegation of South African university vice-chancellors and deputy vice-chancellors for research, the CEO of Universities South Africa and representatives from the country’s National Research Foundation. The delegation […]
Ahmad Firas Khalid embodies York’s prioritization of advancing the University’s global engagement. Khalid, a medical doctor and newly hired assistant professor in the School of Global Health, has the global outlook and fluency one would expect of a person born in Jordan and raised in the United Arab Emirates, who attended medical school in the Caribbean, worked […]