public health
York University profs awarded $1.65M NSERC CREATE grant to train the next generation of experts in precision public health
York University Distinguished Research Professor Jianhong Wu is leading a national initiative to train specialists in data-driven, equitable, public health decision-making.
Artificial Intelligence for Public Health Advancement launches at York University
Today, the University announced the launch of a new Centre of Excellence – Artificial Intelligence for Public Health Advancement (AIPHA) funded through an Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence program.
York profs to advance health research with more than $3.5M in federal CIHR funding
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently granted York University professors more than $3.5 million dollars combined, money that will go towards research that aims to help parents and neonatal infants, addresses equity and political barriers to global public health concerns and helps further our understanding the role of an important hormone in heart health.
York U researchers’ revamped AI tool makes water dramatically safer in refugee camps
A team of researchers from York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Lassonde School of Engineering have revamped their Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) with multiple innovations that will help aid workers unlock potentially life-saving information from water-quality data regularly collected in humanitarian settings.
‘Living with COVID-19’ must be more than an empty phrase: Individuals need tools to manage BA.2 and future waves
When Ontario lifted public health protective measures in March, the expectation was that we might see a small but manageable bump in COVID-19 cases. At the same time, Canadians were being told that it was time to learn to “live with COVID.”