Vol. 14 - March 2021 Boehm Lectures, Black Health Matters, and Upcoming Opportunities & Events
In Case You Missed It! The Boehm Lectures on Public Health and Healthcare Reimaging Aging and Restoring Trust in the Wake of COVID-19
To those of you who were able to attend the Boehm Lectures on Public Health and Healthcare event, Reimaging Aging and Restoring Trust in the Wake of COVID-19, thank you for participating and submitting questions to the panelists.
The DLSPH wishes to extend a heartfelt thank you to IHPME's Les Boehm for his continued support and for making this lecture series possible.
Black Health Matters is creating a community database that empowers and emancipates heterogenous African/Black peoples by prioritizing their experiences, and their stories in health research. They recently launched the Transnational Survey, in addition to the Canadian National Survey. Learn more about Black Health Matters.
Supporting the Black Health Matters Fund supports “Black Health Matters: National and Transnational COVID-19 Impact, Resistance and Intervention Strategies project” led by Dr. Roberta Timothy
You may have read about IHPME alumnus and FitzGerald Leadership Circle member, Dr. Mireille Norris in a previous edition of Your Dalla Lana. Read her below thoughts on giving to the Black Health Matters fund.
I am grateful for the education that has allowed me to be in a position now where I can give back to my community. As a black person, born in Haiti, educated in Quebec and at the University of Toronto, I feel a profound sense of gratitude and privilege for my current position as well as a duty towards members of the Black community who support me and who may look up to me for guidance and inspiration.
Culturally insensitive care results in delayed interventions and personal trauma. I have witnessed this with family members receiving mental health services, as well as when my 28-year-old, pregnant cousin died of complications of sickle cell anemia. Black health matters, the time has come to challenge health inequities afflicting the Black community.
Kristine Collins, Director, Academic Programs, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, on why she donated to the Black Health Matters fund.
Anti-racism work is ongoing and requires an investment of refection, time, effort and action. Supporting this fund is a small action to support important research that serves to highlight the voices of African/Black communities related to the current COVID-19 pandemic. This research is timely and highly relevant in our current social, political and public health context.
Dispatches from the Field
Professor Emeritus Paul Corey
Biostatistics Division, DLSPH
Alumnus and Donor
FitzGerald Leadership Circle Member
Professor Paul Corey, FitzGerald Leadership Circle member, reminisces on his connection to Dr. John G. FitzGerald
John G. FitzGerald’s grandparents came from Northern Ireland, just as my father did. I received my PhD from the School of Hygiene at Johns Hopkins University, the same university from which John benefitted from a short stay. I received a scholarship from the USA government, and Dr. FitzGerald received strong support from the same government. The US believed tax-payer dollars supporting research and education in other countries would benefit their country, as well as the recipient. Shortly after my wife, daughter and I returned home, I showed up unexpectedly on the doorstep of Dr. Harding Leriche, chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Our 1-hour conversation ended with an offer of a position as an assistant professor. I started in January 1968, with my first office in the FitzGerald building, and over my career, I supervised about 45 graduate theses.
The FitzGerald Leadership Circle is a special community for alumni and friends who demonstrate leadership-level support to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, named in honour of Dr. FitzGerald.
Learn about and submit your resources to the Institute for Pandemics.
Read the latest data, get up to date on upcoming and past events, read blog posts from DLSPH's David Fisman, and get informed of the newest publications.
Did you graduate within the last three years? If so, keep your eye out for the upcoming announcement for applications to the Robert Remis Award, which supports a successful candidate with an excellent peer-reviewed research paper accepted for publication in the previous 12 months, for which they were a lead author.
In Case You Missed It
DLSPH Dean Steini Brown, Ontario’s COVID-19 pandemic prognosticator, pulls no punches. The Globe and Mail
DLSPH Prof. Akwatu Khenti on confronting vaccine hesitancy. U of T News
IHPME's Les Boehm on Canada's need for university-based, domestic vaccine-making capability. Policy Options
DLSPH Prof. Janet Smylie in For Indigenous people, the urban-Northern divide has produced a tale of two vaccination efforts. The Globe and Mail
DLSPH/PHAA Alumni-Student Mentorship Program Launch
On February 24, 2021, the DLSPH and the Public Health Alumni Association (PHAA) launched the 2021 Alumni-Student Mentorship Program. Over 60 alumni and students were joined by Dean Steini Brown and PHAA President Jennifer Mary Bell to mark the start of this year's virtual program. Since 2013, the program has matched hundreds of first-year Public Health Sciences students across multiple program streams with DLSPH alumni, to support future public health professionals in their academic and career journeys.
The mentorship program would not be possible without the commitment of DLSPH alumni, the enthusiasm of DLSPH students, and the tireless work put in by the PHAA mentorship committee. A special thank you to everyone involved!
To learn more about the program, please contact Zahraa Saab and Sarah Ko, Program Co-Chairs, at public.health.alumni@utoronto.ca.
PHAA In the Loop and the Emerging Leader Award Presentation Thursday, April 15, 2021, 12:00pm - 1:15pm via Zoom
Join the University of Toronto’s Public Health Alumni Association as we explore how public health practitioners can best communicate with policy makers to inform evidence-based policy. Moderated by Robert Steiner, our panelists, Dr. Akwatu Khenti, Dr. Kate Mulligan, and MPP Jeremy Roberts will provide participants with insight on the health decision-making process in Canada and the tools to meet the health information needs of policy makers. The event will conclude with the presentation of the Emerging Leader Award.
The John R. Evans Lectureship in Global Health was established by Dr. David Naylor, when he was The University of Toronto’s Dean of Medicine. The lectureship acknowledges the major role Dr. Evans played in the University of Toronto’s history and his global contributions to the advancement of human health and well-being. Dr. Rene Loewenson, keynote speaker, will deliver a talk titled "Fundamental choices for the future of public health - what is COVID-19 exposing?" it will be followed by reflections from discussants as well as a Q&A from the audience.
CANUE and GeoHealth Network Present: Seminar #2 – Spatio-Temporal Patterns
March 26 | 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Register
Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar: “Cancer risk communication in the news coverage of suspected cancer clusters in Ontario: Contrasting media messaging by geography”
March 26 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | Register
Masterclass in Sustainable Health Systems
April 1 to 30 | Register
Webinar: CanPath Portal Overview
April 7 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | Register
Ontario NEIHR Webinar Series 2021 with Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos
April 14 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | Register
First CANSSI-NISS Health Data Science Workshop
May 6 – 8 | 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Register
