DLSPH Research Seminar Series

The DLSPH Research Seminar Series started in February 2009.  It is a  bi-weekly seminar featuring an esteemed colleague who is engaged in research related to public health.  The sessions are free and are open to all DLSPH faculty, students alumni and interested members of the public health community. The seminar is held at 12:00pm in HS 610, unless otherwise noted.

The DLSPH Research Seminar Series is currently looking for speakers to present in the fall term 2010.  If you are interested please submit a brief abstract to stephanie.dorego@utoronto.ca.

Fall 2010 Seminars will commence on September 16th, interested speakers should contact stephanie.dorego@utoronto.ca.

12:00pm to 1:00pm
155 College Street, HS 610

Fall 2010 Seminars:

Winter 2011 Seminars

Past Seminars

2009/2010 Seminars

• May 13, 2010 - Dr. Andrew Paterson - Genetics of Glucose Control and Complications
                                                         of Type 1 Diabetes

• April 29, 2010 - Dr. Jay Kaufman - Heteroeroticism in Epidemiology

• April 15, 2010 - Dr. Bart Harvey - How Big is Canada's Public Health Workforce? Does Anyone Know?  Does it Matter?

• April 1, 2010 - Dr. Julia Knight - Opportunities and challenges in studies of early life factors in breast cancer: Studies in young women and girls

• March 18, 2010 - Dr. Brian Schwartz - Pandemic H1N1 2009: Science on the Run

• March 4, 2010 - Dr. Natasha Crowcroft and Dr. Laura Rosella - Pandemic H1N1 in Ontario

• February 4, 2010 - Dr. Anna Banerji - Lower respiratory tract Infections in Inuit children, intersection of research and advocacy

• January 7, 2010 - Dr. Michael Evans - The Health Design Lab and the Family Practice of the Future: Intersecting media, self-management, web 2.0, and evidence [click for seminar slides]

• December 10, 2009 - Dr. Susan Bondy - The Ontario Tobacco Survey (OTS); integrating epidemiology and evaluation

• November 26, 2009 - Dr. Steven Narod - Cancer prevention or cancer treatment? Insights from a high risk eregistry

• November 12, 2009 - Dr. Gary Sibbald - Saving legs and feet for people with Diabetes in Guyana

• October 29, 2009 - Dr. Farah Ahmad - Addressing Intimate Partner Violence by Health Promoting Strategies: A Case of Computer-assisted 'Screening' in Family Practice

• October 15, 2009 - Dr. Prabhaj Jha - Million Death Study

• October 8, 2009 - Dr. Aaron Blair - Confounding and exposure misclassification in occupational cancer epidemiology
• September 17, 2009 - Dr. Paula Braitstein - The USAID-AMPATH Partnership: Transforming Public Health Research into Public Health Action in Western Kenya

2008/2009 Seminars

• April 30, 2009 - Dr. Prabhat Jha - Sex, Death and Infection: A Decade of Fighting HIV in India
• April 16, 2009 - Dr. Vivek Goel - Building the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
• April 2, 2009 - Dr. John McLaughlin - The Ontario Health Study Invites You to be Part of Something Big!
• March 19, 2009 - Dr. Steven Narod - Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer
• March 5, 2009 - Dr. David Fisman - Climate Change and Infectious Diseases in North America: Bugs to Watch
• February 5, 2009 - Dr. Anthony Miller - Conundrums in screening for cancer

DLSPH Research Seminars occur bi-weekly on Thursdays, 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Room 610 (Auditorium), 155 College Street.  They are hosted by Dr. Anthony Miller, Associate Director, Research of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.  For more information, or if you wish to be included in communications regarding the DLSPH Seminar Series, please contact: stephanie.dorego@utoronto.ca.

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