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Beverley Essue receives Connaught Community Research Partnership Award

lanthierj — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:04:33 +0000

Beverley Essue receives Connaught Community Research Partnership Award

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lanthierj Thu, 03/02/2023 - 14:04

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St. George

Connaught Community Partnership Research Award

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Institute of Health Policy

Management and Evaluation

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(L-R) Cyndirela Chadambuka, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Beverley Essue and Clara Juando-Prats (photo by Johnny Guatto)

Beverley Essue of the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health has received an award from the Connaught Community Partnership Research Program for a research project on prioritizing the access needs of racialized women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV).

Essue will use the award to support a partnership with the Dr. Borna Meisami Commemorative Foundation’ Restoring Smiles Initiative to address a gap in access to critical dental care that disproportionately affects racialized survivors of IPV. This research will back advocacy and program development and will prioritize equitable access to necessary and culturally appropriate dental care services.

“This Connaught grant is meaningful because it supports a community-led research partnership that will help to fill this gap and it stands to help support the pathways to economic independence and empowerment for racialized survivors,” Essue says.“The data from this project will support efforts to ensure that the perspectives and lived experiences of racialized IPV survivors can inform the implementation of the national dental care program in Canada.”

The Connaught Community Partnerships Research Program encourages collaborative research partnerships that will foster access to each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on issues of shared interest. It is intended that the partnerships supported by this program will strengthen over time.

Essue is one of four researchers at the University of Toronto to receive the award this year. The others are Andrea Charise of the University of Toronto Scarborough, Angela Mashford-Pringle of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Pedro Mateo Pedro of the Faculty of Arts & Science.

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Lisa Forman, Kamran Behdinan, Kristin Cleverley and Fiona Miller receive Connaught Global Challenge Awards

lanthierj — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:17:10 +0000

Lisa Forman, Kamran Behdinan, Kristin Cleverley and Fiona Miller receive Connaught Global Challenge Awards

Research & Innovation

lanthierj Fri, 10/22/2021 - 12:17

Faculty

St. George

Connaught Global Challenge

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Lawrence S. Bloomberg School of Nursing

Institute of Health Policy

Management and Evaluation

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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(Clockwise from top L): Lisa Forman, Kamran Behdinan, Kristin Cleverley and Fiona Miller

Four University of Toronto researchers are receiving the Connaught Global Challenge Award, supporting projects that explore everything from student mental health to the impact of health care on climate, access to COVID-19 vaccines and energy harvesting technologies for biomedical applications.

“The Connaught Global Challenge Award recognizes leading researchers who are working across disciplines with colleagues, students and thought leaders, making significant contributions to society by advancing knowledge and developing innovative solutions to some of the world's most complex challenges,” says Professor Alex Mihailidis, associate vice-president, international partnerships.

“I'm delighted that this year's winners include the first recipients of the Connaught Global Research Impact Program (C-GRIP) award, funded by Office of the Vice-President International to provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with unique global opportunities by supporting global mobility and exchange.”

This year’s winners and their projects are:

Kamran Behdinan, department of mechanical and industrial engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering: Advanced Technology for Harvesting in Biomedical Device Applications
Kristin Cleverley, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing: Building a Global Research Network to Advance Student and Youth Mental Health (C-GRIP)
Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health: Advancing Rights-based Access to COVID Vaccines as part of Universal Health Coverage (C-GRIP)
Fiona Miller, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health: Research Capacity for a Climate Positive Health System: The International Research Network for Climate Positive Care

The Connaught Global Challenge is supported by the Connaught Fund – the largest, internal university research funding program in Canada. Established in 1972 through the sale of the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, the fund has provided nearly $170 million to �鶹��Ƶ scholars through a range of programs including the Connaught New Researcher Award, the Connaught Community Partnerships Research Program, the Connaught Innovation Award, the McLean Award and international doctoral scholarships.

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PhD student Fahima Dossa wins Royal Society's Alice Wilson Medal

rahul.kalvapalle — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000

PhD student Fahima Dossa wins Royal Society's Alice Wilson Medal

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rahul.kalvapalle Fri, 09/27/2019 - 00:00

Students

St. George

Graduate Students

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Management and Evaluation

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(photo by Perry King)

Fahima Dossa, a PhD student at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health who is also in the University of Toronto's surgeon scientist training program, is one of three women being honoured with this year's Alice Wilson Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.

Named after the first woman elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1938, the medal recognizes women with outstanding academic qualifications who are entering a career in scholarship or research at the post-doctoral level.

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