Prof. Daniyal Zuberi United Way interview on ending poverty
Categories: FacultyThe United Way of Toronto and North York interviewed Prof. Daniyal Zuberi on ending poverty.
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Prof. Brennan speaks at UofT world AIDS day
Categories: Faculty
World AIDS Day at the University of Toronto
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
6:00-8:00pm
Hart House Great Hall
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Prof. Bhuyan and Thorncliffe caregiver community members appear before House of Commons
Categories: FacultyOn November 1, 2016, Professor Rupaleem Bhuyan and members of the caregiver community from Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office appeared before […]
Manaal S., PhD Candidate and Erin Relyea, MSW student awarded CIHR-IA best poster awards
Categories: StudentsManaal S., PhD Candidate and Erin Relyea, MSW student are this year’s CIHR Institute of Aging […]
Natasha Brien, PhD Student, article on the overincarceration of Canadian Indigenous people
Categories: StudentsNatasha Brien, a 4th year PhD student recently published an article entitled “The Overincarceration of Canadian Indigenous People: Moving from Punitive Practices towards Healing Spirit Injuries” in the Indigenous Social Work Journal.
Prof. Newman member of the International AIDS Society Towards a Cure Working Group published in Nature Medicine
Categories: FacultyProf. Peter A Newman is one of few social scientists globally invited to participate on the International AIDS Society‘s Working Group on research towards an HIV cure. The group was led by Dr. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine for co-discovering HIV. The working group published the “International AIDS Society’s global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016” in Nature Medicine, the premiere primary medical research journal in the world–including important directions for social science research and community engagement.
Prof. Peter A Newman featured by the Canadian Association for HIV Research
Categories: FacultyWhere Social Science Meets Basic Science
Prof Newman’s research program is featured by The Canadian Association for HIV Research. “With a membership of more than 1,000 researchers and others interested in HIV research, CAHR is the leading organization of HIV/AIDS researchers in Canada.” “His research takes HIV treatment and prevention methods that are in development through basic and clinical sciences, and applies them to ‘the most important laboratory—the real world’—to see how they can have the greatest potential.”
Prof. Esme Fuller-Thomson early adversity research featured in Autumn 2016 UofT Magazine
Categories: FacultyProf. Esme Fuller-Thomson researches the devastating effects of child abuse on health. She wants to ensure all survivors get the help they need.
Natasha Brien, PhD Student, awarded the GADE Leadership and Service Award
Categories: StudentsNatasha will be presented with the award at the CSWE Conference in Atlanta, GA in November 2016. GADE stands for Group for the Advancement for Doctoral Education in Social Work.
Kofi Antwi-Boasiako, PhD Student, co-authors report on Poverty’s role on kids in CAS system
Categories: Barbara Fallon, Bryn King, Faculty, Students, Tara BlackA new report cites poverty as a key factor in families who come into contact with the child protection system
Kofi Antwi-Boasiako (FIFSW, PhD Student), Bryn King, Tara Black, Barbara Fallon, Nico Trocmé and Deborah Goodman co-author a report that for the first time calculates the effect of poverty in Ontario child protection and how it plays a significant role in the disproportionate number of black and aboriginal children being taken from their families and placed into care.