News Release: Some surprisingly good news about anxiety
Categories: Esme Fuller-Thomson, FacultyRecovery rates are high: A recent study finds seven in ten Canadians with a history of generalized […]
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Read our news stories, below, and view our 2025-2030 Academic Plan to learn how FIFSW researchers, students, alumni and partners are working to create a more just, equitable and compassionate world.
The Times of London covers Professor Esme Fuller-Thomson’s hypothesis linking lead exposure and dementia
Categories: Esme Fuller-Thomson, FacultyProfessor Esme Fuller-Thomson speculates that declining dementia rates may be a result of generational differences in lifetime […]
NICE’s anti-ageism in the workplace campaign is featured on Global News
Categories: Faculty, Lynn McDonaldThe National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE) in partnership with the City of Toronto […]
Global Aging: Change and impact start here
Global aging will transform society significantly in the 21st century. The predictions are staggering: according to United […]
Excellence in research and education
The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) has been ranked number one in Canada and number two […]
News Release: Could some people with schizophrenia in the developing world simply have a treatable vitamin deficiency?
Categories: Esme Fuller-Thomson, FacultyFour unsolved mysteries around schizophrenia have long plagued the medical community, but a new hypothesis identifying a […]
Prof. Carmen Logie on sex education and young people with disabilities
Categories: Carmen Logie, FacultyProf. Carmen Logie Global News interview
Prof. Peter A. Newman leads UNICEF report on HIV among adolescents and youth from key populations in Asia
Categories: Faculty, Peter NewmanProf. Peter A. Newman served as lead researcher for a 4-country UNICEF formative assessment officially released on […]
“America the Beautiful and Violent” is a case study amplifying structural inequalities and tensions in neighbourhoods around the world
Categories: Dexter Voisin, FacultyThe Caribbean Camera spoke to Dean Dexter Voisin about his new book America the Beautiful and Violent: […]
Prof. Tanya L. Sharpe interviewed by Global News on the traumatic impact of the Dafonte Miller assault case
Categories: Faculty, Tanya Sharpe
Prof. Tanya L. Sharpe interviewed by Global News on the trial of Michael and Christian Theriault. The brothers Theriault are jointly charged with aggravated assault in the December 2016, beating of Dafonte Miller. The trial raises issues of structural racism and its impact on Black communities.
Warning: Graphic images of violence