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ETIO Innovation in Public Health Award Winner: Bhajan Gill
Hello everyone! My name is Bhajan Gill (She/Her), and I am delighted to be the recipient of this year’s inaugural ETIO Innovation in...
Ian Hanney
Sep 29, 20213 min read


Mother’s Day and Maternal Health
Authors: Matthew Tersigni, MPH, MD (c) , Leonor Separi, HBSc, MD (c) For many of us, Mother's Day is an important time of year. It is the...
Matthew Tersigni, MPH, MD(c); Leonor Separi, HBSc, MD(c)
May 9, 20215 min read


Let’s Talk About Periods, Period
Have you ever slipped a tampon/pad up your sleeve when needing to change in public spaces? Have you used codes to ask for sanitary...
Oluwatosin (Praise) Oluwayemi
Sep 24, 20204 min read


The Plastic Pandemic: Tackling Pollution Amid COVID-19
Written by: Cara Boyd, MMASc Climate change has taken a back seat to the fight against the world’s newest rival, COVID-19. Countries have...
Cara Boyd
Sep 18, 20205 min read


The Curse of COVID-19
“I sent a letter to my father, on the way I dropped it. Someone came and picked it up and put it in my pocket!” Kindergarten. Hopscotch....
Dr. Ritika Bhattacharya M.B.B.S, MPH
Aug 14, 20205 min read


The Inequitable Impact of Climate Change
The face of the environmental movement is changing. No longer portrayed by the hippies of the 60s or trendy zero-wasters, climate...
Leigh Raithby, MMASc (c) Research Analyst
Aug 10, 20204 min read


Spread the word, not the virus
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used worldwide serving multiple industries, including transportation, finance, education and more....
Urvashi Rathod MMASc(c) - Research Analyst
Aug 4, 20204 min read


Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health: The Canadian Perspective
Canada has gained a reputation of being a welcoming nation globally, attracting hundreds of thousands of immigrants. According to the...
Oluwatosin (Praise) Oluwayemi MPH(c)
Aug 2, 20205 min read


Psychedelic Medicine and COVID-19
Would you have ever imagined that psychedelics could represent the face of a new era of medicine? Psychedelics, also known as...
Priscilla Matthews MMASc (c) - Research Analyst
Jul 30, 20204 min read


Can Ontario Open for Business One Step at a Time?
For those not in the know, Northern Ontario isn’t big; it’s huge! The area reaches Hudson Bay and James Bay in the north; the Quebec...
Nathaniel Mapeso MMASc (c) - Research Analyst
Jul 27, 20205 min read


What COVID-19 means for the fight against Global Poverty
In the decades preceding 2020, significant progress was made in addressing global poverty. Between 1990 and 2015, as part of a globally...
Sumeet Greasy, MPH(c); Research Analysts
Jul 21, 20202 min read


Stage 3 Reopening Plan – A Brief Summary and Analysis
Introduction COVID-19 is a highly contagious and fatal respiratory disease that is having negative implications on different aspects of...
George Wang
Jul 17, 20203 min read


RACISM & THE CYCLE OF POVERTY
Introduction According to the Colour of Poverty (2019), Canada has a number of factors that negatively affect the health of Black and...
Josephine De Leon, MMASc (c); Dami Lawal
Jul 9, 20205 min read


Yemen in Crisis: Conflict Colliding with COVID-19
Afflicted with a cholera epidemic, nation-wide food insecurity, and a civil-turned proxy war, Yemen has been in crisis for the better...
Cara Boyd
Jul 3, 20205 min read


Intimate Partner Violence and COVID19
Is the COVID-19 pandemic brewing an intimate partner violence (IPV) crisis? IPV is defined as any physical or sexual violence, emotional...
Priscilla Matthews MMASc (c), Research Analyst
Jun 23, 20205 min read


FIRST CAME COLONIZATION, THEN CAME GLOBALIZATION: STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND COVID-19
- Mofiyinfoluwa (Dami) Lawal MMASc (c), Research Analyst ETIO Public Health Consultants By 1854-1874, “imperialist aggression, diplomatic...
Mofiyinfoluwa (Dami) Lawal MMASc (c)
Jun 19, 20209 min read


Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19 Prevention
On May 18th, 2020, President Donald Trump reported that he has been self-administering hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an anti-malarial drug,...
Russell Sun MMASc(c)
Jun 16, 20203 min read


Short paper on Super Spreader & Super Spreader Events
Superspreaders and Super-spreading Events (SSEs): With continuous outbreaks of infectious diseases that continue to debilitate, perhaps...
Research Analysts, ETIO Public Health Consultants
Jun 4, 20207 min read


POVERTY PORN AND COVID-19
Where is the time for poverty porn during COVID-19? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know poverty porn almost sounds too vulgar and highly...
Research Analysts, ETIO Public Health Consultants
Jun 1, 20203 min read


Combating Health Inequalities Through Sociodemographic Data Collection
Health inequalities are differences in health between certain groups. Examples can be exposure to risk factors, presence of diseases and...
Drashti Pete, ETIO Public Health Consultants
May 20, 20202 min read


What is Public Health?
What is Public Health? Public Health is an ideology: best evidence and data create cost-effective, preventative solutions. To many, the...
Ian Hanney
Aug 20, 20182 min read
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