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...
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Matthew Tersigni, MPH, MD(c); Leonor Separi, HBSc, MD(c)
- May 9, 2021
- 5 min
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...
Oluwatosin (Praise) Oluwayemi
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
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...
Cara Boyd
- Sep 18, 2020
- 5 min
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...
Dr. Ritika Bhattacharya M.B.B.S, MPH
- Aug 14, 2020
- 5 min
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....
Leigh Raithby, MMASc (c) Research Analyst
- Aug 10, 2020
- 4 min
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...
Urvashi Rathod MMASc(c) - Research Analyst
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
Spread the word, not the virus
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used worldwide serving multiple industries, including transportation, finance, education and more....
Oluwatosin (Praise) Oluwayemi MPH(c)
- Aug 2, 2020
- 5 min
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...
Priscilla Matthews MMASc (c) - Research Analyst
- Jul 30, 2020
- 4 min
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...
Nathaniel Mapeso MMASc (c) - Research Analyst
- Jul 27, 2020
- 5 min
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...
Sumeet Greasy, MPH(c); Research Analysts
- Jul 21, 2020
- 2 min
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...
George Wang
- Jul 17, 2020
- 3 min
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...
Josephine De Leon, MMASc (c); Dami Lawal
- Jul 9, 2020
- 5 min
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...
Cara Boyd
- Jul 3, 2020
- 5 min
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...
Priscilla Matthews MMASc (c), Research Analyst
- Jun 23, 2020
- 5 min
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...
Mofiyinfoluwa (Dami) Lawal MMASc (c)
- Jun 19, 2020
- 9 min
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...
Russell Sun MMASc(c)
- Jun 16, 2020
- 3 min
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,...
Research Analysts, ETIO Public Health Consultants
- Jun 4, 2020
- 7 min
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 1, 2020
- 3 min
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...
Drashti Pete, ETIO Public Health Consultants
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
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...
Ian Hanney
- Aug 20, 2018
- 2 min
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...