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What happens when coordinated approaches to disease management are disrupted? This article, featuring CDPEs Mohammad Karamouzian, discusses how the U.S. leaving the WHO sheds light on the importance of nations working together in real time and the gaps that we see in the current response to the latest Ebola outbreak. Take a look: https://lnkd.in/eZY-p4cX

#UequalsU changed everything 💡 So why do so many people still not believe it? 🤔 In this episode, host James Watson sits down with Monique Carry, acting director for Prevention Access Campaign and HIV advocate Randy Davis for a candid, unfiltered conversation about U=U, public awareness, and the ongoing gap between science and public understanding. They dig into: • 📊 Why so many Canadians still haven’t heard of U=U • 🧠 Why trust in the science still isn’t universal • 🔬 The disconnect between clinical evidence and lived reality • 🚫 How stigma continues to shape attitudes toward HIV today It’s an honest conversation—at times frustrating, at times hopeful—but grounded in one clear truth: we have the science, now we need the understanding ❤️ 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or click here to learn more: https://loom.ly/jIdI2og 👍 Like | 💬 Comment | 🔁 Share to keep the conversation going #HIVStigma #healthcare #PublicHealth #HIVAwareness

Did you know that for less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help provide access to fresh fruit and vegetables for people in food-insecure households in Canada?   Until Sunday, June 14, we’re inviting customers from coast to coast into stores nationwide to help us close the gap in health equity in Canada. 100% of donations support MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Canada’s largest health‑equity research centre.   For as little as $2, you can support life-changing programs in your community. Donate at checkout in any Staples store or online to help fund the life‑saving research and solutions MAP and its network of scientists and community partners deliver every day: https://l1nq.com/ahmas65   Thanks to the incredible generosity of our customers, team members, vendors, and corporate partners, our Even the Odds partnership raised more than $2M in 2025—and over $9M since 2021—helping expand meaningful, lasting impact in underserved communities from coast to coast. Learn more and get involved at staples.ca/EvenTheOdds. #EvenTheOdds #CommunityImpact #HealthEquity #StaplesCanada

🆕 Job Opportunity: Upstream Lab is hiring TWO full-time, permanent Research Coordinator IIs. Please apply through the Unity Health Toronto job portal by June 8: https://lnkd.in/d35-wz3D The Research Coordinator IIs will support several exciting projects within the lab: 🔵 Data Science: The Research Coordinator will play a key role in the day-to-day coordination of multiple data science initiatives. These include sub-studies within the PREPARED project (https://preparedcanada.org) focused on using AI to extract information on social needs from electronic medical records, analyzing access to primary care through geographic and distance-based measures, and advancing primary care data infrastructure. 🔵 Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Outcomes: The Research Coordinator will support a project examining how individual-level social determinants of health influence cancer outcomes and contribute to inequities in care within a health systems organization. ➕ Subscribe to Upstream Lab's newsletter for future job postings and news from the lab: http://eepurl.com/dcgbLH #UnityHealthResearch #DataScience #SDOH Unity Health Toronto MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions

Call for submissions! We're seeking submissions for panels, workshops, presentations, and posters for our 2026 Climate & Health Conference happening on October 23 at the University of Toronto Conference Centre. This full-day event will bring together researchers, health professionals, policymakers, and system leaders to advance climate and sustainability action for health, health systems, and planetary health. 📅 Submissions due May 29 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e_eiW-p5

🏆 Congratulations to our 2026 MAP Awards winners! These annual awards recognize outstanding MAP staff, students or volunteers who have excelled in their roles and demonstrate a passion and commitment to applying MAP’s values in their work. - Shajitha Rasiah is the winner of the MAP Values in Practice Award, an award to recognize an individual who exemplifies and advocates for MAP values in their work and interactions. - Nancy Tahmo, MPH is the winner of the MAP Community Partnerships Award, which recognizes an individual who consistently models exemplary community partnership practices and integration of the perspectives of community and people with lived expertise into their research. - Monica Rudd is the winner of the MAP Peer Mentor Award, an award to recognize an individual who works hard to help colleagues learn, feel valued and do well at work. Read more: https://lnkd.in/efRqZZVp Unity Health Toronto

Upstream Lab Director Dr. Andrew Pinto is quoted in a new CBC News story about addiction treatment programs. He spoke about the importance of investing in prevention and recovery, not only crisis management. He said upstream factors – such as trauma prevention, housing, and income security – are often a key part of treatment and recovery. Read and watch Talia Ricci's report: https://lnkd.in/e79utQMA

Did you know that May 20 is Clinical Trials Day? Celebrated globally, it marks the anniversary of James Lind’s ground-breaking 1747 study on scurvy — widely considered one of the first randomized clinical trials. Since then, clinical research has continued to shape the future of medicine, public health, and improve lives around the world. Today, on Clinical Trials Day, we recognize the researchers, clinicians, community organizations, healthcare institutions, people with lived experience, and partners whose work helps drive innovation in healthcare and in new diagnostic testing. 🌍 At REACH Nexus and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael's Hospital, we’re proud to be part of that progress. Over the last five years, we’ve led and supported clinical trials that helped secure approval for 5 HIV and syphilis point-of-care tests in Canada — including Canada’s first HIV self-test and, more recently, the OraQuick HIV Self-Test, Canada’s first oral swab HIV self-test. ⚕️ Clinical trials are about more than research — they’re about people. Today is an opportunity to celebrate everyone who participates in, supports, reviews, and helps move clinical research forward. Their contributions are helping create more accessible, equitable, and community-centered healthcare solutions. 👏 Explore more about our work here: https://www.reachnexus.ca/ Learn more about the OraQuick test here: https://lnkd.in/et8z2tBX #ClinicalTrialsDay #ClinicalResearch #HealthcareInnovation #HIV #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth #Research #HealthEquity   

New study shows how geographic location and neighbourhood social and economic conditions influenced how often children and youth used urgent mental health services during the pandemic in Ontario. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eMi6Rbtz