Month: December 2019

Elzar Sipin, our IHPME GSU Health & Wellness Lead is on a quest to reinvigorate health & wellness initiatives at IHPME. He is looking for Health & Wellness Peer Contacts & a creative hashtag to promote health & wellness at IHPME:

1. Health & Wellness Peer Contact
   Under the IHPME GSU Health & Wellness Lead, this volunteer student role will support fellow students by recognizing mental health concerns and be a point-of-contact to provide service navigation to the appropriate support program available. In addition, this role will help improve mental health capacity in their school community by engaging in health & wellness events, educational presentations, and providing new updates to student peers. 
   Interested? E-mail elzar.sipin@mail.utoronto.ca 
2. Hashtag Contest: Enter up to three hashtags for a chance to win a coffee gift card if yours is the chosen one: https://forms.gle/DkaRemhAhvkeaam89

This is an invitation from a fellow DLSPH Ph.D. candidate to imagine a different future and to join forces to create it. Our theses are driven by innovative ideas, that we invested years and years of our lives developing and transforming into evaluated, high-quality insights and evidence. Yet, most of our work will have unclear impact, while remaining largely unknown. What if we had the opportunity to maximize the impact of our intellectual contributions by joining forces to create a vision of a healthy future and to steer change in the world towards our vision? To begin with, let’s start making visible what is invisible.

Please complete the following short survey (https://bit.ly/34YfHy2) which should not take more than 5 minutes, before December 20, 2019. It is designed to reveal how ready we are for a quest like this, and what we need to do to pursue it successfully.

The UTJPH is calling for your support of a new student-led peer-reviewed journal of public health at the University of Toronto, called The University of Toronto Journal of Public Health (UTJPH), expected to launch in January 2020.

The University of Toronto Journal of Public Health will feature:

·        Original Research

·        Commentaries

·        Reviews

·        Practicum Reflections

Student benefits: 

1. Hands-on experience in peer-review publication process
2. Publishing opportunities to showcase exceptional contributions to practicum partners, public, and wider academic community
3. Share new ideas that sparks thoughtful discussions on pressing public health issues
4. Build resume/CV for future job and graduate school applications
5. Editorial experience (for student-led editorial team)

Want to show your support for the UTJPH? You may lend your support in 3 ways:

1. Provide your name and email address in the form below to demonstrate your support of the UTJPH launch
2. Share your ideas & show your interest to contribute to the journal by completing the optional survey
3. Share this UTJPH Call for Support form with others in the DLSPH community

Link to signatures of support form & optional survey: https://forms.gle/Q2dWerDUmG9i2DT69

By collecting signatures from the DLSPH community, we are building a case to show there is collective interest in launching the University of Toronto Journal of Public Health (UTJPH). Your survey input will help to create a meaningful student-led journal for the DLSPH community.