====== Dalla Lana School of Public Health ======

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The **Dalla Lana School of Public Health** is the school of public health at the [[University of Toronto]]. It was founded in its first form in 1927 as the [[University of Toronto School of Hygiene]], and was home for 50 years to [[pharmaceutical_companies:Connaught Laboratories]], a manufacturer of [[vaccines]], [[insulin]], and many other [[pharmaceutical products]].

DLSPH is part of a trifecta of academic institutions that make up the core of the modern public health establishment, alongside the [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]] and [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]].

It was been characterized as Canada's wing of the [[public health|public health]] [[globalism|globalist]] training ground, due to the large number of graduates who go on to hold influential advisory or government positions (particularly in the context of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].((Forbes, A. (2021, June 8). //Unelected HO running the Province.// YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJw_X7-c7Cg))
===== History =====

==== University of Toronto School of Hygiene (1927) ====

In 1927, the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] gave a large donation (either $1.5 million or $650,000) to the [[University of Toronto]] to found the [[University of Toronto School of Hygiene]].((Bodnar, N. (2014, May 2). //Origin story: how the Dalla Lana School of Public Health began.// University of Toronto News. https://archive.ph/dv8Qt)) It began operations in the [[FitzGerald Building]], which had long housed [[pharmaceutical_companies:Connaught Laboratories]], founded by Dr. [[John Gerald FitzGerald]].((Burrows, M. (2019, May 16). //Canada’s Greatest Impact Donation.// All about Estates. https://www.allaboutestates.ca/canadas-greatest-impact-donation/))

==== Global Health Relaunch (2008-present) ====

In 2008, [[Paul Dalla Lana]] followed in Rockefeller’s footsteps and provided a $20 million donation to relaunch the [[University of Toronto]]’s [[public health]] program as the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.((//Paul Dalla Lana commits second $20-million gift to the University of Toronto’s Boundless Campaign.// (2018, February 1). University of Toronto News. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/paul-dalla-lana-commits-second-20-million-gift-university-toronto-s-boundless-campaign))

===== COVID-19 =====

==== Notable Affiliates ====

^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Advisory Role ^ Public Health Role  ^ Research Role  ^ Other  ^
| [[Adalsteinn Brown]]  | Dean  | Co-chair of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]  | On the Board of Directors of [[Ontario Health]]  | Served as an Adjunct Scientist at the [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES)  | On the Premier's Council, which was created in 2018 to “provide the Premier of Ontario and the Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Long-Term Care with strategic priorities and actions”  |
| [[Rob Reid]]  | Professor  | Co-chair of the [[Evidence Synthesis Network]] (ESN)  | -  | Chief scientist at the [[Institute for Better Health]] and Senior Vice President of Science at [[Trillium Health Partners]]  | -  |
| [[Brian Schwartz]]  | Associate Professor  | Co-chair of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]  | [[Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Task Group]], Vice-President of [[public_health_agencies:canada:Public Health Ontario]]  | -  | Served as Vice-chair of the [[Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee]] in 2003 and was Chair of the Scientific Response Team for the 2009 [[H1N1]] pandemic  |

===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/dalla-lana-school-of-public-health/|White Rose Wiki]]