The Hart House Community Members Committee presents an annual series of alumni-student dinners for an intimate group of Hart House members who are alumni, students, faculty, and staff. For the Fall 2021 term, the "dinners" will be free, virtual and on-line owing to current events.
The Fall 2021 series features
- October 13, 2021: Terry Fallis is the Stephen Leacock Humour Medal-winning novelist and author of Operation Angus.
- November 17, 2021: David Hulchanski is a professor of housing and community development at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.
- December 8, 2021: Erica Di Ruggiero, Director of Global Health at Dalla Lana at UofT – Global Health Policies in Times of Covid-19!
The Covid-19 pandemic was arguably exacerbated by the challenges of putting strong global health policies and measures in place.
With a background in global health policy, Dr. Di Ruggiero will share her perspective on how such policies could mitigate the impacts of future pandemics. - January 19, 2022: John Jennings, Trent University History Professor Emeritus is a celebrated author, scholar and a driving force behind Peterborough's Canadian Canoe Museum. Professor Jennings book: The Canoe:A Living Tradition, is considered to be an important publication on Canada's canoe history and culture. Professor Jennings was appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province's highest honour, in 2021.
- February 16, 2022: Christine Burke AVP of Campus planning and Chief Planner for the University to speak to us about the campus Landmark Project. “I have been involved in the Landmark Project since 2014 when it was in its nascent phase and my team was leading the design competition. It is very exciting to see how it has evolved since then (including the addition of geothermal which Ron Saporta has been instrumental in) and to be in the construction phase."
- March 23, 2022 (in person in the Music Room!): Phillip Sohm Prof. of Art History at University College – Venetian Renaissance Art and the Ecology of Style.
More details and registration information to follow.
Topic
Global health policies in times of Covid-19!
The Covid-19 pandemic was arguably exacerbated by the challenges of putting strong global health policies and measures in place.
With a background in global health policy, Dr. Di Ruggiero will share her perspective on how such policies could mitigate the impacts of future pandemics.
Guest Speaker
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Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero
Director of the Centre for Global Health, Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Global Health
Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero is Associate Professor of Global Health in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto. She is an Associate Professor in the School’s Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, and is also the Director of the Centre for Global Health. Dr Di Ruggiero's program of research examines how evidence affects global policy agendas related to employment, other determinants, and health equity, in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Her work addresses governance-related questions about the roles of global institutions in the promotion of health, health equity, and the prevention of non-communicable disease and related risk factors. She also studies population health intervention policies and programs, using novel conceptual and methodological tools to conduct international comparative policy research on global social and health inequities.
Prior to joining the DLSPH, she was the inaugural Deputy Scientific Director with the CIHR-Institute of Population and Public Health, where she led the development, implementation and evaluation of strategic research, capacity building, and knowledge translation initiatives, to address a range of population health and global health research priorities.
She completed her doctoral training in public health sciences, Master of Health Science in Community Nutrition, at the University of Toronto, and is a registered dietitian. She is Editor in Chief, Global Health Promotion Journal and Associate Editor, International Journal of Public Health, and the co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Promotion. She has also served as technical advisor or research consultant for the WHO, PAHO and IDRC.
