OUR PRIORITIES

Global engagements

Every day, our teaching, research and creative work is becoming increasingly global. 91亚色 is working hard to make changes that positively impact the world through international cooperation and education without borders. For instance, 91亚色 students helped develop educational activities for use in an . At our bilingual Glendon Campus, we received funding to provide French-language healthcare training programs, which will help support currently underserved French communities. 

With sixteen per cent of our students now coming from outside Canada, 91亚色 met the target of 15-20 per cent set out in the 2015-2020 UAP, positioning 91亚色 for further growth as we recover from the pandemic. The development of a new Internationalization strategy this past year provides a framework for continuing to strengthen our global engagement over the next several years as we recover from COVID-19.

Here are some other ways 91亚色鈥檚 work reaches beyond frontiers.

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international partnerships

1,164

publications co-authored internationally

10,393

international students

2,194

students in bilingual programs

91亚色鈥檚 global leadership in sustainable development was recognized by Times Higher Education. Its Impact Rankings placed 91亚色 33rd in the world when measured against the United Nations 17 sustainable development goals. Overall, 767 universities were considered for the rankings.

The sustainable development goals are designed to address global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. 91亚色 received top rankings for its efforts in 15 of the 17 goals, a clear improvement from its rankings last year.

was chosen to head a global effort on research into recovery from the damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hoffman is the director of the Global Strategy Lab at 91亚色, the Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair in Global Governance & Legal Epidemiology in the Faculty of Health and Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance. He is also the Scientific Director, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Population & Public Health, and was appointed by the United Nations to lead the development of a UN Research Roadmap in the COVID-19 Recovery that will outline the research needed for a sustainable and equitable socio-economic recovery from COVID-19.

The roadmap will identify research priorities for rebuilding after the pandemic while safeguarding progress towards achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Roadmap will address challenges related to protecting health services, social systems and jobs, supporting macroeconomic responses and strengthening social cohesion and community resilience.