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Enable healthy lives
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# Enable healthy lives

**Source**: https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/priorities/enable-healthy-lives/
**Parent**: https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/

Campaign Priority

# Enable healthy lives

## Chronic disease, climate change, pandemics, and growing inequity all pose serious risks for health and well-being worldwide. Help our world-leading scholars and unparalleled network of partner hospitals overcome global health challenges and improve the lives of future generations.

[Browse featured initiatives](#cardsgrid1476)

Chronic disease, climate change, pandemics and growing inequity all pose serious risks for health and well-being worldwide. Your generosity will help our world-leading scholars and unparalleled network of partner hospitals build on their rich history of medical breakthroughs — including the discovery of insulin and transplantable stem cells — to overcome complex global health challenges and improve the lives of generations to come.

## Discover how U of T can continue to enable healthy lives for all

[Bring quality dental care to vulnerable Canadians](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/bring-quality-dental-care-to-vulnerable-canadians/) 

The Faculty of Dentistry’s largest patient clinic is improving the health of a vast and diverse population in the GTA and beyond.

[Learn more](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/bring-quality-dental-care-to-vulnerable-canadians/)

[Prevent the next pandemic](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/prevent-the-next-pandemic/) 

The Institute for Pandemics is helping to end the COVID-19 crisis—and already preparing for the next global health emergency.

[Learn more](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/prevent-the-next-pandemic/)

[Propel collaborative research that supports student mental health](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/propel-collaborative-research-that-supports-student-mental-health/) 

The Student & Youth Mental Health Research Initiative is working with students to ensure they have the support they need to realize their potential—in academia and beyond.

[Learn more](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/propel-collaborative-research-that-supports-student-mental-health/)

[Prepare pharmacists for their vital role in health care](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/prepare-pharmacists-for-their-vital-role-in-health-care/) 

Discovery Pharmacy will be a living laboratory that provides innovative training for students and leading-edge care for our community.

[Learn more](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/prepare-pharmacists-for-their-vital-role-in-health-care/)

[Stop emerging infectious diseases in their tracks](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/stop-emerging-infectious-diseases-in-their-tracks/) 

Anchored by U of T’s Combined Containment Level 3 lab, the Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) will advance Canada’s health security.

[Learn more](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/stop-emerging-infectious-diseases-in-their-tracks/)

[Stop heart failure’s progression](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/stop-heart-failures-progression/) 

The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is collaborating to slow and stop heart failure in patients of every age and background.

[Learn more](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/stop-heart-failures-progression/)

[Power AI that can predict diseases](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/power-ai-that-can-predict-diseases/) 

The Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine is applying cutting-edge technology to create a healthier future.

[Learn more](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/power-ai-that-can-predict-diseases/)

## Help us enable healthy lives for all

Choose a [featured initiative](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/initiatives/) to support with a donation today, create a legacy through a [planned gift](https://engage.utoronto.ca/gift-planning) or [contact us](mailto:major.gifts@utoronto.ca?subject=Defy Gravity Campaign - Gift Inquiry) to discuss possibilities.

## Explore more priorities

[Build inclusive cities & societies](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/priorities/build-inclusive-cities-societies/)

[Create a sustainable future](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/priorities/create-a-sustainable-future/)

[Drive scientific discovery](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/priorities/drive-scientific-discovery/)

[Power innovation & entrepreneurship](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/priorities/power-innovation-entrepreneurship/)

[Spark creativity + culture](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/priorities/spark-creativity-culture/)

[Support student success](https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/priorities/support-student-success/)