Women’s Health Research Chair in Mental Health, Faculty of Health, York University Academic Lead, Lillian Meighen Wright Foundation Maternal Child Health Scholars Program Editor-in-Chief, INYI Journal

Nazilla Khanlou, RN, PhD is the Women’s Health Research Chair in Mental Health in the Faculty of Health at York University and an Associate Professor in its School of Nursing. She is the Academic Lead of the Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Scholars Program. Professor Khanlou’s clinical background is in psychiatric nursing. Her overall program of research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of community-based mental health promotion in general, and mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings in particular. She applies intersectionality-informed frameworks, using diverse research methods, in community-based research. She is founder of the International Network on Youth Integration (INYI), an international network for knowledge exchange and collaboration on youth. She has published articles, books and reports on immigrant youth and women, and mental health.

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