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Nazilla Khanlou

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Women's Health Research Chair in Mental Health, Faculty of Health, York University
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, York University
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/nkhanlou
E-mail: nkhanlou@yorku.ca

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. 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 has received grants from peer-reviewed federal and provincial research funding agencies. Dr. Khanlou was the 2011-2013 Co-Director of the Ontario Multicultural Health Applied Research Network (OMHARN). 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. She is involved in knowledge translation to the public through media.

Representative Publications:

2015 Khanlou N & Pilkington FB. (Editors). Women’s mental health: Resistance and resilience in community and society. Advances in Mental Health and Addiction (Series editor: Masood Zanganeh). New York: Springer. http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319173252

2017 Khanlou N, Mustafa N, Vazquez LM, Davidson, & Yoshida K. Mothering children with developmental disabilities: A critical perspective on health promotion. Health Care for Women International, Available url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07399332.2017.1296841

2017 Khanlou N, Haque, N Mustafa N, Vazquez LM, Mantini A, & Weiss J. Access barriers to services for immigrant mothers of children with autism in Canada. International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, Available URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-017-9732-4

2017 Khanlou N, Haque, N, Skinner A, Mantini A, & Kurtz Landy C. Scoping review on maternal health among immigrant and refugee women in Canada: Prenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. Journal of Pregnancy, 2017, Article ID 8783294, 14 pages, Available URL: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jp/2017/8783294/cta/

2016 Khanlou N, Bender A, Mill C, Vazquez LM & Rojas L. Youth experiences of cultural identity and migration: A systems perspective. In Pashang S, Khanlou N & Clarke J. (Editors). Today’s youth and mental health: Hope, power, and resilience. Advances in Mental Health and Addiction (Series editor: Masood Zanganeh). New York: Springer (accepted).

Keywords: Community-based mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings

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