Provincial Team Leads
Souraya Sidani, Toronto Metropolitan University
Souraya Sidani est professeure titulaire à l’École des sciences infirmières Daphne Cockwell et chaire de recherche du Canada en conception et évaluation des interventions en santé. Ses domaines d’expertise sont les méthodes de recherche quantitative, la conception et l’évaluation d’interventions et la mesure. Les intérêts de recherche de Souraya portent sur l’évaluation des interventions et des rôles de pratique avancée, sur l’examen des traitements préférés par les patients et sur le perfectionnement des méthodes de recherche et des mesures permettant de déterminer l’efficacité clinique des interventions.
Oona St-Amant, Toronto Metropolitan University
Oona St-Amant est professeure agrégée à l’École des sciences infirmières Daphne Cockwell. Le programme de recherche d’Oona évalue diverses formes de travail de soins non rémunéré. Elle a recours à une variété de méthodes ethnographiques pour examiner les diverses intersections de la culture, les intersections sociopolitiques de la culture, les aspects sociopolitiques et économiques des soins.
Partenaires communautaires
Rashed Afif, Wesley Urban Ministries, Hamilton
Rashed Afif is an experienced leader, social worker, and long-time newcomer advocate. He is the Director of Newcomers, Residential and Community Services at Wesley Urban Ministries where he oversees several programs, including the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP), Client Support Services (CSS), Wesley Residential Services, and Wesley Senior Programs. He takes pride in helping provide client-centered, strength-based services to vulnerable populations in his community. Rashed holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from University of Windsor, and a Diploma in Leadership Development from Morning Star Institute of Leadership. His commitment to community is fuelled by social justice, anti-racism, and anti-oppression practices.
Andrea Austen, Services aux aînés, Ville de Toronto
Andrea Austen is the Manager of Seniors Services at the City of Toronto, a role that was established to better integrate city services for seniors including the 83 Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) seniors’ buildings. Andrea has been leading Toronto’s age-inclusive work since 2011 and has a deep understanding of the needs of seniors across the health, social service, community and municipal service systems. Andrea leads the development of the Accountability Framework (approved by City Council in October 2020), to oversee and evaluate a new model of integrating housing and health services for seniors in TCHC’s seniors designated buildings.
Eugenia Canas, Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion (CRHESI), London
Corina Carvallo, Skills for Change of Metro Toronto
Andrea Austen is the Manager of Seniors Services at the City of Toronto, a role that was established to better integrate city services for seniors including the 83 Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) seniors’ buildings. Andrea has been leading Toronto’s age-inclusive work since 2011 and has a deep understanding of the needs of seniors across the health, social service, community and municipal service systems. Andrea leads the development of the Accountability Framework (approved by City Council in October 2020), to oversee and evaluate a new model of integrating housing and health services for seniors in TCHC’s seniors designated buildings.
Michelle Dellamora, Age-friendly Network London (AFNL)
Michelle Dellamora est gestionnaire, Politiques et questions stratégiques, à Neighbourhood, Children and Fire Services de la cité de London. Elle supervise le programme des services amis des aînés de London et soutient son réseau depuis sept ans. Elle aime toujours travailler avec ses nombreux bénévoles et organismes membres. Elle est titulaire d’une maîtrise en sciences de la santé de l’Université Western.
Samya Hasan, Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA), Toronto
Samya Hasan travaille au sein du Council of Agencies Serving South Asians depuis 2015, dont elle en est actuellement la directrice générale. Titulaire d’une maîtrise en politique publique, elle a rédigé des documents sur les politiques de transport, d’immigration et de relations raciales, de garde d’enfants, de logement, de développement international, de développement économique et d’innovation, et de soins de santé. Avant de se joindre au CASSA, elle a travaillé au bureau du logement abordable de la ville de Toronto et a été urbaniste à la ville où elle était membre de la division des permis et des normes de la municipalité, analysant les règlements administratifs régissant les différents secteurs d’activité à Toronto.
Anna V. Wong
Anna Victoria Wong is a journalist and doctor in speech-language pathology by training, and health executive and community advocate by profession. She spent years in communications in corporate, public, academic, health and social service sectors. Dr. Wong is the executive director of Community Family Services of Ontario (CFSO), which provides East-Asian Ontarians with mental health, newcomer settlement, disabilities and special needs services. Wong and CFSO are known for serving socio-politically oppressed Hongkongers through IRCC’s Hong Kong Pathway.
Academic Partners
Melissa Northwood, Université McMaster, Hamilton
Melissa Northwood est infirmière autorisée et professeure adjointe à l’École des sciences infirmières de l’Université McMaster. Sa recherche, visant l’intégration du système de soins de santé pour les aînés présentant une complexité clinique et leurs soignants, est éclairée par sa pratique clinique en tant qu’infirmière autorisée en gérontologie. Avant de se joindre à McMaster, elle a obtenu une bourse postdoctorale sur l’incidence du système de santé, financée par les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, avec le Saint Elizabeth Health Research Centre et l’Université de Waterloo.
Margaret Walton-Roberts
Bharati Sethi is an Associate Professor at Kings College, School of Social Work, Western University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University. She utilizes participatory action research and arts-based methods to highlight social determinants of health in immigrants and refugees’ lives as they pertain to issues of social justice. Bharati’s research has earned her several prestigious community and academic awards including the Early Career Researcher Award, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Hilary Weston Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Women’s Health Scholar Award, Newcomer Champion Provincial Award, Citizens Award, and a Governor General’s Award.
Jenny Ploeg, Université McMaster, Hamilton
Jenny Ploeg est professeure titulaire à l’École des sciences infirmières de la Faculté des sciences de la santé de l’Université McMaster. Elle est codirectrice scientifique de l’Unité de recherche sur la santé, la communauté et le vieillissement. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur la mise au point, la mise en œuvre et l’évaluation des services de soins de santé pour les aînés atteints de maladies chroniques concomitantes et leurs proches aidants. Elle possède une vaste expérience dans la recherche en méthodes qualitatives, quantitatives et mixtes.
Bharati Sethi, Université Western, London
Bharati Sethi is an Associate Professor at Kings College, School of Social Work, Western University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University. She utilizes participatory action research and arts-based methods to highlight social determinants of health in immigrants and refugees’ lives as they pertain to issues of social justice. Bharati’s research has earned her several prestigious community and academic awards including the Early Career Researcher Award, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Hilary Weston Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Women’s Health Scholar Award, Newcomer Champion Provincial Award, Citizens Award, and a Governor General’s Award.
John Shields, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
John Shields ia tenured Full Professor with over twenty-five years of university teaching and research experience in the areas of public administration and public policy, Canadian politics, the political economy of labour market and welfare state. John is also a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. John will lead the ICOI Economic Inclusion Research Stream.
Zhixi Zhuang, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Zhixi Zhuang is a Registered Professional Planner and an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning. Her passion for city- and community-building has sparked her research interests in topics related to ethnocultural diversity, migration and cities, and ethnic entrepreneurship and placemaking. Her research explores how immigrant and racialized communities have made long-lasting impacts in urban landscapes inscribing places with important cultural, historical, and political meanings. Zhixi’s research addresses the importance of adopting equity-based approaches to engaging immigrant and racialized communities in decision-making.
Kateryna Metersky, Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Kateryna Metersky is an Assistant Professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Metersky also maintains her nursing practice in General Internal Medicine at Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Metersky’s program of research focuses on: 1) health professions and nursing education; 2) nursing and interprofessional practice; and 3) persons with chronic health and social challenges. Fittingly her research program is focused on integration of her SRC work in pedagogy and practice to promote social justice, health-equity, and local/global community well-being.
Raktim Mitra
Raktim Mitra is an Associate Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, at Toronto Metropolitan University and co-director of TransForm – the transportation and land use planning research laboratory at TMU. His research interests focus on Active Living and Healthy Communities. Raktim has published widely on the topics of suburban walkability, transportation accessibility and older adults’ wellbeing.