Dr. Bukola Salami is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Her research program focuses on policies and practices shaping migrants’ health. She has been involved in ~50 funded research projects and is/was the lead on 20 of these projects with funding from national and international agencies. She has led research projects on African immigrant child health, immigrant mental health, access to healthcare for immigrant children, African immigrant youth mental health, migration of nurses as live-in caregivers, experience of temporary foreign workers in Alberta, downward occupational mobility of immigrant nurses, and parenting practices of African immigrants. Dr. Salami has published over 55 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals (with another 15 under review), 2 book chapters, and 8 reports. She represents the University of Alberta on the steering committee of the Worldwide Universities Network Global Africa Group. She founded and leads an African migrant child research network of around 30 scholars from four continents. She is involved in several community volunteer initiatives including serving as a public member on the Council of the Alberta College of Social Workers. She has a solid track record of training students. She has trained over 30 students, many of whom have received awards, including a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and an International Development Research Center Doctoral Award. Dr. Salami has received several awards for research excellence and community engagement: 100 Accomplished Black Women in Canada; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Emerging Nurse Researcher of the Year Award; College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA) Award for Nursing Excellence; and Alberta Avenue Edmonton Top 40 under 40. She has recently been selected as a recipient of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, the highest research award in nursing.
- Blackness
- Youth
- Health & Wellness