Dr. Bukola Salami is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. Prior to her academic career, she was a Registered Nurse and subsequently an Interprofessional Educator on immigrant child health and cultural competency at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from the University of Windsor, her Masters of Nursing from the University of Toronto, and her PhD in Nursing from the University of Toronto.
During her doctoral program, she completed certificate programs in International Nursing, Critical Qualitative Health Research, and an (equivalent) graduate diploma in Health Service and Policy Research. Her doctoral work was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Her main area of research is immigrant’s health. Over the last 3.5 years, she has been involved in over 25 funded projects in the area of migration and/or health. She has conducted studies on the wellbeing of temporary foreign workers in Alberta, the influence of diverse health determinants on the mental health of immigrants in Canada, the perspectives of employers of migrant caregivers, the migration of nurses to Canada to work as lower skilled care workers, the parenting and mental health promotion practices of African immigrants, and the mental health of immigrant children. While she is largely a qualitative researcher, she has also used quantitative approaches in her research projects.
Her research has been disseminated through publications and presentations in multiple venues. Her research has been presented to international policymakers at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva and she has been invited to submit a paper for the World Health Organization Director General’s Report on Migrant Women on the Move.
At the University of Alberta, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on:
1) Immigrant’s Health;
2) Public Policy and Nursing Leadership; and
3) Community Health.
She is involved in several volunteer capacities including as Board Member of Africa Centre, Public Member on the Council of the Alberta College of Social Workers, and Council Member and Research Committee Co-chair of the Edmonton Local Immigrant Partnership. She has a firm commitment to improving the well-being of immigrant populations by capitalizing on the agency of immigrants. In 2016, she was named by Alberta Avenue Magazine as Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40. She is originally from Nigeria.
