Grant: Master's Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

I am proposing a community-based participatory research project that will use qualitative methods to better understand how newcomer youth recognize and achieve positive health outcomes in Toronto. While a broad range of research shows that inequities in health access and outcome exist for racialized and ethnicized groups in Canada, there is insufficient data regarding the experiences and health status of immigrant and refugee youth who have recently arrived in the country. With this research project, I hope to answer the following questions: What are the barriers to and facilitators of health and well-being for newcomer youth? How do gender and cultural background influence health-seeking behaviours? And how can health promotion and health services be improved to better support the health of newcomer youth? In examining how social, cultural and economic factors influence health status and access to health promotion and care, this research aligns with two CIHR priority research themes: a) health services and b) social, cultural, environment and population health.