Nazilla Khanlou
RN, PhD
Nazilla Khanlou, RN, PhD is the Women's Health Research Chair in Mental Health in the Faculty of Health at York University and Professor in its School of Nursing. She is the Academic Lead of the Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Scholars Program.
Dr. Khanlou is Professor (Status-Only) in the Division of Child and Youth Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. She is a member of Department of Psychiatry’s Advisory Council for EDIIA in Clinical Care.*
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 applies intersectionality-informed frameworks, using diverse research methods, in community-based research. She is founder of the International Network on Youth Integration (INYI), an international network for knowledge exchange and collaboration on youth, and Editor-in-Chief of INYI Journal. She has published articles, books, and reports on immigrant youth and women, and mental health.
* Advisory Council for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity, and Accessibility (EDIIA) in Clinical Care. https://psychiatry.utoronto.ca/advisory-council-ediia-clinical-care
Other Links
http://nkhanlou.info.yorku.ca/
Research Synopsis
Dr. Khanlou's 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 has published articles, books, and reports on immigrant youth and women, and mental health. She is founder of the International Network on Youth Integration (INYI), an international network for knowledge exchange and collaboration on youth.