Bilkis Vissandjee was awarded the title of Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2010, one of the highest title for scientists in Canada. She was elected in the Executive Council of the Shastri Indo Canadian Institute in 2011
Professor School of Nursing University of Montreal
Bilkis Vissandjée is a Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Montreal. Her main interest is in addressing the challenges associated with providing quality of care in a multiethnic context within a gender and equity sensitive perspective.
Her work points out the need for gender and diversity sensitive indicators that value and reflect women’s lives, work, productivity, and social, cultural and economic security. Between 1996 and 2002, she acted as the Scientific Director of the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health funded by Health Canada, which gathered researchers, clinicians and frontline workers concerned with Aboriginal and immigrant women’s health. The Centre promoted policy-oriented and community-based research and analysis on the social determinants of health.
via IAB Members – Biographies (As of September 1, 2010) – CIHR.
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