Nazilla Khanlou, RN, PhD, is Echo's inaugural Ontario Women's Health Council (OWHC) Chair in Women's Mental Health Research in the Faculty of Health at York University and an Associate Professor in its School of Nursing. 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 has received grants from peer-reviewed federal and provincial research funding agencies. Dr. Khanlou was the Health Domain Leader of the Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (2001-2008) in Toronto and a Visiting Scholar (2005-2006) at the Wellesley Urban Health Institute.She has published articles, books, and reports on immigrant youth and women, and mental health.She is involved in knowledge translation to the public through media.
