Faculty Associate
nkhanlou[at]yorku.ca
Women's Health Research Chair in Mental Health and Professor
School of Nursing, York University
Research Keywords:
Community-based mental health promotion; youth and women in multicultural and immigrant receiving settings; intersectionality-informed research; arts-based research
Research Region(s):
Research Diaspora(s):
Asian Diaspora
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. 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. Twitter