Bilkis Vissandjée
Professor
University of Montreal
USA
Biography
Bilkis Vissandjée is a Full Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Montreal. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is a researcher at the Institute of Public Health Research at the Université de Montréal. Her research work is carried out in partnership with frontline community health services organizations attending to the needs of migrant populations in Montreal as well as at the provincial and national levels. Her contributions to the scientific community along with nationally and internationally-based partners highlight the importance of accounting for sex, gender, migration and ethnicity when deriving strategies for providing quality and equity sensitive care within a diversified socio-cultural context. Her research work’s focus is to address the challenges associated with providing quality of care in a multiethnic context within a gender, migration and equity sensitive perspective. Dr. Vissandjée has conducted research on fundamental health issues of women from both Canada and other countries. Dr. Vissandjée is also involved in educational projects abroad to reinforce nursing skills seeking to enhance frontline line and public health nursing profession to a level of excellence. She is involved in encouraging student mobility and collaborative research on issues such as TB, T2DM and training with overseas partners.
Research Interest
Public Health and Nursing