The York University School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health will present the 2025 June Awrey Lecture “Health Service Use and Health Outcomes of Black People in Canada” on May 21, 2025, from 2:00-3:30 p.m. Please register on zoom webinar.
Established in 2018, the June Awrey Lecture aspires to engage students, faculty, academic and practice partners, alumni, and others in ground-breaking ideas that will stimulate excellence in practice, policy, leadership, education, and research.
This year the June Awrey Lecture powered by RBC OnCampus, will focus on health equity and health outcomes of black people in Canada. Delivering this year’s lecture is Dr. Bukola Salami, a Full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black and Racialized Peoples Health in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Professor Bukola Salami, RN, BScN, MN, PhD, FCAN, FAAN
Professor Salami’s research program focuses on policies and practices shaping migrant health as well as Black people’s health. She has been involved in over 90 funded studies totalling over $230 million. She founded, and leads the African Child and Youth Migration Network, a network of 42 scholars from four continents.
Professor Salami co-led the establishment of the Institute for Intersectional Studies at the University of Alberta. In 2020, she founded the Black Youth Mentorship and Leadership Program. Her work on Black youth mental health informed the creation of the first mental health clinic for Black Canadians in Western Canada. She has presented her work to policy makers (including to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health), and her work has contributed to policy change, including that related to Black people’s well-being.
She is Vice President of the Canadian Nurses Association as well as member of the Governing Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is an advisory board member of the CIHR Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health and the Scientific Advisory Committee on Global Health to the Government of Canada
