Professor Bukola Salami is a Registered Nurse, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black and Racialized

People’s Health and a Full Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of

Calgary. She previously held the rank of Full Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and was Director of

the Intersections of Gender Signature Area in the Office of the Vice President Research, both at the

University of Alberta.

Professor Salami’s research program focuses on the well-being of Black, immigrant, and racialized

people. She has been involved in over 90 funded studies totalling over $230 million. She recently

received a $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership Grant titled Transforming the Lives of Black Children and

Youth in Canada.

She founded and leads the African Child and Youth Migration Network, a network of around 50

scholars in four continents. In 2020, she founded the Black Youth Mentorship and Leadership Program,

the first university-based fully interdisciplinary mentorship program for Black youths in Western

Canada. This program seeks to socially and economically empower Black high school youths to

meaningfully contribute to Canadian society. Her work on Black youth mental health informed the

creation of the first mental health clinic for Black Canadians in Western Canada (which was founded by

Africa Centre and the Alberta Black Therapist Network). She has presented her work to policy makers

(including the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health). She has trained over 100

undergraduate and graduate students, including many (~10) who are now Assistant or Associate

Professors.