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The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development has launched a survey to help identify opportunities to improve credential recognition for internationally trained newcomers and individuals certified in another province seeking a

6 IRSN members participated in three full day peer research training with Access Alliance Research and Evaluation department on CANRISK project on July, 6, 7 & 10, 2023.

CANRISK is a screening tool developed by PHAC in 2011 to identify adults aged 40

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Province breaking down barriers to hire more doctors and nurses to connect people to care close to home.

In 2018, 79% of Canadians aged 15 years and older reported volunteering, either as part of an organization or on their own without the involvement of a group. Altogether, 24 million Canadians volunteered 2.5 million hours of their time to improve the

Since I came to Canada in 2015 (the only) jobs, I could land two successive contractual positions.

I was very frustrated as I soon found myself jobless and discouraged . . . These are the times when you psychologically reunite yourself with peer immi

Hi my name is Anisa Karim and i am a Registered nurse and an Epidemiologist. I got my training and education from Pakistan. I came to canada in 2019 and started looking for jobs in 2021.I was introduced to IRSN platform through one of my friend. I re

Hi, my name is Tooba Khan and I am an IMG from Pakistan. I am a doctor back home and here a CARMS Aspirant. I was completely unaware what to do, how to persue jobs, what should be my next step and then one day I got a call from Mr. Hossam Bakir, who

The Research and Evaluation Team of Access Alliance completed a review and comparison of the PRISMA Statement and Cochrane Review. To read the complete blog post click the hyperlink on the DOI below. 

Abstract:

Using a standard method for conducting

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"Newcomer communities must have accurate and reliable health information to reduce the spread of COVID-19, which has caused them disproportionate harm.

Curious about how misinformation usually spreads

My name is Sibghat Usmani. I landed in Canada on 7^th May 2019, with a PhD in social work and almost 7 years of experience in research and training. Just as most newcomers, I started navigating my career options with enthusiasm but within a couple of

Being successful is the desire of all of us after migrating to this lovely
country. It does not matter whether the concerned person is a child,
youth or the old aged, at each and every stage of our wide life span, it is
our inbuilt desire to be successf

Authors: Sibghat Usmani, PhD, MSW; & Akm Alamgir, PhD, MPhil, MBBS

Background and context

Funding trends in Canadian research is leading academic researchers more towards ‘Action Research’, where the outcome of research is communicated to the relev

Author: Aysha Shamsuddin, IIS Coordinator, Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services

Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services (Access Alliance) convened its seventh IRSN meeting on January 15, 2020 from 5.30 p

It is my pleasure to thank all IRSN members and IRSN team for their initiatives to support new immigrants  in Canada . I was one such immigrant, who benefited from their support. I left a very successful career in my country and migrated one year b

Soon after coming to Canada I started looking for work in the research field in Canada. I felt confident about getting a job in my field. However, my confidence was fading away and was being replaced slowly by the frustration of not getting an interv

Hello Everyone,

I, Usharani Rathinam, had earned Ph.D. in Development Studies from Reading University, United Kingdom. I came to Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow in 2015 with a status of a worker. I worked at Western University for a year. After my c