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Joy Abasta came to British Columbia with a promise of a job as a registered nurse.
In the Philippines, she had been told Canada was desperate for health-care workers. She came on a work permit in 2014, expecting a straigh
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
Province breaking down barriers to hire more doctors and nurses to connect people to care close to home.
KITCHENER — The Ontario government is continuing to create new pathways to connect more people to care across the province, both
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
As part of the COVID-19 recovery, we need to understand how COVID-19 and the associated public health response disproportionately affected key communities. However, the absence of national race disaggregated data has limited understanding of the spec
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
For anyone interested, description and link below:
"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 7th 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
