Trainees

(Primary Supervision Only)

Oluwakemi (Kemi) Amodu, BScN, MN

Oluwakemi (Kemi) Amodu is a PhD candidate with Dr. Bukola Salami. Kemi joined HIPP as a research assistant in January 2015. She became a collaborative member of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in September 2015. Her doctoral work focuses on healthcare for women displaced by terrorism. She is a recipient of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Graduate Studentship Award funded through the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation (RAHF) and a holder of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) Doctoral Award.

Darcie Debevec, RN, MN

Darcie is a Faculty of Nursing doctoral student in the Health and Immigration Policies and Practices Research Program. The majority of Darcie's nursing practice experience has been in critical care; she currently works as a hospital-based nurse educator. She has a BSN and a master's degree in socio-cultural medical anthropology. Her research interests focus on nurse migration and global health, specifically on the work environments of internationally educated nurses.

Higinio Fernandez-Sanchez, BScN, MN

Higinio recently joined the HIPP team as a Graduate Research Assistant. He is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. Higinio is a Mexican Registered Nurse, with an Associate degree in Science of Arts from Tyler Community College (USA), a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (Universidad Veracruzana), and a Master's degree in Nursing (Universidad Veracruzana). Higinio has over 7 years nursing experience in direct clinical practice, undergraduate nursing education, and nursing research. His doctoral research focuses on left-behind women in the context of transnational migration. Higinio is interested in exploring how gender intersections across transnational spaces contribute to women's mental health.

Shamel Y. Rolle Sands BScN (Hon), MScN Ed (Dist.), CM

Shamel is a registered nurse and a nurse educator (in the Bahamas). She is also a certified manager with over three decades of combined nursing, education, and administration experience. She is a doctoral student who joined the HIPP team in July 2019. Her doctoral work is supervised by Dr. Salami. Post-positivist and critical approaches will inform her doctoral research, during which she will use a mixed methods policy case study to describe and analyse health human resources, focusing on nurse migration in The Bahamas.

Olutosin Giwa, RN, BScN

Olutosin Giwa is currently in the Master of Nursing program-NP family/all ages stream at the University of Alberta. Dr. Salami Bukola is her supervisor for her capping project. She holds a BScN and is an RN with clinical experience in medical-surgical, mental health, post-op orthopedic care, palliative long term care, acute care, case management. She is also a clinical nurse educator and a community health nurse. Her current capping project is related to the role of nurse practitioners in immigrants' health.

Haben Ghezehei, BScN, RN

Haben Ghezehei is a graduate student at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She is in the Family/All Ages Nurse Practitioner stream. Haben is a Registered Nurse at the Stollery Children's Hospital. The majority of her clinical practice has been in pediatrics and emergency care. Dr. Bukola Salami is her primary supervisor for her capping project, which focuses on the experience of families caring for children with Sickle Cell Disease. Her research interest focuses on child migrant health.

Nazish Hussain Ali, RN, BScN

Nazish is a Master's student at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She is one of the recipients of The Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship Award from Uganda, East Africa. Nazish is a Pakistani Registered Nurse with a Bachelor of Science and Nursing degree from The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. She has 2 years of working experience as a Registered Nurse at the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. She is a Canadian Mental Health Association Certified Workplace Psychological Health and Safety Advisor. Dr. Bukola is one of her thesis supervisors. She looks forward to exploring the intersectional experiences of immigrant mothers as it relates to child mental health in Alberta, Canada.

Previous Trainees (Primary Supervision Only)

Dr. Jordana Salma

Dr. Shela Hirani

Chinyere Mbachu

Robyn Playfair