Bukola Salami

Professor Bukola Salami currently holds the rank of Full Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She is also Scientific Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Alberta Childrens Hospital Research Institute and is a member of the Obrien Institute for Public Health. Professor Salami’s research program focuses on policies and practices shaping migrant health as well as Black people’s health. She founded and leads the African Child and Youth Migration Network, a network of 42 scholars from four continents. She 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.