Jordana Salma

Dr. Jordana Salma is a Registered Nurse and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. She has over a decade of clinical nursing experience and has taught in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs.

Dr. Salma’s program of research (IREA: Implementing Research for Equity in Aging) focuses on the health and wellbeing of immigrant and racialized older adults in Canada. She is particularly interested in exploring cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of aging and the ways dominant health and immigration policies, practices, and discourses shape aging experiences.

A second major component of her research program involves community-based and co-designed intervention research to promote social connectedness, physical activity, and chronic disease management in immigrants. She has collaborated on over 20 research projects related to immigrant women, older adults, youths, and families. The majority of her research to date has been with African, South Asian, Arab, and Muslim populations.