Areej Al-Hamad, RN PhD
Assistant Professor
Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Areej Al-Hamad is an Assistant Professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has extensive and diverse clinical and teaching experiences in Canada, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Al-Hamad has published an extensive number of articles in peer reviewed journals, with a research focus on food insecurity, women’s health, marginalized populations, refugees, intersectionality and social justice.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Migrant women in Canada —particularly those arriving alone or with dependents— face challenges such as socio-economic hardship, limited social support, and discrimination in the labour market; these co-occurring vulnerabilities can lead some women to engage in sex work for survival. Our research team aimed to examine the health and well-being of migrant women who engage in sex work, highlighting the compounded effects of these intersecting identities and producing implications for an interprofessional collaborative approach to health and social care needs of this population. Findings revealed…