Nursing Shokoufeh Modanloo is leading a collaborative project with social agencies to study newcomer women from the Middle East and their maternal-newborn interactions with the health-care system. (Kim McCready/Faculty of Health Sciences)
Nursing Shokoufeh Modanloo is leading a collaborative project with social agencies to study newcomer women from the Middle East and their maternal-newborn interactions with the health-care system. (Kim McCready/Faculty of Health Sciences) A Western professor's immigration journey helped to inspire her newest research project on newcomer women from the Middle East and their interactions with the health-care system while pregnant and after giving birth. Shokoufeh Modanloo, a health sciences professor and maternal newborn nurse, is leading a team of researchers, community workers and women with lived experience to identify the structural barriers that make them wary of the health-care system, or avoid it altogether. "The trust is not there. They feel their voices don't count. They feel like they've been alienated and counted as 'other' in their health-care experiences," Modanloo said. "We are taking that critical perspective, to question the status quo (and find out) what is happening at more of a structural level.
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