Dr. Shahin Kassam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing, Capacity: The Centre for Research in Community Engagement and Gender Equity. As a Health Research BC Trainee Award recipient and working with Dr. Vicky Bungay, Shahin’s emerging program of research centres on women living with the health sequelae of forced migration including inequitable access to health systems and consequential disparate rates of communicable and chronic health disease. Shahin’s focus on advancing nursing sciences through strong community-academic partnerships is embedded within an intersectionality-framed approach that promotes engagement with how racial discrimination and structural gender-based violence persist among women forced to migrate. Shahin’s keen interest in the axes of local and global health has led to new national and international academic and non-profit organization partnerships centred on structural and environmental contributors to forced migration-related health concerns among women.