Sanzida Habib

University of British Columbia | UBC · Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR)

This International Workshop on Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion was an outcome of the collaborative effort by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada and the Research Center for Gender and Development of Hohai University (HHU) in Nanjing, China. In 2017, a Memorandum of Understandin...

In Bangladesh, women are generally excluded from participatory management of natural resources, despite such activities being widely considered by policymakers and decision makers as gender-neutral processes. In this context, we seek to examine the participatory exclusion of women from collective management of natural resources in wetland communiti...

The Seniors Support Services for South Asian Community (S⁴AC) project was developed in response to the underutilization of available recreation and seniors' facilities by South Asian seniors who were especially numerous in a suburban neighbourhood in British Columbia. Addressing the problem required the collaboration of the municipality and a regis...

RÉSUMÉ Les Services de soutien pour les aînés projet communautaire sud-asiatique (SSAPCSA) ont été développé en réponse à la sous-utilisation des loisirs disponibles et des installations pour les aînés par des aînés sud-asiatiques qui étaient particulièrement nombreux dans une banlieue en Colombie-Britannique. Abordant ce problème a nécessité la co...

Selon sa vision, l’ACIO/CANO « joue un role de premier plan au niveau national et exerce une influence internationale quant a la promotion de l’excellence des soins infirmiers dans tous les domaines de la lutte contre le cancer ». Toujours selon elle, « les Canadiens, peu importe ou ils en sont dans le continuum du cancer, accedent en temps opportu...

CANO/ACIO’s vision is to be “a driving force nationally and an influencing force internationally in advancing excellence in cancer nursing across the cancer control spectrum.” We want to see “Canadians across the cancer spectrum have timely access to high quality nursing” (CANO/ACIO, p. 8). With this end in view, a panel of experts came together to...

This 5-page plain-language community based summary of the research funded by the LiVWELL group at SFU and by the United Way of the Lower Mainland highlights the benefits of he Seniors Support Services for South Asian Community Project which is jointly hosted by DIVERSEcity Community Services Society and the City of Surrey and funded by UWLM. The pr...

The Seniors Support Services for South Asian Community (S4AC) project was developed in response to a problem in the community: although South Asian seniors were especially numerous in the Newton area of Surrey, they were not using recreation and seniors’ facilities in this neighbourhood. Addressing the problem required the collaboration of the Park...

Older immigrants from South Asia experience higher morbidities of chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus. They also have lower physical activity rates and higher barriers to accessing knowledge about chronic conditions and the care they need to live well with these conditions. Current models for self-management educ...

A qualitative feminist study, informed by social constructionist epistemology, antiracist theories and intersectionality perspectives, was conducted in order to understand South Asian immigrant women’s access to and experiences with breast and cervical cancer screening services in Canada. Particular attention was paid to the wider context of their...