Sonja Senthanar

Dr. Sonja Senthanar is a multi-method occupational and public health scholar with expertise in immigrant and refugee occupational health and at the intersections of racialization and gender. She completed her doctoral studies in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in 2019 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Broadly, Dr. Senthanar’s research program investigates the employment and work disability experiences of workers experiencing conditions of marginalization, drawing on linked administrative data and theoretically grounded qualitative methods. Her approach to research is community and equity driven, working alongside racialized immigrants and settlement organizations in BC and nationally. Her research examining work and health inequities has been funded by WorkSafeBC, Health Research BC and the Institute for Work & Health.