Announcing the newest cohort of BRN Faculty Fellows
The Black Research Network is pleased to announce the second cohort of BRN Faculty Fellows.
Established in 2023, the BRN Faculty Fellows program offers research support for tenure and teaching-stream faculty at the University of Toronto. This award, valued at $10,000 for the year-long program, helps BRN Faculty Fellows conduct research in any academic discipline or multidisciplinary area. It also facilitates the sharing of knowledge within the BRN network at the University of Toronto and on an international level.
Learn more about the fellows!
Husam Abdel-Qadir is associate professor (status-only) at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and cardiologist at the Women’s College Hospital and Peter Munk Cardiac Centre in the University Health Network. He is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Outcomes.
Abdel-Qadir’s research program primarily explores the long-term cardiovascular health of breast cancer survivors. This research is supported by a Chair in Heart and Brain Health from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Onye Nnorom is an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and associate program director of the Public Health & Preventive Medicine Residency Program at the University of Toronto.
A family doctor and public health specialist, Nnorom’s research focuses on health equity and anti-Black racism as a driver of inequities in Canada. She is the co-founder of the Black Health Education Collaborative and the creator of Healthcaring Differently, a social media movement to encourage diverse youth to pursue careers in medicine and healthcare.
Tosen Nwadei is an assistant professor in the department of management at the University of Toronto Scarborough, with a cross-appointment at the Rotman School of Management.
Nwadei’s research investigates intergroup relations, stigma, (in)authenticity and inequality in the workplace and society through the lens of historical psychology and racial and ethnic relations and consumer behaviour, to name a few.
Shauna Sweeney is an assistant professor of women and gender studies and history at the University of Toronto. A historian of the African diaspora, Sweeney’s research explores the interrelated histories of gender, economy, slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean.
Sweeney is currently finishing her first book, A Free Enterprise: Market Women, Insurgent Economies and the Making of Caribbean Freedom, which examines the licit and illicit economies of enslaved and free people of African descent.
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