Dr. Bukola Salami is a Registered Nurse and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black and Racialized People’s Health at the University of Calgary. She is also a scientific director (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, EDI) at the Alberta Childrens Hospital Research Institute and EDI lead for One Child Every Child, the largest child health research grant in Canada ($125 million). Prior to her academic career, she was a Registered Nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, ON) and an interprofessional educator on immigrant health. From 2014 to 2023, she was a Professor of Nursing at the University of Alberta. Her last role at that institution was as Director of the Intersections of Gender Signature Area, where she led the creation of an Institute for Intersectional Studies. Dr Salami has been involved in over 90 funded projects totaling around $250 million. Dr. Salami founded and continues to lead the African Child and Youth Migration Network, a network of 42 scholars from four continents. In 2020, she founded the Black Youth Mentorship and Leadership Program, a program to socially and economically empower Black youth to contribute meaningfully to the Canadian Society. The program has mentored around 200 Black youth. Her work on the mental health of Black youth informed the creation of the first mental health clinic for Black Canadians in Western Canada. She has presented her work to several policymakers (including the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health). Dr. Salami serves as an Editor for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research and is on the editorial board of several additional journals including: Nursing Inquiry, Nursing Leadership, and Nursing Philosophy. She co chairs the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario Best Practice Guideline development on addressing anti Black racism in nursing and she is on the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing anti-racism committee. She is an active board member of Black Opportunity Fund and Board / Council member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is an advisory board member of the CIHR Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health and on the Government of Canada’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Global Health.