Nishan Zewge-Abubaker

Nishan (she/her) is community-based health researcher and practitioner born and raised in Toronto. Her intellectual work in and out of the academy plays out on a local scale: studying community-based research methodologies, community-led practices of health, and the harms of normative local community health planning infrastructures. This work combines critical qualitative and mixed methods, archival data, and community-driven approaches. Nishan holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Public Health Policy.

Nishan's prior  work has included coordinating housing and health research projects in academic healthcare settings, policy research and evaluation, and co-founding a consulting firm providing program design, evaluation, and organizational change services to the social service sector. Nishan’s work has been published in journals like Geoforum, BMC Public Health, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.