MELBA D'SOUZA, Thompson Rivers University

Research

Cancer Prevention Cancer Screening Community Engagement Gender Health Promotion Health Services Knowledge Translation Patient-Reported Outcomes

Latest papers

Truth to Action: Lived Experiences of Indigenous Healthcare Professionals Redressing Indigenous-Specific Racism.
The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2025
Health Literacy of Healthcare Providers and Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Perinatal Women in British Columbia: A Critical Ethnography.
Issues in mental health nursing · 2023

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Labor Market Power, Industrial Development and Economic Growth
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$78,410
Influences of Gender, Religion, and Social Context on Arab Muslim Refugee Women's Perspectives on Breast Awareness
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$90,686
Co-creating a community engagement knowledge translation summit on improving cancer prevention and screening in Canada
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$9,978

All 4 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Truth to Action: Lived Experiences of Indigenous Healthcare Professionals Redressing Indigenous-Specific Racism.

Bourque Bearskin ML, Seymour MLC, Melnyk R, D'Souza M, Sturm J, Mooney T, Hunter-Porter NR, Ward AE, Bell B

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2025

DOI: 10.1177/08445621241282784 PMID: 39363826

02

Health Literacy of Healthcare Providers and Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Perinatal Women in British Columbia: A Critical Ethnography.

Lluch C, O'Mahony J, D'Souza M, Hawa R

Issues in mental health nursing2023

DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2023.2227267 PMID: 37437242

Labor Market Power, Industrial Development and Economic Growth

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Amodio, Francesco

Keywords: labor market power; monopsony power; labor market; development

$78,410

Influences of Gender, Religion, and Social Context on Arab Muslim Refugee Women's Perspectives on Breast Awareness

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Racine, Louise

Keywords: culture; religion; gender; social context; refugee; women

$90,686

Co-creating a community engagement knowledge translation summit on improving cancer prevention and screening in Canada

Nominated PICIHR2023Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: D'SOUZA, MELBA

Keywords: Cancer Prevention; Cancer Screening; Community Engagement; Gender; Health Promotion; Health Services; Knowledge Translation; Patient-Reported Outcomes; Policy Research; Population Health

$9,978

Reclaiming and Recovering Indigenous Knowledge in Graduate Nursing Education: Intergenerational Learning with Communities

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bourque Bearskin, Lisa; D'SOUZA, MELBA; Kurtz, Donna L; Moar, Diana; Palmer, Becky C; Ryan, Maureen M; Sanders, Caroline D; Seymour, Colleen

Keywords: Cultural Safety; Indigenous Grandmothers; Indigenous Health Nursing; Indigenous Knowledge; Indigenous Methodologies; Indigenous Nurse Leaders; Indigenous Nursing Research; Indigenous Wellness; Intergenerational Learning; Reconcilating Educational Pathway

$684,676

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Roula Hawa

Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Cancer Prevention Dear Professor D'SOUZA, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Truth to Action: Lived Experiences of Indigenous Healthcare Professionals Redressing Indigenous-Specific Racism." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Co-creating a community engagement knowledge translation summit on improving cancer prevention and screening in Canada" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]