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Sithokozile Maposa

ResearcherUniversity of Saskatchewan

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Sithokozile Maposa

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Community-Led Research Culturally Safe Care Health Equity Hiv And Stbbis Prevention Indigenous Health Knowledge Mobilization Lived Experience Social Determinants Of Health

Latest papers

Beyond 42 Days: A National Cohort Study of Maternal and Late Maternal Deaths in Brazil from 2010 to 2023.
Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
The Impact of Anti-Black Racism on Black Undergraduate Nursing Students in Canada.
Nursing inquiry · 2026
Culturally appropriate sexual health interventions for STBBI and HIV among racialised immigrant communities in Western nations: a scoping review protocol.
BMJ open · 2026

All 10 publications

Latest funding

Iyogipiya Mija Waste' Ni ~ The Good Life: Growing Our Medicines, Celebrating Identity and Inspiring Healthy Sexuality and Wholistic Wellness Among Our Indigenous Youth Across the Prairies
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,000,000
Iyogipiya Mija Waste' Ni ~ The Good Life: Growing Our Medicines, Celebrating Identity and Inspiring Healthy Sexuality and Wholistic Wellness Among Our Indigenous Youth Across the Prairies
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$998,926
Waniska - The Indigenous Healing and Wellness Research Hub
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$2,250,000

All 11 grants and awards

10 publications.

Beyond 42 Days: A National Cohort Study of Maternal and Late Maternal Deaths in Brazil from 2010 to 2023.

Gonçalves Dos Santos G, Mollard E, Pace Parascandalo R, Maposa S, Muriuki A, Oliveira Mouta RJ, Franco Zihlmann K, Rossi de Faria Ichikawa C, Ferreira Lima C, Rodrigues Reis CH, Guerra MJJ, das Neves Carvalho JM, Ribeiro da Fonseca Dias AC, Bettencourt MLS, Oliveira C, Feichas Renó B, Tramontina Cerqueira E, Rocha de Almeida Farias K

Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland)2026

DOI: 10.3390/epidemiologia7040094 PMID: 42496543

The Impact of Anti-Black Racism on Black Undergraduate Nursing Students in Canada.

Luhanga F, Essien D, Matebekwane KA, Maposa S, Puplampu V, Abudu E, Oba O, Ansah A, Garvey C, Jefferies K, Salami O

Nursing inquiry2026

DOI: 10.1111/nin.70110 PMID: 42189902

Culturally appropriate sexual health interventions for STBBI and HIV among racialised immigrant communities in Western nations: a scoping review protocol.

Kwame A, Maina G, Langman E, Ndubuka N, Caine V, Spence C, Maposa S, Kamrul R, Mason N, Etowa J, Eaton AD, Caron-Roy S, Abdulrasheed A, Guliak D, Chowdhury I, Ahmed A, Nyoni N, Hanson J, Alvarez A

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110381 PMID: 41638739

A scoping review protocol on childhood immunization reminder strategies available to parents in Canada and the United States of America.

Anim-Larbi M, Puplampu V, Maposa S, Mahani A, Chipanshi M

PloS one2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323186 PMID: 40403040

"Let's Call a Spade a Spade. My Barrier is Being a Black Student": Challenges for Black Undergraduate Nursing Students in a Western Canadian Province.

Luhanga F, Maposa S, Puplampu V, Abudu E

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2023

DOI: 10.1177/08445621231198632 PMID: 37661642

"You have to strive very hard to prove yourself": experiences of Black nursing students in a Western Canadian province.

Luhanga F, Maposa S, Puplampu V, Abudu E, Chigbogu I

International journal of nursing education scholarship2023

DOI: 10.1515/ijnes-2022-0094 PMID: 37294866

Examination of Breast Cancer Screening Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs among Syrian Refugee Women in a Western Canadian Province.

Racine L, Andsoy I, Maposa S, Vatanparast H, Fowler-Kerry S

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2022

DOI: 10.1177/08445621211013200 PMID: 34038264

"I die silently inside". Qualitative findings from a study of people living with HIV who migrate to and settle in Canada.

Dela Cruz AM, Maposa S, Patten S, Abdulmalik I, Magagula P, Mapfumo S, Abate TD, Carter A, Spies P, Harrowing J, Hall M, Afzal AR, Caine V

Journal of migration and health2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmh.2022.100088 PMID: 35341065

Qualities of exemplary nurse leaders: perspectives of frontline nurses.

Anonson J, Walker ME, Arries E, Maposa S, Telford P, Berry L

Journal of nursing management2014

DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12092 PMID: 23822100

Cardiovascular risk factors among prisoners: an integrative review.

Arries EJ, Maposa S

Journal of forensic nursing2013Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/jfn.0b013e31827a59ef PMID: 24158101

Iyogipiya Mija Waste' Ni ~ The Good Life: Growing Our Medicines, Celebrating Identity and Inspiring Healthy Sexuality and Wholistic Wellness Among Our Indigenous Youth Across the Prairies

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research -General Indigenous Pool

Principal investigators: Froehlich Chow, Amanda L; Gadwa, Candace; Girolami, Tammy; Ndubuka, Nnamdi O; Wahpepah, Kathleen; Humbert, Margaret L; King, Alexandra; Kowatch, Kristy R; Melro, Carolyn M

Keywords: Culturally Responsive; Gender; Hiv/Hcv And Stbbis; Identity; Implementation Science; Indigenous Wellness; Sexual Health; Youth

$1,000,000

Iyogipiya Mija Waste' Ni ~ The Good Life: Growing Our Medicines, Celebrating Identity and Inspiring Healthy Sexuality and Wholistic Wellness Among Our Indigenous Youth Across the Prairies

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research - Supplementary Funding

Principal investigators: Froehlich Chow, Amanda L; Gadwa, Candace; Girolami, Tammy; Ndubuka, Nnamdi O; Wahpepah, Kathleen; Humbert, Margaret L; King, Alexandra; Kowatch, Kristy R; Melro, Carolyn M

Keywords: Culturally Responsive; Gender; Hiv/Hcv And Stbbis; Identity; Implementation Science; Indigenous Wellness; Sexual Health; Youth

$998,926

Waniska - The Indigenous Healing and Wellness Research Hub

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Indigenous Centres for STBBI Research

Principal investigators: King, Alexandra; Laframboise, Sandra; Letendre, Angeline D; St Denys, Raye; Fontaine, Guillaume; Froehlich Chow, Amanda L; Jull, Janet E; King, Malcolm; Presseau, Justin; Souleymanov, Roustam

Keywords: Culture-Based Research; Hepatitis C; Hiv; Implementation Science; Indigenist Methodologies; Indigenous Peoples; Land-Based Research; Sexual Wellness; Stbbi

$2,250,000

Co-developing and implementing culturally informed, community-driven sexual health interventions for migrants and racialized communities (MRCs) in the prairies.

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI CBR - Racialized people and migrants

Principal investigators: Maina, Geoffrey M; Hasselback, Jasmine; Koyama, Amanda; Caine, Vera F; Etowa, Josephine B; Kamrul, Rejina; Wadams, Morgan L

Keywords: Art Based Methodologies; Community Based Research; Hiv And Stbbi; Immigrants; Racialised Communities; Sexual Health Interventions

$1,000,000

Rivers of Hope through Strength: Strengthening or Leveraging Community Expertise and Capacity to Support Young Women at Risk of HIV and STBBI in Saskatchewan

Nominated PICIHR2025Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research -General Indigenous Pool

Principal investigators: Maposa, Sithokozile; Cattapan, Alana R; Froehlich Chow, Amanda L; Skinner, Stuart J

Keywords: Community-Led Research; Culturally Safe Care; Health Equity; Hiv And Stbbis Prevention; Indigenous Health; Knowledge Mobilization; Lived Experience; Social Determinants Of Health; Trauma-Informed; Young Women

$1,000,000

RE: Exploring HIV care needs and developing HIV programming framework for migrants and ethnic minorities (MEMs) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI CBR - Racialized people and migrants - LOI

Principal investigators: Maina, Geoffrey M; Hanson, Jacelyn; Nyoni, Nuru; Caine, Vera F; Etowa, Josephine B

Keywords: Ethnic Minority; Hiv Linkage To Care; Hiv Literacy; Hiv Prevention; Hiv Testing

$99,300

Rivers of Hope through Strength: Leveraging community expertise and capacity towards solutions for supporting Perinatal Women at risk of HIV and STBBI in Saskatchewan

Nominated PICIHR2024Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research - Young women - LOI

Principal investigators: Maposa, Sithokozile; Roberts, Katelyn; Cattapan, Alana R; Froehlich Chow, Amanda L; King, Alexandra

Keywords: Community-Centred Solutions; Complex Health & Social Needs; Hiv Stbbi & Substance Use Treatment; Hiv Stbbi Risk Factors & Prevention; Intersectoral & Stakeholder Engagement; Perinatal And Women'S Health; Preventing Vertical Hiv Stbbi Transmission; Stigma & Health Inequities In Underserved Populations; Wrap-Around Care Models For Hiv Stbbi; Youth, Family & Social Contexts For Wellness

$100,000

Revealing Black Undergraduate Nursing Students' Experiences in Saskatchewan

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Luhanga, Florence L.

Keywords: Black students; undergraduate nursing program; systemic racism; social justice; diversity in nursing; workforce; barriers and facilitators to success; intersectionality; critical race theory

$58,698

Revealing Black Undergraduate Nursing Students' Experiences in Saskatchewan

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Luhanga, Florence L.

$55,678

Sanctum 1.5's hope through strength: A novel, women-directed and community-based approach to wholistic care for mother-infant pairs experiencing a substance use disorder and/or HIV

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Maposa, Sithokozile; Johnson-Jennings, Michelle; King, Alexandra; Roberts, Katelyn

Keywords: Culturally Responsive; Evaluation And Research Model; Harm Reduction And Substance Use Disorder; Hiv And Addictions Prevention And Treatment; Indigenous Women'S Health; Maternal And Neonatal Health; Pregnancy And Parenting; Trauma-Informed Care; Wholistic Health And Wellness; Women-Centred And Directed

$1,231,652

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

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Sithokozile Maposa

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Beyond 42 Days: A National Cohort Study of Maternal and Late Maternal Deaths in Brazil from 2010 to 2023.

The Impact of Anti-Black Racism on Black Undergraduate Nursing Students in Canada.

Culturally appropriate sexual health interventions for STBBI and HIV among racialised immigrant communities in Western nations: a scoping review protocol.

A scoping review protocol on childhood immunization reminder strategies available to parents in Canada and the United States of America.

"Let's Call a Spade a Spade. My Barrier is Being a Black Student": Challenges for Black Undergraduate Nursing Students in a Western Canadian Province.

"You have to strive very hard to prove yourself": experiences of Black nursing students in a Western Canadian province.

Examination of Breast Cancer Screening Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs among Syrian Refugee Women in a Western Canadian Province.

"I die silently inside". Qualitative findings from a study of people living with HIV who migrate to and settle in Canada.

Qualities of exemplary nurse leaders: perspectives of frontline nurses.

Cardiovascular risk factors among prisoners: an integrative review.

Iyogipiya Mija Waste' Ni ~ The Good Life: Growing Our Medicines, Celebrating Identity and Inspiring Healthy Sexuality and Wholistic Wellness Among Our Indigenous Youth Across the Prairies

Iyogipiya Mija Waste' Ni ~ The Good Life: Growing Our Medicines, Celebrating Identity and Inspiring Healthy Sexuality and Wholistic Wellness Among Our Indigenous Youth Across the Prairies

Waniska - The Indigenous Healing and Wellness Research Hub

Co-developing and implementing culturally informed, community-driven sexual health interventions for migrants and racialized communities (MRCs) in the prairies.

Rivers of Hope through Strength: Strengthening or Leveraging Community Expertise and Capacity to Support Young Women at Risk of HIV and STBBI in Saskatchewan

RE: Exploring HIV care needs and developing HIV programming framework for migrants and ethnic minorities (MEMs) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Rivers of Hope through Strength: Leveraging community expertise and capacity towards solutions for supporting Perinatal Women at risk of HIV and STBBI in Saskatchewan

Revealing Black Undergraduate Nursing Students' Experiences in Saskatchewan

Revealing Black Undergraduate Nursing Students' Experiences in Saskatchewan

Sanctum 1.5's hope through strength: A novel, women-directed and community-based approach to wholistic care for mother-infant pairs experiencing a substance use disorder and/or HIV

Frequent collaborators

Vivian Puplampu

Nnamdi Ndubuka

Josephine Etowa

Geoffrey Maina

Jacelyn Hanson

Nuru Nyoni

Rejina Kamrul

Louise Racine

Vera Caine

Josephine Etowa

Hassanali Vatanparast