Dr. Sonja Senthanar is a multi-method occupational and public health scholar whose research examines the work and health experiences of individuals who experience conditions of marginalization with a focus on immigrant and refugee workers and at the intersections of racialization and gender. She completed her doctoral studies in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in 2019 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Her program of research at UBC used linked administrative data and qualitative interviews to examine the work disability experience of injured immigrant workers compared to their Canadian-born counterparts. As an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Sciences at UNBC, Dr. Senthanar will primarily teach in the Disability Management program.

Her research interests include employment outcomes, etiology and trajectories of work injuries, inequities in benefits, supports and health care for racialized, immigrant and refugee populations, as well as how these relationships change within the context of new forms of work.