Dr. Sepali Guruge

Dr. Sepali Guruge is a Professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing. She obtained her education in Sri Lanka, the former Soviet Union, and Canada. Dr. Guruge completed her doctoral dissertation in Nursing at the University of Toronto, focusing on the influence of gender, racial, social, and economic inequalities on the production of, and responses to, intimate male partner violence in the post-migration context. Dr. Guruge's post-doctoral work at the University of Western Ontario examined the effects of intimate partner violence on women’s health. Dr. Guruge’s nursing experience includes practice, teaching, research, and consultation at several major hospitals in Toronto. She currently teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs, and supervises graduate students in Nursing and in Immigration and Settlement Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. Using a number of approaches, including social determinants of health, ecosystemic frameworks, and feminist theoretical perspectives, Dr. Guruge conducts research focused on immigrant women’s health. In particular, she examines violence against women throughout the migration process (i.e., pre-migration, border-crossing, and post-migration contexts). She also co-leads the Nursing Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Toronto Metropolitan University.