Kateryna Metersky
Dr. Kateryna Metersky is an associate professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing and interim director of the School of Occupational and Public Health. She completed her PhD in nursing at the University of Western Ontario in 2020. Both of her previous degrees (BScN and MN) are from the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing.
Dr. Metersky’s program of research focuses on: 1) international and cross-national collaborations and partnerships; 2) persons with social, economic and health challenges; 3) nursing and interprofessional practice and education; and 4) intersectionality and positionality in population-centred care. She has expertise with qualitative research methods as well as systematic and scoping reviews and concept analyses. Fittingly, her research program is focused on the integration of her scholarly, research and creative work in pedagogy and practice to promote social justice, local and global community well-being, and health equity. Dr. Metersky is an affiliate scientist with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Immigration and Settlement and The Institute of Education Research at University Health Network (external link) and the Canadian Centre for Mentoring Research (external link) .
Dr. Metersky continues to maintain her nursing practice in general internal medicine at Toronto Western Hospital. She is currently the Toronto co-city lead for the Inclusive Communities for Older Immigrants project. She is also a member of the manuscript review board of 15 peer-reviewed journals, on the editorial board of the International Journal of Health Trends and Perspectives and a handling editor for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research and a guest editor with Healthcare and Nursing Reports journals. She sits on Toronto Metropolitan University’s research ethics board as a reviewer and was the vice-chair of University Senate (2024-2026). She co-chaired Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario’s redevelopment of the Person- and Family-Centred Care Best Practice Guideline (2024-2026). Finally, Dr. Metersky sits on the board of directors of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative and is a member of the Canadian Health Workforce Network.
Recent Publications
Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Metersky, K., Kokorelias, K., Zhuang, Z. C., Hodowany, A., & Shah, P. (2026). Arts-Based and Digital Practices Supporting Diasporic Identity and Cultural Memory among Migrants and Diasporic Communities: A Scoping Review (external link) . Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-26.
Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, M. Y., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Yang, L., Zhuang, Z. C. (2026). Circuits of care in displacement: Hybrid transnational healthcare pathways among older Syrian refugees in the Greater Toronto Area (external link) . Canadian Journal on Ageing, 1-13.
Amanzai, H., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Yasin, Y. M., Al-Hamad, A., Zhuang, Z. C., Wang, B., Stafford, A., Wang, L., & Yang, L. (2026). Depression in older adult refugees: A scoping review (external link) . Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 6(1), 32, 1-17.
Metersky, K.,* Guruge, S., Al-Hamad, A., Wang, L., Yasin, Y. M., Yang, L., Zhuang, Z. C.,
Catallo, C., Amanzai, H., Kirkwood, M., Furdela, A., & Schastlyva, O. (2026). Navigating (external link)
adult refugees in Toronto (external link) . Journal of International Migration and Integration.
Metersky, K., Jordan, A., Al-Hamad, A., & El-Masri, M. (2024). Psychosocial stressors among war refugees immigrating to high-income countries: A scoping review (external link) . Canadian Journal of Nursing Research.
Metersky, K., Zanchetta, M. S., Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Tan, V., Tsvygun, K., Podobailo, T., Cosgrove, C., Onushko, B., Falenchuk, O, & Sunak, T. (2024). Unpacking the mystery of the Ontario healthcare system in Canada: Ukrainian temporary migrants and healthcare system navigation (external link) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. (Submitted manuscript - results pending).
Metersky, K., Guruge, S., Al-Hamad, A., Wang, L., Yasin, Y. M., Yang, L., Zhuang, Z. C.,