Rezwana Rahman

Rezwana Rahman is an assistant professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing and a PhD Candidate in Urban Health at Toronto Metropolitan University. A nurse educator and researcher, her work brings together nursing, education, technology, migration, and health equity to examine how care is taught, experienced, and sustained across families and communities.

Her doctoral research explores intergenerational caregiving among second-generation Muslim Canadians, focusing on the often-unseen experiences of adults simultaneously caring for children and aging parents. Through this work, she examines how culture, faith, migration, gender, and access to health and social services shape caregiving responsibilities. Her broader program of research seeks to advance culturally responsive care, strengthen supports for immigrant families, and ensure that communities historically overlooked in health research are meaningfully represented.

Rezwana is also deeply engaged in the future of nursing education. Her scholarship explores artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and emerging approaches to teaching and learning, with particular interest in how technology can support students in moving from passive users to thoughtful creators. Before joining the faculty, she served for three years as a Graduate Educational Developer with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, where she supported graduate educators and contributed to institution-wide teaching initiatives.

Her interdisciplinary experience spans pediatric clinical practice at The Hospital for Sick Children, federal health policy as a medical adjudicator with the Government of Canada, qualitative research, curriculum development, and undergraduate and graduate teaching. Her scholarship and leadership have received national and international recognition, including first place in the St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition.

Across her research and teaching, Rezwana is committed to building more imaginative, inclusive, and humane systems of education and care.