My Research
My research focuses on Black health and anti-racist medical education in Canada
Below are selected publications
Afrocentric screening program for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer among immigrant patients in Ontario
Onye Nnorom, Antonia Sappong-Kumankumah, Oluwatobi R. Olaiya, Mervin Burnett, Nancy Akor, Nan Shi, Patricia Wright, Abel Gebreyesus, Liben Gebremikael and Aisha Lofters
CFP, November 2021
Increasing SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates among Black people in Canada
Azza Eissa, Aisha Lofters, Nancy Akor, Cheryl Prescod and Onye Nnorom
CMAJ, August 2021
Time to dismantle systemic anti-Black racism in medicine in Canada
Differences in Breast Cancer Presentation at Time of Diagnosis for Black and White Women in High Resource Settings
Jo-Ann Osei-Twum, Sahra Gedleh, Aisha Lofters & Onye Nnorom
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, February 2021
Patients, Pride, and Prejudice: Exploring Black Ontarian Physicians’ Experiences of Racism and Discrimination
Joseph Mpalirwa, Aisha Lofters, Onye Nnorom, Mark Hanson
Academic Medicine, November 2020
Dying to Learn: A Scoping Review of Breast and Cervical Cancer Studies Focusing on Black Canadian Women
Onye Nnorom, Nicole Findlay, Nakia K Lee-Foon, Ankur A Jain, Carolyn P Ziegler, Fran E Scott, Patricia Rodney, Aisha K Lofters
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, November 2019
Ko-Pamoja: the feasibility of a lay health educator-led breast and cervical screening program for Black women in Ontario, Canada (short report)
Aisha Lofters, Ankur Jain, Winnie Siu, Meghan Kyte, Nakia Lee-Foon, Fran Scott & Onye Nnorom
Cancer Causes & Controls, July 2017