Fatimah Jackson-Best: 2020

Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best is a public health researcher with a specialization in mental health and whose work focuses on communities in Canada and the Caribbean. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and conducted her dissertation research on Black women’s experiences of maternal depression in Barbados. In 2018/19 she worked with the Black Muslim Initiative and the Tessellate Institute to publish a systematic review focused on Black Muslims in Canada. Currently Dr. Jackson-Best is a lecturer at York University in the Department of Anthropology, and the Project Manager of Pathways to Care where she is designing an intervention to improve access to mental health and addictions services for Black children, youth, and their families in Ontario.

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Previous women who inspire award recipient

Rabea Murtaza, Founder, Muslims for Ontario’s Health & Physical Education Curriculum & Women Who Inspire Award Winner, 2016

“CCMW is an irreplaceable advocacy voice for Muslim women’s equality, equity and empowerment in Canada. Receiving an award from CCMW was a powerful and beautiful affirmation of the leadership role and voice that Muslim women  alone can play in the important issues affecting our families.”