Joanna Anneke Rummens, PHD Brief Biography Dr. Joanna Anneke Rummens is a Health Systems Research Scientist with the Community Health Systems Resource Group, Learning Institute, and Project Investigator, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is also Director, University of Toronto, of the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS) – The Ontario Metropolis Centre of Excellence for research on immigration and settlement and a Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), York University, and holds appointments as an Assistant Professor in Culture, Community and Health Studies and in Women's Mental with the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, and as full Member of the Institute of Medical Sciences, at the University of Toronto.    Dr. Rummens is a multilingual anthropologist/sociologist whose research explores the links between identity, diversity, health and wellbeing, with special focus on vulnerable and marginalized populations. She has undertaken fieldwork with a wide variety of cultural groups in different societal contexts and employs an explicitly interdisciplinary, mixed-methodological, comparative perspective. Her work reflects a strong commitment to policy- and practice-relevant research, collaborative research partnerships with representatives from diverse ethno-cultural communities, as well as effective research translation / transfer and knowledge exchange / mobilization with a wide range of key stakeholders. Dr. Rummens has served in an advisory capacity in the areas of identity, diversity, citizenship, integration and health to various governmental departments and was a Member of the Advisory Committee to Statistics Canada and Canadian Heritage for Canada’s post-census Ethnic Diversity Survey. She is the inventor of the Canadian Identities Database (CID), an interdisciplinary reference database on identity research in Canada and designated University of Toronto invention.