Parissa Safai

(she/her)

Parissa Safai is Professor and Chair of the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at York University. Her research interests focus on the critical socio-cultural study of sport at the intersection of risk, health and healthcare including the social determinants of athletes’ health. Her interests also centre on sport and social inequality with focused attention paid to the impact of gender, socio-economic, and ethnocultural inequities on accessible physical activity for all.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Socio-Cultural Study of Sport, Health and Medicine, York University, Canada

Education

  • 2004 
    University of Toronto, PhD, Socio-Cultural Study of Sport, Health and Medicine

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