Dr. Susitha Wanigaratne, PhD is a Senior Research Associate at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children at the SickKids Research Institute and a Fellow at ICES. As a social epidemiologist her work examines immigration as a structural and social determinant of health. She is interested in community-based participatory research methods which fuse the lived experience and perspectives of community members with the power of analytics from population-based administrative health and social data. She had the good fortune to collaborate with Laadliyan on research focused on understanding son preference in the South Asian community and is currently collaborating on a project related to the health of international students globally.