Yanqiu Rachel Zhou
Professor, Health, Aging & Society

Dr. Zhou is a Professor at the Department of Health, Aging & Society, with a joint appointment with the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. She joined McMaster in 2006 after graduating from the University of Toronto. Her research - interdisciplinary in nature - has been largely grounded on globalization and evolved from earlier topics on immigration and HIV to recent ones on pandemic politics and global youth, for example. She is interested in understanding the conflictual and mutually constitutive relationship between globalization processes (not limited to economic globalization) and people's experiences in local and transnational settings, and how public policy has responded to the changing contexts of these issues. Research interests include globalization, immigration, transnationalism; global health; aging and pensions; public policy; culture, gender, sexuality; time/temporalities; nostalgia; and global youth.

She has published about 50 scholarly articles, including those in Globalization and Health; Globalizations; Social Science & Medicine; Time & Society; Journal of Aging Studies; Health; Culture, Health & Sexuality; Global Social Policy; International Journal of Inclusive Education; and Qualitative Health Research. She is the lead editor of "Sexualities, transnationalism, and globalization: New perspectives" (published by Routledge, 2021) and a themed symposium on Transnationalism, Sexuality, and HIV Risk (published in Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2017), and the co-editor of two books (published by Routledge, 2016 and 2017) and a special issue on Time and Globalization of the journal Globalizations, 2016.

Dr. Zhou is a Principal Investigator of several projects funded by the tri-council agencies, including “Globalization, time, and nostalgia: A transnational conjunctural analysis” (SSHRC, 2020-2024); “Living in ‘transnational spaces’: Gendered vulnerability to HIV of Chinese immigrants in Canada and the implications for future interventions” (CIHR, 2011-2016) ; “Care, aging and globalization: Transnational care-giving experiences of Chinese seniors in Canada” (SSHRC, 2007-2010); and “HIV/AIDS in the context of international migration and global interdependence: Understanding the vulnerability to HIV of Chinese and Indian immigrant communities in Canada” (CIHR, 2007-2009).
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