Idrissa Beogo

Idrissa Beogo (MBA, PhD), registered nurse, is an associate professor at the School of Nursing and director of the Health Equity for the Aged Lab. He has studied and worked in Japan, Taiwan, West Africa and Canada (Quebec City, Winnipeg and Ottawa). His extensive experience as an orderly and then, head nurse, with a long-term care home team, in seniors’ residences and in intermediate resources fuelled his interest in research on aging in minority language (anglophones in Quebec and francophones in the rest of Canada) and cultural (Blacks, Arabs, Asians, Latin Americans, etc.) settings.

Professor Beogo is an affiliated researcher with the Institut du Savoir Montfort and the LIFE Research Institute. He is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Black Health. He has received many grants, including from the Tri-Council (Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), governments (Quebec’s Canadian intergovernmental affairs secretariat) and the Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS).

Professor Beogo is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Aging of linguistic minorities
• Long-term care/Gerontechnology
• Black health
• Knowledge synthesis
• Implementation science
• International health
• Nursing education
   

Professsor Beogo’s research is focused on four major areas:

1. Aging of multicultural groups and language minorities in the community and long-term care homes
2. Knowledge synthesis
3. Nursing education
4. International health

Idrissa Beogo’s Health Equity for the Aged Lab (HEAL) research lab is upgrading its research program as a Canadian centre of excellence in research on equitable long-term care in the context of aging in a multicultural Canada.

See Idrissa Beogo’s publications on Google Scholar or ResearchGate.

Sia D, Beogo I, Ntanda GM, Tchouaket NE, Nebila Jean-Claude Bationo NJ-C, Séguin C, Roch G, Greenaway C (2026).
Interventions facilitating access to perinatal care for migrant women without medical insurance: a scoping review. PONE-D-25-57301R1 (Accepted)

Dalexis RD; Beogo I, Tribet T; Cénat JM. (2026).
Racial Disparities in Coverage and Determinants of Childhood Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis (DTaP) Vaccination in Canada: A Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Analysis. Vaccine, 85 (128679). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.128679

Beogo I; Muray MN, Tribet T; Xu Y, Cénat JM. (2026).
Between Racism and Rumors: Understanding Vaccine Mistrust among Older Racially Diverse Adults in Canada56. Vaccine, 82(128611). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.128611.

Beogo I, Sia D, Ramdé J, Gagnon MP, Tchouaket ET. Social isolation and loneliness in linguistic minority older adults residing in Long-term care homes: a qualitative study of families’ experiences and perceptions during the COVID-19 waves in Quebec and New Brunswick [JMIR HF ms#71442] (Accepted).

Beogo I, Tchouaket NE, Sia D. (2026). A Screening Template for Knowledge Synthesis: The IED-uOttawa Algorithm; SYSR-D-25-00727, Systematic Reviews (Accepted).

Alshammari, M., Tyerman, J., Beogo, I., & Phillips, J.C. (2026).
Nurses’ perceptions of Patient Safety Culture measured by the HSOPSC in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region: A Systematic Review. Int J Nurs Stud Adv, 10(1). doi: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2026.100512

Cénat JM, Farahi Seyed MMM, Dalexis RD, Lukinson J, Lafleur N, Clorméus LA, Cénat A, Mauricette J, Beogo I, Derivois D. (2026)
Severe depression among Haiti’s internally displaced populations: Prevalence and correlates in the context of gang violence. 359 (116998) Psychiatry Research

Cénat JM, Beogo I, Williams M, Pakhale S. (2026).
An undeniable public health urgency, but an incomplete response: centering racial and ethnic equity in Canada’s “Strategic approaches to reducing the substance use-related burden of disease”. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 55 (101370). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101370

Cénat JM, Moshirian Farahi SMM; Dalexis RD; Xu Y; Muray MN, Beogo I. COVID-19 Vaccine Mistrust, Racial Discrimination, and Conspiracy Beliefs Among Parents in Canada: Implications for Public Health. Journal of Medical Virology. 97(11):e70673. doi:10.1002/jmv.70673.

Cénat JM, Dromer É, Beogo I, Farahi SMMM, Matsakawo R, Mkhatri J, Dalexis RD, Zuta H, Labelle PR (2025)
Prevalence and factors related to type 2 diabetes among black individuals in canada: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews,19(7) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2025.103269

Sadjo Paquita et Beogo I. (2025).
Racisme sur le « plancher » infirmier : L’expérience des infirmières Noires exerçant dans la région de la capitale nationale (Ottawa-Gatineau). Recherches féministes, vol. 38, nº 2, 2025 : 147-173

Elizabeth Boyd, Mireille Norris, Idrissa Beogo (2025).
Challenges Faced by Francophone Older Adults and their Caregivers in Toronto's Long-Term Care System: An Exploratory Case Study of Service Delivery by the Centre Francophone du Grand Toronto and the Centre D’Acceuil Heritage". Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 28 (4).