Principal Investigator
Dr. Elizabeth Keys
PhD, RN, CCHN(C)
(she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
UBC Okanagan
elizabeth.keys@ubc.ca
250-807-8344
Dr. Elizabeth Keys is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing. She has a clinical background in community and public health nursing focused on promoting child and family wellbeing in the community. The goal of her program of research is to promote and maintain infant and parental mental health by supporting parent-child interactions and sleep health. In her research, Dr. Keys examines how innovative approaches and models of care, such as eHealth and precision health, can be leveraged to contribute to sustainable health services transformation that results in real-world improvements in the lives of families. Dr. Key’s research is grounded in the value that genuine community and stakeholder engagement is essential to creating meaningful changes.
For more information about Dr. Keys, please visit her UBC Okanagan faculty page:
UBC Okanagan | Dr. Elizabeth Keys
Institute for Health Living and Chronic Disease Prevention page:
IHLCDP | Dr. Elizabeth Keys
Research Coordinator
BSc Psychology
Tai-Lin graduated from UBC Okanagan in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science Major in Psychology and Minor in Biology. She is currently working as a research coordinator in the SLUMBER Lab. Tai-Lin hopes to pursue graduate studies in psychology.
Graduate Students
PhD Student
Mahtab Matin completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Midwifery in Iran. She is currently a Ph.D. student of Nursing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Keys. She is interested in sleep science and increasing the health of child-bearing families. During her qualification, she mainly worked on biotic supplementation effects on human health. Mahtab’s doctoral work will focus on an interdisciplinary research project that combines a nursing and midwifery perspective with knowledge about microbiome and neuroscience to discover new ideas about how families of newborns can be supported in their health and wellbeing. Her research will integrate disciplinary knowledge from nursing, medicine, and behavioral health sciences to help advance and disseminate research informed by the lived experiences of infants and their caregivers.
Masters of Science in Nursing Year 1
Niki Soroush-Asghari is a Registered Nurse and a thesis-based Master of Science in Nursing Student supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Keys. Her research focuses on the effects of night shift on nurse retention and how sleep health plays a role in nursing students’ transition into the workforce. In the future, Niki hopes to complete a PhD so she can continue doing shiftwork research and so she can develop interventions to improve sleep health in nursing students.
Volunteers
3rd Year BSN student
1st Year BSN student
2nd year BSN student
Alumni
Research Coordinator
- Chantelle Recsky
Post-doctoral Fellow
- Dr. Jelena Komanchuk
Graduate Students
- Samira Kheirdariyar
- Sage Thomas
- Allison Kouroupis
Research Assistants
- Kayleigh Boogaart
- Quevie Reinz Abalde
- Renata Kanerva
- Rachael Ilesanmi
- Muskan Jaswal
- Kyra Jukes
- Nujhat Jahan
- Marina Ovsenek Manning
- Tristen Michael Ramsay
- Margeret Macdonald
- Andrea Tam
- Zara Soomro
- Mary Cabaluna