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Lori Jane Pasaraba
Lori Jane Pasaraba is a social science researcher with over a decade of experience conducting quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research in the Philippines, Singapore, and Canada. She holds an MA in Sociology and has worked on projects exploring immigration, mental health, social networks and health outcomes, and experiences of racism and their impact on well-being and support-seeking attitudes, including work with Statistics Canada survey and administrative datasets. She currently works at a community-based research firm consulting on evaluation, community engagement, and data audits, where she has led mixed-methods projects on grassroots empowerment, vehicle-for-hire needs, and settlement service evaluations.
This report finds that widespread experiences of discrimination, wage inequities, and job-related stress are contributing to retention challenges within Alberta’s allied health-care workforce — the professionals who support everything from emergency response and diagnostic testing to mental health and rehabilitation services.