Althea Sumabat
BA (Hons), MSW (Qualifying)
Student Academic Placement
Research Interests
Althea joined the Waypoint Research Institute in 2025 in a Student Academic Placement role. With a BA in Honours Comprehensive Psychology and minor in Criminology, she has had various experiences volunteering and working with refugees, children with autism, adults with learning and developmental disabilities, as well as adults and seniors in isolated populations struggling with their mental health. Althea’s capstone research project was in collaboration with a community organization to explore the misconceptions of islamophobia, within the post-COVID-19 context. Currently completing the last year of her Master’s of Social Work, with a focus in Mental Health & Health, specializing in Addiction Studies at the University of Toronto, she was also a Social Work student on an in-patient forensic unit at Waypoint.
Currently, Althea is working with Dr. N. Zoe Hilton, Dr. Elnaz Moghimi and Elke Ham, on the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Biopsychosocial Scoping Review, and support the planning of Storytelling for Change event, highlighting the importance of IPV lived experience research. She is passionate in her research journey, and integrating these learned evidence-based findings into direct practice, to mend the gap and better serve patients.
In her free time, Althea enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing sports and travelling.