Sheena Taha, PhD

Associate Director, Quality and Accountability

Sheena Taha's Area of expertise

  • Cannabis
  • Harm Reduction
  • Opioids
  • Treatment

Roles and responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities

Sheena leads and develops the highly collaborative diverse team in CCSA’s Quality and Accountability stream. She provides scientific direction and expertise in enhancing services that support individuals’ well-being and increasing access and availability to quality substance use health care. Sheena is also responsible for establishing strong working relationships and actively collaborating with key internal and external partners, with a particular focus on people experiencing health and social inequities.

About Sheena

Biography

Sheena Taha finds the most intriguing part of her role at CCSA is developing partnerships to understand knowledge needs and then blending research findings with the partners’ experiential evidence.

Her interest in mental health and substance use led Sheena to join CCSA in June 2013. She hopes that her ongoing work will contribute to a better understanding of the social and structural determinants of health, and to the availability of a complete continuum of care to anyone who wishes to receive support.

Sheena has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from Wilfred Laurier University. She holds a Master of Science and a PhD — in both health psychology and neuroscience — from Carleton University.