Sheena Taha, PhD

Associate Director, Quality and Accountability

Sheena Taha's Area of expertise

  • 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 Sheena works with a highly collaborative diverse team in CCSA’s Quality and Accountability stream to improve the quality of substance use health care for people living in Canada. She provides scientific direction and expertise in enhancing services that support individuals’ well-being and increasing access and availability to quality services. Working in partnership with the communities most affected, Sheena supports activities to set the standard of care and create accountability for the meaningful provision of a wide spectrum of services to meet individuals’ needs. 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 has a research background in stress, coping, and well-being and hopes that her ongoing work will contribute to a better understanding of the social and structural determinants of health.  

Her interest in mental health and substance use led Sheena to join CCSA in June 2013. 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.