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Hasina Samji received her doctorate in infectious disease epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed her Master of Science in Epidemiology there as well. She holds a joint appointment as a Senior Scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control, focusing on population mental wellbeing and prevention in the Health Promotion Division. Dr. Samji leads the Capturing Health Resilience Trajectories (CHART) Lab, which is dedicated to identifying social structural determinants of mental health and mobilizing research to promote social justice in youth mental wellbeing. She is the Principal Investigator of the Youth Development Instrument (YDI), a provincial study aimed at measuring predictors of positive youth wellbeing, mental health, and development among high school students through youth engagement in its core design. Her public health role includes articulating a public mental health system that promotes positive mental health and wellbeing at a population level, in addition to monitoring and addressing mental illness. Dr. Samji studies the intersections between public health and educational systems to support the wellbeing of young people. She has received various awards, including the New Investigator Award from the Canadian Association for HIV Research in 2011 and the Michael Smith Foundation Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015. In 2022, she was awarded the SFU FHS Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award and the CIHR Pandemic Preparedness Health Emergencies Early Career Investigator Prize. She was inducted as a Kavli Fellow in 2023.
Department of Philosophy