Branka Agic
Dr. Branka Agic is a Scientist with Education Research at CAMH. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Associate Director of the Master of Science in Community Health in Addiction and Mental Health Program at DLSPH, University of Toronto.
Dr. Agic holds a PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences with a Collaborative Specialization in Addiction Studies from the University of Toronto, along with a Medical Degree from the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr. Agic has extensive experience in continuing professional development and knowledge mobilization, strong background in instructional design and technology-enhanced teaching and learning, and expertise in health equity and social determinants of health. Her research interest focuses on advancing equity in education and health care.
Sean Kidd
Dr. Sean Kidd is a Senior Scientist with the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition and the Division Chief of Psychology at CAMH and an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Kidd's areas of focus have included developing and trialing interventions for individuals with severe mental illnesses and youth who have experienced homelessness. This work has included critical time interventions for youth exiting homelessness, digital health interventions for schizophrenia and opioid addiction, and community-based cognitive interventions. He has also worked extensively in the area of climate change and health equity.
Raelene Prieto
Raelene Prieto has spent the past two decades working in clinical support, developing partnerships, building strategic directions and creating sustainable outcomes. Working on stellar teams, Raelene has honed her expertise providing Leadership Development, Mental Health Clinical Care and Management solutions.
Over her tenure Raelene has had the opportunity to work in several dynamic spaces. In the Community Health sector she was a psychotherapist working with racialized and underserved communities; as well as, facilitated training with agencies such as WHIWH, OCASI, ACCHO, Center for Victims of Torture and Rexdale Women’s Center. She previously worked as a Relationship Manger in a psychologically-based Leadership Development firm.
As Clinical Manager of Work Stress Health Clinic and Back on Track Services at CAMH, Raelene guides team strategies and promotes quality of care through best practices, committed to intersectionality and health equity.
Wangari Tharao
Wangari Tharao is the Director of Research and Programs at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands, a community health centre that provides primary healthcare services for African, Caribbean, Latin American and South Asian women in Toronto. She is a community-based HIV researcher and health advocate, focused on issues relevant to women living in Canada who have migrated from countries with HIV epidemics, mainly from Africa and the Caribbean. Her research bridges knowledge generation, programmatic and policy practice to optimize the health and wellbeing of racialized women.
She has co-founded networks to support Black populations including The African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario; The Canadian HIV/AIDS African, Black and Caribbean Network; and the African and Black Diaspora Global Network on HIV and AIDS. Wangari is a member of the Black Expert Working Group who provides advice to the Canadian National HIV/AIDS Surveillance System to improve race and/or ethnicity data collection and rebuild trust around PHAC’s commitment to pursuing the development of anti-racist and decolonial approaches.