Bio: As a Co-Director of the Equity Science Lab and Lead researcher for the PHAIRNESS Research program at the University of British Columbia Okanagan’s School of Nursing, Sana’s work is at the forefront of interrogating and intervening on systems-level conditions that hold the problem of inequitable health outcomes in place. This includes applying a critical population health lens to things like: decolonizing health and social systems; moving our understandings and imagined solutions of pressing health problems upstream to address root causes; and, building better processes and data sources to evaluate the things that really matter to communities. She does this work in partnership with health systems, Indigenous scholars and Nations, and communities. Grounded in an intersectional and life-course approach, issues related to maternal, child, youth and family health, and their intersections with substance use, are a distinct population of interest in her work. Among other roles, she’s also the Nominated Principal Investigator for the innovative Grandmother-led initiative exploring equity-oriented surveillance, monitoring and reporting practices for perinatal substance use, The Mothering Co/Lab. This is the first-ever comprehensive application of the ground-breaking Grandmother’s Perspective approach to disaggregated data released by the BC Human Rights’ Commissioner’s office in 2020 and building on the Perinatal Substance Use Blueprint released in 2021. Sana is a recipient of the BC Reconciliation Award, as well as a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar, and a collaborating scientist with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.