Dr. Hasina Samji is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, a Senior Scientist in Population Mental Well-being at the BC Centre for Disease Control, and the Director of the Capturing Health and Resilience Trajectories (CHART) Lab. She completed her PhD in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is an expert in youth mental health and well-being, intersectoral collaboration, linked datasets, and school health. Dr. Samji works in collaboration with youth themselves, as well as academic, community, clinical and policy partners to elucidate upstream skill development and structural supports for mental well-being promotion, mental illness prevention and positive trajectories for young people