Susan Hardie
Dr. Susan Hardie (PhD, MSW, B.Ed., H.BSc.) is the Executive Director of Eviance, a community-based knowledge hub on cross-disability issues inclusive but not limited to mental health, and Adjunct Professor School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health at York University.
She served as a Senior Policy and Research Officer and as a team member of the Mental Health Strategy Team, Mental Health Commission of Canada, that developed the first mental health strategy in Canada (2012), an evidence-based document that was informed by intersectionality, and reflexivity.
Dr. Hardie has dedicated her life to realizing transformative structural and system change in mental health and social justice as a policy analyst, researcher, educator, clinician, service provider, advocate, and grassroots community organizer in her community, provincial/territorially, nationally and internationally.
Throughout her career she has had a “foot in two worlds”, continuously working to bridge the ongoing gap between the collective, diverse lived experiences of persons with mental health issues, and the broader mental health and civil society stakeholders.