Sapna Mahajan is an executive leader with more than 15 years of national and international experience in the health field, specifically leading public affairs, research, policy, and program implementation. She is currently the Director of Genomics in Society at Genome Canada responsible for providing strategic leadership to enhance awareness of genomics across the country and bridge the research-policy nexus.

For more than a decade, she was Director of Programs and Priorities at the Mental Health Commission of Canada, where she led ground-breaking work in the areas of workplace mental health, peer support, e-mental health, and suicide prevention.  In 2018, she was recruited to spend two years at Treasury Board Secretariat leading government-wide efforts in the areas of diversity, inclusion, mental health, and wellness.  She was involved in the development of the first in the world National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, and supported its adaptation and uptake across several sectors in Canada and in several countries around the world. She is Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Workplace Wellness and Resilience Working Group, member of the World Health Organization’s Guidelines Working Group, and Technical Committee Member for ISO’s Psychological health and safety at work: Guidelines.

She also held positions at the Queen’s Center for Health Services and Policy Research, as well as the William J Clinton Foundation and the Centre for International Health and Development. 

Sapna holds a master’s in international public health – Health Policy and Management from Boston University. She is a Canadian Healthcare Executive and a Project Management Professional. In 2015, she was chosen to participate in the Governor General Canadian Leadership Conference. 

She is an active community member volunteering with several charities and not for profit organizations, including as a Vice Chair of the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre Board of Directors and Board member of Mindful Employer, founding member of the Guardian Council for the United Kingdom based organization Togetherall, and as an International Expert Advisory Committee member for Aga Khan University’s Brain and Mind Institute.  Additionally, she recently was nominated to be on the Governor General’s Advisory Group on Mental Health.