Shahram, Sana

• Social determinants of health
• Health equity
• Substance Use
• Indigenous wellness
• Public health systems and services
• Maternal and child health

A Perinatal Collaborative Community Laboratory on Substance Use and Harm Reduction: The Mothering Co/Lab
PI: Sana Shahram
Co-Is: Karen Urbanoski, Bernie Pauly, Christopher Horsethief, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh
Date: 2022-2025
Funded by: SSHRC Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative $450,000

Promoting Health Equity Through Anti-Colonial Health Systems Transformation: The xacqanal itkinil (Many Ways of Working on the Same Thing) Research Project
PIs: Sana Shahram, Christopher Horsethief, Sophie Pierre, Bernadette M Pauly
Co-Is:  Alexandra Kent, Shaunee Murphy, Smokii Sumac
Date:  2021 – 2026
Funded by: CIHR $960,000

Gaining CLARITY in the prevention of youth suicide: from pilot to partnership
Co-PIs: Sana Shahram, Katrina Plamondon
Co-Is: Shelly Ben-David
Date: 2021-2022
Funded by: SSHRC Connection Grant $75,000

Homelessness: Identifying technology and service delivery solutions to reduce homelessness in vulnerable populations
PI: John R. Graham
CoIs: Shirley Chau, Gordon Lovegrove, Sana Shahram, Eric Li, Paul van Donkelaar, Trevor Corneil, Kyleen Myrah, Alina Turner, Kerry Rempel
Date:  2020 – 2023
Funded by: UBCO Eminence Research Cluster Fund

BC Community Network of Substance Use Observatories: Monitoring and Informing Public Responses to Substance Use
Co-PIs: Bernie Pauly, Karen Urbanoski
Co-Is:  Sana Shahram, Bruce Wallace, Nathan Lachowksy, Dan Reist, Jane Buxton
Date: 2019-2024
Funded by: Health Canada Substance Use and Addictions Program

xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ (Many Ways of Working Together): Laying the Foundation for a Participatory Action Research Project Plan
PI: Sana Shahram
Co-Is:  Christopher Horsethief; Bernie Pauly; Hereditary Chief Sophie Pierre; Alexandra Kent
Date: 2019-2020
Funded by: Vancouver Foundation

The CLARITY (Community-Led Actions for Resiliency Important Throughout Youth) Research Program
Co-PIs:  Sana Shahram, Katrina Plamondon
Co-Is: Shelly Ben-David, Melissa Feddersen, Deanne Taylor,  Tom Kemp, Jocelyn Lynette, Leslie Bryant
Date: 2018 – 2021
Funded by: KGH Foundation, Blenk Family Fund, Interior Health

For a list of Dr. Shahram’s publications, please visit her Google Scholar profile here: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=0_nkq5QAAAAJ

Society for Research on Adolescents (2021). A Systematic Literature Review of Resiliency Factors to Prevent Youth Suicide: A conversation with Dr. Sana Shahram. [Blog Post. March 29, 2021]  https://www.s-r-a.org/all-blogs/a-systematic-literature-review-of-resiliency-factors-to-prevent-youth-suicide-a-conversation-with-dr-sana-shahram