Purnima Sundar, Executive Director, The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
Purnima Sundar (PhD) is the Executive Director at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (the Centre). With has almost 25 years of experience doing community-based, participatory action research, evaluation, implementation and knowledge mobilization in the areas of child and youth mental health and race/equity, Purnima sets the vision and strategy for the Centre. Her training has been in the fields of psychology and social work, with a focus on community development and social planning, and she is Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Since joining the Centre in 2008, Purnima has worked with government partners across ministries, agency leaders, and young people and their families across the province to ensure high quality, evidence-based mental health service delivery for Ontario’s children and youth.
