Liisa Galea PhD

Dr. Liisa Galea is the inaugural Women Mind Treliving Family Chair in Women’s Mental Health, a Senior Scientist at CAMH, and leads the Women’s Health Research Cluster. She comes to CAMH after being a Professor at the University of British Columbia. Her PhD in Neuroscience (Western University) was followed by postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University.

Dr. Galea was a Distinguished University Scholar, NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award holder (2x), a Fellow at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Mortyn Jones Prize, and the Vancouver YWCA Women of Distinction award winner. She is the Principal Editor of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, the President of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, and co-vice-president of the Canadian Organisation for Sex and Gender Research. She serves on advisory boards, editorial boards, and peer review panels internationally and nationally. Dr. Galea is a tireless advocate for women’s health research and for sex and gender-based analyses to improve mental health for all.