Tara Elton-marshall PhD

Dr. Elton-Marshall is an Independent Scientist at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at CAMH. She is a Co-Head of the Population Health and Community Transformation (PHACT) section in IMHPR, and the Co-Principal Investigator of the CAMH Monitor, and the Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey (OSDUHS). OSDUHS is a provincially representative school-based survey of adolescents in Ontario and the longest ongoing school survey in Canada (since 1977). The CAMH Monitor is a provincially representative survey of adults (18 and older) in Ontario. Both surveys examine drug use and mental health. She is also a Co-PI on the Ontario Node of the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM), a strategic initiative funded by CIHR. CRISM is a national network of researchers, service providers, policy makers and people with lived experience across Canada. The goal is to conduct and translate evidence-based interventions for substance use to improve the health care system.

Dr. Elton-Marshall’s research evaluates addiction and substance use-related policies and programs with the goal of providing the evidence needed to strengthen future policy and programming and thus reduce addiction and substance use problems.