Stephanie Priest is the Acting Director General of the Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing at the Public Health Agency of Canada (the Agency). The Centre provides public health leadership on mental health promotion, suicide prevention, prevention of substance-related harms and family and gender-based violence prevention.

An arm of the Government of Canada's Health Portfolio, the Agency's goals include strengthened intergovernmental collaboration on public health and facilitating national approaches to public health policy and planning. Stephanie and her team work with stakeholders across Canada to help foster environments that support mental health for children, youth and families, including programs focused on reducing health inequities.

Since 2015, Stephanie has represented the Canadian government on the Sponsoring Country Leadership Group (SCLG) of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL). Recently she is serving as Vice Chair of the SCLG and co-chair of the Public Health Leaders Council.

Stephanie has over 20 years of experience in health policy development in the federal government of Canada. She has worked extensively in leadership, management, and health care systems policy.