Farah Qaiser

Title: Director of Research and Policy at Evidence for Democracy

Expert Overview

Farah Qaiser is an expert on issues of science policy, Canadian science, genomics, women in science and STEM.

Farah currently serves as the Canada Chief Science Advisor's Youth Council, 500 Women Scientists' leadership team and Let's Talk Science's Board of Directors. She previously served as the Director of Research and Policy at Evidence for Democracy, where she led various activities, including original research, educational training and issue campaigns, to promote the transparent use of evidence in government decision-making.

In this role, Farah led the Eyes on Evidence II research project to assess the transparency of evidence usage in 100 policies from the Government of Canada, and co-designed the Science To Policy Accelerator training program.

Farah holds a Master of Science in Molecular Genetics, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto. Previously, she worked as a researcher at the University Health Network’s Epilepsy Genetics Clinic, where she used genome sequencing to better understand epilepsies.

Farah co-founded the Toronto Science Policy Network, has written about science for multiple media outlets (including Forbes), and continues to organize Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons to create pages about under-represented scientists.