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Acting Deputy Administrator of SAMHSA

Kana Enomoto, M.A.

Kana Enomoto currently serves as the Acting Deputy Administrator (Chief Operating Officer), for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). In this role, Ms. Enomoto shares responsibility with the Administrator to provide executive direction and leadership for an agency with 500+ employees and a fiscal year budget of approximately $3.3 billion.

Ms. Enomoto also serves as the Principal Senior Advisor to the Administrator and coordinates Agency activities on behalf of the Administrator across the full spectrum of mental health and substance abuse policy issues, SAMHSA’s grant and contracts portfolio, human capital management, process improvement, and interagency/intersectoral collaborations.  Ms. Enomoto also serves as SAMHSA’s Acting Associate Administrator for Women's Services and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Women’s Services.

Prior to joining the Office of the Administrator, Ms. Enomoto worked in SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services where she played key roles in the development of seminal behavioral health policy documents such as Transforming Mental Health Care in America: The Federal Action Agenda and The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Final Report and the Surgeon General’s Supplemental Report on Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity. She also was a lead evaluator on the $40 million SAMHSA Multi-Site Study on Women, Co-occurring Disorders, and Violence. 

Since coming to HHS as a Presidential Management Intern (Fellow) in 1998, Ms. Enomoto has worked to raise the profile of women’s and minorities’ mental health and substance abuse issues at the federal level.  Prior to entering the federal government, she was a research associate at the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ms. Enomoto’s background is in clinical psychology and she received her bachelors and masters degrees from UCLA.

Last Update: 9/29/2008