Abanti Chowdhury
Ph. D. Scholar working on early-life stress and how it affects both the sexes
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Our Expert Database is designed to connect you with multidisciplinary women’s health researchers, professors, post-doctoral fellows, and more. Use this platform to find a collaborator for your research project, identify an expert to comment on current events or discover a supervisor for your graduate work. On top of that, if you’re seeking trainees to support your work you can find them here too.
You may find experts by name, career type, and/or by entering keywords in the “area of research expertise” to narrow your search. For instance, if your research focus is brain health and understanding progressive disease, you can find experts with knowledge in these areas by entering keywords like “Alzheimer’s” or “Dementia”.
Aditi Basdeo
Aditi Basdeo is an entrepreneur, engineer, and advocate building at the intersection of sustainability, women’s health equity, and innovation. She began her impact journey in 2018 by founding Champions of Change Canada, a youth-led nonprofit that has since mentored over 150 young leaders to launch microbusinesses advancing gender equity around...
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Adriana Angarita-Fonseca
Adriana Angarita Fonseca is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in sex and gender in cardiovascular epidemiology at McGill University. Her career journey has been shaped by a multidisciplinary background encompassing physiotherapy, epidemiology, biostatistics, and population health. Adriana’s career goals are to drive innovative and impactful research in sex and gender in...
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Afreen Zaib Safi
My passion for biotechnology is driven by a deep-seated desire to address real world health challenges, particularly those that disproportionately affect women. As a B.Tech. student, I’ve sought to apply my academic knowledge in genetics and molecular biology to projects with tangible health implications. My work on investigating chemical safety...
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Ahmad Mohammad
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Alana Brown
Alana Brown is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Gillian Einstein. Alana strives to use her training in statistics, functional and structural neuroimaging, and neuroendocrinology to understand the effects of ovarian hormones on cognition, sleep microstructure, and brain health. She studies these factors...
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Alana Castle
Alana Castle is a Master of Public Health Student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, graduating in December of 2024. She has served as the Research Project Assistant for two NIH-funded studies at the Women’s Biobehavioral Health Laboratory, the MsBrain2 Study (P.I.s...
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Aleksandra Erak
Graduate research student passionate about women’s health, specifically perinatal mental health.
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Alesia Prakapenka
Dr. Alesia Prakapenka is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Sciences (IL) at Midwestern University. Her research program investigates women’s health across the lifespan using translationally relevant rodent models, with a particular focus on how physiological changes contribute to age-related cognitive decline.
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Alex DeCasien
Alex DeCasien, PhD, is an evolutionary neuroscientist and computational biologist dedicated to improving human health outcomes. Their research efforts are directed at understanding the underlying causes of sex/gender differences in the prevalence and presentation of neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. DeCasien received their BS, MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees from New York...
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Alex Lukey
Alex is a second-year MSN student at UBC Okanagan. She is also currently practicing as a Registered Nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver in cardiology and cardiac surgery. Alex’s research passions include applying technology to improve patient self-care and improving women’s health equity with population-based data. Alex’s thesis research is focusing...
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Alexa Govette
Alexa is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Jenna Gillen in the Exercise, Nutrition and Health Lab. Her research focuses on understanding how exercise and nutrition can be used to improve cardiometabolic health in women, and mitigate the risk of developing type 2...
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