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 earch-presentation/
SUMMARY:Trainee Research Presentation
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\nHelen Okoye\, Ph. D.\, University of British Col
 umbia\nPresentation Title: Intersecting social statuses\, structural driv
 ers\, and power dynamics in adolescent girls’ and young women’s sexual
  and reproductive health risks and vulnerabilities in sub-Saharan Africa\n
 \nBio: Helen Okoye is a third year Ph.D. student at the University of Bri
 tish Columbia School of Nursing. She is a registered nurse\, midwife\, and
  public health nurse educator. She holds a B. Sc and M.Sc. degrees in nurs
 ing. She is an experienced clinical nurse practitioner and nurse educator.
  She has contributed to the advancement of nursing for many years\, both i
 n diploma and baccalaureate nursing programs. She is a fellow of the West 
 African College of Nursing and has been involved in outreach programs of t
 he college in southeast\, Nigeria. Her research interests are in the areas
  of maternal\, child and adolescent health. She has published articles\, p
 resented conference papers\, and attended several conferences locally and 
 internationally. She has a passion for making significant contributions in
  nursing\, locally and globally.\n\n\n\n\nSabrina Ge\nPresentation Title:
  Adolescent Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Reward Processing\n\nBio: Sab
 rina obtained her B.Sc. in Integrated Science (Psychology and Microbiology
 ) from UBC. Her interests lie in investigating factors that may confer vul
 nerability to depression\, including changes in sex hormone levels\, defic
 its in hedonic and reward processing as well as perfectionistic personalit
 y traits and interpersonal behaviours.\n\n\n\n\nCara Anne Davidson\, MSc\n
 Presentation Title: MPOWER: Impacts of COVID-19 Physical Distancing on Wo
 men Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence at Home in Canada\n\n@CaraADavi
 dson\n\nBio: Cara attended Western University from 2016-2020\, where she 
 got her Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences and developed an unfortunat
 e dependency on coffee. Her research interests revolve around women’s he
 alth\, including topics like breastfeeding\, maternal-infant health\, and 
 intimate partner violence. The thesis of her MSc examines the influence(s)
  of income on experiences of intimate partner violence during the COVID-19
  pandemic. She is also working on side projects regarding maternal decisio
 n making regarding a COVID-19 vaccine for children and the unique health i
 mpacts faced by women with disabilities who experience violence during the
  COVID-19 pandemic. Cara is supported by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship 
 and again\, copious amounts of coffee.\n\n\n\n\nLaura Pritschet\, Universi
 ty of California Santa Barbara\nPresentation Title: Applying dense-sampli
 ng to reveal dynamic endocrine modulation of large-scale functional brain 
 networks across a human menstrual cycle.\n\nBio: Laura Pritschet is a gra
 duate student in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Cal
 ifornia\, Santa Barbara. She leverages techniques from network neuroscienc
 e and neuroendocrinology to explore how sex steroid hormones impact human 
 brain function across hormonal transition periods. The goal of her researc
 h is to improve the utility of sex hormones as markers of vulnerability fo
 r neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders that are disproportionately 
 skewed towards women. Additionally\, Laura is passionate about women’s h
 ealth research and is an advocate for women’s representation in STEM.\n\
 n\n\n\nNatalie Brown\, Ph.D.\, University of British Columbia\nPresentatio
 n Title: Assessing Different Presentations of Low Desire: An Eye-tracking
  Investigation\n\nBio: Natalie Brown is a PhD student in the UBC Clinical
  Psychology program\, working under the supervision of Drs. Lori Brotto an
 d Alan Kingstone. She completed her MA in Clinical Psychology at UBC\, and
  her thesis explored the cognitive mechanisms underlying sexual attraction
  and desire\, with a specific focus on asexuality and Sexual Interest/Arou
 sal Disorder. She is also involved with IMMERSIVE\, a study investigating 
 women's subjective sexual responses to virtual reality (VR) erotica\, and 
 she plans to evaluate VR as a clinical tool for the treatment of genito-pe
 lvic pain/penetration disorder (GPPPD) in her PhD. Natalie is also one of 
 the coordinators of the COVERS study\, which investigates the short- and l
 ong-term impacts of COVID-19 related social changes on sexual and reproduc
 tive health. Overall\, her research program aims to improve our understand
 ing of sexual difficulties and develop evidence-based interventions for in
 dividuals with distressing sexual concerns.\n\n\n\nFor more information\, 
 please contact Trainee Co-lead Alex Lukey at alukey13@gmail.com.\n\n&nbsp
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