We’re taking a field trip away from our regular Women’s Health Interrupted content to bring you a special mini series! Hosted by Dr. Marina Adshade and Damara Featherstone, this miniseries aims to find out what every women’s health researcher should know about socioeconomic status. Socioeconomic status is a combination of economic factors—like income, education and occupation—and social factors including gender, race, country of origin, and much more. By talking with experts in the arts and humanities, we will get to the bottom of this question, and show how important it is that we all work together, to improve women’s health.
Join us every second Wednesday of the month for 5 information packed episodes!
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5 November 2025
S3E5: How Birth Control Impacts Our Mood with Dr. Inger Sundström Poromaa
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29 October 2025
S3E4: Why Women Have More Severe Strokes Than Men with Dr. Farida Sohrabji
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15 October 2025
S3E2: How to Turn Women’s Health Research Into Reality with Rachel Bartholomew
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15 October 2025
S3E1: How Medical Research Ignores Half the Population with Dr. Cat Bohannon
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Field Trip Mini-series Podcast Co-Host | University of British Columbia
Dr. Marina Adshade is a faculty member at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. She is one of Canada’s foremost economics experts on the role of women in society and a major advocate for inclusive cultural reform, with the goal of increasing safety, competitiveness, and leadership.
Her unique approach to research applies a mix of economic, sociological, biological, and psychological theories and evidence to a wide range of social issues. She is a sought-after speaker, writer, and social commentator and has published over sixty opinion pieces and feature articles in the Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times (UK), Daily Mail (UK), Globe and Mail, Time Magazine, Psychology Today, the Daily Beast, and Buzzfeed.
Field Trip Mini-series Podcast Co-Host | University of British Columbia
Damara Featherstone (she/her) holds a B.Sc in Global Health, Nutrition, and Sustainable Food Systems from the University of British Columbia. Damara is the podcast coordinator and co-host of Women’s Health Interrupted: Field Trip. In this role, she co-hosts with Dr. Marina Adshade as well as researches, develops, and edits the mini series. Damara joined this project as she is passionate about knowledge translation and disseminating scientific knowledge beyond academia in an accessible way.
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