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Our members are dedicated to advancing women’s health and do so through their roles as scientists, students, patient advocates, journalists, nonprofit professionals, healthcare practitioners, civil servants, and more. With over 1200 members across more than 46 countries worldwide, our members are driving change by conducting cutting-edge research, influencing policy, and fostering collaborations that improve health outcomes for women globally.

Member News

Rising Researcher Advancing Women’s Brain Health: Dr. Pia Campagna Receives Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award

Dr. Pia Campagna, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a member of the Women’s Health Research Cluster, has been named a recipient of the Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award by the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD). This award recognizes promising early-career researchers advancing innovative research on…
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Rising Researcher and Advocate: Dr. Bonnie Lee Advancing Women’s Brain Health

Dr. Bonnie Lee, Lead of Research and Advocacy at the Women’s Health Research Cluster and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, is emerging as a powerful voice in women’s brain health and Alzheimer’s disease research. Her work is helping to uncover critical sex-specific factors that shape how neurodegenerative diseases develop and progress.…
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Trailblazing: Dr. Neill Epperson Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Neill Epperson, Robert Freedman Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Anschutz School of Medicine, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. This distinction recognizes individuals whose outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service have made a profound impact on the advancement of medical science…
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Connect With Our Members

Our Expert Database connects you with multidisciplinary women’s health researchers, professors, and trainees. Use this platform to find a collaborator for your research project, identify an expert to comment on current events, discover a supervisor for your graduate work and more. Alternatively, browse the profiles below to get to know our members.

Cindy Nguyen

Cindy Nguyen

PhD Candidate University of Toronto Gender, Society, and Health
Cindy Nguyen is a PhD student at RSI where her thesis focuses on the intersection of sex, mental health, and traumatic brain injury. She holds an M.Sc in Rehabilitation Sciences and M.Eng in Biomedical Engineering. She is actively involved in academic leadership, serving as a program lead for research initiatives...
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Cindy-Lee Dennis

Cindy-Lee Dennis

Professor University of Toronto Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Cindy-Lee Dennis is a Professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She holds the Heather Reisman Chair in Perinatal Research at Mount Sinai Hospital and is a senior scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tannenbaum Research Institute at...
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Clair Enthoven

Clair Enthoven

Postdoctoral research fellow University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Dr. Clair Enthoven is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She has a background in Health Sciences and earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the Erasmus Medical Center in 2021. Clair continued her research through postdoctoral fellowships at both Erasmus University and...
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Claire de Oliveira

Claire de Oliveira

Senior Scientist The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Dr. Claire de Oliveira is an associate professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, a senior scientist/senior health economist at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a senior adjunct scientist...
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Claire Lunde

Claire Lunde

PhD Student University of Oxford Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
I am a Ph.D. student in the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford, and I work closely with the Biobehavioral Pain Innovations Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital to collect data on individuals with pain. My professional aspirations involve women’s health education and advocacy. I...
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Clara Gallay

Clara Gallay

PhD Student BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
I am a PhD student at the BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center, a research center located in Barcelona which focuses on investigating neurodegenerative diseases. My project examines the impact of female reproductive history on Alzheimer’s disease risk and trajectory. I am particularly interested in understanding how pregnancy and childbirth can interact...
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Clare Heggie

Clare Heggie

PhD Student University of New Brunswick Gender, Society, and Health
Clare Heggie is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick and the Research Coordinator for Wellness Within, an organization that supports women and gender diverse people who have experienced criminalization. She has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on the sexual and reproductive health experiences,...
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Claudia Barth

Claudia Barth

Researcher Diakonhjemmet Hospital Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Dr. Claudia Barth is a biologist by training who majored in neurobiology. During her PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Leipzig (Germany), she started working at the front-line of women’s health research by exploring the effects of hormonal transition states on mental illnesses and the brain...
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Claudia Calleja

Claudia Calleja

Journalist Woman Unclouded Gender, Society, and Health
I am a journalist with a passion for women’s issues all-round. Why? Because I was raised surrounded by women, I am a woman and I am now raising one. Over the years I have seen issues impacting women that range from physical, psychological and emotional. This is why I set...
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Claudia Paarmann-Chien

Claudia Paarmann-Chien

Principal Investigator Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
Dr. Claudia Paarmann-Chien (née Chien) is a Neuroscientist and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) PI at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, and Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Charité- University Hospital Berlin, Germany. Her research is focused on imaging correlates of long-term disability in neuroinflammatory...
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Cory Pedersen

Cory Pedersen

Faculty Kwantlen Polytechnic University Gender, Society, and Health
Cory Pedersen earned her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2004. After teaching many years as a graduate student at UBC and adjunct instructor at Kwantlen, Cory was hired as a Faculty member in the Department of Psychology at KPU in 2005. Her interest in human sexuality began...
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