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Foruzan Bahrami
Has earned a B.Sc in Midwifery and a master’s degree in epidemiology with an endometriosis focus
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Frances Chen
Dr. Frances Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her research combines approaches from health psychology, social psychology, and neuroendocrinology to investigate how our social lives are connected to our mental and physical health. Her work examines how loneliness and social...
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Francesca Farina
Dr Francesca Farina is a Research Assistant Professor in the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, and a Senior Fellow with the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin. A trained neuroscientist, Dr. Farina leads a dedicated line of research on women’s brain health with a...
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Gail Hammond
Grounded in my professional practice as a nutrition educator in the community and in academia, my research activities have focused on: Gaining understanding of how decision-making processes influence women’s food choices and examining use of this information to improve food choice behaviours. Examining processes used to develop nutrition communication/education resources...
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Gayatri Saraf
I am a Clinical Fellow in mood disorders in the Department of Psychiatry at University of British Columbia. My research interests include novel imaging methods to visualise brain inflammation and microstructural changes in bipolar disorder. In addition, I am also interested in newer therapies in bipolar disorder.
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Gemma Sharp
I’m an Associate Professor in Reproductive and Mental Health Epidemiology and lead of the Menarche, Menstruation, Menopause and Mental Health (4M) consortium of researchers working at the intersection of female reproductive and mental health.
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Gentille Musengimana
Gentille Musengimana holds a master’s in clinical epidemiology from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She has a bachelor’s degree in Medical Bioscience from the University of The Western Cape in South Africa. After graduating from university, she worked part-time for the South African Medical Research Council as a...
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Geoffrey Cundiff
Dr. Geoffrey Cundiff is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are broad-based including epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders, surgical education, and prevention of maternal obstetrical trauma, and patient reported outcomes. He is perhaps, best known for outcomes research on...
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George Barreto
I earned my PhD in Neuroscience (2009) from Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain) under the supervision of Dr. Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura, studying the effects of neurosteroids on reactive glia with aging. My post-doctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine (2009-2011), under the mentorship of Dr. Rona Guiffard, focused on addressing...
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Ghazal (Eden) Faridi Haftkhani
Ghazal (Eden) Faridi Haftkhani (she/they) is an undergraduate psychology student at Toronto Metropolitan University, pursuing a minor in mathematics. Their research interests include prejudice and its effects on psychological and physical well-being, as well as the study of psychology in digital spaces.
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Gil Angela Dela Cruz
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Gilciane Ceolin
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