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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.
Hanna Usatenko
2024 – PhD in Social Psychology. Research on alternative and augmentative communication as a factor of attachment in parent-child relationships. 2007 – MS in Educational Psychology. 2001 – BS in Nursing in Mental Health.
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Hannah Dykeman
Hannah is a first-year MSc student in the UBC Women+ and Children’s Health program. Her primary research interests involve investigating the etiologies, treatments, and health consequences of vulvar pain disorders. Hannah aims to understand the biopsychosocial factors influencing vulvar pain with the goal of enhancing treatment options.
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Hannah Heselton
Hannah is a research coordinator for the Dao Research Lab at the University of New Hampshire. She studied community health and environmental science at Tufts University and hopes to begin medical school in the future.
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Hannah Kearney
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Hannah Westerberg
Hannah Westerberg is a 4th year PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota studying bone health in postmenopausal women. She is interested in many aspects of women’s health, especially as they pertain to exercise and sedentary behaviors.
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Harini Aiyer
I am a student of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. My training in global health, community health, and anti-oppressive methodologies allow me to engage respectfully with communities to build respectful, authentic partnerships with an emphasis on equitable outcomes. I draw on my experiences as an...
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Harlan Pruden
Harlan Pruden (Nēhiyo/First Nations Cree), works with and for the Two-Spirit community locally, nationally and internationally. Currently, Harlan is an Indigenous Knowledge Translation Lead at Chee Mamuk, an Indigenous health program at BC Centre for Disease Control and is also a co-founder of the Two-Spirit Dry Lab, Turtle Island’s first...
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Harleen Rai
Harleen Rai is a clinical psychology trainee with a research focus on women’s brain health across the lifespan. Her work examines the intersection of menopause, cognitive aging, and lifestyle factors, with a particular emphasis on immigrant and culturally diverse populations. Using an equity-focused lens, she explores how lifestyle factors, such...
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Harman Grewal
Harman is a second-year Master of Public Health student interested in centering capacity bridging between underserved communities and researchers to reduce health inequities. She is passionate about amplifying the experiences and voices of individuals with intersectional identities in health research so that these folks can meet their health and wellbeing...
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Harmit Bharaj
I was born in Kenya and moved to Zambia when I was two years old. I grew up in Zambia and in 1994 we left to live in India. I did my bachelors in India and I had done teachers training in Zambia already. I taught three schools in Ludhiana,...
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Harsheen Multani
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Heather Bimonte-Nelson
Heather Bimonte-Nelson is a President’s Professor in the Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology program in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. For more than three decades, she has conducted preclinical evaluations of multiple domains of cognitive function as related to aging, with a special focus on transitional and...
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