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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.
Heather Edgell
I am an Associate Professor at York University, Toronto, Canada. My research has a focus on women’s cardiovascular and autonomic health. I investigate physiological mechanisms that have been shown to have sex differences and I investigate the roles of the menstrual cycle and/or oral contraceptive use. Further, I have a...
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Heather Hollman
I am a PhD student in the UVic Behavioural Medicine Lab. My dissertation is on the promotion of tailored physical activity among postpartum individuals with lumbopelvic pain.
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Heather Noga
Heather Noga has a Master’s Degree in International and Comparative Criminal Justice from the University of Leeds. She works as a Research Manager at the Women’s Health Research Institute.
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Helen Brown
Dr. Brown’s program of research brings critical perspectives to studies aimed at improving health and social equity for rural and remote Indigenous communities. Using community-based and participatory methods she has worked with First Nations communities across Western Canada on projects that align with community priorities around health, wellness, cultural continuity...
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Helen Okoye
I am a Lecturer at Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Nigeria. I am currently in a PhD program at University of British Columbia School of Nursing. My dissertation is focusing on adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
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Helen Tremlett
Professor Helen Tremlett, PhD is the Canada Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis and Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Neurology and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Dr Tremlett’s research program is funded through operating and foundation grants...
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Helena Rodriguez Caro
I am an early-career researcher interested in women’s health and the vascular system. Currently, I am working at The University of Lausanne thanks to an SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. During my fellowship I am investigating the plasticity of the vascular system in the maternal gastrointestinal tract during pregnancy, under the mentorship...
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Hermandeep Deo
I am currently a PhD student at the University of British Columbia. My research focuses on the social, political, and economic intersections in women’s health.
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Hilary Brown
Hilary Brown, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Health & Society (Scarborough Campus) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is cross-appointed to the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and is an Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Hospital...
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Holly Dempster
Holly Anne Dempster, BSc (Hon), MSc, is a medical student at Memorial University of Newfoundland (graduating class of 2021). She completed her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science from University of Ottawa in 2016 and contributed to the publication, “COX2 is Induced in the Ovarian Epithelium During Ovulatory Wound Repair...
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Holly Hunsberger
Holly is a postdoctoral scientist with a dual appointment at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI/RFMH). She received her PhD from West Virginia University in Dr. Miranda Reed’s laboratory. There, she studied glutamate’s role in Alzheimer’s disease pathology using novel microelectrode array technology. She is now...
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Holly Mathias
Holly Mathias, MA, is a PhD student, Vanier Scholar and 2023 Trudeau Scholar in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. Holly holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Global Development Studies and English Literature from Queen’s University, and a Master of Arts in Health Promotion and...
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