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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.
Jalisa Karim
Jalisa graduated from the University of Waterloo with a BMath in Biostatistics and BA in Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies. She is now a PhD student at UBC in Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences, where her research focuses on endometriosis and infertility.
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Jamie Benham
Dr. Benham is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences. Her research focuses on the interplay between endocrine disease, physical activity and cardiometabolic health. Dr. Benham completed degrees in Human Kinetics and Medicine at the University of British Columbia, followed...
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Jana Radosavljevic
Jana is a first-year Neuroscience MSc student at McMaster University. She previously completed her HBSc at the University of Toronto, specializing in Neuroscience, with a major in Psychology and a minor in Biology. Prior to starting her graduate studies, she worked in clinical research at SickKids on various projects investigating...
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Janet Currie
Janet Currie was a founder and principal of Focus Consultants, (Victoria BC), where she completed over a hundred major research and evaluation projects for the federal, provincial and territorial governments. This research addressed women’s health and addictions, regulation of pharmaceutical products, and government programs for domestic violence, child support, separation...
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Janet Webber
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Janny Xue Chen Ke
Janny Xue Chen Ke, MD, FRCPC, is an anesthesiologist and researcher with an interest in improving outcomes after surgery through patient engagement and analysis of population datasets. She has been involved in research in the development and implementation of a mobile application for women after Cesarean delivery, focused on education...
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Jansie Nel
Jansie Nel is an MSc candidate in Kinesiology, Exercise Health and Physiology, at the University of Calgary. Conducting her research in the Brain Health Lab under the supervision of Dr. Cindy Barha, Jansie’s work focuses on understanding sex differences in the relationship between physical activity and late-life cognition in ethnically...
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Jasleen Kaur
Jasleen Kaur received her BSc (Honours) from University of Calgary in 2022. Her honours research focused on examining the rates and predictors of anxiety and depression among partners of pregnant individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic, under the guidance of Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen. Currently, Jasleen is a first-year Clinical Psychology graduate...
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Jasmeen Sran
Jasmeen Sran is a Bachelor of Science student in Health Sciences at Simon Fraser Univeristy, concentrating in Public Health and Data. She is the Co-Lead of the Surrey Youth Newcomer Council (SYNC), Co-Founder of Women’s Wellness Connect, and Founder of BC’s Childhood Cancer Society, initiatives through which she has advancing...
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Javiera Navarrete
Javiera (she/her) is a PhD student in Health Services and Policy Research at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is interested in the scope of pharmacy practice, health services, access to care, tailored healthcare approaches for equity-deserving populations, and community-based health research. Her current research explores the role of...
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Jeannie Shoveller
Dr. Jeannie Shoveller, PhD, is a Professor at UBC’s School of Population & Public Health and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is also the Associate Director and Director of Research at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity and the Director of Research at...
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Jeffrey Man Hay Wong
Dr. Jeff Wong (he/him) is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences at McMaster University and Doctor of Medicine at the University of Toronto before moving to Vancouver for residency training in...
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