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Ivana Jaric
Dr. Ivana Jaric is a Group Leader at the Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland. From the early stages of her career, she has focused on female reproductive health. She earned her PhD from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, where she studied the effects of phytoestrogens on...
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Iveta Gavljak
Iveta Gavljak is currently a PhD Candidate at Neuroscience Research Australia. Iveta utilises various preclinical models to investigate sex-specific neurobiological mechanisms underpinning neurodevelopmental psychiatric illnesses, with a focus on neuroimmune alterations in schizophrenia.
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Jacqueline Gahagan
Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University Medical sociologist (PhD) and credentialed evaluator (CE) conducting sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) of health promotion and public health interventions aimed at understanding their impacts on equity-deserving populations in relation to housing, primary health, and education.
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Jacqueline Phillips
Jacqueline Phillips is a counselling psychology graduate from the Honours Bachelor of Counselling Psychology program at Georgian College in Ontario, Canada. Her research examines the menopause transition through a biopsychosocial and interpretive lens, with a particular focus on how professionals understand and support women navigating the cognitive, emotional, relational, and...
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Jacquie Baker
My current research focuses on women’s heart and brain health in cardiovascular autonomic disorders. I primarily conduct research in patients with 1) Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome; a chronic disabling disorder characterized by hemodynamic instability that primarily affects young females (90-95%), and 2) neurogenic orthostatic hypotension; a debilitating condition that affects...
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Jacynthe L'Heureux
Jacynthe L’Heureux is a doctoral student in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Wei Zhang focusing on health economics. Her work includes publications on caregiving, labour force participation and the measurement of work productivity loss. Her research centers...
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Jade Boyd
Jade Boyd, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use. She draws upon qualitative, ethnographic and community-based methods to examine social, structural and environmental factors that impact people who use drugs,...
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Jahin Ali Khan
Jahin Ali Khan is a PhD Candidate in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics program at Western University. Using health administrative data, she is studying sex and gender differences in the risk of psychotic disorders among migrants in Ontario.
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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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