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Joselyn Dionisio
Joselyn is a biologist interested in DOHaD and placental role during perinatal infections. She is currently completing her Master’s degree at Nagoya City University, in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Science. @JoselynDionisio
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Josephine Mary Violet Francis Xavier
Josephine as a researcher, is interested in broad areas like virtual reality in nursing education and practice, women’s mental health, perinatal mental health, father’s involvement in immigrant childbearing families, healthy behaviours of school-age children, neonatal pain relief, neonatal hypoglycemia, gender-inclusive language, and promotion of breastfeeding support. She actively takes part...
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Joyce Xi
Joyce Xi is a Biomedical Engineering student at the University of British Columbia. She is passionate about developing sex-specific treatments in biomedicine and applications of genetic engineering. Currently, Joyce works in Dr. Elizabeth Rideout’s lab on several projects to investigate sex-linked differences in metabolism and fat storage using fruit flies...
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Judy Segal
I teach courses in history and theory of rhetoric, and in rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine; I am a faculty member in the Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program. My research interests are both interdisciplinary, under the headings of “Science and Technology Studies” and “Health Humanities,” and disciplinary, under...
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Julia Dahlby
Julia Dahlby is a physiotherapist and PhD student at the University of British Columbia. After five years of treating patients with mild traumatic brain injuries, she took her passion for neurological rehabilitation back to academia and joined Dr. Lara Boyd’s Brain Behaviour Lab in 2021. Funded by CIHR, her research...
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Julia Santana Parrilla
Julia Santana Parrilla (she/her) received her MSc from UBC’s School of Population & Public Health in 2020. Her Thesis project “Anxiety and depression during pregnancy: primary antenatal care provider perspectives” provided qualitative descriptions of how anxiety and depression are addressed with pregnant people. Participants (Registered Midwives, Family Physicians, Obstetrician Gynecologists)...
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Julia Yates
Julia Yates is a first year PhD Student at Western University whose research focuses on health-promoting behaviours of equity-deserving populations, such as women experiencing gender-based violence. As an equity researcher, my methods are grounded in an intersectional lens wherein I focus on how the various mechanisms of marginalization impact health...
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Juliana Haney
Juliana Haney, MPH, MS is a Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate at West Virginia University. She will be starting her pre-doctoral internship at Allegheny General Hospital this upcoming July. Her research centers on improving detection and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders through exploring the influence of psychosocial factors during...
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Julie Robillard
Dr. Julie Robillard is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia, Scientist in Patient Experience at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital and Director of the Neuroscience, Engagement and Smart Tech (NEST) lab. She is Chair of the Ethical, Legal, Social Impacts Committee of the Canadian Consortium on...
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Juliet Nwafor
Juliet Nwafor is a Doctoral Researcher at The School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Prior to this, she worked as a Research Assistant at Lagos Business School, where she contributed her quota to management research. She also worked as a Human Resources Intern at the Economic Commission West African...
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Juliette Langelier
Having graduated from Concordia University with a BSc in Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology and a specialization in Athletic Therapy, I am pursuing my studies at UBC through the Women+’s and Children’s Health Sciences program. My master’s thesis, under the supervision of Dr. Anita Coté and Dr. Christine Voss, will...
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Justin Matheson
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Translational Addiction Research Laboratory at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. I previously completed my PhD in Pharmacology & Toxicology at the University Toronto. My research program focuses on understanding how both sex and gender influence cannabis and other...
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