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Emily Anne Opala2025-12-10 12:00:562025-12-11 08:54:24Perinatal Mental Health Pioneer: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother Honoured with 2025 PWHR Mid Career Excellence AwardLet us Feature Your Work
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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.
Maya Zaidan
Maya Zaidan is a mental health advocate at heart. She has a diverse set of research experiences which began with the Neurodiversity Foundation in Amsterdam in 2020, and most recently, she has completed her MSc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, which included a practicum...
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Md Saiful Alam
Saiful is starting his PhD at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He is part of the FOCAL research team that is fighting against cervical cancer worldwide. His overall research goal is to improve women’s health by contributing to the elimination of cervical cancer through the lens...
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Meejin Park
Meejin is currently completing her M.Sc. at McMaster University’s Muraca Perinatal Epidemiology Research Lab (PERL). Her academic journey began at the University of Toronto, where she majored in Neuroscience and Health Studies, with a minor in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health. She is currently working on her thesis titled “Elucidating...
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Meenakshi Malhotra
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Megan Kadzirange
My name is Megan Kadzirange and I am an international Undergraduate student from Zimbabwe, studying Psychology at the University of British Columbia. My interests include global and public health, particularly women’s health in rural, low-income and/or Indigenous communities. Additionally, I am passionate about creative and academic writing, and how both...
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Megan Pilatzke
As an autistic person with over 30 years of lived experience, I am a thought leader and I am passionate about promoting acceptance, inclusion, and accessibility in society – particularly, in the workplace – of autistic and neurodivergent people. The workplace/employment is my main area of research interest because of...
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Megan Udala
I am a third year Ph.D. student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of British Columbia. My research has focused on forensic psychology issues, specifically focusing on discrimination in the justice system. My clinical work has focused on neuropsychology in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
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Meggie Gilmour
Meggie Gilmour is a dedicated healthcare professional with a passion for mental health research, especially for women. She is a registered nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Ottawa and is currently working towards a Master of Science in Health Systems at the Telfer School of Management. With...
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Mei Sun
Mei Sun, Ph.D., RN Vice Dean & Professor, Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University Vice Dean, School of Nursing, Xinjiang Medical University No.172 Tongzipo Road Yuelu district, Changsha, 410013, China No.168 Youyi South Road, Urumqi, 830054, China Tel.: +86 13787793984 (China)
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Melanie Kowalczyk
I’m a PhD student at the SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland, under the supervision of Dr. Izabela Krejtz and Dr. Monika Kornacka. My current research project focuses on the relationship between female hormones, anxiety and cognitive functions.
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Melina Albanese
Melina is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. Melina holds a PhD in Public Health Sciences (specialization: Epidemiology) from the University of Toronto (2025), a MSc in Population and Public Health (2021) from the University of British Columbia, and a BSc...
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Melissa Perreault
Dr. Perreault is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Guelph and is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada. She acquired her PhD in behavioural neuroscience from McMaster University followed by additional training...
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