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Our members are dedicated to advancing women’s health and do so through their roles as scientists, students, patient advocates, journalists, nonprofit professionals, healthcare practitioners, civil servants, and more. With over 1200 members across more than 46 countries worldwide, our members are driving change by conducting cutting-edge research, influencing policy, and fostering collaborations that improve health outcomes for women globally.

Member News

Rising Researcher Advancing Women’s Brain Health: Dr. Pia Campagna Receives Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award

Dr. Pia Campagna, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a member of the Women’s Health Research Cluster, has been named a recipient of the Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award by the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD). This award recognizes promising early-career researchers advancing innovative research on…
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Rising Researcher and Advocate: Dr. Bonnie Lee Advancing Women’s Brain Health

Dr. Bonnie Lee, Lead of Research and Advocacy at the Women’s Health Research Cluster and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, is emerging as a powerful voice in women’s brain health and Alzheimer’s disease research. Her work is helping to uncover critical sex-specific factors that shape how neurodegenerative diseases develop and progress.…
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Trailblazing: Dr. Neill Epperson Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Neill Epperson, Robert Freedman Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Anschutz School of Medicine, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. This distinction recognizes individuals whose outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service have made a profound impact on the advancement of medical science…
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Connect With Our Members

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.

Madison Lackie

Madison Lackie

Graduate Student University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Madison Lackie, a Master’s of Science student in the UBC Reproductive and Developmental Sciences program, working primarily out of the Women’s Health Research Institute at BC Women’s Hospital. Her research interests focus on postpartum depression and the use of technology to support healthcare. Madison completed her Bachelor of Science with...
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Magdalena Martínez-García

Magdalena Martínez-García

Postdoctoral Researcher University of California, Santa Barbara Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dr. Martínez García, a postdoctoral researcher in human neuroscience, holds a degree in Biotechnology from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2015) and a master’s degree in Neuroscience from the Universitat de Barcelona (2016). She completed her PhD in Biomedical Science and Technology (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) at the Group...
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Maggie Woo Kinshella

Maggie Woo Kinshella

Study Coordinator Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Maggie Woo Kinshella (@MaggieWooK on Twitter) is the Global Health Research Coordinator with PRE-EMPT (PREgnancy Evidence, Monitoring, Partnerships and Treatment), IMCHA (Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa) and BEMEQ (Burden Ethnographic Modeling Evaluation Qaujilisaaqtuq) projects in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pathology at UBC. She works...
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Maha Khawaja

Maha Khawaja

PhD Student McMaster University Gender, Society, and Health
Maha Khawaja is a Health and Society PhD student at McMaster University conducting sexual health, wellbeing, and relationship research in a social psychology lab. Her focus is on how life-altering experiences such as cancer, radiation treatment, and pelvic pain shape intimacy and dyadic experiences. Maha’s goal is to develop better...
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Mahsa Jessri

Mahsa Jessri

Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) Food, Nutrition and Health
Dr. Mahsa Jessri is Faculty at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Assistant Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health in the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and an Associate Member in the Division of Health Services and Policy at the UBC School of Population and...
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Mai Wageh

Mai Wageh

PhD Candidate McMaster University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Mai Wageh is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular Exercise Physiology and Muscle Aging Lab as well as the Protein Metabolism Research Lab, supervised by Dr. Gianni Parise and Dr. Stuart Phillips, respectively. Her M.Sc. work looked at multi-ingredient protein supplementation and resistance training in healthy young men and...
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Maia Stelfox

Maia Stelfox

Undergraduate Student University of Toronto Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
I am currently a third-year student pursuing a BComm with a focus in Economics, Finance and Management from the University of Toronto. I previously worked a summer intern, providing research service and data analysis services for the University of Calgary and the Dalhousie University.
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Makayla Freeman

Makayla Freeman

PhD Student University of British Columbia Gender, Society, and Health
Makayla Freeman (she/they) received her BA (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Calgary in 2020, and her MA in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia in 2024 under the supervision of Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen. She is currently a PhD student at the University of British Columbia in...
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Makenna Gargus

Makenna Gargus

Masters Student University of Victoria Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
I am a masters student in the neuroscience laboratory of Dr. Marie-Eve Tremblay at the University of Victoria. I am studying the effect of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation in a model of maternal immune activation to determine how the treatment and infection affect the mothers pregnancy, as well as the...
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Manon Ranger

Manon Ranger

Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) School of Nursing
Dr. Manon Ranger conducts translational research, integrating preclinical investigations with clinical studies in preterm neonates undergoing intensive neonatal care to uncover mechanisms of vulnerability to early adversity (e.g. stress/pain, inflammation, treatments) in relation to brain development. She also investigates and tests methods to mitigate the adverse effects of these undesirable...
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Mansiya Kazantayeva

Mansiya Kazantayeva

Researcher Saint Petersburg State University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Molecular biologist and science communicator focused on women’s health education. MSc in Biology from Saint Petersburg State University, currently working as a research technician in clinical immunology. Research background includes inflammatory response modeling, cytokine profiling, and NGS-based diagnostics. Beyond the lab, I run science communication platforms reaching 150,000+ followers across...
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