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Emily Anne Opala2025-09-10 12:00:442025-09-10 10:32:41Dr. Jennifer Williams Receives OBI-Banting Discovery Award for Brain Health ResearchLet 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.
Nicole (Niki) Gervais
Nicole’s research programme aims to identify how and why individual factors (particularly sex) and different environmental conditions (social interactions, access to shelter, food) contribute to neuropsychiatric disease and treatment effectiveness by focusing on specific phenotypes relating to sleep-wake patterns, social interactions, and cognition across species. Previously, Nicole has studied the...
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Nicole Fofonoff
Nicole completed her MEd in Counseling Psychology from Simon Fraser University in May of 2022. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Vancouver.
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Nicole Moreira
I am a Registered Social Worker working at VHA Home HealthCare as a Research Associate. My area of research primarily focuses on engaging clients and point-of-care providers in research as partners (rather than participants), as well as investigating the mental health barriers faced by point-of-care providers.
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Nida Ali
Dr. Nida Ali is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her primary research objective is to understand the pathway that connects stress to disease (and resilience). She investigates the interactions and crosstalk among the biological (neuroendocrine, autonomic, and immune systems) and psychological (cognitive, emotional) processes that are...
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Nikki Lescano
I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Minnesota, researching differences in vascular health in postmenopausal women
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Nisha Malhotra
Dr. Malhotra’s work is that of an inter-disciplinary social scientist with a strong interest in questions related to Development, Gender and Global Health. Her recent work focuses on gender based violence and socio-economic determinants of health related behaviour (mostly in South Asia). Her current research examines the gender differences in...
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Nneka Kene-Ibeagha
I have a background in Medicine with a master’s degree in public health and currently in my first year MSc in Community and Population Health Sciences. Dedicated, passionate, and result-driven Public Health Specialist. Have over 8 years of relevant experience in research design and public health interventions with excellent communication...
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Noah Stewart
Noah is a current master’s student in the School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC and a recent graduate with a Bachelor’s in Medical Laboratory Science from UBC. His research focuses on scalable manufacturing of biomedical technologies and micro-nanofabrication. Noah is currently working with a team of graduate students and clinicians...
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Noelia Calvo
Noelia Calvo is a Linguist and PhD in Psychology from Argentina. She is now working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Einstein lab. Dr. Calvo researches risk and reserve proxies in dementia. She is particularly interested in the role of language, ethnicity and biological sex in Alzheimer’s disease. To understand...
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Olajumoke Ojeleye
As a maternal and child health nurse and a doctoral student at the University of South Florida College of Nursing, USA, I am currently conducting research to enhance perinatal mental health interventions. My focus lies on exploring the needs, preferences, and access to care among perinatal adolescents in order to...
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Olivia Brophy
I am a Ph.D. student in Medical Anthropology focusing on the interactions of culture, health, governance, as well as human rights and development discourses in the United States. My PhD research engages Black feminist Reproductive Justice theory to consider the ways in which pregnant youth and their support providers in...
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Olivia Fulton
My name is Olivia and I am a fourth year undergraduate in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at the University of Calgary. I am currently working under the supervision of Dr. Sandra Dumanski looking at the influence of in-vitro fertilization treatment planning on body image. My research interests include...
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