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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 1100 members across more than 44 countries worldwide, our members are driving change by conducting cutting-edge research, influencing policy, and fostering collaborations that improve health outcomes for women globally.

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11 March 2026

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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14 January 2026

Trailblazing Scientist and Educator: Dr. Denise Belsham Honoured as a 2025 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner

Dr. Denise Belsham, Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto and a distinguished leader in neuroendocrine research and science education, has been recognized as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award winners by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN). This prestigious honour celebrates women whose leadership, innovation, and impact…
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10 December 2025

Perinatal Mental Health Pioneer: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother Honoured with 2025 PWHR Mid Career Excellence Award

Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and lead of the UBC Perinatal Anxiety Research Lab (PARLab), has been awarded the 2025 PWHR Mid Career Excellence in Women’s Health Research Award. This recognition celebrates her influential contributions to understanding perinatal anxiety and…
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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.

Sydney Ku

Sydney Ku

PhD Student Temple University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) sydney.ku100@gmail.com
Sydney graduated from Colby College in the spring of 2021 with a B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience. While at Colby, Sydney worked in the Glenn Lab, a behavioral neuroscience rat lab, as a research assistant and later conducted a senior thesis examining psychomotor stimulant sensitization as a...
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Sydney Penner

Sydney Penner

Research Assistant Work Wellness Institute sydney_penner@sfu.ca
Sydney works as a Research Assistant at the Work Wellness Institute. She has a BA in psychology from Simon Fraser University. Her focus was in the critical analysis of research methods and theoretical models in biopsychology. In her degree, she studied the the fields of psychopharmacology, behavioral endocrinology, and health...
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Sydney Wilson

Sydney Wilson

Undergraduate student Western University Gender, Society, and Health sgwillsonn@gmail.com
Sydney is an undergraduate student in the Honours Synthetic Biology program at Western University. Her research interests focus on women’s health, particularly sexual health and quality of life following invasive cancer therapies. She recently completed a co-op term with OVCARE at BC Cancer, contributing to ovarian cancer research. Sydney is...
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Tabitha Craig

Tabitha Craig

PhD Student University of Victoria Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) tabithac@uvic.ca
Tabitha Craig is a PhD student in the Cerebrovascular Health, Exercise, and Environmental Research Sciences (CHEERS) Laboratory at the University of Victoria. Her research focus is on the impact of sex hormones on cerebrovascular endothelial function and arterial stiffness in response to environmental and physiological stressors. Twitter: @Tab_craig2
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Tamara Aboushady

Tamara Aboushady

Undergraduate student University of Toronto Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) aboushadytamara@gmail.com
I’m an undergraduate student at the university of Toronto pursuing a major in Health Sciences (Population Health) with a minor in Psychology. My interests include metabolic health, women’s health and health psychology. I love communicating science, and I’m driven to advance research on women’s health and bridge translational gaps.
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Tamara Bodnar

Tamara Bodnar

Research Associate University of British Columbia tamara.bodnar@ubc.ca Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Dr. Tamara Bodnar is a Research Associate in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at The University of British Columbia (UBC), supervised by Dr. Joanne Weinberg. Her research examines the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure and other early-life environmental manipulations on immune function across development. Her research involves animal...
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Tania Pereira

Tania Pereira

PhD Student York University Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) tperei01@yorku.ca
I am currently researching the effects of oral contraceptives on autonomic function, specifically investigating physiological responses to reflex activations in healthy women (chemoreflex, mechanoreflex and metaboreflex). I am also investigating the effects of the menstrual cycle and sex differences.
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Taniya Nagpal

Taniya Nagpal

Assistant Professor University of Alberta Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) tnagpal@ualberta.ca
Taniya Nagpal is an Assistant Professor at The University of Alberta with the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation. She completed her PhD from the University of Western Ontario with the Exercise and Pregnancy Lab and Exercise and Health Psychology Lab. Her dissertation work included developing and testing strategies to...
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Tanya Lazor

Tanya Lazor

Postdoctoral Fellow / Social Worker Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Gender, Society, and Health tanya.lazor@camh.ca
Dr. Tanya Lazor obtained her MSW at the University of Windsor and her PhD in Health Services Research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Her postdoctoral work is currently underway and explores intersectional inequalities of cannabis use among people living with HIV....
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Tarrah Ethier

Tarrah Ethier

PhD Student Queen's University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) 15tse@queensu.ca Medicine
Tarrah is a PhD Student in Translational Medicine (Department of Medicine) at Queen’s University. She works in the Ormiston Lab and focuses her studies on understanding the mechanisms behind the sex paradox in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, a deadly disease that implicates the cardiovascular, pulmonary and immune systems. She previously explored...
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Teal Eich

Teal Eich

Assistant Professor University of Southern California Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) teich@usc.edu
Teal S. Eich, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research explores age-related changes to executive function. She is particularly interested in the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive inhibition, and understanding how morphological changes to neuroanatomy affect the ability to successfully inhibit information across different levels (during response, when selectively attending to...
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Tegan Hargreaves

Tegan Hargreaves

PhD Candidate McMaster University Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) hargreat@mcmaster.ca
Tegan Hargreaves is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at McMaster University, working in the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research. Her research uses structural MRI, task-based fMRI, and functional connectivity analyses to identify neural biomarkers that predict treatment response across substance-use disorders, including alcohol, nicotine, and...
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