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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.
Sarina Wallace
Sarina aspires to advance perinatal mental health equity for Black women. She is presently a doctoral student at Virginia Commonwealth University, clinical-child concentration. Her 3 years managing a prenatal research study at Montefiore’s Pediatric Behavioral Health Integration Program in the Bronx, NY, exposed her to the additional burdens low-income Black...
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Selene Mitchell
I am a Master’s student at the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. I am interested in understanding how female-specific experiences, particularly menopause, influence Alzheimer’s disease risk, pathology, and progression. My research aims to uncover how different types of menopause and menopausal hormone therapies affect Alzheimer’s disease...
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Selin Yildiz
Selin is a Political Science and Economics student at the University of British Columbia. Her academic and research interests center on health equity, health policy, and the social determinants of health, with a particular focus on women’s health and well-being. Selin has contributed to a national action plan advancing the...
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Serena Habib
I am a Master of Science in Social Work and Master of Public Health candidate at Columbia University. I graduated from McMaster University in Toronto, Canada. I founded the Canadian Premenstrual Disorders Association and am passionate about advancing our understanding of reproductive mental health and increasing equitable access to care....
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Sergio A. Silverio
Sergio A. Silverio is an academic Psychologist with a research interest in women’s mental health over the lifecourse. He first read for a Masters in Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool, where he specialised in Clinical and Health Psychology. His work at the University of Liverpool focused on key...
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Shahin Kassam
Dr. Shahin Kassam holds a PhD in Nursing from the University of Victoria and comes from a clinical public health nursing background with focus on women living with emotional, mental, and physical sequelae of forced migration. As the successful candidate for a grant-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship within the UBC School...
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Shambhu Adhikari
Shambhu P Adhikari, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on better understanding brain injury and evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of a community support network intervention in women experiencing intimate partner violence. He...
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Shana Johnstone
Shana Johnstone (she/her) is a certified structural and stylistic editor with Editors Canada (2015) and a GGS-certified Menopause Coaching Specialist (2023). Shana helps academics, governments, and non-profits to strategically and effectively communicate their work to targeted audiences, and her favourite projects are those that focus on knowledge translation, advocacy, and...
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Shanice Harris
I am a community leader with a background in Social Service Work and a Bachelor of Social Work. I currently serve as the Women’s Health Coordinator at CAYR Community Connections. With over eight years of experience in the non-profit sector, my work is grounded in a deep commitment to supporting...
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Shannon Delage
Shannon is an undergraduate student at McGill University in her last year of her Bachelor’s of Science majoring in Kinesiology. She is beginning her Master’s degree in the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory with a profound interest in women and transgender cardiovascular health.
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Shanzeh Ahmad Chaudhry
Shanzeh is a UBC Pharmacy student who is passionate about justice, advocacy and women’s health research! IG: @sc_7801 X: @therealshanzehc
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Shawna Narayan
Shawna Narayan is a graduate student researcher with the CREDA Study in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores the experiences ethnic minorities have with anxiety and depressive resources to help support the creation of culturally responsive e-mental health services. She has an interest...
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