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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.
Angela Dawson
Angela Dawson is a Professor of Public Health, and nationally and internationally recognised expert in maternal and reproductive health and the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health, UTS. She leads the reproductive theme in the Women and Children’s Health Collaborative at INSIGHT, the UTS Research Institute she...
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Angela Kaida
Dr. Angela Kaida is an Associate Professor and global health epidemiologist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives on HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health. Dr. Kaida has been awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research,...
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Angela Mashford Pringle
Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle is an Algonquin (Timiskaming First Nation member) Associate Professor, Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mashford-Pringle worked for over a decade at the federal government in Indigenous initiatives. Angela was the Indigenous Health Lead for Dalla...
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Angela Zhang
Angela has finished her third year in honours Cellular, Anatomical, and Physiological Sciences at UBC. She is currently a research assistant in the Cembrowski lab at UBC, where she’s using highly multiplexed fluorescent in situ hybridization to map the anterior thalamic nuclei at a single-cell, single-molecule resolution. She will be...
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Angelica Colombo
A proud graduate in Philosophy, I pursued my passion further, achieving a master’s degree in Philosophy and later, a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education. Today, I stand as a full professor at the prestigious Federal Institute of Paraná in Brazil. My academic journey has been shaped by a commitment...
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Anisha Nagpal
Anisha came to UIC in 2020 as an MD/PhD student in UIC’s Medical Scientist Training Program. Currently, Anisha is completing the PhD phase of her dual-degree training under Dr. Eisenlohr-Moul in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the CLEAR lab. Prior to joining the CLEAR lab, Anisha graduated from Johns...
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Anita Coté
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for women worldwide. Largely protected in their early years by hormones such as estrogen, women are not tuned in to the CVD risk factors they may possess as they approach middle age. More recently, additional sex-specific risk factors have been associated...
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Anita Datta
Dr. Anita Datta is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. She is the Program Director of the Epilepsy Fellowship training program and Director for medical students for Neurology at BC Children’s Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of...
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Ann Pederson
I am interested in the experience of health and illness, particularly living with chronic conditions. I am deeply committed to feminist, gender-transformative health promotion and researching interventions that can simultaneously address harmful gender norms while improving health. Finally, I am interested in the policy process as a mechanism for social...
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Ann-Christin Kimmig
Dr. Ann-Christin Kimmig is a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG-funded International Research Training Group (IRTG 2804) “Women’s Mental Health Across the Reproductive Years”. She investigates using (f)MRI how hormonal transitions across the female lifespan shape brain plasticity, cognition, and emotion, aiming to improve prevention and treatment of affective, anxiety, and...
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Anna Brugulat-Serrat
Anna Brugulat-Serrat is a Ph.D in Biomedicine (mention of Cum Laude) and a Clinical Neuropsychologist. In 2019 she was selected as an Atlantic Fellow for Equity Brain of Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) based in the Memory and Aging Center (University of California, San Francisco). Currently, Brugulat-Serrat is a post-doctoral...
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Anna MacKinnon
Dr. Anna MacKinnon’s research focuses on social determinants of child health and development, risk and resilience for perinatal mental health, as well as intervention programs for psychological distress and parenting. She recently completed her postdoctoral work at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, in the Departments of Psychology and Community...
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