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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.

Andri Christoforou

Andri Christoforou

Dr Andri Christoforou is an Assistant Professor of Clinical and Gender Psychology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at European University Cyprus. Her research explores the intersection of gender, reproduction, and mental health, with a particular focus on the psychological and sociocultural factors influencing maternal mental health. She...
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Aneet Dhaliwal

Aneet Dhaliwal

Instructor British Columbia Institute of Technology Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) School of Nursing
Aneet graduated with a MSc in Nursing from the University of British Columbia in December of 2022. She is now an instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
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Angela Dawson

Angela Dawson

Professor University of Technology Sydney Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
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

Angela Kaida

Professor Gender, Society, and Health
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

Angela Mashford Pringle

Associate Professor University of Toronto Gender, Society, and Health Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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 Zhang

Undergraduate Student University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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

Angelica Colombo

Teacher IFPR- Brazil Gender, Society, and Health
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 Nagpal

MD/PhD Candidate University of Illinois at Chicago Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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

Anita Coté

Assistant Professor Trinity Western University Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
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

Anita Datta

Clinical Associate Professor University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) Department of Pediatrics
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

Ann Pederson

Adjunct Professor Women's Health Research Institute Academic Collaborator School of Population and Public Health
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

Ann-Christin Kimmig

Post-Doc University of Tübingen Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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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