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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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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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Annaliese Beery
Annaliese Beery studies the neurobiology of social behavior, impacts of experience on development, and the importance of using diverse organisms (both sexes and multiple species) in biological research. In the latter area, she has contributed to multiple efforts to promote inclusion of females as research subjects, as well as commentaries...
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Anne Kasper
Prof Dr Anne Kasper is a trained midwife and professor at the Göttingen Health Campus of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HAWK). In her research and teaching, she places a special focus on evidence-based practice in maternal health and is particularly dedicated to analysing the challenges and needs...
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Annie Duchesne
Dr. Annie Duchesne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Duchesne obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from McGill University in 2014, where she studied the stress processes across the menstrual cycle in Dr. Jens Pruessner’s lab. She pursued postdoctoral research...
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Anotida Hove
A physiotherapist and researcher with particular interest in physical activity and it impact on improved health and mental health outcomes among pregnant women
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Arati Swaminadhan
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Ariel Aguiar Bonfim Cruz
I am a Ph.D. student in Movement Sciences and a Research Assistant on an NIH funded project examining Normal Weight Obesity among women. Broadly, I hope to further examine impacts of excess adipose tissue on hormonal profiles among women and examine exercise interventions to increase physical activity and exercise among...
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Arminée Kazanjian
Arminée Kazanjian, DrSocis Professor, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Kazanjian is a recognized Health Services & Policy Researcher whose work incorporates social epidemiology and health technology assessment, social and cultural dimensions of care seeking and service provision, and health workforce policy. Dr. Kazanjian is expert...
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Ashley Balsom
Ashley A. Balsom is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Regina. She is also currently a SSHRC doctoral fellow. Ms. Balsom is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Gordon in the Women’s Mental Health Research Unit. She is interested in exploring evidence-based interventions adapted...
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