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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.
I have a background in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, as well as Global and Public Health, and currently work as a research assistant at the University of Oslo. My research to date has fostered a strong interest in how developmental processes shape mental health, particularly through the interaction of psychosocial...
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University of British Columbia
Gender, Society, and Health
Tamar Austin (She/Her) (BSc, MPH, PhDc) is a mixed-methods researcher who utilizes community-based methods of inquiry, Intersectionality, and Critical Black Feminist theory to understand how institutions and overarching systems, stemming from a legacy of colonial and white supremacy, shape experiences and access to care. Tamar’s previous research has included the...
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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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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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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 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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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 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 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 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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Dr Temitope Okunola is a Nigerian Gynaecologist and gender advocate passionate about advancing sexual and reproductive health. Trained in qualitative research methods, I bring a strong qualitative research lens to my work, exploring the lived experiences behind health outcomes and policies She is the managing physician at the Ekiti Sexual...
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Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD, PT, is a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, and Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, Mobility, and Cognitive Health. She is the Research Director of the Vancouver General Hospital Falls Prevention Clinic (www.fallsclinic.ca) and Director of the Aging, Mobility, and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (https://cogmob.rehab.med.ubc.ca)....
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