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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.
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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Ashley Benge
Driven by a deep interest in the human body and its complexities, I hold a BSc in Kinesiology, Exercise & Sports Science, Psychology, and Biology from the U.S. and I further honed this passion with an MSc in Human Anatomy from University College Cork (2022), leading me to my current...
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Ashley Curtis
Dr. Ashley Curtis is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida (USF) and Director of the Cognition, Aging, Sleep, and Health (CASH) Lab. Her research focuses on bidirectional associations between sleep and cognition in healthy and pathological aging populations, and how sex-related mechanisms...
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Ashlinn Pennell
Ashlinn completed a joint honours B.A. in Psychology and Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2025, where she gained diverse research experience across psychology, religious studies, and medicine. Her honours thesis examined the prevalence and predictors of a lesser-known manifestation of obsessive–compulsive disorder, commonly referred to...
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Ashlyn Swift-Gallant
Dr. Ashlyn Swift-Gallant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (MUNL). Dr. Swift-Gallant earned her PhD from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan State University. Her research investigates how the processes of sex development shape the...
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Ashton Ellis
Ashton obtained her BSc from Simon Fraser University. She is a research coordinator with the BC Children’s Hospital BioBank where the primary focus is on the collection and storage of maternal samples for use in future research. Examples of these biospecimens include both preterm and full-term cord blood, placenta, and...
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Atafeh Najafi
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). As a member of the Yong Research Team at BC Women’s Hospital, my current research investigates the role of somatic driver mutations in endometriosis. Through this work, I aim to...
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Avonae Gentles
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Aya Al Katat
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Ayan Biswas
Ayan Biswas is an undergraduate student with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Jadavpur University. Find Ayan on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Aysan Dehghani
Aysan is a senior undergraduate student conducting research in health-policy. With years of experience in migration studies, she is currently conducting studies in the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights and access in immigrant and newcomer women communities in British Columbia. Currently working in the digital health intervention field at...
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