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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.
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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Awa Naghipour
Awa Naghipour is a physician, research associate and health advocate specializing in sex/gender- and discrimination-sensitive medicine, with a commitment to advancing equitable and inclusive healthcare. Her research, teaching and advocacy focuses on understanding how structural inequities and (intersecting forms of) discrimination shape health outcomes, clinical practices, and medical knowledge production....
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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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Badal (Brandon) Pattar
Badal (Brandon) Pattar (He/Him) is a CIHR-funded MD/PhD candidate in the Leaders in Medicine Program at the University of Calgary. His research, supervised by Drs. Sofia Ahmed and Tyrone Harrison, focuses on improving the understanding, management, and prevention of chronic kidney disease in transgender individuals. Drawing on methods from epidemiology,...
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Bavneet Purewal
Nursing student, BCIT nursing
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Beatriz Brandao
Beatriz Brandao is a Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience and Health Psychology at Rice University. Her research focuses on understanding how sex hormones, both naturally fluctuating across the menstrual cycle and exogenous through hormonal contraceptive use, influence emotion regulation, emotional memory, and stress-related biological processes. She integrates behavioral methods with...
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