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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.

Ashley Curtis

Ashley Curtis

Assistant Professor University of South Florida Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) School of Nursing
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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Ashley Groth

Ashley Groth

Master of Public Health Student University of Toronto Gender, Society, and Health
Ashley is a Master of Public Health student at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health and an Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences graduate from Queen’s University. As someone with lived experience with mental health struggles and barriers to healthcare, much of Ashley’s work and interests focus...
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Ashlinn Pennell

Ashlinn Pennell

Masters Student Memorial University Gender, Society, and Health
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

Ashlyn Swift-Gallant

Associate Professor Memorial University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
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 Ellis

Study Coordinator
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

Atafeh Najafi

Postdoctoral researcher University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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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Awa Naghipour

Awa Naghipour

Medical Research Associate Bielefeld University Gender, Society, and Health
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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Ayan Biswas

Ayan Biswas

Undergraduate Student Jadavpur University Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)
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 Dehghani

Undergraduate Student BC Centre for Disease Control Gender, Society, and Health
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

MD/PhD Candidate University of Calgary Gender, Society, and Health Medicine
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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