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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.
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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Becky Donelon
Becky has worked and developed educational governance frameworks and regulatory legislation at provincial and national levels and currently holds a Manager role in licensing and compliance with Alberta Health. Obtaining her first paramedic credentials in 1980 as an EMT-A followed by Advanced Care Paramedic in 1997 she worked clinical practice...
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Becky Underwood
I am a PhD student at Aberystwyth university. I am researching: Domestic toxicity: a critical analysis of risk, knowledge and behaviour in relation to female household chemical use, the demographic is peri-menopausal women and the research wishes to understand how best to communicate risk and delivery strategies and tools to...
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Benedetta Leuner
Dr. Leuner’s research investigates experience and hormone driven changes in the brain and behavior with a specific focus on brain regions regulating emotional and cognitive function and questions of relevance to the female brain and women’s brain health.
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Bernard Le Foll
Dr Bernard Le Foll, MD PhD MCFP (AM), is a clinician scientist specialized in drug addiction. He did specialized training in addiction and cognitive behavioural therapy in France. He obtained a PhD in Pharmacology at University of Paris Sud in France and has performed post-doctoral training in behavioral pharmacology and...
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Bernd Lenz
Full Professor of Addiction Research, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University (Germany) Deputy Head, Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine Head of the Research Group Integrative Neuroscience of Addictive Behaviors (INA) Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) Dr. Lenz’s scholarship centers on three intersecting themes: (1) how sex and gender...
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