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Emily Anne Opala2025-12-10 12:00:562025-12-11 08:54:24Perinatal Mental Health Pioneer: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother Honoured with 2025 PWHR Mid Career Excellence Award
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Emily Anne Opala2025-11-12 12:00:372025-10-24 11:25:04Recognizing Excellence: Dr. Bernard Le Foll Elected to the Canadian Academy of Health SciencesLet us Feature Your Work
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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.
Bhairavi Warke
Bhairavi Warke is a PhD Student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Her doctoral work focuses on Designing Interactive Self-care tools for Women experiencing Perimenopause and Menopause aimed towards real-time tracking and management of symptoms which may help in possible early detection or prevention...
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Bhavya Arya
Bhavya is a fourth-year undergraduate student of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is broadly interested in the neurobiological mechanisms and sex differences associated with perinatal and infant mental health, and parent-child relationships more generally. She is currently working on her Honours thesis, which is focused on sources of...
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Bianca Ribeiro de Souza
Dr. Bianca Ribeiro de Souza is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OVCARE), Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her research is focused on Gynecological Cancers, Immunology, and Biomarker Discovery. Dr. Ribeiro is mainly researching the least studied...
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Bibiana Kemerer
Bibiana is a current masters student in UBC’s Reproductive and Developmental Sciences program. She works under the supervision of Dr. Lori Brotto for UBC’s Sexual Health Lab. She is currently studying how mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy can help couples improve their sexual health after prostate cancer. She is also...
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Bonnie Lee
Bonnie Lee is the Lead, Research and Advocacy at the Women’s Health Research Cluster. She is a Neuroscience PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia studying with Dr. Liisa Galea in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology. Her research is focused on understanding how sex and sex-linked factors, including previous...
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Brady Greening
Brady’s entire athletic therapy career has focused on youth athletes in hockey, dance, soccer, figure skating and basketball. Her experience, professionalism, and knowledge as the Head Athletic Therapist of Edge School is wide ranging. Between working on the bench with hockey and basketball, spending hours to understand the world of...
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Brandi Williams
I am a PhD candidate in environmental and analytical chemistry with public health applications. My dissertation research focuses on wastewater-based and environmental epidemiology where I quantify molecular and chemical markers to represent a community health status.
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Brenna Whalley
I studied at the University of British Columbia, where I graduated with a BSc in Global Resource Systems and a Minor in Science. I specialized in public health and genetics, combining my passion for health sciences and human biology with my desire to dismantle current systems and mitigate the ever-growing...
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Brian Christie
Dr. Christie obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Otago, where he worked in the world-renowned Graham Goddard laboratory complex with Dr. Cliff Abraham and studied long-term depression of Synaptic efficacy. Dr. Christie then completed post-doctoral training at the University of Otago as a Health Research Fellow before moving to...
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Brianna Bristow
She is currently a lab technician in the Cembrowski lab at UBC, where she performs circuit-mapping and molecular techniques on rodent and human brain tissue to characterize new cell subtypes and explore cell-type heterogeneity in regions associated with memory. Before graduating with a BSc in biochemistry at UBC in 2020,...
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Brianna Kennelly
I am a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Deborah Sloboda. My research is in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Specifically, my research investigates how exposure to maternal obesity impacts future immune responses to infection.
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Brittany Schwende
Brittany Schwende is a PhD candidate at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Charlotte Usselman in the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory. Her doctoral research focuses on the autonomic regulation of blood pressure in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Specifically, she is interested in how biological features...
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