Our Expert Database is designed to connect you with multidisciplinary women’s health researchers, professors, post-doctoral fellows, and more. Use this platform to find a collaborator for your research project, identify an expert to comment on current events or discover a supervisor for your graduate work. On top of that, if you’re seeking trainees to support your work you can find them here too.

You may find experts by name, career type, and/or by entering keywords in the “area of research expertise” to narrow your search. For instance, if your research focus is brain health and understanding progressive disease, you can find experts with knowledge in these areas by entering keywords like “Alzheimer’s” or “Dementia”.

Valeria Garau

Trainee Clinical Psychologist University of Glasgow Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) v.garau.1@research.gla.ac.uk

I am a Trainee Clinical Psychologist on the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) programme at the University of Glasgow. My project involves co-developing a perinatal mental health screening measure for neurodiverse birthing people with experts by experience, as well as the initial psychometric evaluation of this measure.

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Vanessa Luk

Medical Student The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Gender, Society, and Health vanessa.luk@medportal.ca

Vanessa is a medical student at McMaster Medical School, and is interested in psychiatry.

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Vanny Pornsinsiriruk

PhD Student University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) vannyp@student.ubc.ca

I am a graduate student in the department of Microbiology and Immunology at UBC. My research focuses on vaccine development for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), an STI that disproportionately affects women. I am interested in the connections we can make between women’s/global health, immunity, vaccinology, and public health...

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Varinder Randhawa

Heart Failure Transplant Cardiologist University of Toronto Gender, Society, and Health varinder.randhawa@gmail.com

Dr. Varinder Kaur Randhawa is completing her critical care fellowship training at the University of Toronto, having completed MD-PhD, internal medicine, core cardiology, heart failure-transplant cardiology and post-doctoral clinical, quality improvement and translational research training at the University of Toronto, Western University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She currently serves as...

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Vasileia Karasavva

PhD Student University of British Columbia Gender, Society, and Health vasiakaras@gmail.com

Vasileia Karasavva is a Vanier Scholar and a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her research program explores multiple facets of cyber aggression with a special interest in technology-facilitated sexual violence. She is passionate about understanding who is affected by it, why some choose to...

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Victoria Bernaud

PhD Student Arizona State University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) vwoner@asu.edu Department of Psychology

She is currently a 5th-year graduate student working towards her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University under the mentorship of Dr. Heather Bimonte-Nelson. She is interested in the role of ovarian hormone changes across the lifespan in influencing the trajectory of healthy cognitive...

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Victoria Mann

Podcast Coordinator womenshealth.interrupted@ubc.ca

Victoria is a first-year Master of Journalism at UBC. Born in Canada but educated in the UK, she’s excited to be back on home soil. Having spent all four of her undergraduate years working for her student radio station at the University of Exeter and creating podcasts, she jumped at...

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Victoria Paller

Master's student University of British Columbia Gender, Society, and Health victoria.paller@ubc.ca

Victoria is an MSc student in the WACH program at UBC. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with an Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences Degree in 2022. During this time, she completed an Honours thesis with Dr. Angel Foster. This research used a mixed-methods approach to explore how COVID-19...

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Victoria Riehl-Tonn

Master's student University of Calgary Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) victoria.riehl-tonn@albertahealthservices.ca Medicine

Victoria is a MSc student in Medical Science at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. Under the supervision of Dr. Sofia Ahmed, her research focuses on the association between sex related differences and dialysis adequacy in both peritoneal dialysis and the home hemodialysis population. She recently graduated in...

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Wansu Qiu

PhD Student University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms) wansuq805@gmail.com Neuroscience

My thesis investigates the effects of maternal postpartum antidepressant exposure, and how this pharmacological treatment affects both the mother and offspring in a rat model of postpartum depression. And whether there are dietary interventions (such as folate/folic acid) can be an effective treatment for PPD. My expertise includes knowing a...

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Wendy Norman

Professor University of British Columbia Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications) wendy.norman@ubc.ca Department of Family Practice

Wendy V. Norman, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DTM&H, MHSc, is a Professor in the Department of Family Practice, and an Associate Member in both the School of Population and Public Health, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr....

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