Women’s health research is vital to explore how unique factors, both biological and societal, contribute to health in women. Women experience poorer health from missed diagnoses, minimized symptoms, greater burdens of specific diseases, and poorly targeted treatment than men. Although there is much focus on how biological sex alters disease trajectory and outcome, it is important to study the physiological and societal challenges unique to women that directly influence women’s health. This research cluster and network will provide the research and clinical communities with invaluable information that will make help make women healthier.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Angeles, Leonora | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and other gender planning related tools, including feminist critiques and perspectives on the intergration of gender and other social axes of difference and diversity in community planning and international development work |
| Bloch, Alexia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | migration; Gender; Eurasia; Russia; ethnography; migration, gender, Eurasia, Russia, ethnography |
| Brotto, Lori | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | mindfulness; Sexual Dysfunctions; sexual desire; treatment of sexual concerns; women's sexual health; asexuality; digital health interventions; Mindfulness, Sexual Dysfunctions, Sexual desire, treatment of sexual concerns, women's sexual health, asexuality, digital health interventions |
| Brown, Helen Jean | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Maternal-infant and women |
| Bryson, Mary | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | literacies; cancer education; critical theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; digital cultures; literacies, cancer education, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, digital cultures |
| Campbell, Kristin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Breast Cancer; Exercise Physiology; oncology; physical function; Physiology; Quality of Life and Aging; rehabilitation; Biomarkers, Breast Cancer, Exercise physiology, Oncology, Physical function, Physiology, Quality of Life and Aging, Rehabilitation |
| Chen, Frances | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | social connection; social support; stress; coping; conflict and negotiation; hormones; Neuroendocrinology; social connection, social support, stress, coping, conflict and negotiation, hormones, neuroendocrinology |
| Dumont, Guy A | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | biomedical engineering; automatic drug delivery; mobile health; global health; anesthesia; physiological monitoring;, Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control, pulp and paper process control |
| Field, Thalia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | stroke; Clinical trials; cerebral venous thrombosis; outcomes; cognition; Machine Learning |
| Frangou, Sophia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | the study of the human brain in health and disease |
| Jessri, Mahsa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Community Health / Public Health; Epidemiology; Nutrition; Health Policies; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Health Promotion; Health Prevention; Statistics and Probabilities; Preventive Medicine; Artificial Intelligence; Chronic Disease Prevention; clinical epidemiology; Dietary Assessment; Dietary Pattern Modeling; Dietetics; Machine Learning; Nutritional Epidemiology; predictive analytics; Preventive Medicine; Public and Population Health; Simulation; Health Economics and Modeling; Community Health / Public Health, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Health Policies, Lifestyle Determinants and Health, Health Promotion, Health Prevention, Statistics and Probabilities, Preventive medicine, Artificial Intelligence, Chronic Disease Prevention, Clinical Epidemiology, Dietary Assessment, Dietary Pattern Modeling, Dietetics, Machine Learning, Nutritional Epidemiology, Predictive Analytics, Preventive Medicine, Public and Population Health, Simulation, Health Economics and Modeling |
| Kazanjian, Arminee | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health systems and policy, equitable access to healthcare; cancer survivorship, psychosocial care; Health systems and policy, equitable access to healthcare; cancer survivorship, psychosocial care |
| Lamers, Yvonne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins; Nutrition, Nutrients, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition, Clinical Chemistry, Maternal and Child Health, Micronutrients, Newborn Screening, Nutritional Biochemistry, Nutritional Biomarker, Periconceptional folic acid supplementation, Pregnancy, Prenatal Supplements, Toddler Nutrition, Vitamins |
| LeMoult, Joelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | depression and psychobiological responses to stress; understanding how depression develops and unfolds across the lifespan; Depression and psychobiological responses to stress, Understanding how depression develops and unfolds across the lifespan |
| Liu-Ambrose, Teresa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Healthy Aging; exercise; Fall prevention; Cognitive Aging; Randomized Controlled Trials; Physical Activity; Mobility; Neuroimaging; Sleep; Healthy Aging, Exercise , Fall Prevention, Cognitive Aging, Randomized Controlled Trials , Physical Activity, Mobility, Neuroimaging, Sleep |
| Norman, Wendy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health equity; Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Fertility and maternal health; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Population health interventions; Health services and systems, n.e.c.; Family planning; Health services and policy research; Contraception; Abortion; Population health equity research; Applied public health and population health intervention research; Health professional scope of practice research |
| Oberlander, Timothy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Population epidemiological studies that characterize neurodevelopmental pathways that reflect risk, resiliency and developmental plasticity |
| Ogilvie, Gina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus, HIV in women and care for marginalized populations |
| Park, Kyung Ae | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Korean politics (North and South Korea); U.S.-Korean relations; Korean unification, North and South Korean Politics, US-Korea Relations, Gender and Development |
| Puterman, Eli | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Acute exercise; cellular aging; chronic stress; Exercise interventions; Health Psychology; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; Stress physiology; telomeres; Acute exercise, Cellular aging, Chronic stress, Exercise interventions, Health psychology, Physical activity, Physical literacy, Stress physiology, Telomeres |
| Rideout, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sex differences; Metabolism; Cell Signaling Pathways; Development; Lifespan and Aging; Stress responses; Drosophila melanogaster; Sex differences, Metabolism, Cell Signaling Pathways, Development, Lifespan and Aging, Stress Responses, Drosophila melanogaster |
| Robillard, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; social media; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics |
| Rosin, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurodevelopment; Glial cell studies; Bone, skin and cartilage science; Developmental biology; neuroscience; Craniofacial Sciences; Maternal Stressors; Immune Cells; Inflammation |
| Schummers, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatrics and reproductive medicine; Health Services; Health Policy; women’s reproductive and perinatal health |
| Shannon, Kate | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | equitable sexual health care; reproductive care and justice; structural interventions & policy evaluation; health equity & social justice; equitable sexual health care, reproductive care and justice, structural interventions & policy evaluation, health equity & social justice |