Women's Health Research Institute
The Women's Health Research Institute is devoted to improving the health and health care of girls and women through knowledge generation, serving as a catalyst for research in women’s health and supporting an expanding provincial and national network of women’s health researchers, policy makers and healthcare providers.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Abdulai, Fatawu | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical nursing, primary (preventive care); Health informatics; human-computer interaction; Health technology design; Informatics/Digital health; Sexual health equity |
| Anglesio, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer of the Reproductive System; Host-Tumour Interaction; Endometriosis; Cancer Diagnosis and Detection; animal models of endometriosis and cancer; Cancer prevention; early detection biomarkers; endometriosis associated cancers; gene-expression and transcriptomics; genomics; Immunology; microenvironment; ovarian cancer etiology; Cancer of the Reproductive System, Host-Tumour Interaction, Endometriosis, Cancer Diagnosis and Detection, Animal models of endometriosis and cancer, Cancer prevention, Early detection biomarkers, Endometriosis associated cancers, Gene-expression and transcriptomics, Genomics, Immunology, Microenvironment, Ovarian cancer etiology |
| Boerner, Katelynn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatrics; Health equity; Gender and health relationship; Sex and gender-based analysis; Health psychology; Clinical child psychology; Developmental psychology; Patient and citizen engagement research; chronic pain; pediatric psychology; Qualitative research; intensive longitudinal methods; sex and gender based analysis; gender diversity; Autism; neurodiversity; clinical psychology; Health Equity; rehabilitation; chronic illness; eating disorders; medical trauma; Health Psychology; Development; Adolescence |
| Bouchard, Katrina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical sexology; Mental health and wellbeing; Sexual identy, sexual attraction and sexual behaviour; Sexual health; sexual response; sexual well-being; women's health; couples |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Charlton, Julia | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Critical care medicine and emergency medicine; Neonatology; Fetal development and medicine; Neonatal neurology; neurodevelopment; Congenital Anomalies; Neonatal cardiac care |
| Conklin, Annalijn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; women's health; Health Equity; Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Obesity; CVD risk factors; healthy ageing; food and nutrition policy; Indigenous health; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; healthcare quality improvement; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders, Social nutritional epidemiology, Women's Health, Health equity, Chronic Diseases in Elderly, Obesity, CVD risk factors, Healthy ageing, Food and nutrition policy, Indigenous health, Community Health / Public Health, Disease management evaluation, Healthcare quality improvement |
| Elliott, Alison | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | rare disease; genomics; Congenital Malformations; Skeletal and limb anomalies; Genetic Counselling; Health services implementation science; Rare disease, Genomics, Congenital malformations, Skeletal and limb anomalies, Genetic counselling, Health services implementation science |
| Hanley, Gillian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Gynecologic cancer; Ovarian cancer prevention; Gynecologic cancer survivorship; Perinatal mental health; Population-based administrative data; Gynecologic cancer, Ovarian cancer prevention, Gynecologic cancer survivorship, Perinatal mental health, Population-based administrative data |
| Mitra, Souvik | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Neonatology; Neonatal intensive care; Extreme prematurity; Preterm hemodynamics; Randomized Controlled Trials; Evidence-based medicine |
| Money, Deborah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Reproductive Infectious Diseases,; Vaccine studies, vaginal microbiome, HIV, COVID in pregnancy; Reproductive Infectious Diseases,, Vaccine studies, vaginal microbiome, HIV, COVID in pregnancy |
| Ogilvie, Gina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus, HIV in women and care for marginalized populations |
| Ranger, Manon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | neurodevelopment; Early-adversity; Biomarkers of early stress exposure; Brain development; pain; Prematurity; Neurodevelopment, Early-adversity, Biomarkers of early stress exposure, Brain development, Pain, Prematurity |
| Rohling, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | ultrasound; Robotics; Cardiology; ultrasound, robotics |
| Sadarangani, Manish | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Antimicrobial resistant bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies; Antimicrobial resistant bacteria, Bacterial Vaccines, Childhood infections, Epidemiology, Immune System, Vaccine Development, Vaccine immunity, Clinical trials and observational studies |
| Schummers, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatrics and reproductive medicine; Health Services; Health Policy; women’s reproductive and perinatal health |
| Vidler, Marianne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health sciences; Childbirth; Global Health; High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy; Infections and Pregnancy; Postpartum Care; Pregnancy |
| Zulyniak, Michael | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Human nutrition and metabolism; Population health interventions; Systems biology; Nutritional epidemiology; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); metabolic diseases; Pregnancy; gestational diabetes; type-2 diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; health disparity; Nutrition; lifestyle; precision nutrition |
| Zulyniak, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and metabolism; Population health interventions; Systems biology; Nutritional epidemiology; Metabolomics; Dietetics and nutrigenomics; Genomics; metabolic diseases; Pregnancy; gestational diabetes; type-2 diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; health disparity; Nutrition; lifestyle; precision nutrition |