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) | Obstetrics and gynecology; Premalignant disease (precursors); Cancer molecular targets; 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) | Human reproduction and development sciences; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Clinical psychology; mindfulness; Sexual Dysfunctions; sexual desire; treatment of sexual concerns; women's sexual health; asexuality; digital health interventions |
| 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 |
| Chen, Nan | Postdoctoral Fellow | Medical, health and life sciences; Health economics, Women's health, Resource allocation, Causal inference |
| Conklin, Annalijn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public health nutrition policy; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; Gender 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; Professional Practices; ethics of research and public health |
| Elliott, Alison | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; rare disease; genomics; Congenital Malformations; Skeletal and limb anomalies; Genetic Counselling; Health services implementation science |
| Hanley, Gillian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical medicine; Gynecologic cancer; Ovarian cancer prevention; Gynecologic cancer survivorship; Perinatal mental health; Population-based administrative data |
| Malhotra, Nisha | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Sex and gender-based analysis; Economics of international development; Health care access, privilege or marginalization; Health and gender based violence; Women health; Global Health; Health Care Access; Maternity Care Evaluation; Gender based studies; Global trade and trade remedy measures |
| 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) | Medical, health and life sciences; Reproductive Infectious Diseases,; Vaccine studies, vaginal microbiome, HIV, COVID in pregnancy |
| Nethery, Elizabeth | Postdoctoral Fellow | Obstetrics and gynecology; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Population health interventions; Women's reproductive health; perinatal epidemiology; Midwifery and obstetrics; Diabetes in pregnancy; Contraception |
| Ogilvie, Gina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus, HIV in women and care for marginalized populations |
| Orr, Natasha | Postdoctoral Fellow | Medical, health and life sciences; Chronic Pelvic Pain; Endometriosis; medical education; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Knowledge translation |
| Ranger, Manon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurodevelopment; Clinical nursing, secondary (acute care); neurodevelopment; Early-adversity; Biomarkers of early stress exposure; Brain development; pain; Prematurity |
| Rnic, Katerina | Postdoctoral Fellow | Clinical psychology; Cognitive Control; Cognitive Vulnerability; Stress Reactivity; Stress Generation; Inflammation; Cortisol; Emotion Regulation |
| Rohling, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical biotechnology; ultrasound; Robotics |
| Sadarangani, Manish | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunology; Microbiology; Clinical sciences; 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 (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and metabolism; Population health interventions; Systems biology; Nutritional epidemiology; metabolic diseases; Pregnancy; gestational diabetes; type-2 diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; health disparity; Nutrition; lifestyle; precision nutrition |