Women's Health Research Cluster
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.
Campus
Vancouver
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 |
| Bayrampour Basmenj, Hamideh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Perinatal Period; Drugs and Pregnancy / Breast Feeding; Maternal Mental Health; Pregnancy Outcomes; Perinatal Anxiety; Prenatal Cannabis Use; Developmental Outcomes |
| Bloch, Alexia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; migration; Gender; Eurasia; Russia; ethnography |
| Brotto, Lori | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sexual Dysfunctions; sexual dysfunction; mindfulness; sexual desire |
| Brown, Helen Jean | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Maternal-infant and women |
| Bryson, Mary | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | technology, media, cultural studies, gender, queer theory, deviance studies, post-colonial pedagogies, Sociology, Women's Studies, Education, media and gender, media and education |
| Campbell, Suzanne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Community Health / Public Health; Health Promotion; Interpersonal Communication; Educational Technologies; Health Care Technologies; Modelization and Simulation; Social Determinants of Health; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Adult Education and Continuing Education; simulation nursing education; interprofessional health professional education; health communication; lactation support; leadership in nursing; global maternal-infant-child health |
| Campbell, Kristin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Breast Cancer; Rehabilitation; Physiology; Quality of Life and Aging; Exercise Physiology; physical function; oncology; Biomarkers |
| Chen, Frances | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | social behaviour, relationships, social support, stress, coping, conflict and negotiation, social neuroscience, neurobiology, 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 |
| Galea, Liisa Ann Margaret | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hormones and Growth Factors; Depression; Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis; Cognition; Postpartum Depression; Drugs and Pregnancy / Breast Feeding; Aging Process; Alzheimer's Disease; Learning and Memory; hippocampus; Sex differences; neuroplasticity; estrogens; women's health |
| Gottschlich, Anna | Postdoctoral Fellow | Community Health / Public Health; Epidemiology; Cervical cancer; Human papillomavirus; Self-collection HPV testing; Health disparities |
| Janssen, Patricia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Social Determinants of Health; Perinatal Period; Gestation / Parturition; maternal child health; health of marginalized women; mobile health for pregnancy and parenting |
| Kazanjian, Arminee | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer Survivorship, Knowledge Exchange and, Translation, Psychosocial oncology, Palliative care in cross-cultural context, Vulnerable populations, including women |
| Lamers, Yvonne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Nutritional Biochemistry; Micronutrients; Vitamins; Nutritional Biomarker; Pregnancy; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Prenatal Supplements; Newborn Screening; Toddler Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health |
| LeMoult, Joelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | depression and psychobiological responses to stress; understanding how depression develops and unfolds across the lifespan |
| Liu-Ambrose, Teresa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Age and Risk Factors; Mobility; Cognitive Neuropsychology of Aging; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Rehabilitation; Healthy Aging; Fall prevention; Cognitive Aging; Sleep; Physical Activity |
| Mitchell-Foster, Sheona | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Cancer of the Reproductive System; Drugs and Pregnancy / Breast Feeding; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; AIDS / HIV; Urban and Rural Planning Policies; cervical cancer screening; HPV; rural and remote reproductive care; Indigenous women's health; perinatal substance-use; reproductive health of women living with HIV; culturally safe care; reproductive screening in LMIC |
| Munro, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Participatory research; Health Care Technologies; Community Health / Public Health; Health Promotion; Health Policies; Health Care Organization; Social Determinants of Health; Family Planning; Perinatal Period; Birth Control; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Knowledge translation; Implementation Science; Shared decision making; Reproductive and maternal health; Family planning; Caesarean section |
| Norman, Wendy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Contraception, Abortion, Family Planning, Family Practice Research, Primary Care Research, Researcher training, Family Practice |
| 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 |
| Prior, Jerilynn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Menstruation, ovulation, osteoporosis, perimenopause, menopause, hot flushes, progesterone, estrogen dominance, women’s health, menopause, birth control pills, breast health, calcium, vitamin D, insulin resistance, eating attitudes/eating restraint, premenstrual symptoms, anovulatory androgen excess (PCOS) |
| Puterman, Eli | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health Psychology; Stress physiology; Acute exercise; Exercise interventions; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; cellular aging; telomeres; chronic stress |
| Rideout, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sex differences; Metabolism; Cell Signaling Pathways; Development; Lifespan and Aging; Stress responses; Drosophila melanogaster |
| Robillard, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | New Technology and Social Impacts; Social Aspects of Aging; Health Care Technologies; Mental Health and Society; Patient experience/patient engagement; eHealth; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health |
| Segal, Judy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public discourse and personal experience(health and illness) |
| Shannon, Kate | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, sex work, public health, community health, gender epidemiology, health prevention, social determinants of health, community-based research, gender inequities, sexual health, vulnerable populations, structural determinants, qualitative evaluations, HIV/STI prevention, Social determinants of sexual health, HIV/AIDS and access to care among marginalized populations, particularly youth, sex workers, and women at-risk and living with HIV |
| Todd, Rebecca | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognition; Motivation, Emotions and Rewards; Learning and Memory; Human Cognition and Emotion; Motivationally and affectively biased attention and memory; Emotional learning (associative learning of reward and punishment); Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above |
| Yong, Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | pelvic pain, with a particular interest in endometriosis, painful periods, sexual pain, co-existing bladder and bowel problems, and pain related to the musculoskeletal system; laparoscopic excision of complex endometriosis and prevention of adhesions in women with endometriosis and pelvic pain and infertility |