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BOURGEAULT, Ivy Lynn »
Professor Health Sciences Program, CIHR/Health Canada Chair in Health Human Resource Policy, Scientific Director of PHIRN & OHHRRN at the University of Ottawa
Full professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Institute of Population Health
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Office: 613-562-5800 (8614)
E-mail: ivy.bourgeault@uottawa.ca
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Dr. Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on health professions, health policy and women’s health. She has published widely in national and international journals and edited volumes on midwifery and maternity care, the migration and integration of internationally educated health workers, primary care delivery, advanced practice nursing, qualitative health research methods, and on complementary and alternative medicine. Other areas of expertise : Health care, Health-service providers, Human-resource management
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- Health
- Health administration
- Health care
- Health policy
- Health research
- Health-service providers
- International health
- Population health
- Primary health care
- Women and health
- Women’s health
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FOSTER, Angel »
Echo Endowed Chair in Women’s Health Research
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences
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Office: 613-562-5800 (2316)
Cell: 617-417-9974
E-mail: angel.foster@uottawa.ca
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Dr. Angel M. Foster holds a DPhil (doctorate) in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an AM (master's degree) from Stanford University. She has conducted multi-methods research on women’s health in Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, the Thailand/Burma border, Tunisia, and the United States. Her current research focuses on expanding access to emergency contraception, increasing access to safe, high quality, and affordable abortion services improving the reproductive health training of health service professionals, and Identifying and addressing the reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations including young/unmarried women and refugees/displaced women. She has published more than 40 articles, book chapters, and technical reports on women's health and her first book, Emergency contraception: The story of a global reproductive health technology, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012 (co-edited with L.L. Wynn).Area(s) of expertise:
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- Abortion
- Anthropology
- Ethics
- Health
- Health policy
- Health research
- International development
- International health
- Middle East
- Other
- Population health
- Women and development
- Women and health
- Women’s health
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English and French , Arabic
GILES, Audrey R. »
Assistant Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics
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Office: 613-562-5800 (2988)
Home: 613-845-0092
E-mail: audrey.giles@uOttawa.ca
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Dr. Giles' research examines Aboriginal people's (though especially women's) participation in physical activity, sport, and recreation in the NWT, Nunavut, and Northern Alberta. Her expertise pertains to traditional games, gender, "tradition," and drowning prevention. Sport for development in Aboriginal communities.
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- Anthropology
- Feminist politics and theory
- Health research
- Human kinetics
- Human kinetics
- Physical activity
- Population health
- Postcolonial studies
- Sport
- Women and development
- Women and health
- Women’s health
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English only, Intermediate/Advanced French
JOLLY, Elaine E. »
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Office: 613-738-8400 (81731)
Office: 613-737-8556
Home: 613-737-2989
E-mail: ejolly@ottawahospital.on.ca
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E-mail, Office Telephone
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Mature women's health, including menopause and osteoporosis. Contraception. Reproductive-hormone issues related to all ages in women.
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SETHNA, Christabelle »
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Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Women's Studies Institute
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Office: 613-562-5800 (2356)
E-mail: csethna@uOttawa.ca
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I have a PhD. In the History of Education. My topics of study are the history of sex education, contraception and abortion in Canada. I use a feminist translational approach that connects the local to the global. I am currently working on a history of the birth control pill in Canada between 1960-1980 and its impact on young, single, university women. I also am researching "abortion tourism" or, the travel women undertake to access abortion services at clinics within Canada.
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Contraception and Abortion Sex Education History of Sexuality Canadian Studies
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English and French
THOMAS, Roanne »
Canada Research Chair, Qualitative Health Research with Marginalized Populations
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Rehabilitation Sciences
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E-mail: roanne.thomas@uOttawa.ca
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My research focuses on the long-term effects of cancer and other chronic illnesses. Much of my research has been completed with women with breast cancer -- a central focus is lymphedema.
I also work with arts-based research methodologies, such as theatre and photography.
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VANDERHYDEN, Barbara »
Corinne Boyer Chair in Ovarian Cancer Research
Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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Office: 613-737-7700 (70330)
E-mail: bvanderhyden@ohri.ca
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Ovarian cancer, notably the cellular and molecular mechanisms that are important for the initiation and progression of ovarian tumours. Testing of novel therapeutics against ovarian cancer in women and in animal models of ovarian cancer. Transgenic (genetically modified) animals. Science education and outreach: Let's Talk Science program.
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- Animal physiology
- Cancer
- Cellular and molecular medicine
- Developmental biology
- Molecular biology
- Physiology
- Women’s health
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