The Institute of Gender and Health Advisory Board (IAB) represents a wide range of researchers, policy advisors and members of the lay community. Members of the IAB provide support and guidance to the Scientific Director in aligning Institute activities with the Institute's goals of supporting outstanding research, enhancing research capacity, building national and international partnerships, and advancing the gender and health perspective in Canada and worldwide.

Members as of September 1, 2009

Blye Frank, PhD (Chair)
Professor and Head of Division of Medical Education
Head of Department of Bioethics
Dalhousie University

Joan L. Bottorff, PhD, RN, FCAHS (Vice-Chair)
Professor, School of Nursing
Director, Institute of Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention
University of British Columbia Okanagan

Elizabeth Banister, PhD
Professor, School of Nursing
University of Victoria

Françoise Baylis, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy

Guylain Boissonneault, PhD
Professor
Department in Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
University of Sherbrooke

Sally Brown
CEO
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Gary Garber, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Ottawa

Carol Hiscock
Executive Director
The Arthritis Society, MB/NU division

Abby Hoffman
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister
Strategic Policy
Health Canada

Olga Kovalchuk, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
CIHR Chair in Gender and Health
Board of Governors' Research Chair

Peter Leung, PhD
Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of British Columbia

John Oliffe, RN, MEd, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Nursing
University of British Columbia

Jens Pruessner, PhD
Director, McGill Centre for Studies in Aging
Director, Aging and Alzheimer Research Axis, Douglas Institute

Donna E. Stewart, MD
Lillian Love Chair in Women's Health
University Health Network and University of Toronto

Yves Tremblay, PhD
Professor
Centre hospitalier
Université Laval

Bilkis Vissandjée, PhD
Professor
School of Nursing
Université de Montréal

Past Advisory Board Members

Institute Advisory Board Meetings