IGH Institute Advisory Board
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.
(September 2011 - August 2012)
Joan L. Bottorff, PhD, RN, FCAHS (Chair)
Professor, School of Nursing
Director, Institute of Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Elizabeth Banister, RN, PhD, R Psych
Professor, School of Nursing
University of Victoria
Françoise Baylis, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy
Faculty of Medicine
Dalhousie University
Guylain Boissonneault, PhD
Professor
Department in Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
University of Sherbrooke
Gillian Einstein, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health
University of Toronto
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
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge
CIHR Chair in Gender and Health
Board of Governors' Research Chair
John Oliffe, RN, MEd, PhD
Associate Director, Research
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
Director of Women's Health
University Health Network and University of Toronto
Bilkis Vissandjée, PhD, FCAHS
Professor
School of Nursing
University of Montreal