Institute Advisory Board Members

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, 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

Yitzchak (Irv) M. Binik, PhD
Professor of Psychology, McGill University

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

Sally Brown, MHSc

Alice Dreger, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Gillian Einstein, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health
University of Toronto

Gary Garber, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Ottawa

Carol Herbert, MD, CCFP, FCFP, FCAHS, FRCPS(Glasg), FRACGP(Hon)
Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Department of Pathology
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Affiliate Member, Department of Women's Studies & Feminist Research
Western University

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

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

Past Advisory Board Members

Institute Advisory Board Meetings