IGH Institute Advisory Board

The Institute of Gender and Health's (IGH) Advisory Board includes a diverse group of national and international representatives of the public, private and non-profit sectors, including the research community and health practitioners. The Institute Advisory Board (IAB) provides support and guidance to our Scientific Director and CIHR's Governing Council with respect to the full range of Institute activities.

For more information about the IABs, please consult CIHR's Institute Advisory Boards page.

Members

(as of September 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

Gary Garber, PhD (Vice-chair)
Professor of Medicine
University of Ottawa

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

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

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

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