WHRFC Programs
2025
Samantha Kirby
MSc Student (Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
Genetic regulation of the vaginal proteome and its impact on HIV
susceptibility
susceptibility
2025
Sara Crooks
MSc Student (Biochemistry and Medical Genetics)
Determining the mechanism of action of L-Rham-induced cell killing in tubo-ovarian, high-grade serous carcinoma.
2025
Leah McDonnell
PhD Student (Peace and Conflict Studies)
A Way Home: Understanding the impact of human trafficking on Inuit women in Manitoba
2025
Gabrielle Fontaine
PhD Student (Physics and Astronomy)
Design and Evaluation of an AI-enabled Microwave-based Portable Breast Cancer Screening Device for Low-Income and Remote
Communities
Communities
2025
Courtney Marshall
PhD Student (Immunology)
Sex as a Biological Variable in the modulation of airway inflammation by Innate Defence Regulator (IDR) peptides
2025
Shayna Pierce
PhD Student (Psychology)
Recognizing and Responding to Birth Trauma: The Development and Pilot Evaluation of a Brief Online Training Intervention for Canadian
Healthcare Providers
Healthcare Providers
2024
Madison Hardman
MA Student (Psychology)
Exploring the
Mental Health Journeys of Women on Probation and Parole in Canada:
Symptoms and Psychological Service Utilization
Mental Health Journeys of Women on Probation and Parole in Canada:
Symptoms and Psychological Service Utilization
2024
Sara Crooks
MSc Student (Biochemistry and Medical Genetics)
Determining the mechanism of action of L-Rham-induced cell killing in high
grade serous ovarian cancer
grade serous ovarian cancer
2024
AmyAnne Smith
PhD Student (Social Work)
The Impacts of Trial Delay on Sexual Assault Survivors
2024
Lara Penner-Goeke
PhD Student (Psychology)
Research Title: Informant
Agreement of Symptoms in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
Agreement of Symptoms in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
2023
Madison Hardman
MA Student (Psychology)
Research Title: Exploring the
Mental Health Journeys of Women on Probation and Parole in Canada:
Symptoms and Psychological Service Utilization
Mental Health Journeys of Women on Probation and Parole in Canada:
Symptoms and Psychological Service Utilization
2023
Sara Crooks
MSc Student (Biochemistry and Medical Genetics)
Research Title:
Determining the mechanism of action of L-Rham-induced cell killing in high
grade serous ovarian cancer
Determining the mechanism of action of L-Rham-induced cell killing in high
grade serous ovarian cancer
2023
AmyAnne Smith
PhD Student (Social Work)
Research Title: The Impacts of Trial Delay on Sexual Assault Survivors
2023
Lara Penner-Goeke
PhD Student (Psychology)
Research Title: Informant Agreement of Symptoms in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
2022
Amr Abostait
MSc Student (Pharmacy)
Research Title: Safe nanomedicines during pregnancy: Targeted lipid nanoparticles to specific fetal organs
Supervisor: Dr. Hagar Labouta
Supervisor: Dr. Hagar Labouta
2022
Oludolapo Balogun
MSc Student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Prevalence of mental disorders among pregnant women in social housing in Manitoba
Supervisor: Dr. Nathan Nickel
Supervisor: Dr. Nathan Nickel
2022
Kerri-Ann Bochen
MSc Student (Nursing)
Research Title: Moving beyond barriers: Understanding the experiences of women who transitioned to cardiac rehabilitation and subsequently withdrew prior to completion
Supervisor: Dr. Marnie Kramer
Supervisor: Dr. Marnie Kramer
2022
Mimi Brown
MSc Student (Social Work)
Research Title: The WHOLE Leader
Supervisor: Dr. Kendra Nixon
Supervisor: Dr. Kendra Nixon
2021
Moustafa Ali
PhD Student (Pharmacy)
Research Title: Towards safe medicines during pregnancy: Placenta non-crossing nanoparticles
Supervisor: Dr Hagar Labouta
Supervisor: Dr Hagar Labouta
2021
Kayla Joyce
PhD Student (Psychology)
Research Title: Developing a substance use intervention targeting mothers in the perinatal period: Addressing unmet needs using a patient-oriented research approach.
Supervisor: Dr. Leslie E, Roos
Supervisor: Dr. Leslie E, Roos
2021
Cynthia Yamamoto
PhD Student (Sociology and Criminology)
Research Title: An institutional ethnography of occupational therapists' work in publicly funded home-care in Canada.
Supervisor: Dr. Laura Funk
Supervisor: Dr. Laura Funk
2021
Nicole Herpai
PhD Student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: A mixed methods analysis of economic empowerment measurements and the effects on sexual and reproductive health outcomes for adolescent girls and young women. Supervisor: Dr. Evelyn Forget
2021
Daniel Gussakovsky
PhD Student (Chemistry)
Research Title: Elucidating the transcriptional initiation of a non-coding RNA implicated in breast, ovarian and lung cancer pathogenesis.
Supervisor: Dr. Sean McKenna
Supervisor: Dr. Sean McKenna
2020
Michelle Ward
PhD Student (Psychology)
Research Title: Like mother, like son: A similarity-fit perspective on motherhood and the broader autism phenotype.
Supervisor: Dr. Jen Thule
Supervisor: Dr. Jen Thule
2020
Quan Liu
PhD Student (Biochemistry and Medical Genetics)
Research Title: Interpretable and extendable deep learning models for identifying prognostic radiogenomic biomarkers from multimodal imaging and genomic data.
Supervisor: Dr. Pingzhao Hu
Supervisor: Dr. Pingzhao Hu
2020
Toby Le
MSc Student (Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases)
Research Title: Effects of DMPA on peripheral blood natural killer cells in sex workers from Nairobi Kenya.
Supervisor: Dr. Keith Fowke
Supervisor: Dr. Keith Fowke
2020
Alekhya Lavu
PhD Student (Pharmacy)
Research Title: Anti-epileptic treatments during pregnancy and neonatal birth weight outcomes.
Supervisor: Dr. Sherif Eltonsy
Supervisor: Dr. Sherif Eltonsy
2020
Gabrielle Fontaine
MSc Student (Physics & Astronomy)
Research Title: Design and development of a portable breast microwave imaging system.
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Pistorius
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Pistorius
2019
Maria Isabel Garces Davila
PhD Student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: The effect of maternal stress on adverse childhood experiences, mental health and justice involvement of the offspring: And intergenerational analysis of stress. Supervisor: Dr. Tracie O. Afifi
2019
Alanna Johnson
MA Student (Psychology)
Research Title: The impact of a shelter stay on relationship values for women victims of partner violence.
Supervisor: Dr. Diane Hiebert-Murphy
Supervisor: Dr. Diane Hiebert-Murphy
2019
Sarah Petty
PhD Student (Psychology)
Research Title: Women`s anxiety symptoms and psychological treatment-seeking during the perinatal period. Supervisors: Dr. Kristin Reynolds and Dr. Patricia Furer
2019
Claire Morden
MSc Student (Biochemistry and Medical Genetics)
Research Title: Characterizing chromosome instability in chemonaive and chemoresistant high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Supervisors: Dr. Kirk McManus and Dr. Mark Nachtigal
2019
Jordana Sommer
PhD Student (Psychology)
Research Title: A preoperative virtual reality simulation surgery to reduce perioperative psychiatric sequelae in breast cancer patients. Supervisors:
Dr. Renée El-Gabalawy and Dr. Kristin Reynolds
Dr. Renée El-Gabalawy and Dr. Kristin Reynolds
2018
Abin Chandrakumar
MSc Student (Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
Research Title: Maternal antibiotic use during pregnancy and childhood chronic diseases: a population-based study. Supervisor: Dr. Geert W't Jong
2018
Janelle Boram Lee
MSc Student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: The relationship between maternal justice involvement and childhood outcomes of child protective services contact and maltreatment indicators: A Manitoba population-based cohort study. Supervisors: Dr. Marni Brownell and Dr. Nathan Nickel
2018
Lindsey Mazur
MSc Student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Experiences of stigma in prenatal/postnatal dietetic care among women with high BMI. Supervisor: Dr. Deborah McPhail
2017
Chloe Shindruk
MN student (Nursing)
Research Title: Expert Nursing Care: Perinatal Palliative Care during Labor, Delivery and the Immediate Postpartum Period
Supervisor: Dr. Genevieve Thompson; Co-advisor Dr. Susan McClement
Supervisor: Dr. Genevieve Thompson; Co-advisor Dr. Susan McClement
2017
Dhiwya Attawar
PhD student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: The Community Health Worker in Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Interventions in Rural South India: Tracing Equity at the Health System - Community Interface
Supervisor: Dr. James Blanchard
Supervisor: Dr. James Blanchard
2016
Elizabeth Wall-Wieler
PhD student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: The Maternal Responses to Having a Child Taken Into Care Supervisor: Dr. Leslie Roos
2015
Katherine Kenyon
MSc student (Psychology)
Research Title: How Women in Domestic Violence Shelters Experience Personal Empowerment
Supervisor: Dr. Diane Hiebert-Murphy
Supervisor: Dr. Diane Hiebert-Murphy
2014
Kristene Cheung
MSc student (Psychology)
Research Title: Parental Psychopathology in Families of Children with ADHD: A Meta-analysis
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Theule
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Theule
2013
Suzanne Lennon
PhD student (Nursing)
Research Title:
Perception of Pregnancy Risk Among Women with Gestational Diabetes and Their Partners: The Impact of Gender
Perception of Pregnancy Risk Among Women with Gestational Diabetes and Their Partners: The Impact of Gender
2012
Natalie Mota
PhD student (Psychology)
Research Title:
The Experiences of Female Service Members in the Canadian Forces: A Mixed Methods Approach
The Experiences of Female Service Members in the Canadian Forces: A Mixed Methods Approach
2011
Kelli Berzuk
PhD student (Individual Interdisciplinary Program)
Research Title: Evaluation of Increasing Awareness of Pelvic Floor Muscle Function on Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
2010
Christine Henriksen
PhD student (Psychology)
Research Title: The Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Eating Disorders in the General Population
2009
Jonathon R. Walker
MSc student (Physiology)
Research Title: The Cardioprotective Effects of Probucol against Trastuzumab and Anthracycline Mediated Cardiotoxicity
2008
Jennifer Wall
MSc student (Landscape Architecture)
Research Title: Rehabilitation and Meeting Needs of Women in an Institutional Setting Through Programmatic Landscape Design
2007
Mollie Bates
MA student (Psychology)
Research Title: Readiness and Motivation for Change in Women with Eating Disorders
2006
Sandra Dong Huang
MSc student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Case of Three HIV Prevention Programs in Karnataka, India Undertaken by Three NGOs and a Sex Workers Collective
2005
Susy Santos
PhD student (French, Spanish, & Italian – Individual Interdisciplinary Program, IIP)
Research Title: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mental Health Among Older Adults and Aging Women
2004
Hannah Neufeld
PhD student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Understanding Aboriginal Women’s Experiences with Gestational Diabetes in the Urban Context of Winnipeg, Manitoba
2003
Meta Kreiner
MSc student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Stakeholder Perceptions of Midwifery Integration into the Manitoba Healthcare System
2002
Virginia Spencer
PhD student (Biochemistry)
Research Title: Histone Acetylation and Nuclear Structure in Gene Expression
2001
Sarah Bowen
PhD student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Assessing the Responsiveness of Healthcare Organizations to Culturally Diverse Groups
2000
Lisa Norquay
PhD student (Physiology)
Research Title: Regulatory P Sequences which Direct Expression of Human Growth Hormone Chorionic Somatommotropia Gene Family
1999
Margaret Kozlowski
with Glaxo Wellcome, MSc student (Nursing)
Research Title: Variables that Affect Contraceptive Use in Postpartum Adolescent Females
1999
Maureen Heaman
PhD student (Individual Interdisciplinary Program, IIP)
Research Title: Nursing Research Factors for Preterm Birth
1999
Karen Paroschy
partnership with Pfizer Canada, PhD student (Physiology)
Research Title: Gender Differences in Psychological Distress (Male vs. Female)
1998
Theresa Mayer
MSc student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Gender Differences in Psychological Distress (Male vs. Female)
1998
Farah Sheikh
PhD student (Physiology)
Research Title: Differences in Regenerative Recovery Rate Between Male and Female Myocytes Induced to Divide
1997
Jo-Ann Sawatzky
PhD student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Health Benefits of Exercise in Relation to Cardiovascular Health
1996
Lanette Friesen
PhD student (Chemistry and Physics, NRC Institute for Biodiagnostics)
Research Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Procedure for the Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
1995
Amanda Coutts
PhD student (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology)
Research Title: Molecular Biological Approaches Toward Understanding Breast Cancer
1994
Lynda Balneaves
MSc student (Nursing)
Research Title: Use of Alternative Treatments of Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
See the following links for an update on Dr. Lynda Balneaves:
1)http://www.incamresearch.ca/content/cam-newsflash-congratulations-dr-lynda-balneaves
2)http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/recent-appointments
See the following links for an update on Dr. Lynda Balneaves:
1)http://www.incamresearch.ca/content/cam-newsflash-congratulations-dr-lynda-balneaves
2)http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/recent-appointments
1993
Gail Marchessault
PhD student (Community Health Sciences)
Research Title: Attitudes Toward Weight Issues of Middle-Aged Women, Their Teenage Daughters and Health Professionals
1992
Deborah Handziuk
MSc student (Educational Psychology)
Research Title: Reporting of Sexual Abuse in Rural Communities
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WHRFC Board of Directors
Executive Members
- Sheri Fandrey, BSP, PhD – President
- Danessa Peters, CPA – Vice President
- Cathy G. Cordileone – Treasurer
- Katelin McDermott, MSc – Secretary
Members-at-large
- Gaynor Williams, DPhil, MD
- Lynn Scruby, RN, BN, MS, PhD
- F. Carleen MacKay, BA, FCMA, FCPA
- Donna Chow, PhD
- Tessa Gauthier
- Matea Tuhtar – Communications Officer
- Stephanie Paul, IPMA-ACP