UBC experts are available to comment on topics related to International Women’s Day on March 8, 2021.
Dr. Marina Adshade
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Vancouver School of Economics
Email: marina.adshade@ubc.ca
- How investments in women’s health benefit the economy
- Women and health inequalities during COVID-19
- The social costs and benefits of unpaid caregiving
*Unavailable Friday 12–1 p.m. and Monday 12–1 p.m.
Dr. Lori Brotto
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Tel: 604-605-6032
Email: lori.brotto@vch.ca
- Women’s health
- Women’s sexual health
- Women in leadership
- Psychological aspects of women and COVID
- Gender bias in research
*Unavailable Monday 11a.m. – 4 p.m.
Dr. Mary Chapman
Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures
Tel: 604-708-8432
Email: mary.chapman@ubc.ca
- Progress on women’s rights and what remains to be done
- Women’s suffrage and low voter turnout
- Women’s strategic and effective use of social media
*Unavailable Monday 10–11 a.m., 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Dr. Liisa Galea
Professor, Department of Psychology
Lead, Women’s Health Research Cluster
Email: liisa.galea@ubc.ca
- How biological sex and estrogens influence brain health and disease (particularly depression and Alzheimer’s Disease)
- Impact of motherhood on brain health in the short term and long term
- Underfunding of women’s health projects
- Importance of women’s health funding and research
*Available after 9 a.m. on Friday and Monday 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., 3–4 p.m.
Dr. Joelle LeMoult
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Email: jlemoult@psych.ubc.ca
- Women and risk for depression
- Physiological consequences of stress
- Childhood trauma and mental illness
*Available Friday 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., 3–4 p.m. and Monday 9:30–11 a.m., 1–5 p.m.
Dr. Deborah Money
Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Tel: 604-790-3048
Email: deborah.money@ubc.ca
- Women’s health
- Infectious diseases in women, including HIV and COVID-19
Margot Young
Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Email: myoung@allard.ubc.ca
- Equality rights
- International women’s rights
- Women’s social and economic inequality and rights (poverty, housing)
- Basic income
- Feminism and law