Dr. Gillian Einstein
PhD, The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair of Women’s Brain Health and Aging, Faculty member in the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Adjunct Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute and Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital, Member of both the Institute for Life Course & Aging and the Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, Founder of the Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health, University of Toronto, Guest Professor of Gender and Health, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
In 2016, Gillian Einstein was awarded the Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women’s Brain Health and Aging. The Chair – a partnership between the Posluns Family Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Brain Institute, and Alzheimer Society of Canada – will support Dr. Einstein to enhance women’s brain health through the study of cognitive aging and associated disorders.
This initiative will build capacity in research into social and biological influences on brain health and aging. As the Chair holder, Dr. Einstein will work to translate the research results into gender and sex-sensitive policies and interventions that improve brain health and promote wellness in aging.
Through the Chair, Dr. Einstein will build on her more than two decades of leadership in women’s health research, education, policy, and outreach to advance Canada’s international role in gender and health. She will lead integrated programs of research, mentoring and education and knowledge translation (KT). Her work is rooted in international collaborations and guided by a Scientific Advisory Committee and a KT Advisory Committee. Gillian was appointed as the Lead of the Women, Sex, Gender, and Dementia (WSGD) Cross-cutting Program by the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) in 2018. The program aims to work with CCNA’s 19 research teams to ensure that relevant sex and gender research questions will be studied across the spectrum of neurodegeneration in both human and animal model studies.By using this lens, CCNA’s research teams can capture important sex and gender differences in the prevalence, incidence, symptoms, and progression of neurodegenerative diseases.