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Dr. Els Duff, NP, BScN, MEd, PhD

Assistant Professor | University of Manitoba

NPs are unique health care providers as registered nurses with graduate education and the legal authority to diagnose, order lab tests, and prescribe medications. No other health care role has been legislated, regulated, or scrutinized to the extent of the NP - the evidence is clear with positive patient health outcomes thus cost reductions to the healthcare system.

Dr. Stephanie Ferguson

Obstetrician/Gynecologist | Guelph General Hospital / McMaster University

Obstetrics, Gynecology, Women's Health, IUD, Postpartum Care, Technologies in Women's Health, Health Journalism, Femtech

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Peggy Cooke

Abortion Rights Advocate

Feminist blogger and activist with a decade of administrative and advocacy experience in reproductive rights.

Dr. Katharina Niemeyer, PhD

Professor and Director of CELAT-UQAM Culture-Art-Society | Université du Québec à Montréal

https://www.kniemeyer.net Media, media and terrorism, digital social media, memory, history, nostalgia, history of media, media and memory, media and historical events, online communities, September 11 2001, fall of the Berlin Wall, cultural memory, politics, digital communities

Rachel Pulfer

Executive Director | Journalists for Human Rights

Media development, Human rights, Press freedom, Strengthening media for democracy, Women's rights, Freedom of expression, Journalism