Nabilah Gulamhusein, a PhD candidate on the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, was lately awarded a High 30 Below 30 Award from the Alberta Council for World Cooperation for her analysis and advocacy which goals to advance ladies’s cardiovascular well being.
Heart problems is the main explanation for demise in ladies; nevertheless, ladies stay underrepresented in associated analysis. Nabilah’s work seeks to alter the narrative by trying on the relationship between female-specific occasions (together with menopause, being pregnant and hysterectomy) and cardiovascular well being. Because the Calgary Trainee Lead for Put on Crimson Canada, Nabilah additionally raises consciousness about ladies’s cardiovascular well being throughout the group.
Nabilah stays devoted to bettering ladies’s coronary heart well being and conducting equitable cardiovascular well being analysis. Her work aligns with the Ladies’s Well being Analysis Cluster’s mission to shut the well being hole by inclusive analysis. Study extra about Nabilah’s achievement right here and go to her profile on the College of Calgary web site.