Gillian Einstein is The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women’s Brain Health and Aging, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Adjunct Scientist at Baycrest Hospital, and Guest Professor of Gender and Health at Linköping University in Linköping, Sweden. She is a board member of the International Gender Medicine Society, Chair of the Canadian Institutes of Health’s Institute of Gender and Health Advisory Board, and Founder of the Canadian Organization of Gender and Sex (COGS) Research. She leads the Women, Sex, Gender, and Dementia Cross-Cutting Program for the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging. She is funded by CIHR, Brain Canada, The Ontario Brain Institute, and the Women’s Brain Health Initiative to understand how early life events, including surgeries and cultural practices, affect the trajectory of women’s brain health.
Professor Einstein uses "Situated Neuroscience" with a combination of qualitative, quantitative, and physiological methods (Very Mixed Methods) to explore how both sex and gender mediate women’s brain health.