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This seminar engages feminist theorists, science studies scholars, and practicing scientists in conversation about the constructs of “sex” and “gender” in biological and health science research, highlighting the work of researchers who devise innovative ways to analyze gender in intersectional biomedical research.

About the Speaker

Louise Pilote's research focuses on women and cardiovascular disease through the lifespan. She applies health services, outcomes, clinical trials and comparative effectiveness methods to answer questions about how gender characteristics and sex differences mediate cardiac outcomes. Pilote is a senior scientist and attending physician at the McGill University Health Center. She holds a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley.