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Elahe Koushkestani

RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGER

Elahe Koushkestani is a research project manager for the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab at Simon Fraser University, where she collaborates with the team to investigate approaches for enhancing older adults' preparedness for extreme heat. She completed her Master's in Political Science at SFU with a specialization in environmental policies and marginalized populations and holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Tehran. Elahe is driven by a strong commitment to environmental justice and research in this field.

DR. SHIRA PELEG

Dr. Shira Peleg was a PostDoctoral Fellow at the the Lifelong Health & Wellbeing Lab at Simon Fraser University from 2023 to 2024. She is now a faculty member at Bar-Ilan University. Her research interests include emotion regulation, stress and coping, and health behaviours.

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Amelia Hickman 

Mitacs Intern

Amelia Hickman was a research intern for the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab at Simon Fraser University. Amelia was completing an undergraduate degree in BSc Psychology at The University of Manchester. She assissted the team on a project within the lab investigating daily social experiences and health in older age in summer 2024.

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Gabriella Bodanese

MA student

Gabriella Bodanese is a gerontology master's student. She has a degree in psychology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and specializes in High Complexity Care at the Polydoro Hernani of Sao Tiago Hospital (Brazil). She developed her career as a hospital psychologist in a cardiology hospital, where she had the opportunity to intensify her contact with older adult patients. She has always been interested in studying the mental health of older adults and intends to do her thesis in this area, bringing together multidisciplinary aspects and thinking of old age as a biopsychosocial process.

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Rachel Chan

Mitacs Intern

COPE study

Mehrnaz Rezaei Darvishi 

Research Assistant

Mehrnaz is a Research Assistant in a data management role at the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab at SFU, contributing to the DASH studies. She has a background in biomedical science research and holds an MA in Leadership in Healthcare from Trinity Western University, MSc in Biochemistry, and a BSc in Microbiology. Her academic background and research interests are grounded in understanding how biological, psychological, and social factors interact to influence healthy aging and population health outcomes.

Madalene Howard 

MITACS Research Assistant

Madalene Howard is a Research Assistant (Mitacs Intern) at the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab at Simon Fraser University. Currently undertaking her undergraduate studies in medical anthropology at Durham University (UK), she has a strong interest in understanding the socio-political contexts through which health and age are experienced.

Bridget Mainor 

MITACS Research Assistant 

Bridget Mainor is a Research Assistant for the DASH study at the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Lab. She is currently pursuing a BS in Psychology and a BA in Philosophy at Georgia College & State University, where she works as a Research Assistant in the Social Psychology and Wellness Lab. She is interested in a diverse range of subjects, from environmental ethics to biopsychosocial therapeutic interventions, with a specific emphasis on holistic health and wellbeing. Currently, she hopes to pursue her passion to become a labor and delivery nurse after graduation.

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