Rebecca Winkelaar is a fourth-year BSc student in Ecological Determinants of Health at Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾. Throughout her degree, she has conducted research with Dr. Maheu-Giroux’s Population Health Modeling Group, focusing on global patterns of HIV-related stigma through data analysis and visualization.
She was also selected for Â鶹´«Ã½Íøվ’s Global Health Scholars Program (2025–2026) and will return for the 2026–2027 cohort under the supervision of Dr. Prativa Baral in Â鶹´«Ã½Íøվ’s Pandemic Emergency Readiness Lab, where she will research how online hostility affects early-career researchers and science communicators in Canada and globally.
Rebecca currently serves as VP Advertising for the Canadian Association for Global Health at Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ and writes for Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ Perspectives on Global Health. She is particularly interested in bridging research and storytelling to make global health more accessible.