Better Aging in BC:
Mapping Menopause Research Priorities
What is Mapping Menopause?
Mapping Menopause is a project co-led through the WHRI (Dr. Lori Brotto) and BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre (Dr. Stephanie Rhone, Dr. Stephanie Fisher) to enable the identification and prioritization of menopause knowledge gaps that need to be addressed.
Mapping Menopause convened knowledge users who research, provide, and receive menopause care, across British Columbia. The project included:
- healthcare providers from nursing, medicine, and psychology, pharmacology, and pelvic floor physiotherapy
- researchers from basic, health, and social sciences
- people who have diverse lived experiences of menopause
Collectively, these groups informed engagement strategies to garner multidisciplinary feedback, interpret data from the engagement activities, and reach a consensus to produce a Menopause Research Agenda representative of knowledge users across British Columbia.
The Mapping Menopause Report
Released on June 4, 2026, the Better Aging in BC: Mapping Menopause Research Priorities report includes a four-page Executive Summary, as well as a Research Agenda outlining the top 10 priorities for menopause research in BC and ecosystem considerations to enable success.
To our research community:
- read these priorities
- cite this report in any aligned funding applications
- connect with us for opportunities to collaborate
How to cite the report:
Brotto LA, Fisher S, Yakubu T, Santana Parrilla J, Prestley N, . Better Aging in BC: Mapping Menopause Research Priorities. Vancouver, (BC): Women’s Health Research Institute; 2026.
This project was supported through a Michael Smith Health Research Convening and Collaborating Award and generosity from the BC Women’s Health Foundation.
The Mapping Menopause Team
Nicole Prestley, Manager, Research + Knowledge Translation, Nicole.Prestley@cw.bc.ca
Titilola Yakubu, Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator
Dr. Stephanie Rhone, Research User Co-Lead, BCW CMC (to September 2025)
Dr. Stephanie Fisher, Research User Co-Lead, BCW CMC (from September 2025)
- Shirley Weir, MenopauseChicks
- Alka Tandan, Person with lived experience
- Angela Williams, Person with lived experience
- Ramya Reddy, Person with lived experience
- Debra Abraham, Person with lived experience
- Stephanie Rhone, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
- Deborah Money, University of British Columbia
- Rachel Ollivier, BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre
- Melanie Altas, Vancouver General Hospital
- Caroline Sanders, University of Northern British Columbia
- Heather Cooke, Alzheimer’s Society of BC
- Marina Adshade, University of British Columbia
- Silke Appel-Cresswell, University of British Columbia
- Mohamed Bedaiwy, University of British Columbia
- Katrina Bouchard, BC Centre for Vulvar Health
- Roxana Geoffrion, University of British Columbia
- Kelsey Mills, University of British Columbia
- Tim Rowe, University of British Columbia
- Aline Talhouk, University of British Columbia
- Nicole Todd, University of British Columbia
- Darren Lazare, University of British Columbia
- Tim Rowe, University of British Columbia
- Unjali Malhotra, First Nations Health Authority
- Michelle Jacobson, Women’s College Hospital
- Gwen Haworth, Trans Care BC
- Sabrina Gill, Metabolic Bone Clinic
- Ruth Vilayil, University of British Columbia
- Ali Zentner, Revolution Medical Clinic
- Lesa Dawson, Gynecologic Cancer Initiative
- Silke Appel-Cresswell, University of British Columbia
- Brittany Bingham, University of British Columbia
- Chui Kin Yuen, Canadian Menopause Society
- Kate McBride, Vancouver Coastal Health, University of British Columbia
- Stephanie Fisher, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre
- Shannon Lawrence, Comox Physiotherapy Clinic
- Dr. Jane Xia, University of British Columbia
- Lissy Liu (She/Her), INSPIRE Student
Jenine Hira (She/Her), MD Student | Class of 2028, Vancouver Fraser Medical Program (VFMP) | University of British Columbia
Shelly Sharma (She/Her), Volunteer
