Tallinn Splinter

Tallinn is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Sciences Institute and a researcher in the Cognitive Brain Health Lab at Sunnybrook Research Institute. Her research focuses on women’s brain health, with a particular interest in how menopause, female reproductive factors, and cardiovascular health influence brain aging and dementia risk.

Additionally, her work examines the systemic underrepresentation of women in health research. Her research found that only 3% of over 3,000 neuroscience and psychiatry studies examined female-specific health factors. She has also demonstrated that this inequity extends to Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) funding, finding that only ~6.4% of CIHR project grant abstracts over 15 years examined female-specific health factors, with just ~0.08% doing so within dementia research.

In her spare time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and spending time with her two very needy cats.