She Belongs Gender Based Violence Project

This episode features Heather Aliotta, a nurse practitioner and clinical education coordinator at Brown University Health Services. She focuses on women’s and adult health and currently works as a nurse practitioner at Brown University Health Services and previously worked in the Emergency Room at the Women & Infants Hospital.

In this episode, Heather discusses gender-based violence in college campuses and work environments, and a lot more!

The interview is hosted by Merih Deniz Toruner https://twitter.com/DenizToruner. For further resources, please click here. 

This episode features Prof. Devi Parikh, Associate Professor in Machine Learning at Georgia Tech and Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research. To learn more about her work, follow her on https://twitter.com/deviparikh. The host for this episode is Varshini Subhash https://twitter.com/VarshiniSubhash.

In this conversation, Prof. Parikh describes her journey as a researcher in AI. We talk about her childhood, her work ethic, her hobbies, being successful as a female researcher in STEM, handling failure, research as a form of creative expression and a lot more.

This episode features Dr. Gerardo Carino, MD, PhD from Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and The Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island. He is the Director of the Intensive Care Unit at The Miriam Hospital and the Assistant Director of Graduate Medical Education at Rhode Island Hospital. The host for this episode is Merih Deniz Toruner.

The topic of conversation is ‘ICU and Trauma Response with Patients of Violence during COVID-19’. We discuss the role of trauma response during COVID-19, the impact of obstructive masks on patient-doctor relationships, the rise in gender-based violence, balancing emotions and rational decision-making as a first responder in addition to empathy, permanent changes to ICU care due to COVID-19 and the joys of being a first responder.

This episode features Dr. Annekathryn Goodman, an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. The host for this episode is Varshini Subhash.

The topic of conversation is - Gender-Based Violence in Disaster Settings. We discuss the vulnerability faced by women during disasters, being a first-responder in these settings, managing grief, COVID-19 as a disaster, American policy gaps with regard to violence, the 1918 Spanish Flu and the Strength and Serenity initiative.