21 episodes
Women Leading Prevention Science NIH HEAL Initiative
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Each episode features a conversation with two women researchers from the HEAL Prevention Cooperative who discuss the public health problems they're trying to solve through their work and tell the stories of their journeys into the prevention science field. They discuss their academic backgrounds, mentoring, career choices, work-life balance, advice they would give young women interested in the prevention field, and much more. This podcast was developed as part of the HEAL Prevention Cooperative funded through the NIH, helping to end addiction long term initiative, an aggressive effort to speed scientific solutions to curb the national opioid public health crisis. The HEAL Prevention Cooperative includes ten research projects throughout the country and one coordinating center based at RTI International in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. For more information on the HEAL Prevention Initiative, please visit Heal.NIH.gov. The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the interviewers and do not reflect the opinions of the NIH.
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Including Indigenous Voices in Prevention Research
In this episode of Women Leading Prevention Science, Sara Hairgrove talks with Hannah LaBounty from the Cherokee Nation, and Bethany Jolly-Livingston from Emory University about how they found their way to their current roles in prevention science and their experiences partnering with and serving indigenous populations. They talk about the personal and professional lessons they learned while working with indigenous populations, including the value of pure relationships and fightin...
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Trailer: Including Indigenous Voices in Prevention Research
In the final episode, Sara Hairgrove speaks with Hannah LaBounty from the Cherokee Nation and Bethany Jolly Livingston from Emory University. They discuss how they found their way to their current roles in prevention science and their experiences partnering with and serving indigenous populations. For young women interested in pursuing prevention science, Bethany suggests exploring different fields of science to understand what opportunities are available. As Hannah shares in this...
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Intersecting Identities: First Gen Women Scientists
In Episode 12, Jasmine Ramirez speaks with Dr. Erin Bonar from the University of Michigan and Dr. Alina Palimaru from the RAND Corporation. They discuss how being first generation college students impacted their career trajectories and the challenges they faced as they navigated college and their educational training. Erin shares how she struggled with feeling out of place, and Alina, being born in Romania, describes how she had to work hard to learn English to pursue education in the United ...
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Trailer: Intersecting Identities: First Gen Women Scientists
In Episode 12, Jasmine Ramirez speaks with Dr. Erin Bonar from the University of Michigan and Dr. Alina Palimaru from the RAND Corporation. They discuss how being first generation college students impacted their career trajectories, the challenges they faced as they navigated college and their educational training, and their professional successes and accomplishments. They share their advice to future prevention scientists, including the importance of mastering the basics of time management, ...
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Championing Prevention Science at the Federal Level
In this episode, Sara Hairgrove talks with Dr. Sarah Steverman, a Social Behavioral Scientist Administrator in the Prevention Research Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). NIDA's mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and use disorders, and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health. Dr. Steverman describes the career journey that led her to contributing to prevention science from a position in the federal government and...
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Trailer: Championing Prevention Science at the Federal Level
In Episode 11, Sara Hairgrove speaks with Dr. Sara Steverman from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about her career journey and how it led her to contributing to prevention science from a position in the federal government. They discuss the educational and work experiences that helped her focus in on the type of work she wanted to do. Dr. Steverman believes it's important for young people to know that they don't have to have a PhD to do meaningful prevention science that they are passiona...