Women Leading Prevention Science

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 op...

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...

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, includi...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode of Women Leading Prevention Science, Jasmine Ramirez talks with Dr. Lissette Saavedra from RTI International, and Dr. Claudia-Santi Fernandes, from Yale University School of Medicine. Lissette is a bilingual Colombian and indigenous woman. Claudia is the multilingual child of parents who immigrated to the US from Portugal and Italy. They discuss how these identities have shaped their work in prevention science, spec...

In Episode 10, Jasmine Ramirez speaks with Dr. Claudia Fernandes from the Yale University School of Medicine, and Dr. Lissette Saavedra from RTI International. Claudia is the multilingual child of parents who immigrated to the United States from Portugal and Italy. Lissette is a bilingual Colombian and indigenous woman. You will learn about how these identities have shaped their work in prevention science, specifically their effort...

In this episode, Jasmine Ramirez, a counseling psychology doctoral student and a research associate at the University of Oregon, talks with Dr. Marina Tolou-Shams from the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Yang Yang from Texas Christian University about the novel research they are conducting with you in contact with the legal system. They discuss the early experiences that led them to a career in prevention science. ...

In Episode 9, Jasmine Ramirez speaks with Dr. Marina Tolou-Shams from the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Yang Yang from Texas Christian University. You will learn about the early experiences that led them to a career in prevention science, the novel research they are conducting with youth in contact with the legal system, and their advice to young women who may be thinking about a future career as a prevention sci...

In this episode, Jasmine Ramirez, a counseling psychology doctoral student and a research associate at the University of Oregon, talks with Drs. Jodi Ford and Natasha Slesnick from The Ohio Stage University about the research they are currently conducting with homeless youth, the different paths that led them to prevention science, and the many rewards and challenges they have faced working with youth experiencing homelessness. Nat...

In Episode 8, Jasmine Ramirez speaks with Drs. Natasha Slesnick and Jodi Ford, both from The Ohio State University. You will learn about about how their career journeys led them to prevention science, the innovative research they are conducting with homeless youth, the challenges and rewards of working with youth experiencing homelessness,  and their advice to future prevention scientists. In this trailer for Episode 8, Natasha sha...

In this episode, Sara Hairgrove, a public health analyst at RTI International and a Masters in Public Health Student at Maryland University, talks with Dr. Lynn Fiellin, a Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, the Yale Child Study Center, and the Yale School of Public Health, and a found director of the play2PREVENT lab at Yale University, and Ms. Lily Hoerner, a Postgraduate Research Associate in the pla...

In Episode 7, Sara Hairgrove interviews Dr. Lynn Fiellin and Ms. Lily Hoerner, both from Yale University. You will learn about about the challenges and rewards of the research they are currently conducting in school settings, their unique experiences that led them to prevention science, and their advice to future prevention scientists. In this trailer for Episode 7, Lily talks about how it is important to do the research you are pa...

In this episode of Women Leading Prevention Science, you'll get to know our co-hosts for the second season, Jasmine Ramirez and Sara Hairgrove. Jasmine is a doctoral candidate in the University of Oregon’s counseling psychology program, and Sara works at RTI International and is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health with a focus on Health Equity at the University of Maryland. Jasmine and Sara talk about their paths in...

In Episode 6, you will be introduced to the guest host for the second season, Jasmine Ramirez from the University of Oregon, and learn more about our season one host Sara Hairgrove from RTI International.  You will learn about their paths in prevention science, their educational experiences, and get to know them a little better as they guide us through the second season of the podcast. In this trailer for Episode 6, Jasmine introdu...

In this episode of Women Leading Prevention Science, Sara Hairgrove talks with Dr. Danica Knight, professor and Associate Director of research at Texas Christian University's Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development and Dr. Margaret Kuklinski, associate professor and Director of the Social Development Research Group in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. They discuss balancing work and caregiver roles...

In this episode, Sara Hairgrove interviews Dr. Leslie Leve, Lorry Lokey Chair and professor in the College of Education and scientist at the Prevention Science Institute at the University of Oregon, and Dr. Beth Stormshak, Philip H. Knight Chair and professor in the College of Education and a research scientist at the Prevention Science Institute at the University of Oregon. Leslie and Beth discuss the importance of forging strong ...

In this episode of Women Leading Prevention Science Podcast, we talk with Mrs. Tyra Pendergrass Boomer, Deputy Director of Programs and Partnerships at the play2PREVENT Lab at the Yale Center for Health and Learning Games, and Dr. Elvira Elek, Senior Research Public Health Analyst and Program Director for the Substance Use Prevention, Evaluation, and Research program at RTI International about their unconventional paths into preven...

In this episode, we talk with  Dr. Amy Yule, Director of Adolescent Addiction Psychiatry at the Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Jessica Cance, Senior Research Public Health Analyst at RTI international about some of the tough career and personal choices they have had to make while pursuing their research careers and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their work and family lives. Dr. Yule and Dr. Cance share personal, inspiring stori...