The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) has opened registration for mentors and mentees in its mentorship program. The IAPHS Mentoring Program matches individuals who could use advice and guidance on building their careers with more experienced population health scientists willing to lend a helping hand. Register by July 8th!
Becoming a mentor. Being a mentor builds fruitful relationships that, for many, bring new insights and ideas to their work. Most importantly, it offers the satisfaction of making a difference in the career of a next generation scientist.
Signing up to have a mentor. Being a mentee gives you access to advice and guidance from successful population health scientists, helps to build professional networks, and provides a helping hand in planning for – and meeting – career goals.
Registration for this highly successful program will be open June 1, 2024-July 8, 2024 and 35 new mentor-mentee pairs will be matched after that date.
Read more about the program here.
The NIH is excited to share information about an upcoming event hosted by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development on July 11, 2024. The NIH would be delighted to have you join the Connecting the Community Research Showcase, where representatives from eight community organizations taking part in NIH IMPROVE’s Connecting the Community for Maternal Health Challenge will deliver presentations about their current research findings and the state of maternal health within their local communities. Presenters will share the lessons learned throughout their research journey and will outline their next steps, prompting discussions on how to translate research into actionable solutions to positively impact maternal health outcomes.
- Date: July 11, 2024
- Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM EDT
- Location: Zoom Webinar
To join, please register using the following link: https://bit.ly/4dx8UPs.
For additional information about the event, please visit: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/meetings/2024/071124 and https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/45967.
CSDE Affiliate Jelani Ince provides important insight on the relationship between members of the Black LGBTQ+ population and church in the King 5 news story, “‘This is just who I am’ | One woman’s experience reconciling her faith, Blackness and sexuality.” Zhanea June, the person of interest in this story, details what it was like growing up in the South and being in a Black, Christian household while being part of the LGBTQ+ community. Dr. Ince notes that many Black LGBTQ+ individuals often have to deal with rejection from their church, which not only impacts their spirituality, but their social spaces and sense of belonging. As detailed by Dr. Ince, historically, Black churches are not just places where worship happens, it is also where Black identity can be affirmed and is a social and community center for many. June discusses how she has been able to openly express her identity in all aspects regarding her faith, Blackness, and sexuality, and how her church community allows her to thrive and be the most complete version of herself. Dr. Ince also says some actors within churches have encouraged their churches to be more inclusive of members of the LGBTQ+ community.
The NIH CH Scholars Program seeks to bring climate and health scientists from outside the U.S. federal government to NIH to share their knowledge and expertise. The goal of the program is for climate and health scientists to support NIH institutes, centers, and offices in developing a stronger climate and health knowledge base in the areas of the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative’s Strategic Framework.
Please review the announcement for more information about the program and the application process.
Applications are due July 15, 2024.
For more information visit: https://www.nih.gov/climateandhealth#scholars.
Reach out to CHScholars@nih.gov with any questions.
CSDE Affiliate Gregory Bratman has collaborated with experts in the field of olfaction to create a conceptual framework for the consideration of how the smells of nature can affect human well-being via the olfactory pathway. Recently, Dr. Bratman joined the broadcast “Think Out Loud” with host Dave Miller on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The olfactory pathway has been understudied in the field of nature and health, and the sense of smell is also often undervalued in general in Western cultures (though increased attention has been brought to it since the COVID-19 pandemic). Dr. Bratman discusses the multidisciplinary working group he recently gathered together and helps to lead on this topic, and how much research has been done on this subject as a whole. He also discusses the conceptual framework he and his co-authors developed in their published paper, “Nature and Human Well-being: The Olfactory Pathway” from Science Advances that was mentioned in a recent edition of CSDE News & Events.
