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Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH
Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH is a public health expert and author based in New York. She has written extensively about psychology, misinformation, science denial, and behavioral science, among other topics. Her work has appeared or been reviewed in TIME, The New Yorker, Science, Scientific American, Psychology Today, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, and Read more…
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD
Dr. Jennifer Beam Dowd is Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford and studies mortality trends and how social factors “get under the skin” to impact health, including via infections and immune function. She is also Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at Oxford and received her PhD Read more…
Poormina Raghu Gowda, PhD
Poornima is an applied mathematician with a Ph.D from the University of Southern California. She started her career in Citibank’s Global Markets, developing pricing models for derivatives and testing algorithms for trading software. She is now the Director of Financial Operations at Northern Westchester Hospital, part of Northwell Health. In that role, she oversees all Read more…
Cathy Greenland
Cathy Greenland is the Director of Individual Giving at Natural Lands, Pennsylvania’s oldest and largest conservation organization. Before Natural Lands, she worked for more than 20 years as the Director of Development at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and prior to that at Hyacinth AIDS Foundation in New Jersey. Her career in the Read more…
Gretchen Peterson, Chief Operations Officer
Gretchen Peterson is a retired Instructional Technology Specialist who spent twenty-nine years as an educator for grades 4-8 in private Episcopal schools in Dallas, TX. She specialized in teaching students technology, research, and entrepreneurial skills as well as providing technology support and education to faculty and staff. She holds an MEd from the University of Read more…
Irini Hadjisavva, PhD
Dr. Irini Hadjisavva is a molecular and cellular biologist who does science communication on digestive health, the gut microbiome, and its impact on overall health and wellbeing. A graduate of the University of Virginia (BSc in Biochemistry) and the George Washington University (PhD in Molecular and Cellular Oncology), Irini has focused her career on cancer Read more…
Sandra Albrecht, PhD MPH
Dr. Sandra Albrecht is formally trained as a social epidemiologist, with additional training in the social sciences, nutrition, and in both chronic and infectious diseases. Her research is focused on the social and neighborhood-level factors that contribute to the high burden of nutrition-related diseases in immigrants and among Hispanics/Latinos. She is on the faculty at Read more…
Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD FNP-BC
Shoshana Aronowitz is a family nurse practitioner, PhD prepared nurse scientist, and a health services research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Instagram Lead/Editor of Dear Pandemic. Her research interests are the intersections of criminal justice and health, harm reduction approaches to the opioid/overdose crisis, the provision Read more…
Mary Baldridge, PhD
Dr. Mary Baldridge is a Professor of Spanish at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee. She teaches all levels of Spanish language, literature, and culture and also regularly volunteers as a medical translator and interpreter. Her research is primarily focused on medieval Spanish women and society. However, her teaching is more broadly focused and most Read more…
Daphne Berryhill, RPh
Daphne Berryhill, RPh, is a pharmacist, writer, and reviewer. She practices pharmacy in an oncology specialty clinic and previously worked in home infusion. She’s also a freelance writer for GoodRx, Forbes Health, and HealthDay News. In both roles, Daphne enjoys and values working in collaborative environments that allow for open feedback and double-checking. Daphne’s writing Read more…
Mahima Bhattar, Volunteer
Mahima Bhattar is an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Sociology and Economics. She has focused much of her undergraduate career on public health research through studying women’s health in Varanasi, India while studying abroad and interning in Monitoring & Evaluations at the Ugandan NGO, Health Access Connect. She plans to continue into Read more…
Katherine Bolte, Social Media Intern
Katherine is a Social Media Intern for Those Nerdy Girls. When she’s not creating some of the graphics you see on TNG social media pages, she attends high school in Missouri. She’s been involved with TNG since December of 2022 and is especially passionate about their advocacy efforts in the reproductive health spaces. Outside of Read more…
A. August Burns, MPH, PA, CM
August Burns, PA, MPH, LM is a retired physician assistant, midwife, international consultant, and author who has specialized in teaching women about their bodies and how to care for themselves. With 34 years of experience in all aspects of women’s health, she is a fierce defender of women’s rights and health. In addition to 25 Read more…
Alison Buttenheim, PhD MBA, Co-founder & Advisor
Dr. Alison Buttenheim is a social scientist who studies the behavioral aspects of infectious disease prevention. She is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Associate Director of Penn’s Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. She is also a co-founder of Dear Pandemic Read more…
Katherine Cartwright, DO, MPH
Dr. Katherine Cartwright is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist currently in private practice. She received her undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences and sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received her MPH at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, where she concentrated in health education and reproductive epidemiology, with a research Read more…
Pamela Chung, MD
Dr. Pamela Chung is an Associate Program Director at the Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program in Sugar Land, Texas. She completed her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences, and her medical training at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, followed by Family Medicine Residency at Queens University in Kingston, Canada. Since residency, Pamela has completed a Diploma Read more…
Maya Clark-Cutaia, PhD
Dr. Clark-Cutaia is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing and Grossman School of Medicine. She received a BS in Nursing (2003), and MS in Nursing (2006) from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD in Nursing (2012) from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Clark-Cutaia continues to Read more…
Sarah Whitley Coles, MD
Dr. Sarah Coles is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix in the Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine and is the program director for the Colorado Plateau Family and Community Medicine Residency at North Country HealthCare. She received her undergraduate degrees in molecular and cellular biology and Read more…
Chana Davis, PhD
Dr. Chana Davis is a scientist who loves helping people use science to make informed choices. She has expertise in diagnostics, cancer screening, the human microbiome, and nutrition / food science. Chana completed her PhD in genetics at Stanford before spending a decade in biomedical research at the Canary Foundation, Genentech / Roche, and Genome Read more…
