Please join us in attending, the 2022 Women’s Health Research Symposium, put on by the Women’s Health Research center in the Institute for Medicine and Public Health (IMPH), via Zoom every Friday in May (6, 13, 20, 27) at 10 AM CST – 12 PM CST. This year’s theme is Women’s Health and COVID- 19; subtopics are located below on the flier. Interested attendees will receive Tiff’s Treats delivery as a special snack. Attendees must register. Please click here to register and receive the Zoom link to attend!
If you have additional questions about the symposium, reach out to the programming committee at: c.gascoigne@vumc.org
Women’s Health Research Symposium- Women’s Health & COVID-19 Itinerary:
Day 1: Friday, May 06, 2022
Time: 10 AM – 12 PM
10 AM- Emmanuella Gakidou, MSc, PhD & Luisa Sorio Flor, MSc, PhD (30 minutes)
Title: The effects of the pandemic on gender equality
10:30 AM- Ellen D.B. Riggle, PhD (30 minutes)
Title: Sexual Minority Women’s Well-being during the Covid-19 Pandemic
11 AM- Break (5 minutes)
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM- 3 5 minute flash talks (15 minutes)
11:20 AM- Panel discussion (40 Minutes)
12 PM- End of day 1
Friday, May 13, 2022
Time: 10 AM – 12 PM
10 AM- Sarah Richardson, MA, PhD (30 minutes)
Title: Race, Place, and COVID-19 Sex Disparities
10:30 AM- Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, PhD, MPH, MAED, MS, CHES (15 minutes)
Title: Unraveling sex differences in COVID vaccine hesitancy
10:45 AM- Bin Ni, MD, PhD (15 minutes)
Title:
11 AM- Break (5 minutes)
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM- 3 5 minute flash talks (15 minutes)
11:20- Panel discussion (40 minutes)
12 PM- End of day 2
Friday, May 20, 2022
Time: 10 AM – 12 PM
10 AM- Rolanda Lister, MD (30 minutes)
Title: Assessing access to obstetrical care via telehealth in the era of COVID-19
10:30 AM- Samantha Piekos, PhD (30 minutes)
Title: Evaluating the Risk of Maternal COVID-19 and Vaccination on Maternal-Fetal Outcomes
11 AM- Break (5 minutes)
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM- 3 5 minute flash talks (15 minutes)
11:20 AM- Panel discussion (40 minutes)
12 PM- End of day 3
Friday, May 27, 2022
Time: 10 AM – 12PM
10 AM- Ashley Bear, PhD (30 minutes)
Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Report Overview
10:30 AM- Salima Kasymova, PhD, MPH (30 minutes)
Title: The Impact of COVID 19 on Academics who Mother
11 AM- Break (5 minutes)
11:05- Wendelyn Inman, PhD
Title:
11:30 AM- Panel discussion (40 minutes)
12 PM- End of day 4
Speakers:
Emmanuela Gakidou, MSc, PhD
Dr. Gakidou is a Professor of Health Metrics Sciences and the Senior Director of Organizational Development and Training at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. She is also a Faculty Affiliate for the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Gakidou’s research interests focus on impact evaluation, methods, and tools development for analytical challenges in global health. A founding member of IHME, Dr. Gakidou oversees the Organizational Development and Training team as they strengthen and support our high-achieving, diverse and ambitious staff. She is passionate about training the next generation of leaders in the field of health metrics and evaluation both at the University of Washington and around the world and enjoys mentoring and teaching. Before joining IHME, Dr. Gakidou was a research associate at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Prior to moving to Harvard University, Dr. Gakidou worked as a health economist at the World Health Organization (WHO), where she led work on the measurement of health inequalities. IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice
Related work: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673622000083#!
Luisa Sorio Flor, MSc, PhD
Dr. Sorio Flor is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In this role, she works on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project producing high-quality and policy-relevant estimates related to the effects of tobacco use and other behavioral risks on health. At IHME, Dr. Flor is also a part of the Gender Equality Metrics team, where she has a central role in analyzing and quantifying gender disparities in health globally, understanding the drivers of such disparities, and ultimately identifying actionable pathways toward more equitable health outcomes. Most recently, she has co-led research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender disparities in health, social, and economic areas across 193 countries. She received her Master's degree in Science and her doctoral degree in Public Health from the National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz) in Brazil. She has formal training and experience in health policy, population health, program evaluation, biostatistics, and social epidemiology.
Related work: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673622000083#!
Ellen D.B. Riggle, PhD
Dr. Riggle is Professor and Chair of Gender and Women's Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Riggle received her B.A. from Purdue University and her A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Riggle is the recipient of the 2017 William B. Sturgill Award for "outstanding contributions to graduate education" from the Graduate School of the University of Kentucky, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 44), and the 2019 Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Law, Society, and Culture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Dr. Riggle is co-author of A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being (with Sharon Rostosky; Rowman & Littlefield, 2012; Distinguished Book Award for 2012, Division 44 American Psychological Association), and Happy Together: Thriving as a Same-Sex Couple in Your Family, Workplace, and Community (American Psychological Association LifeTools Series, 2015). More information is available at www.PrismResearch.org.
Related work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8570582/
Sarah Richardson, MA, PhD
Dr. Richardson is a professor of the history of science and of studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. She directs the Harvard GenderSci Lab
Related work: https://www.genderscilab.org/gender-and-sex-in-covid19
Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, PhD, MPH, MAED, MS, CHES
Dr. Cunningham-Erves received her PhD in Health Education and Health Promotion from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2013. She is an Associate Professor at Meharry Medical College. She also has an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine appointment in Geriatric Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her background is in behavioral science with expertise in HPV-related cancers, COVID-19, vaccine hesitancy, and intervention development. Dr. Erves has extensive experience in community engagement. She currently co-leads the Cancer Outreach Core of the Meharry-Vanderbilt-Tennessee State University Cancer Partnership and the Dissemination Aim of the Meharry Community Engagement Core. In addition, she works with other researchers, state-level committees, and community-based organizations and members while mentoring students to develop strategies to reduce disparities across diseases.
Related work: DOI:10.1080/21645515.2021.1984134
Bin Ni, MD, PhD
Related work: DOI: 10.4081/jphr.2021.2497
Rolanda Lister, MD
Dr. Lister is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her medical doctorate from Meharry Medical College in 2006 and completed a residency at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California, in 2010. She completed her fellowship training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Since her joining Vanderbilt’s faculty in 2016, Dr. Lister has pioneered a multidisciplinary conference entitled the Maternal Care Conference that focuses on the comprehensive and collaborative care for our medically, obstetrically, and surgically complicated gravidas. Dr. Lister’s NIH-sponsored research program focuses on maternal diabetes, gene regulation, heart defects, and dysfunction in offspring. She also is interested in disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality. She serves as the Health Equity for Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care officer. In this role, Dr. Lister promotes maternal and child equity for all women throughout Tennessee. She is also on the Diversity, Equity, and inclusion committee for the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She was one of 54 stakeholders across the US for input into VP Kamala Harris’s Call to Action to inform the legislative agenda for the Build Back Better bill. Her overall mission is to utilize the window of pregnancy as an opportunity to improve the cardiac health of mothers and their children.
Related work: DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2020.12.984
Samantha Piekos, PhD
In 2020 Samantha received her Ph.D. in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University advised by Dr. Anthony Oro. She then joined the Hood-Price Lab at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle as a postdoctoral fellow advised by Dr. Leroy Hood. Using patient medical records she has provided insight into the impact of maternal COVID-19 infection on birth outcomes. She is continuing her work to understand the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on maternal-fetal outcomes and medications used to treat pregnant COVID-19 patients. In addition to her work on COVID-19 and pregnancy, Samantha is using multidimensional omics placental data to understand the mechanism of pregnancy-related disorders including preterm birth, preeclampsia, and fetal growth restrictions. She is also developing analyses that enable individualized insights into multidimensional omics data, which can have future applications in precision medicine. Samantha has also been collaborating with Google since June 2019 to build Biomedical Data Commons, a publicly available knowledge graph that integrates biomedical data from a wide range of sources into a single searchable database thereby increasing data accessibility. In the future, Samantha is interested in demonstrating how it can be used to integrate neighborhood-level social determinants of health data with patient electronic medical records to provide insight into the contribution of environmental exposure to negative outcomes in women's reproductive health.
Related work: DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(21)00250-8
Ashley Bear, PhD
Dr. Bear is the Director of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Salima Kasymova, PhD, MPH
Dr. Kasymova is a public health researcher with over 20 years of experience in public health with a special focus on promoting the health of women, children, and adolescents, reproductive health, and gender equality. Dr. Kasymova has extensive international experience, working and conducting research in Central Asia, North America, and South‐Pacific Asia. She has served as a project manager, policy‐maker, and subject matter expert in various international organizations including the World Health Organization, Save the Children, and CARE. Her research has focused on access to and quality of healthcare assistance, COVID‐19, reproductive health, and gender equality.
Related work: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12699
Wendelyn Inman, PhD
