Girl Power Gurus

For this episode we interviewed five-time Olympian Lindsey Jacobellis is the most dominant SBX rider of all time. She is a 2x Olympic gold medalist, 1x Olympic silver medalist, 6-time world champion and 10-time X Games gold medalist. Her World Cup win in Germany marked 31 victories, making her the winningest snowboarder in history. She is a member of the U.S. Snowboardcross Team and is the inspirational leader and mentor for Super Girl Snow Pro.

In this episode we interviewed Dr. Emily Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE), and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She is also a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), serving as Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences.

In this episode we interviewd Dr. JoAnn Manson, the Professor of Medicine and the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women's Health at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). Dr. Manson is a physician epidemiologist, endocrinologist, and Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI of several research studies, including the Women's Health Initiative Clinical Center In Boston, the cardiovascular component of the Nurses' Health Study, the Vitamin D and Omega-3 TriaL (VITAL); the COSMOS trial, and the Vitamin D for COVID-19 (VIVID) trial.

For our latest episode we are talking with Dr. Aviv Regev. Dr. Regev is the head of Genentech Research and Early Development. Prior to Genentech, Regev served as Chair of the Faculty and Core Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and as Professor of Biology at MIT and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is a founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas.

This episode's guest is Professor Heidi J. Larson, the Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project. She is a professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle; and at the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on managing risk and building trust in vaccines, vaccine trials and building cooperation in the context of disease outbreaks and pandemics.

Prof. Larson previously headed Global Immunization Communication at UNICEF, chaired Gavi's Advocacy Task Force, and served on the WHO SAGE Working Group on vaccine hesitancy. She is the author of STUCK: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don't Go Away (Oxford University Press, 2020). In 2021 she was named by BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world and was awarded the 2021 Edinburgh Medal for her work.

Dr. Zhenan Bao from Stanford University is our latest exciting guest. She is currently a K.K. Lee Professor in Chemical Engineering, and with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She was the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018-2022. She currently has close to 700 referenced publications and more than 80 US patents with a Google Scholar H-index 198.

In the latest episode, we interviewed Caroline Fox, MD, MPH, the Senior Vice President of Genetics and Target Discovery at a Flagship Pioneering start-up company. There, she leads a group applying a novel method of genomics to identify drug targets. Prior to that, she was Vice President and Head of Genome and Biomarker Sciences at Merck Research Labs (MRL), where she lead a group of nearly 150 scientists to leverage genetics and biomarker science to drive drug discovery and development across the R&D pipeline.

For our latest episode, we interviewed Dr. Marilyn Waring, a prominent New Zealand economist and feminist, and a leading activist for women's human rights. Dr. Waring was one of the youngest New Zealanders ever elected to Parliament, serving as a National MP between 1975 and 1984. She was just 23 when she entered Parliament and from 1978 to 1981 she was the only woman in the National caucus. After leaving politics she wrote her famous book "If Women Counted". Due to her writings and research she is known as being the principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics. Since 2006, Dr. Waring has been a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy at AUT in Auckland. During this time she has focused on public policy and governance, political economy, gender analysis, and human rights.