JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

Dr. Devorah Segal is a pediatric neurologist at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Segal received her B.A. in Chemistry at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She then earned her MD and a PhD in Neuroscience at Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed her pediatrics and pediatric neurology training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center. She spent several years on faculty at Weill Cornell, where she practiced general child neurology, providing inpatient and outpatient care with a subspecialty in neurogenetics.  She is now a faculty member at NYU Langone, where she specializes in treating neurofibromatosis and pediatric neuro-oncology.

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Bari Mitzmann is a content creator whose goal is to empower women and normalize struggle. She has a masters in education and has worked in outreach for a number of years. She uses her Instagram platform @barianna, her blog barianna.com and her podcast, woman of valor, to discuss and normalize mental illness and other seemingly taboo topics in the Jewish community. 

Dorit Rubinstein Reiss is a professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Increasingly, her research and activities are focused on legal issues related to vaccines, including exemption laws and tort liability related to non-vaccination. She published law review and peer reviewed articles and many blog posts on legal issues related to vaccines. She received an undergraduate degree in Law and Political Science from the Faculty of Law in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in UC Berkeley. She is a member of the Parents Advisory Board of Voices for Vaccines and the the Vaccine Working Group on Ethics and Policy, and active in vaccine advocacy in other ways. 

https://violentmetaphors.com/2013/12/20/the-most-important-playground-conversation-how-to-persuade-a-friend-to-vaccinate/ 

https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/01/24/tactics-and-tropes-of-the-antivaccine-mo

https://www.vaccines.gov 

https://vaccinateyourfamily.org 

https://dearpandemic.org/posts/