In 2022, I was fortunate to be part of the inaugural cohort for the Environmental Health Research Institute for Nurse and Clinician Scientists (EHRI-NCS). The fellowship was an invaluable experience for me as I was in my transition year of wrapping up my PhD studies and moving into my faculty position. One comment I received after my “job talk” during my faculty interview was that they seldom see an early career candidate who has given so much deep thought to the ten-year trajectory of their research program. That comment was a direct byproduct of the career cartography work we did as fellows of EHRI-NCS, under the leadership of principal investigator Dr. Jessica Castner and faculty. 
You can imagine my sheer delight when I received the call from Dr. Castner a year later inviting me to support the institute as a junior faculty for the analytics portion of the workshop! Last week, I assisted the core faculty in facilitating the 2023 workshop. The event was hosted at Emory University.
During the three-day workshop, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Gaea A. Daniel and hear about her research, as well as tour the Emory school of nursing bio-labs. All participants went and visited the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta campus. My neighborhood researcher heart was overjoyed to hear about some of the work being done to better understand Healthy Communities at the CDC. During the final day of the workshop, I enthusiastically listened as Dr. Jeremy Sarnat shared an overview of the work being done at the HERCULES Exposome Research Center. I returned home renewed and excited to resume my work!
Presentation dates: June 12-14, 2023
Presentation location: Atlanta, Georgia