Using Twitter as an academic public health researcher, with Kira E. Riehm
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English - July 20, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBSelf-Improvement Education Business Careers public health career health health career education higher ed self-improvement school job community Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Sujani is back again with Kira Riehm, a psychiatric epidemiologist and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. This time, they talk about using Twitter as a tool for public health professionals and the benefits and opportunities the platform has in store.
You’ll Learn
Why Kira first started to use Twitter for professional purposesWhat Kira mainly uses Twitter for and how she navigates through the platformHow Kira’s usage of Twitter changed since the pandemicHow others working in public health have used Twitter How Twitter can be used to find various career opportunities and build professional relationshipsHow Kira found her postdoc work through TwitterWhat challenges using Twitter professionally may presentHow Twitter differs from LinkedIn as a platform for public health professionals and researchers
Today’s Guest
Kira is a psychiatric epidemiologist and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The primary aim of her research is to understand the causes, correlates, and consequences of mental health disorders among adolescents. Drawing on a wide variety of data sources, she designs research studies that involve the application of rigorous epidemiologic methods to answer pressing questions about youth mental health and substance use. Her work has been published in JAMA Psychiatry, Pediatrics, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and American Journal of Public Health.
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