Andrew Hastings – Public Health Analyst at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)– Former AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow– Former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Research Associate Jonelle Drugan – Science policy analyst at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases– Former Legislative affairs analyst at the National Heart…

Retrospectively join Pitt Science Policy for our final of two (2/2) Policy Memo Workshops! The second session built on progress from the first session by detailing key concepts that go into writing compelling policy memos. Further, we illustrated the employment of these concepts through case-study analysis of published memos that left attendees with the knowledge…

Back in December 2020, Pitt Science Policy Group (PSPG) partnered with Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) for a screening of the film Picture-A-Scientist. Through the interweaving of three (3) scientists’ stories, supplemental interviews and data, the directors explore how discrimination, both innocuous and egregious, causes a leaky STEM pipeline that leads to a lack…

The Pitt Science Policy group recently held a career talk with Dr. Cheryl Jacobs Smith, Health Science Policy Analyst at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Jacobs Smith spoke to students about her transition from a PhD in Human Genetics to a post-doctoral position in health disparities which eventually propelled her into her current position.…