News from Those Nerdy Girls

We are an all-female team of PhD researchers and clinicians whose mission is to educate and empower individuals to successfully navigate science and health information.

Sandy Laping is a clinician, science communicator and contributor to Those Nerdy Girls. She has a Masters in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Views are my own.

Dr. Sarah Coles is a family physician and program director for the Family and Community Medicine Residency at North Country HealthCare in Flagstaff, Arizona and associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Family physician dedicated to improving health through lifestyle changes and evidence based medicine.

Ilana Gerjuoy, MPH, works on health policy and communications for a community coalition in Western Massachusetts.

Anna is a student at UW Madison studying Environmental Science, English, Global Health, and Global Education. She is a collegiate rower.

Kelly Valentin’s research focuses on PTSD, intimate partner violence, and substance use. She works with the conviction that science can reveal what survival already knows: trauma is complex, recovery is nonlinear, and change is possible.

Jamie Fornsaglio is Professor of Biology at Seton Hill University, where she is a member of the advisory board for Gender and Women’s Studies. She earned her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Oncology from The George Washington University.

Claire is a Public Health Data Analyst at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her interests include data modernization, climate-related health impacts, and strengthening health systems.

Elisabeth Marnik, PhD, is a science communicator and immunologist. Drawing on personal experience growing up anti-science, she launched Science Whiz Liz in 2020 and now serves as Executive Director of The Evidence Collective.

Cindy is Professor of Immunology at Cornell University and Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. She researches immune system detection and response to pathogens, is host of the microbe.tv show “Immune” and supports postdoc development.