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.

Oxford Professor of Demography and Population Health. Data nerd. I break down the science of health and longevity (and occasionally demography) with the rigor of a researcher, but without the impenetrable prose.

I'm a public health and behavioral science expert with experience writing about misinformation and science denial.

Messy, honest, and unmistakably Gen X—I share stories and real conversations at Daphne Discloses. As a pharmacist writer, I contribute to News from Those Nerdy Girls and Meet Me at the MedCart.

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.

MacKenzie (Kenzie) is a health educator currently studying at the University of Oxford. She is passionate about positive youth development and culturally sustaining health communication and promotion.

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

Rebecca Raskin-Wish is a former nonfiction book editor. She currently attends medical school at Drexel Univeristy College of Medicine and researches the impact of medical misinformation.

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.

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.

Heather Duncan is an epidemiologist and science communications specialist who works on developing AI agents for public health.