We’re winding down the month here at PARTNRS with a fantastic Friday. We had a busy day today in the office with the PARTNRS team hosting 9 interviews of new parents. July was also one of our busiest months ever, conducting a whopping 52 interviews! This is just another reason why we love our PARTNRS Parents!
August–Here we come!
At PARTNRS, we are always welcoming new contributors to the project in an effort to bring in new thoughts, ideas and energy toward our effort to strengthen families and prevent the spread of HIV and STIs. We are also grateful for the previous contributions of many who have since moved on to wonderful positions and places, as they have helped make PARTNRS into what it is today. We have contributors that have moved on to places like SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Data Analysis Coordination and Consolidation Center, Harvard Medical School, a Physician’s Assistant program, a Yale Faculty appointment, etc. Check out our updated Research Team page to learn more about the current team and where previous contributors are now! The PARTNRS Team click here…
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I would like to officially welcome Danielle LeePow to the PARTNRS team as our first PARTNRS Summer Internship and Research Training Program participant. Danielle joins us from Howard University, where she is a rising sophomore pursuing a major in sociology. In 2008, Danielle competed in the Young Epidemiologist Scholars (YES) Competition, sponsored by the College Board and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was named a National Finalist, ranking seventh among over 550 applicants, for her work with research regarding self esteem and sexual activity among African American adolescent girls.
Originally from Atlanta, Danielle has also served a peer educator at an Atlanta AIDS service organization. Dr. Quinn Gentry, an Instructor of Sociology at Emory University and Danielle’s YES competition mentor, describes her work with Danielle when “Danielle was volunteering as an HIV prevention youth advocate at a critical time in HIV/AIDS history when the burden of the disease had disproportionately shifted to her generation. Danielle quickly stood out as a ‘leader among leaders’ as she boldly spread messages of HIV prevention that were practical and realistic for her peers.”
PARTNRS is excited to have Danielle join PARTNRS as a full member of the research team for the summer of 2009. Danielle will be gaining hands-on experience in community-based public health research, recruiting and interviewing young adolescent couples during their transition to parenthood. In addition to her work in the field, Danielle will also be boosting her research skills and conducting an investigation of her own, using preliminary findings from PARTNRS baseline interviews with couples.
Danielle will be lending us insight into her experience as a summer intern as a regular PARTNRS blogger! Stay posted!
~Anna