G+JI Annual Report 2020-2021

Yasmin is the Director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, a Cllinical Assistant Professor in
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University’s Department of Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at the Anderson School of
Stanford
at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications. She trained in medicine
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the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto.
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Yasmin’s scholarly work focuses on the spread of health misinformation and disinformation, the growth
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medical and news deserts, and the impact on public health. She teaches creative nonfiction including
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and science journalism, global health storytelling, practicing medicine with empathy and
health
and advanced clinical communication skills. She is a medical analyst for CNN and a
compassion,
applied to the Fellowship to support my doctoral work and as
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additional forum for connection and interdisciplinary
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am most excited about the synergy and connection that I
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the Fellowship will foster. I am grateful for the
anticipate
the team has demonstrated at this wonderful but
leadership
deeply patriarchal university. As a Catholic institution, we
still
a foundation in liberation and justice, and yet a
have
in carrying centuries of marginalizing the voices of
challenge
I've attended several GJI programs and find the
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uplifting, and the content consistently provocative
community
am excited about meeting other researchers, and getting
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about how to publish my findings."
advice
prospect of growing in that work alongside creative,
"The
colleagues at Georgetown thrills me! Gaining
interdisciplinary
perspectives on my own work from colleagues
interdisciplinary
celebrating the innovative work that others are doing
and
am thrilled to focus on my project, with the support of a
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of people engaging with similar study. While
community
alone offers focus, being part of team gives shape and
working
to an idea. One little zinnia is sweet, but when it
creativity
felt it would be an honor to pursue further study under this
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at Georgetown, and institution committed to
fellowship
The fellowship provides a small stipend,
community support, and concludes with a
workshop on publishing research.
October 4, 2021
Turning Research into Publication
Workshop with Seema Yasmin, Emmy-award winning journalist, author, medical doctor, poet and professor.
correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment.
Explore why fellows applied to the program and what they were most
enthusiastic about:
collaboration around a shared goal of justice."
across campus."
stands in a garden of many flowers, its beauty is multiplied!"
and important."
creative and long lasting solutions."
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