This series aims to empower first year graduate students in gaining confidence to conduct research. All recordings can be viewed on YouTube.

Session 6: Sharing Your Research 

December 2021: This presentation is about best practices for sharing research as a first year graduate student. This recording features Shanda Hunt, former UMN Public Health Librarian.

Session 5: ABCDEF...IRB? 

Session 4: Data, Data, Data

November 2021: This presentation features all things quantitative data and included Marta Shore, a Biostatistics Lecturer, and Delaine Anderson, a second year MCH student.

Session 3: How to Conduct Responsible Research

October 2021: This panel explored research at its essence: its purpose, its power, and how to do it as an act of service. This panel included second yearMCH students Hadija Steen Mills and Delaine Anderson.

Session 2: Preparing for Research as a First Year Graduate Student

September 2021: Join us for a panel discussing the best ways to prepare yourself for research as a first year student. This panel includes Kaitlyn Traub, a second year MCH student, Shanda Hunt, former UMN Public Health Librarian, and Dr. Susan Mason, an Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Session 1: Building a Strong Relationship with Your Advisor

About this Initiative

Delaine Anderson, an Executive Board member of the MCH Interest Group, came into graduate school with a very limited understanding of how research is really done in an academic setting. Through many annoying emails to her advisor and others at the school she was able to complete an independent data analysis in her first semester that won the Student Poster Award at the University of Minnesota Women's Health Research Conference. Continuing this work, she published her research experience as a White and Hispanic woman in graduate school and then she became a student Primary Investigator on an IRB approved qualitative research study analyzing exposures to fitness and diet based media content in relation to young womens' body image. Super cool, right? 

Delaine thinks that what she was able to do during her graduate degree should be accessible to everyone - the information itself is just difficult to find. She is leading this programming because of her desire to empower other students to do research independently. Happy researching!