Member Insight – Veronica E McSorley
What sparked your decision to become an epidemiologist? After college, I worked for an educational and support non-profit that provided resources to Latinx and African American survivors of breast cancer. Part of my job was reading current findings in the literature and conveying them to a lay audience. This exposed me to the kind of studies and work that epidemiologists do. I didn’t even know about the field before then! It seemed like a career path where I could focus on social justice and also lean on my analytic strengths. What do you see as the biggest obstacle facing epidemiologists in the next five years? The pandemic a really thrust epidemiology into the public discourse. This has coincided with growing distrust of public institutions and propagation of misinformation by some. Clear and compelling communication has always been a challenge and now more than ever, if we want to hold the public’s trust in order to improve public health, we will have to contend with this. Do you have any pets? No, but I have two boys and they are covered in dirt, eat things off the floor, are not fully potty trained. Why did you join SER? What keeps you […]