{"id":78,"date":"2022-04-11T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/?p=78"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:40:49","slug":"meet-the-region-1-team-christine-and-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/meet-the-region-1-team-christine-and-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Region 1 Team, Christine and April!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_66\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/cnieman.png\" alt=\"Christine Newman\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/cnieman.png 400w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/cnieman-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/cnieman-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Newman<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>What is your title and brief job description?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Data Management Librarian for Region 1. In this role, I support courses and programs related to research data management and other data literacy topics.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Other than COVID, what medical\/health topic is on your mind?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mental health education and especially increasing access to mental health services is often on my mind, as well as the importance of promoting equity and inclusivity in research. How research studies are designed, how we collect data \u2013 and who we collect data from \u2013 has a powerful impact on how we understand and learn about health and how we combat health disparities.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What advice would you give others who are interested in doing health outreach work in their communities?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remember the saying that you have two ears and one mouth. Listening to your community \u2013 getting to know their struggles and their strengths, the tools they have and the gaps they need filled \u2013 is as important to outreach as the information you share or the number of programs you offer. Community outreach starts with community \u2013 learning about and seeking to understand the people you want to serve.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Unrelated to health librarianship, what is your favorite indulgence?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I love chocolate! And stories \u2013 I am an avid reader\/listener of audiobooks, especially science fiction\/fantasy stories and memoir.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/adwright-300x300.png\" alt=\"April Wright\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/adwright-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/adwright-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/03\/adwright.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Wright<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>What is your title and brief job description?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Environmental Health Program Specialist.\u00a0 Develop programs and resources relevant to disaster &amp; emergency planning and environmental determinants of health including environmental health and justice.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Other than COVID, what medical\/health topic is on your mind?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Climate change and mental health<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What advice would you give others who are interested in doing health outreach work in their communities?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cultivate relationships built on trust and mutual partnering<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Unrelated to health librarianship, what is your favorite indulgence?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ferro Rocher chocolates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your title and brief job description?\u00a0\u00a0 Data Management Librarian for Region 1. In this role, I support courses and programs related to research data management and other data literacy topics. Other than COVID, what medical\/health topic is on your mind?\u00a0\u00a0 Mental health education and especially increasing access to mental health services is often&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/meet-the-region-1-team-christine-and-april\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}