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JACKIE MEHR, Head Trauma & Intimate Partner Violence: Moving Towards a Healthier Future, Rutgers,'22 Nov 22 2020

JACKIE MEHR

Title: Head Trauma and Intimate Partner Violence: Moving Towards a Healthier Future

Brief Bio: Jackie Mehr, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences/Honors College/Douglass Residential College ‘22, is a Leadership Scholar at the Rutgers Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) double majoring in Biotechnology and Women’s and Gender Studies. She has a keen interest in neuroscience research and has worked in the Aston-Jones lab in the Rutgers Brain Health Institute for over two years, studying addiction and other psychiatric illnesses. Outside of the lab, Jackie serves as a Mentor in Residence for first-year Honors College students, and she volunteers as a Crisis Counselor through Crisis Text Line.

For her IWL Leadership Scholars Program internship, Jackie interned at the Esopenko Brain Health Lab in the Rutgers School of Health Professions, examining the relationship between intimate partner violence and substance use disorders. In the future, Jackie aspires to use translational research as an avenue through which to produce meaningful scientific findings and bring visibility to brain health issues impacting women. In this conversation with Calvin, Jackie will be sharing a bit about her IWL Social Action Project, which aims to raise awareness around the issue of partner-inflicted head injuries and help establish solutions for this devastating issue.

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