Growing up, I knew I needed to work in climate change. And getting a job working in the Climate Change Division at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was a dream come true. I felt like I was making an impact – I was working on exciting, groundbreaking Obama-era projects, such as the Paris Climate Agreement. […]
I became interested in women’s health research after struggling with endometriosis throughout graduate school. I learned how medical issues that primarily affect women are disproportionately underfunded. At the NIH, I am working to understand how menopause impacts the risk of developing type II diabetes. My work has been continually interrupted throughout the trump administration, whether […]
I am a researcher at NIH who studies brains and paints brains. As funding for biomedical research became unstable and work subsequently became affected, my frustrations bled into my artworks. When I complained about my work environment to raise awareness of the instability at federal agencies, I was surprised by the apathy I witnessed. Some […]
I served as a civil servant and supervising health science specialist in USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS for 16 years. My team’s focus was HIV testing and diagnosis and behavior change around HIV prevention and treatment for the PEPFAR program. We were aiming for control of the HIV pandemic by meeting the UN global targets for […]
I joined the federal government in December 2020, so I took my oath of office over Zoom. It was a solemn occasion, taken seriously by the person who swore me in as an important step to taking on my new role. However, as I got busier with the day-to-day at NIH, I quickly forgot the […]
Doing my graduate studies at NIH has made me realize the value and importance of sustaining an environment in which bold risks can be taken to advance our basic understanding of life and that knowledge can be translated to patient care. Our current administration has burdened this effort both with the repeated layoffs of capable […]
Before starting at the EPA, I was an environmental quality analyst for the State of Michigan’s Dept of Environmental Quality, which later became the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, for 8 years. I worked directly with drinking water concerns regarding Lead, PFAS, and many other contaminants. I thought working for the EPA was […]
Sarah Boim is a seasoned and passionate health communications expert who was illegally fired just one year after accepting her dream job at the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health. In response, she co-founded Fired But Fighting, which has since evolved into the National Public Health Coalition, a public health advocacy powerhouse dedicated to fighting […]
My mom has worked for FEMA since 2009, so growing up, the agency always felt like family. My mom’s coworkers let my brother and I literally drag them through the mud as kids, and they took me dress shopping for high school dances when my mom was deployed. I never thought I’d want to work […]
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