KIRBY SUMMER INTERNS
Investing in the Future
InOctober 2013, ETR announced plans to sponsor an annual Kirby Summer Internship
named after our esteemed and beloved colleague, the late Dr. Douglas Kirby. The
internship was to be offered to a graduate student with an interest in the field of sex-
ual and reproductive health, including prevention programs, implementation science,
online learning and research methodology. For this first summer, ETR’s research team
chose to offer internships to two outstanding graduate students.
Brittany Nielsen also received her undergraduate degree
from the University of California, Berkeley, with a double
major in molecular and cell biology and religious studies.
She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Public Health at
Brigham Young University, as part of a small program that
emphasizes the science and practice of health promotion.
Nielsen is especially excited to be working with ETR’s
research team on projects looking at the social determi-
nants of health. As part of her internship, she is joining the
team’s work on how best to incorporate the consideration
of social determinants into the field of sexual and repro-
ductive health.
Brittany Nielsen
Brittany Chambers
Brittany Chambers received her undergraduate degree
from the University of California, Berkeley, and com-
pleted her Master’s in Public Health at California State
University, Fresno. While pursuing her MPH, Chambers
worked with the Central Valley Health Policy Institute and
the Tulare Community Health Clinic. There she was on an
evaluation team looking at the implementation of ETR’s
Reducing the Risk
. She is especially excited to be working
this summer on ETR’s
RTR Blended
and
About Us
projects.
Chambers is currently pursuing a PhD in Public
Health Education at the University of North Carolina,
Greensboro. She has a particular interest in studying
stigma and teen moms. Her goal is to conduct quantita-
tive research that will give teen moms a stronger voice and
greater opportunities for self-determination.
“
As an undergraduate student, I developed an interest
in how ideas surrounding the social determinants
of health could be used to solve health problems.
This interest has carried on to my graduate work.
Working at ETR this summer is providing me with
the incredible opportunity to put my interests into
practice in a field I am passionate about. I am thrilled
to be working with ETR’s talented research team to
continue to build and improve evidence-based and
effective interventions that meet the needs
of the populations these programs serve.”
Brittany Nielsen
“
I absolutely love the projects I am working on over
the summer. It is so exciting to finally get to put
what I’ve learned in graduate school into action.
I can’t believe it. I’m actually working to make a
difference with curricula that are used nationwide.”
Brittany Chambers
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