Career Development in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry
This week, I had the pleasure to be interviewed on The Public Health Millennial podcast. I spoke with podcast host Omari Richins, MPH, about my path to public health and pharma. In the episode, I reflected on how receiving public health services as a child motivated me to pursue a career in public health. And then how the skills I gained in epidemiology led to my first job after training. We also talked about my current work in the pharmaceutical/ biotechnology industry.
Not too long ago, I was looking for podcasts on career development in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry. Of course, bonus points if the podcast has a focus on women. So far, I haven’t come across any in this particular niche (hey, Michelle, project idea… you know, for when our kids finally go to school after this pandemic!). Dear readers, if you know about a women-in-pharma-careers-relevant podcast, please leave in the comments below or send us a note!
In this series, we highlight specific functions or departments within typical pharmaceutical company organizations. We also feature the perspectives of women working in these different functions and their career journeys. Special thanks to Smruti Ghag for providing insights on pharmaceutical marketing and the Marketing function.
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States, many school districts are announcing their back-to-school plans. Their plans for students include hybrid and/or all virtual learning. These models place a huge burden on parents, particularly those with younger children. These parents must now function as teachers as well as caregivers when children are home during the workday. Many parents, myself included, have been scrambling to form “pods” as a solution to schooling and childcare. I am sharing everything working parents needs to know about pandemic learning pods: what are pods, how to find a pod, how to find a caregiver, and some other considerations for pod formation.
Hisani Madison and I met as trainees in the NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. She recently transitioned from working at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to AstraZeneca. Of course, I was really intrigued about her transition from the FDA to working in pharma. I also thought that maybe our blog readers might be interested in this too! So I asked her to answer some questions for this blog post. Thank you to Hisani for being so generous in sharing her experiences with us!
