Public health science is quite unknown and unfamiliar as a profession. A science that prevents us from becoming sick, has made a vast change in our health. In this first interview of the Her Impact podcast, I am talking to my sister and best friend Dr. Souzana Achilleos to discover her science and her impact on the world.
Souzana is a researcher at a local university, and she explains her latest project. It is a study that aims to discover protection measures during dust storms. This is very important for the Cyprus region, where dust storms are so common. Her role in this project, as an exposure scientist, is to find out the quality of the air indoors and outdoors. Yet she needs to study the measures we are taking: are they enough?
She is storytelling her journey in science from her BSc degree in Chemistry to her Ph.D. at Harvard University. Even though she is my sister and I always knew her, she is telling things that I have never heard her saying.
I wanted to have an impact but also to have a challenge. Everyone can have an impact in a small scale.
Souzana Achilleos
Her passion and mission to find out how nature works are truly an inspiration. She later shares her experience as a Ph.D. student at the number one university in the world: Harvard University. Environment and public health are now her passion and she is explaining how she got there.
She is going deep into why the environment sector was so appealing for her (hint: not because of climate change). Later she argues on the importance of educating people on public health science.
She is sharing the one most important attitude she had while being a Ph.D. student. She talks about the opportunities you have and the challenges. The working environment is less diverse for her in the aspect of gender. Finally, she is giving the most inspiring advice on how to keep going no matter what.
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