Sitara M. Weerakoon, PhD MPH
@smweerakoon
associate research scientist @yalesph. biostats / substance use / socioenv risk factors. @austincollege @uthealthsph alumna. opinions mine. #firstgenphd 🇱🇰
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A lab that works out together, stays together! 💪🏾 Celebrating our first The SASH Lab at Yale team-building activity today at Wheelhouse indoor cycling studio in New Haven! Now time for brunch 🥞 🍳
In honor of Women's History Month today we are highlighting Sitara M. Weerakoon, PhD MPH. Dr. Sitara M. Weerakoon is a postdoctoral fellow with Yale School of Medicine NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention and @Thesashlab at Yale School of Public Health.
Yay congrats Nimisha Srikanth, MPH!! 🤩🥳 So excited that one of my mentees is joining my department! 🎉
Our very own Dr. Weerakoon Sitara M. Weerakoon, PhD MPH presenting findings from the Paterson Prevention Project study at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference. Congrats Sitara! 👏🏾
Thank you for the support The SASH Lab at Yale Dr. Ijeoma Opara for attending this conference! This was such a great experience!
Happy birthday to our fabulous postdoc Dr. Sitara Weerakoon! Sitara M. Weerakoon, PhD MPH🎊🎊🎉🎉
New publication alert! I’m so proud of this article. So much labor & grace went into it. Check out our latest article on addressing gendered racism against Black girls using a strengths based framework! Ashley Hill, DrPH, MPH Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH RaquelMartinPhD doi.org/10.1177/152483…
The SASH Lab at Yale Director Dr. Ijeoma Opara and lab members had the opportunity to attend the CIRA at Yale Univ. HIV Implementation Science to Optimize Research Impact (HISTORI) 2023 Scientific Congress Meeting! #Day1 #HIVResearch #AcademicTwitter
Our first The SASH Lab at Yale leadership retreat was wonderful. We bonded, we worked, & made s’mores. I am so grateful for my team & I can’t wait to see what 2024 has in store for us ❤️ Thank you Dr. Jasmine Abrams for hosting us & executing my vision for this retreat
New Publication: Writing about suicide ideation in youth will never get easy for me. But, I know this work is needed in order to prevent suicide. Thanks to my co-authors who worked so hard on this piece with me @JasminBStephens Sitara M. Weerakoon, PhD MPH @JGUNNIII bit.ly/3RbAyXU
