Megan Yan Gimmen

🇫🇲🇬🇺 | @harvardmed medical student interested in strengthening Pacific Islander health systems

[Protector of Lolofonua🌋🌊✨🏳️‍🌈 @haatufunga]

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Satawal star compass and Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug 🙏🏾 #PasifikaGreatness #IndigenousNavigation

[Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD, MPH @KekoaMDPhD]

Mahalo to LaViest et al for the allyship

“These data systems should routinely include US territories, where many Indigenous people reside. Although oversampling is costly, it is also costly to ignore the health iniquities of Indigenous people”

[Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD, MPH @KekoaMDPhD]

New in @JAMA_current

Congrats to Ryan Benavente & @mygimmen (@harvardmed) - foundational members of our NHPI research group

Please help me amplify these Chamorro & Yapese scholars’ voices on the importance of including US-Affiliated Pacific Islands

https://t.co/8oRS8IKIDR

[Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD, MPH @KekoaMDPhD]

This team is everything to me. I never had Pacific Islander collaborators like this as a trainee. Proud of the culture & community we’ve cultivated over the years. https://t.co/nkv6t3hHdx

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

Controlling transgene expression by exploiting cell-type specific splicing patterns @JonLing_ @alexei_bygrave @csanti412 @SethBlackshaw

https://t.co/aPZRCNxJ6u

[Megan Yan Gimmen @mygimmen]

@SolliesSurgery Thank you so much!! 🙂

[Leighton H. Duncan @LeightonHDuncan]

Super thankful 🙌🏾 👏🏾 and excited to share that I have been awarded an NIH NRSA Pre-doctoral Fellowship (F31) from the #NIDDK to study hypothalamic tanycyte(radial glia)-derived neurogenesis and its physiological role on metabolism in @SethBlackshaw (JHU) lab.

[LaShyra Nolen, MD, MPP @LashNolen]

The most devastating part of witnessing human suffering is knowing other humans have created and willingly uphold the conditions we live in to selfishly protect privileges and rights that only beget more human suffering.

None of this has to be this way.

[Megan Yan Gimmen @mygimmen]

@SethBlackshaw Thank you so much for all your support!! My time in your lab has been a blast! 😊🙌🏽

[Megan Yan Gimmen @mygimmen]

Thank you to the @UNYouthEnvoy and @UNGIYC for having me!

[UN Youth Office @UNYouthAffairs]

Mogethin everyone! I’m Megan @mygimmen, and I’m indigenous to Wa’ab & lived in Guåhan. I study retinal disease @HopkinsMedicine in the lab of @SethBlackshaw 👩‍🎓

I also co-founded Amplify & am excited to start medical school this fall.

Kamagar to the @UNYouthEnvoy for having us!

[UN Youth Office @UNYouthAffairs]

The largest global gathering of indigenous peoples is taking place at the @UN 🇺🇳 starting today!

During #UNPFII 2022, 7 young ppl from various indigenous groups across the world will take over my social media & tell stories about their life & advocacy. Stay tuned 🙌

[Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MD, MPH @vlocarmen]

U.S. policies allow the export of highly toxic pesticides banned for domestic use. How does this practice impact Indigenous Peoples' health? We provide some answers & solutions in @LancetRH_Americ, focusing on the Yaqui Nation (my Tribe) in Mexico. 🌏⬇️

https://t.co/7rEIfN1a3i

[Colin Anthony @ColinJAnthony]

We finally sourced and outplanted 400 coral fragments for our experimental gardens this week. @GuamEPSCoR @UOGTriton