COVID Chronicles | Quarantined Happiness: The Pandemic’s Effects on Young Adults & Teens

05/10/22 • 41 min

What is on your mind? Can you handle one more thing? Quarantined Happiness aims to set the stage on the conversation around mental health and the effects of the pandemic on society’s most fragile, yet influential group — the youth.
Featured guests include:

Emmet Power is a clinical psychology research fellow and PhD student at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Katelyn Hancock is a care coordinator with Florida’s Healthy Start, a program for pregnant women and families of children under age 3.
Sarah Carroll is a Pediatric Psychologist and researcher in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University.

Student Highlight: Matt Guerette is a junior student journalist at Emory University interested in spearheading the conversation on mental health in young adults and teens.
About COVID Chronicles
The COVID Chronicles covers a variety of public health topics intertwined with the pandemic, as reported by the students in the HLTH 385: Health & Science Podcasting class during the Fall 2020 and Fall 2021 semesters. Sponsored by Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health, the series includes interviews with experts in epidemiology, mental health, maternal health, and more.

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Emmet Power is a clinical psychology research fellow and PhD student at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Katelyn Hancock is a care coordinator with Florida’s Healthy Start, a program for pregnant women and families of children under age 3.
Sarah Carroll is a Pediatric Psychologist and researcher in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University.

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COVID Chronicles | The NeuroTech Talk: Neurotechnology & the Impacts of COVID-19

This NeuroTech Talk episode features four people from different walks of life and different stages in their neurotechnology careers to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted their work as scholars and researchers — as well as the future of the field.
Featured guests include:

Dr. Cesar Echavarria is a recent Neuroscience PhD graduate from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Cesar Echavarria is now working as a Neuro-Data Scientist at CatalystNeuro and is currently developing data science solutions for academic neuroscience labs across the globe.
Bruno Bustos currently holds a Psychology degree and is now currently studying Economics and Business Intelligence from La Universidad Catolica Boliviana in La Paz, Bolivia. Manuel Illanes is a postgraduate researcher at La Universidad Catolica Boliviana in La Paz, Bolivia. Bruno and Manuel are both the co-founders of the LATAM Chapter of NeuroTechX which aims to connect the neurotechnology community across Bolivia and Latin America
Dr. Gunnar Blohm is a Professor of Computational Neuroscience and the Principal Investigator of the Computational Sensorimotor Neuroscience Lab at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is also one of the co-founders of Neuromatch Academy, a nonprofit organization meant to provide students from around the globe access to high-quality computational neuroscience and deep learning education.

Student Highlight: JuanMartin Abreu-Melon is a senior neuroscience and human health double major with a healthcare innovation concentration. He is the co-founder and co-president of NeuroTech @ Emory and is passionate about using computational neuroscience and neurotechnology to better understand and treat neurological conditions.

About COVID Chronicles
The COVID Chronicles covers a variety of public health topics intertwined with the pandemic, as reported by the students in the HLTH 385: Health & Science Podcasting class during the Fall 2020 and Fall 2021 semesters. Sponsored by Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health, the series includes interviews with experts in epidemiology, mental health, maternal health, and more.

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COVID Chronicles | Exercise & Training Strategies for a Post-Pandemic World

With the rise of social media usage, exercise and diet culture have influenced a large number of people, and today’s youth is among them. In this episode, Snehitha Vardhineni speaks to experts in the field as well as today’s youth to explore trends and personal experiences in relation to exercise and nutrition.
Featured guests include:

Shivy Agadi - student at UT Dallas and president of an exercise/wellness organization called CHAARG
Dan Benardot - Professor of Practice at the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University teaching nutrition
Muskaan Vohra - student at Oxford College of Emory University, certified personal trainer, teaches group fitness classes at the rec center at Oxford

Student Highlight: Snehitha Vardhineni is a junior at Emory University pursuing a joint major in economics and human health.
About COVID Chronicles
The COVID Chronicles covers a variety of public health topics intertwined with the pandemic, as reported by the students in the HLTH 385: Health & Science Podcasting class during the Fall 2020 and Fall 2021 semesters. Sponsored by Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health, the series includes interviews with experts in epidemiology, mental health, maternal health, and more.

Facebook: @EmoryCSHH

Instagram: @EmoryCSHH

Twitter: @EmoryCSHH