You Don't Get The Job You Don't Apply For With Joy Johnson

About this episode

Martha speaks with Joy Johnson about gender differences in health behaviors and her research in the field.

In this episode Martha speaks candidly with Joy Johnson, a distinguished health scientist and researcher in gender and health with a particular focus on promoting health and modifying health-related behaviour. In particular, she has studied the different health behaviours of women and men in terms of how gender affects how they react differently to drugs and other therapies. With an impressive record of scholarship and academic administrative appointments, Dr.Johnson was the first woman...

People in this episode

Hosts: Martha Piper, Indira Samarasekera

Guest: Joy Johnson

Topics covered

• gender and health
• health behaviors
• drug therapies
• academic appointments
• scholarship

Keywords

• gender
• health
• research
• scholarship
• drug therapies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: health scientist, researcher in gender and health

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