Stories by Briana Christophers

Briana Christophers is an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. program in New York City. Besides tweeting regularly about science advocacy, medical education, diversity, and developmental biology @BriChristophers, she has been published in Academic Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation and in-Training.

Policy & Ethics

Keeping Schools Closed Next Fall Could Worsen Science’s Diversity Problem

But a number of new initiatives might mitigate the damage

June 14, 2020 — Lala Tanmoy Das, Briana Christophers and Robert Romanzi | Opinion

Behavior & Society

The COVID-19 Response Is Failing Communities of Color

To build trust with traditionally underserved groups, health officials need to craft their messaging in a much more culturally sensitive way

May 7, 2020 — Margaret S. Pichardo, Briana Christophers and Gezzer Ortega | Opinion