Welcome to the Public Health Joy podcast, the safe space for real and honest conversation about what building a public health research career is really like: the challenges, the triumphs, and all the lessons we learn along the way. I’m your host, Dr. Joyee, a Public health researcher, PhD survivor, and entrepreneur. In today’s episode, we’re continuing the conversation in part 2 of Public Health: The Next Generation with Dr. Ashley White Jones and Dr. Antonio Gardner as we share our experiences as young, gifted, and Black public health researchers not only healing our communities, but healing ourselves. This is where research meets relationship and together, we will find our Public Health Joy!   Time Stamps 0:00 What brings us joy in life? 2:40 How the creative arts and science can work together to help people.  5:39 How qualitative research as therapy and healing.  7:55 The importance of empathy in the work of public health research.  16:51 What is positionality? What does it mean?  25:07 The pressure of being a young black doctor in public health.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate and, leave a review! For transcript and show notes, visit https://joyeewashington.com/podcast/