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Women earn 41 percent of PhDs in STEM fields, but make up just 28 percent of tenure-track faculty. A persistent problem in academia is the disproportionate fraction of qualified women who leave science as they move up the educational and higher education career ladder. The worldwide loss of women in STEM, specifically from the transition from postdoctoral and junior faculty to senior faculty stages of their careers, has been explained by various reasons including: work-life balance conflicts, hostile environment from co-workers, gender discrimination, few professional development opportunities, and a lack of role models and mentors.
Without mentors or role models, women receive limited advice about career and personal development. Mentoring can help address the feelings of isolation and marginalization that women in academic settings often report. A mentor guides and becomes a colleague that a mentee can depend on and trust. In a 2017 study, women in engineering, who had been assigned a female mentor, experienced more belonging, motivation and confidence, better retention in science, and greater career aspirations than women assigned either a male mentor, or no mentor at all. When more junior level professionals are motivated and confident and have positive mentors and role models, they are also more likely to successfully win awards for research funding, aiding their movement up the professional career ladder.
In the last seven years, the PEER program has received over 3,200 applications for funding. However, fewer than 30% of those have been from women as lead PIs. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics found that less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, June 2018). The regional averages for the share of female researchers (based on the available data for 2016) range from around 48% for Central Asia and 45% for Latin America and the Caribbean to 18.5% for South and West Asia.
While there are likely various interacting factors that prevent postdocs and junior women faculty from advancing their careers in science and applying for international research awards, the PEER Women in Science Mentoring Program was developed in 2018 to help retain women in science, build self-confidence, and teach early career scientists to write successful international research awards.
Selected Cohorts 2020
The following ten cohorts were selected to be part of the mentoring program in 2020:
Cohort 1 - INDONESIA
Mentor:
Ari Probandri
Mentees:
Ari Probandri
Vitri Widyaningsih
Astri Ferdiana
Luthfi Azizatunnisa
Theresia Puspitawati
| | Cohort 2 - PHILIPPINES
Mentor:
Jane Cabauatan
Mentees:
Mila Andres
Leah Guzman
| Cohort 3 - INDIA
Mentor:
Nerges Mistry
Mentees:
Kalpana Sriraman
Shilpa Karvande
Ambreen Shaikh
| | Cohort 4 - INDIA
Mentor:
Nishi Suryvanshi
Mentees:
Gauri Dhumal
Neetal Nevrekar | Cohort 5- INDIA
Mentor:
Rashmi Rodrigues
Mentees:
Minu Rose Mani
Mamatha V
Priyadarshini A Padaki
| | Cohort 6 - INDONESIA
Mentor:
Rovina Ruslami
Mentees:
Lidya Chaidir
Tina Judistiani
Melisa Barliana
Riezki Amalia
| Cohort 7 - INDIA
Mentor:
Sonali Sarkar
Mentees:
Senbagavalli Prakash Babu
Zunatha Banu
Gayathri Surendran
| | Cohort 8 - INDONESIA
Mentor:
Suryani Suryani
Mentees:
Neti Juniarti
Windy Rakhmawati
Tuti Pahria
Ati Surya Mediawati
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The following mentees were selected to receive seed funding after completing the one-year mentorship.
INDIA
Dr. Senbagavalli Babu
JIPMER, India
Understanding Mycobacterium tuberculosis mediated host metabolomics in pulmonary tuberculosis: correlation with disease severity and treatment course
Dr. Gauri Dhumal
Johns Hopkins, India
“Creating a Hope”: a mixed-method approach to identify most acceptable evidence-based psycho-social intervention to improve the retention in care among Indian youth diagnosed with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB)
Dr. Shilpa Karvande
Foundation for Medical Research, India
Assessing preparedness of urban community health workers for tuberculosis (TB) control- An exploratory study in two cities of India
Dr. Neetal Nevrekar
Johns Hopkins, India
“Bridging the Gaps”: Understanding the barriers and facilitators in the tuberculosis prevention care cascade for optimizing isoniazid preventive therapy uptake among adults living with HIV in India, a mixed-method approach
Dr. Priyadarshini Padaki
St. John's Medical College and Hospital, India
Post TB sequelae –Metabolic syndrome and the utility of plasma biomarkers in pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients from South India
Dr. Ambreen Shaikh
The Foundation for Medical Research, India
Sampling with Mask and Reverse Transcriptase (SMaRT)-PCR for diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis
INDONESIA
Dr. Melisa Barliana
Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Association between burden of medicine and therapy adherence among multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patients in West Java, Indonesia
Dr. Astri Ferdiana
University of Mataram, Indonesia
Spinal tuberculosis in Indonesia: 5-year epidemiology, risk factors and quality of life outcomes
Dr. Neti Juniarti
Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
The effectiveness of The Mobile Nursing Centre and determinants for TB care and prevention using telehealth and telenursing approach to reduce stigma of TB and COVID-19 in West Java Indonesia
Dr. Windy Rakhmawati
Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Parents’ knowledge, attitude, and health seeking behavior towards childhood TB during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr. Vitri Widyaningsih
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia
Strengthening community to recognize and prevent tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus (SCREEN TB-DM) among informal workers
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