Sappho Gilbert National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Podcast

Inuit harvesters boating along the shore of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Nunavut, Canada
November 17, 2022

Ph.D. Candidate at the Yale School of Public Health & YIBS Science Communications Fellow, Sappho Gilbert was recently interviewed on the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) podcast “Environmental Health Chat”. Sappho discusses her research with Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic on the climate change-driven nutrition transition. To listen, please click here. 

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