{"id":123043,"date":"2021-08-25T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=123043"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:17:13","slug":"dr-ijeoma-opara-recently-wrote-a-first-person-piece-for-global-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2021\/08\/25\/dr-ijeoma-opara-recently-wrote-a-first-person-piece-for-global-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ijeoma Opara recently wrote a first-person piece for Global Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Ijeoma Opara, former doctoral student from the FSHD Department, is now an assistant professor at Stony Brook University &amp; director of the Substance Abuse and Sexual Health Lab. Dr. Opara recently <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/vaccine-hesitancy-public-health-ijeoma-opara\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/vaccine-hesitancy-public-health-ijeoma-opara\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629979940246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFkYV573FqLsyjmJe_xKyxDbil1pA\">wrote a first-person piece for Global Citizen<\/a> about what convinced her to finally get the COVID-19 vaccine: Trust in her public health colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Opara says,\u00a0\u201cI put myself in their shoes and remembered that obtaining a terminal degree (such as a PhD or MD) requires a level of dedication and borderline obsessiveness of knowing the ins and outs of a specific area. I am not an immunologist, virologist, or a biomedical scientist, so why would I not listen to the experts of an area that I was not trained in? It\u2019s their job to protect me and others against viruses.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To read more, check out-\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/vaccine-hesitancy-public-health-ijeoma-opara\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/vaccine-hesitancy-public-health-ijeoma-opara\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629979940246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFkYV573FqLsyjmJe_xKyxDbil1pA\">https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/vaccine-hesitancy-public-health-ijeoma-opara\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ijeoma Opara, former doctoral student from the FSHD Department, is now an assistant professor at Stony Brook University &amp; director of the Substance Abuse and Sexual Health Lab. Dr. Opara recently wrote a first-person piece for Global Citizen about what convinced her to finally get the COVID-19 vaccine: Trust in her public health colleagues. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}