With over a decade of experience discovering cures for the most common health diseases and disorders, Dr. Joyonna Gamble-George is an internationally acclaimed scientist. Her passion for science stems from her participation in a summer research program in the bioinorganic chemistry field that was sponsored by NASA during high school. She has traveled the globe sharing her research approaches to medicine with diverse audiences, including Nobel Prize winners. Previously, she worked as a subject matter expert for the National Institutes of Health, where she was an advisor for doctors, psychologists, nurses, and other scientists across the United States that conduct research on chronic heart and lung diseases and mental health in people living with HIV. Dr. Gamble-George studied at New York University how interactions between an individual’s genes and their social environment contribute to mental health problems and other health risk behaviors using brain imaging and behavioral science methods. She also studied climate change and its impacts on indigenous communities using machine learning engineering.
Dr. Gamble-George received over 20 awards for her leadership, philanthropy, and dedication to science while fostering diversity. Given her considerable accomplishments, she was selected for the AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador program, which brings together women in different STEM careers to serve as high profile role models for middle school girls. She recently received the National Institutes of Health Director’s Award for her dedication and advancement of women’s health research, workforce development, and health education. During her doctoral studies at Vanderbilt University, she co-founded SciX, a biotech company searching for methods to combat brain disorders and other health issues. She currently advises other startups, including a Web3 social enterprise company that is developing a mobile, gamified goal achievement platform rooted in behavioral science and serves as their Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Her business acumen was honored with the Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award.
Dr. Gamble-George educates and inspires people across the lifespan (from childhood to adolescence to adulthood) about her career path to become a STEM professional, while integrating the arts into her journey. She provides real-life examples and best practices that can increase one's motivation and capacity to pursue a STE[A]M career.
She helps people strategize on how to explore STE[A]M careers, develop a STE[A]M identity, and land their dream STE[A]M job. She also collaborates with educators and organizations to develop STE[A]M programs and curriculums that are centered around a particular subject or discipline, the learner's needs, interests, and goals, or problem.
*STE[A]M is an acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.
Dr. Gamble-George teaches people how to engage in introspection, and gain perspective on what really matters to them. By doing this, people can better understand themselves (their values, thoughts, behaviors, motivations, desires, needs, and rights), especially in group or organizational settings.
This helps people to change their actions to improve their life so they can be assertive, know their rights, negotiate, and speak up for themselves or a cause they are passionate about. This also helps people to appreciate themselves such that they take actions to support their physical, psychological, and spiritual growth.
Are you fulfilled in life? What makes you feel happy, whole, and complete? Dr. Gamble-George helps people harmoniously integrate their work ethic into their lifestyle to achieve continued growth and balance in 12 dimensions of wellness - spiritual, physical, emotional, developmental, career (vocational), cognitive (including intellectual), environmental, creative, cultural, financial, digital, and social.
She also teaches people how to become aware of, become more informed about, acknowledge, evaluate, and solve healthcare gaps and health disparities facing their communities using holistic approaches through mixed-methods. This helps people and their communities achieve one's sense of wellness and quality of life that is equitable and just for all.
Dr. Gamble-George emphasizes how creativity is an essential ingredient in problem-solving and innovation. To do this, she educates people on how to identify the true nature of users’ problems, challenge assumptions, and form novel ideas that solve those problems in product and service design, research, and development using a holistic, mixed-methods approach to problem-solving.
She also provides tips on how to develop and scale a business for sustainable growth. Topics include, but are limited to, creating an executive presence, developing a business map, building a brand, connecting with customers and creating customer loyalty, effective delegation, finding money to invest for growth, creating S.M.A.R.T. goals, investing in technology for automation, finding and retaining staff or strategically outsourcing or partnering with others, scaling product development, and securing sales through market penetration.
Dr. Gamble-George informs people on how to influence health and STE[A]M policy, including policies that emphasize discovery-based science from researchers' bench (bench), to a clinical trial bedside (bedside), to physician care delivered to patients (curbside), to educational research in patients' communities (home). She also educates people on how to effectively communicate with decision makers, including members of Congress and their staff, about policy changes that affect them and their communities to ensure that their voices are heard.
She provides guidance on how to bring about policy change in organizations and communities. She then educates people on how to identify potential policy options that can address health-related and STE[A]M-related concerns and then compare those options to choose the most effective, efficient, and feasible one.
Dr. Gamble-George provides strategies to help women and people of color (POC) navigate different personal and professional environments that challenge their existence (the how-tos on survival, thriving, and leadership in STEM and difficult spaces).
She also trains their allies to serve as sponsors or advocates, especially in spaces that women and POC are underrepresented or not invited to and that make decisions for a group or organization. By doing this, allies can build a positive group or organizational culture that questions, rejects, and combats exclusionary ideology and works against oppression. They can as well help women and POC build their network, enhance their reputation by speaking highly of them, acquire new opportunities for development and leadership, and be publicly recognized so they can rise in position and influence.
Dr. Gamble-George helps people rethink of wealth as a multi-dimensional state of being that includes spiritual, physical, and intellectual health, environmental, social, and cultural aspects as well as diversity in kinds of capital. She emphasizes that wealth building and management encompasses leveraging knowledge through people's talents, expertise, and experience. To do this, she equips people with the essential tools and strategies to acquire this knowledge base and resources. This helps people visualize and execute their plan for creating a family legacy of abundance that is passed from one generation to the next.
Dr. Gamble-George helps STEM professionals identify scientific results that an audience needs to know, from all of the scientific results that it would be nice to know. She provides best practices with examples on how to convey those results and then evaluate the success of those attempts, as well as how to create trustworthy communication channels with different types of audiences.
She also teaches people how to connect with their audience and capture an audience's attention through storytelling. This helps people visualize themselves within your story such that they can understand others and themselves, and gives purpose to change or action.
Who are you?
What's important to you? What are you most passionate about?
What is your life purpose?
Dr. Gamble-George provides strategies on how to embrace and learn from one's journey of finding meaning in life, challenges, or obstacles to figure out one's life purpose. She teaches people how to discover and use their unique skills, gifts, and talents to make a positive impact in society and help create the society they want to see locally and globally.
October 2022
Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP) Seminar Series
Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Molecular Psychiatry
From Health Disparities to Brain Science: My STEM Story
October 2022
DreamWakers Flashchat
Ramsey Middle School (8th Grade Science Students)
Connecting Art and the Brain: A Scientist’s Perspective on Pursuing STEAM Careers
September 2022
Scientist-in-Residence Program Lecture Series
Ocean Discovery Institute
Harnessing Brain Science to Shape Healthcaree
September 2022
Women’s Equality Day Celebration
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility
Staying Mentally Healthy During COVID
July 2022
DreamWakers Flashchat
Girls Inc. DC
Insights on Becoming a Neuroscientist
June 2022
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar Series
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC)-New Orleans
From Mice to Humans: Behavioral Mechanisms of Substance Use and Misuse
May 2022
Revolutionize STEM Webinar Series
Becoming STEM
March 2022
Women’s History Month Webinar Series
Raytheon Women’s Group (RWN) and the Raytheon Black Employees Group (RAYBEN)
Raytheon Technologies
Becoming STEM
December 2021
Science Day (2nd Graders)
Pineview Elementary
Center for Integrating Research & Learning, National High Magnetic Field Lab
What Does a Neuroscientist Do?
November 2021
University of Virginia Department of Psychology Hidden Figures Lecture Series
Harnessing Brain Science to Shape Healthcare
November 2021
Northshore Technical Community College – Sullivan Lecture Series
Information Technology Careers
August 2021
Fireside Chat Series
Gender ShEquality
Women in STEM
July 2021
Career Connections with After School Matters x Chicago Housing Authority Learn and Earn Program
DreamWakers
Insights on Becoming a Healthcare or Medical Career Professional
July 2021
Global Speaker Series
Bloom
Alzheimer’s Disease: What You Need to Know to Live Your Best Life
May 2021
Meet a Scientist Speaker Series
Outreach Committee of the Association for Women in Science, San Diego Chapter (AWIS-SD)
My Journey to Become a Health Scientist
April 2021
Haverford College Biology Department Seminar Series
Finding Your Life Purpose: A Neuroscientist’s Career Mosaic
December 2020
Lecture Series at Coachella Valley High School and Indiana Connections Academy
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
Healthcare Pathways
October 2020
Multidisciplinary Initiative for Neuroscience Discovery Brain Science Speaker Series
Louisiana State University (LSU)
Harnessing Brain Science to Shape Healthcare
October 2020
Lecture Series at William G. Enloe High School
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
Health Careers
September 2020
International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) Lecture Series
The Neuroscience of Alzheimer’s
August 2020
AI Talks in Healthcare 6 Webinar
Magnimind Academy
AI in Healthcare: Perspectives from Industry, Academia, and Government
May 2020
IF/THEN® Women in STEM Series at Basehor-Linwood High School
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
What Does a Neuroscientist Do?
March 2020
IF/THEN® Women in STEM Series at Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
What Does a Neuroscientist Do?
March 2020
Lecture Series at the Alternative School at Lumberton Campus
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
Scientific Method
February 2020
Lecture Series at Eastlake Elementary School
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
Health Science Careers Without a 4-Year Degree
January 2020
Lecture Series at Catasauqua Middle School (5th Graders)
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
LEGO Portraits
June 2022
Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES)
The University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
From Mice to Humans: Behavioral Mechanisms of Substance Use and Misuse
November 2021
4th Annual STEM Career Day
Frontiers of Flight Museum
What Does a Neuroscientist Do?
August 2021
Year-End Summit and Send-Off (YESS)
Science and Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) at the National Institutes of Health
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Going Beyond Brain Science to Impact Public Health: An Overview of My AAAS STP Fellowship
June 2021
Simply Neurocon 2021
Simply Neuroscience
Understanding the Brain from Cells to Behavior in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Anxiety Disorders
August 2020
Ai4 2020 Conference
AI-Driven Predictive Analytics for Heart Disease
August 2020
Brite Summer Camp (High School Students)
World Science Foundation
National Girls Collaborative Project
Hello Studios
Anxiety and Mindfulness
November 2016
Interactions Between Stress and Immune Function Nanosymposium
Society for Neuroscience’s 46th Annual Meeting, Neuroscience 2016
The Effects of Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibition on Stress-Induced Behavioral and Synaptic Pathologies
July 2016
8th International Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry Regional International Stress and Behavior Society Conference
Yokohama, Japan
Endocannabinoid Augmentation Through Substrate-Selective COX-2 Inhibition: Behavioral and Synaptic Effects in an Animal Model of Stress-Induced Anxiety
July 2016
39th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
Yokohama, Japan
Endocannabinoid Augmentation Through Substrate-Selective COX-2 Inhibition: Behavioral and Synaptic Effects in an Animal Model of Stress-Induced Anxiety
October 2015
Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Survival: 2015 Symposium
Marine Biological Laboratory and the University of Chicago
Endocannabinoid Augmentation Through Substrate-Selective COX-2 Inhibition: Behavioral and Synaptic Effects in an Animal Model of Stress-Induced Anxiety
June 2015
1st Annual National Enhancement of Underrepresented Academic Leaders Conference
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Endocannabinoid Augmentation Through Substrate-Selective COX-2 Inhibition: Behavioral and Synaptic Effects in an Animal Model of Stress-Induced Anxiety
March 2015
Journal Club in the Laboratory of Brian Kobilka, MD
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Endocannabinoid Augmentation Through Substrate-Selective COX-2 Inhibition: Behavioral and Synaptic Effects in an Animal Model of Stress-Induced Anxiety
June 2014
Certificate Program in Molecular Medicine Retreat
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Endocannabinoid Augmentation Through Substrate-Selective COX-2 Inhibition: Behavioral Effects in an Animal Model of Stress-Induced Anxiety
July 2010
Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Survival: 2010 Symposium
Marine Biological Laboratory
Subchronic Methamphetamine Exposure: Molecular and Synaptic Targets
November 2022
Virtual Global Panel Discussion
Life Service Center of America
Mental Health
October 2022
Virtual IF/THEN® Women in STEM Panel Discussion at the 2022 Women of Color STEM DTX Conference
Career Communications Group, Inc.
Women of Color Magazine
Raytheon Technologies
Securing Your Seat at the Table: Passion Discovery, Leadership Building, and Career Advice for Women STEM Professionals
June 2022
Virtual Alumni Panel for the Science and Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) at the National Institutes of Health
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fostering Strong Mentorship Relationships and Expanding Professional Networks
March 2022
Inspiration & Exploration: STEM Career Expo
The Tech Interactive
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
From Insights to Advice: My STEM Journey to Become a Health Scientist?
March 2022
Virtual Panel Discussion at Science ATL’s Atlanta Science Festival
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN® Initiative
Lyda Hill Philanthropies
Women in STEM: Learning from Monumental Leaders
January 2022
Virtual Global Panel Discussion
Life Service Center of America
Recovering Drug Addicts
August 2021
Virtual NIH Pre-Orientation Welcome and Alumni Panel
Science and Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) at the National Institutes of Health
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
How to Get the Most Out of Your AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
March 2021
Enhancing Neuroscientific Discovery Through Diverse Communities Conference
Neuroscience Scholars Program at the Society for Neuroscience
Creating Community
June 2021
Stigma Research Training Institute
Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health
NIH Stigma Funding Opportunities and Research Directions
December 2020
Career Conversations with KIPP NYC College Prep High School
Nepris (IF/THEN® Classroom Connection, now Pathful Connect)
Human Services and Business
November 2020
Women Elevating Women (W.E.W.) Global Business Conference
Courage Pillar
November 2020
Virtual STEM Expo
Girls Scouts of Greater Atlanta
Data Bites: Connecting Girl Scouts to the STEM Community
October 2020
2020 SACNAS: The National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference
Staying Power Tips from AAAS IF/THEN® Ambassadors: Empowerment through Self-Advocacy for Women in STEM
September 2020
Wonder Women Tech Summit
Pioneering Science: The Women Making Scientific Advancements
September 2020
MetaCell Webinar
New Perspectives on Patient Data Shaping Mental Health
September 2020
Virtual Career Panel for High School Students
Communities in Schools of Jacksonville
Dr. Tay’s STEM Consulting Service (S.T.E.M.ING WHILE BLACK Initiative)
US Department of Education (USDOE) Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Potential (GEAR UP)
Minorities in S.T.E.M
August 2020
STEM Career Panel Series
Reinvented Magazine
STEAM Dreamers
August 2020
“S.T.E.M.ING WHILE BLACK” Panel Series
Dr. Tay’s STEM Consulting Service
PART III: The Black Women in S.T.E.M. Edition
July 2020
“S.T.E.M.ING WHILE BLACK” Panel Series
Dr. Tay’s STEM Consulting Service
PART II: Imposter Syndrome, Racism in S.T.E.M., Code Switching, and More!
June 2020
“S.T.E.M.ING WHILE BLACK” Panel Series
Dr. Tay’s STEM Consulting Service
PART I: You Asked and We Answered!
February 2019
“Taking Your Advocacy to the Next Level” Webinar
Society for Neuroscience
Building and Maintaining Relationships with Members of Congress
August 2018
Health:Further Clinician Innovator and Entrepreneur Festival
Tokenizing Health Summit
Patient Sovereignty
October 2021
Health Administration Program Webinar
American Public Health Association (APHA) 2021 Annual Meeting and Expo
Improving Health Equity in Population-Specific Health Services and Programs
Served as Moderator
October 2021
Health Administration Program Webinar
American Public Health Association (APHA) 2021 Annual Meeting and Expo
Innovations in Health Administration and Leadership
Served as Co-Host
October 2020
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Virtual Workshop
Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science
National Institutes of Health
Integration of Behavioral Economics into Implementation Research, to Address Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Conditions
Served as Moderator
October 2020
Worksop at 2020 SACNAS: The National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference
Staying Power Tips from AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadors: Empowerment through Self-Advocacy for Women in STEM
Served as Chairperson and Guest Speaker
April 2012
International Federation of Medical Students’ Association International Students’ Meeting on Public Health
13th World Congress on Public Health
Ethiopian Public Health Association
Addas Ababa, Ethiopia
Towards Global Health Equity: Opportunities and Threats
Served as Co-Chairperson and Moderator
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Hunt, Geoff. “Women in STEM: A Profile of AAAS IF/THEN® Ambassadors.” The American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, 23 March 2022, https://bit.ly/3wU8wpE.
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