Over the past few months, I have been learning more about ways to present my research work in formats that make it easier for others to get to the take home message or the bottom line of the work. Some of this has been inspired by the work of Michigan State University doctoral student Mike Morrison who has gone viral with his video about how researchers should consider redesigning the presentation of our work, specifically scientific posters, into more digestible chunks for our audience. I plan to try this out at my next scientific poster presentation at the ArizOTA conference and maybe even the American Public Health Association conference in November! I have to say I am really looking forward to trying this new approach in hopes that it will create more conversations about the projects I am involved in with others.

In the meantime, I thought, well why do I need to wait to try this out only at these in-person events? Therefore, I spent some time this past week practicing some of these concepts on my website. You will notice now that for each project I am currently or previously involved in that I have provided you at the very beginning the Bottom Line followed by the Details. The Bottom Line is my attempt to provide a 1-2 sentence description of either the take home message of completed work or the quick snapshot of why and what I am doing with currently active projects. If you get intrigued by the Bottom Line, then you can go ahead and read more of the Details and follow the embedded links to full articles, conference presentations, or posters.

Let’s see how this works out!