Like other scholars, my days do seem to vary depending on what needs to get done. I usually have desk work, which may include emailing invitations to screening appointments for potential participants, filing documentation, designing trial recruitment posters, attending an Oxford-wide Public Patient Involvement (PPI) strategy meeting, or editing trial Standard Operating Procedures to conform to new guidelines. However, one of my favorite parts of my time here has been attending various talks and meetings hosted by the Jenner Institute and the wider Nuffield Department of Medicine. Yesterday I attended the Cicioni Meeting, a bi-weekly meeting focused on malaria and emerging pathogen trials. Today, I attended a presentation of a PhD student who has been working on testing various platforms of delievery for the TB vaccine that we are running trials on. These meetings provide helpful context for me to better understand my desk work and, consequently, explain it to others during outreach events. However, I have also loved going to talks that are more relevant to my personal interests: In addition to the Jenner Institute talk today, I also attended a talk given by a professor at Stanford working on research very similar to what I do back at Columbia. While I enjoyed his jokes about being American (the uniquely American fighter jet analogy he used shown in the picture below), his research on the MHC-TCR interaction also remains relevant to my work here, as that very same interaction was discussed in the subsequent Jenner Insitute lab meeting. But, more broadly, attending these talks have given me more general perspective on effective scientific communication, a central part of my role here. Right now, I hope to extend that by collaborating with researchers I thought may be of particular interest to conduct interviews that will hopefully be uploaded to our Instagram, in the hopes of drawing the underrepresented young audience to our PPI initatives. I have loved gaining this broader perspective to build on skills I will use in my now more narrow role in outreach.