News, updates, and information for current students and alumni of the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health
Category : News/Events
Two-day event hosted by the Career Development Ambassadors providing free, gently used business professional clothing, business casual clothing, shoes, and accessories to students. Please stop by at your convenience to browse and pick up items between 9am – 4pm on Monday, October 21 and Tuesday, October 22.
Category : News/Events
Having challenges communicating with team members in your projects or work groups?
Feeling overwhelmed with stress from school and work?
Struggling with how to create connections and network in your career?
Want to increase your impact and leadership abilities with your team members?
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Emotional intelligence is a crucial aspect of your development for professional success. In this session, you will learn the 4 Essential Traits of Emotional Intelligence and how you can further develop these traits within yourself to increase your career success. All Rollins students welcome!
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2019, 12 – 1PM
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Category : Alumni
These positions will be in a new Data Science team that is being formed in the Data Analytics Branch of the Division of Injury Response in NCIPC. This team members will apply data science methods that include artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning), data linkage, data visualizations, and predictive analytics to various topics and priority areas of the Injury Center. There are multiple positions available across any of these job series.
Summary
The incumbent serves as a Health Scientist performing data science work that requires extraction of knowledge from public health surveillance systems and programs at the local, state and national levels that are structured or unstructured for analysis; improved understanding and communication; development/visualization of new concepts, and/or processes that add value to health services delivery and the decision making process.
Responsibilities
As a Health Scientist (Data Scientist), you will:
Consult and collaborate with statistical, data science, artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning), and public health.
Plan and conduct research using public health data systems, including survey data, health care facility data, syndromic surveillance data.
Support the development of proposals and projects that align with research and policy goals for data science research and analytic projects.
Assist in monitoring data quality issues as they relate to user data products, and collaborates with Informatics and Information Technology.
Bring and develop expertise in the fields of health science, artificial intelligence.
Collaborate with other professionals within and outside the Center in the conduct of surveillance, research, and analytical studies.
Provide advice on the use of data science tools, methods, and statistical learning models to collect.
Maintain current knowledge of developments in allied health sciences, modeling, and machine learning analysis.
All other duites assigned.
Travel Required
Occasional travel – You may be expected to travel Domestic 5 % for this position.
For more information and to apply, click HERE.
Category : Alumni
These positions will be in a new Data Science team that is being formed in the Data Analytics Branch of the Division of Injury Response in NCIPC. This team members will apply data science methods that include artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning), data linkage, data visualizations, and predictive analytics to various topics and priority areas of the Injury Center. There are multiple positions available across any of these job series.
Summary
The incumbent serves as a Computer Scientist performing data science work that requires application of quantitative and qualitative research and analytics, statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with public health surveillance systems and programs.
Responsibilities
As a Computer Scientist (Data Scientist), you will:
Design experiments, tests hypotheses, and builds scalable data science models.
Conduct advanced data analysis and designs highly complex algorithms using artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning) methods.
Lead discovery processes with stakeholders to identify business requirements and expected outcome.
Make strategic recommendations on data collection, integration, storage, access, analysis, and retention requirements.
Collaborate with CIO subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information, which may include non-traditional datasets.
Work with stakeholders to identify the business requirements and the expected outcome.
Develop usage and access control policies and systems in collaboration with the IT security experts to ensure that the information used follows the compliance, access management.
All other duties assigned.
Travel Required
Occasional travel – You may be expected to travel Domestic 10 % for this position.
For more information and to apply, click HERE.
Category : Alumni
These positions will be in a new Data Science team that is being formed in the Data Analytics Branch of the Division of Injury Response in NCIPC. This team members will apply data science methods that include artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning), data linkage, data visualizations, and predictive analytics to various topics and priority areas of the Injury Center. There are multiple positions available across any of these job series.
Summary
The incumbent serves as a Mathematical Statistician (Data Scientist) performing data science work that requires application of data mining techniques, statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with public health surveillance systems and programs at the local, state and national levels that are structured to add value to health services delivery and the decision-making process.
Responsibilities
As a Mathematical Statistician (Data Scientist)- (Direct Hire), you will:
Designs experiments, tests hypotheses, and builds scalable data science models
Develop experimental design approaches to validate finding or test hypotheses.
Identify relevant data available, including internal and external data sources, leveraging new data collection processes such as smart meters and geo-location information, or social media and unstructured web-based data.
Identify and analyzes patterns in the volume of data supporting the initiative, the type of data (e.g., images, text, clickstream or metering data).
Work with IT teams to support data collection, integration, storage, access, analysis, and retention requirements based on the surveillance data collected.
Work with stakeholders to identify the business requirements and the expected outcome.
Partner with researchers and subject matter experts to define the data quality expectation
All other duties assigned.
Travel Required
Occasional travel – You may be expected to travel Domestic 10 % for this position.
For more information and to apply, click HERE.
Category : Alumni
These positions will be in a new Data Science team that is being formed in the Data Analytics Branch of the Division of Injury Response in NCIPC. This team members will apply data science methods that include artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning), data linkage, data visualizations, and predictive analytics to various topics and priority areas of the Injury Center. There are multiple positions available across any of these job series.
Summary
The incumbent serves as a Statistician (Data Scientist) performing data science work that requires application of data mining techniques, statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with public health surveillance systems.
Responsibilities
As a Statistician (Data Scientist) ( Direct Hire), you will:
Design experiments, tests hypotheses, and builds scalable data science models.
Conduct advanced data analysis and designs complex algorithms using artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning) methods.
Identify relevant data available, including internal and external data sources, leveraging new data collection processes.
Defines the validity of information through automated systems and tools, how long the information is meaningful, and what other information is related.
Work with IT teams to support data collection, integration, storage, access, analysis, and retention requirements based on the surveillance data collected.
Collaborate with the data steward to ensure that the information used follows the compliance, access management, and control policies.
All other duties assigned.
Travel Required
Occasional travel – You may be expected to travel Domestic 10% for this position.
For more information and to apply, click HERE.
Category : Student Opportunities
R4epis is a project to develop standardised data cleaning, analysis and reporting tools to cover common types of outbreaks and population-based surveys that would be conducted in an MSF emergency response setting.
This has been done through the development of the package sitrep in R software. The package provides field epidemiologists with novel data management tools as well as templates of automated “situation reports” that cover outbreak investigations (acute jaundice syndrome, cholera, measles, meningitis) and three of the MSF ERB pre-approved surveys (mortality, nutrition and vaccination).
All of the report templates are contained within the sitrep package as RMarkdown templates that can easily be used from within RStudio. The user then modifies a template to his/her needs.
The templates address all aspects of:
All of the code is open source and freely available and can be used by anyone. For suggestions on what to add or change, please open an issue on GitHub. or contact one of our contributors.
For more information, click HERE.
Category : #WeAreEmoryEPI
For this week’s #IamEmoryEPI, we caught up with Dr. Audrey Gaskins!
Tell us where you went to school:
I received my Bachelors of Science in Engineering from Duke University (2004-2008) and my Doctorate of Science in Nutrition and Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health (2010-2014).
What are your primary research interests?
I am interested in how nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental exposures affect a couple’s ability to conceive and have healthy pregnancies and babies.
What did you do this past summer?
I had my first baby in May so I spent my summer on maternity leave caring for a sweet baby boy and soaking up all his newborn snuggles.
How did you find the research that you are currently conducting?
After I finished my undergraduate degree I worked as a post-bachelorette fellow at the NICHD where my mentor was studying how oxidative stress affects menstrual cycle function. It was during those two years that I became fascinated with the topic of human fertility and how little we knew about the factors that affect a man and woman’s chance of conceiving.
What is your favorite part about being at Emory?
The people. Everyone I have met so far is incredibly welcoming and collaborative which is not the standard at many other big research institutions.
Do you have any advice for MPH students?
Don’t feel like you have to narrow down your interests immediately (you can do this later). The MPH program gives you many incredible opportunities to learn about all the different areas of public health- enjoy them!
What are three fun facts about yourself?
Category : GLEPI PROspective
Written by Caleb Ebert, GLEPI MPH 2018:
Atlanta is dubbed the public health capital of the world. Most people think of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when referring to this title, which makes sense when most of Atlanta traffic can be attributed to the CDC commute. 😉 However, when I think of Atlanta – and I thought this even before attending Rollins – one person always comes to mind: President Jimmy Carter. I admire a lot about this man. His authenticity. His desire and the energy he devotes to creating a better world (I mean just look at this most recent article.). His belief in the value and dignity of every human. And especially how he has taken his international platform that the US Presidency gave him and founded The Carter Center along with his wife, First Lady Rosalyn Carter. But I digress.
The Carter Center is “waging peace,” “fighting disease,” and “building hope” in areas that are currently neglected. President Carter’s mission, and I have heard him say this several times upon meeting him, is that he does not want to duplicate anyone’s effort. He recognizes that there are already leaders and experts making advances in fields such as cancer research, climate change advocacy, and primary school access, so why not tackle issues that are not being addressed or are currently under-addressed. This is what The Carter Center is doing. They have now become a leader in monitoring elections and championing human rights, and are on the path to eliminate guinea worm and trachoma.
I was fortunate enough to land a REAL position with The Carter Center’s Trachoma Control Program during my first year at Rollins. However, I thought my eyes were deceiving me when I first saw their open position. After all, I had just finished a long day of teaching GIS workshops and I was trying to cool off in my sweltering apartment in the Philippines when I read that The Carter Center, a place I had dreamt of working at, was looking for a student with GIS experience. Before I could think too much, I applied for the job—crossed every joint in my body—and then I waited. Whether it is a REAL job, or those real jobs, I encourage you to add your personality to your cover letter. To me, nothing makes an applicant stand out more than someone who is willing to put themselves in their application and not just their qualifications (That’s what your resume is for!). I began my cover letter with a joke about how chlamydia is such a hard word to spell and this may be the reason I got an interview (Trachoma is caused by a bacterium call Chlamydia trachomatis).
A unique aspect of working at a nonprofit (and there are so many in Atlanta) like The Carter Center is that you can really shape the course of a program with some curiosity and determination. I encourage you to ask questions and challenge the status quo. Ask why things are done a certain way and suggest alternatives or ask for a trial period to start something new. I remember in my interview I had already started to ask those “Why” questions, such as why the program was working in some countries with trachoma but not others. This curiosity may have been the reason I was hired. I maintained a level of curiosity throughout my time at The Carter Center whether it was wondering how we could apply The Carter Center’s election monitoring survey technology to the health surveys or how we could best train the in-country staff on how to create their own trachoma prevalence maps.
I had the opportunity to stay with The Carter Center for my entire two years (including completing my practicum with them in Ethiopia) while attending Rollins. Having a continuous two-year period was critical to the relationships that I could form with The Carter Center and the connections that they provided me with post-graduation. But regardless of the length of time you are at an organization, I encourage you to actively work to form relationships. And yes, this may mean that you need to have the small talk with your coworkers. (Remember their answers!) Begin there and soon more meaningful conversations will form. Relationships are so important in public health—it can be a very small field. I currently work as a trial manager at the F.I. Proctor Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco and this job would not have been possible without my experience and connections from The Carter Center. And just to further demonstrate how important relationships can be, despite living across the country from The Carter Center, I still remain very connected with the Trachoma Control Program working as a contractor on a couple of projects.
Caleb Ebert graduated from Rollins in 2018 with a MPH in Global Epidemiology. While at Rollins, his research interests included GIS and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies. Now, Caleb manages NIH-funded trials at the F.I. Proctor Foundation at UCSF in San Francisco, California.
Category : Alumni
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