News, updates, and information for current students and alumni of the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health
Category : News/Events
Description
Please join the COVID-19 Journal club for their next meeting, which will be a Zoom trivia night on Monday, December 14th at 5:00PM!
How to Join
Click here to join this Zoom event on 12/14 at 5:00PM!
Category : Student Opportunities Work Study
Opportunity Description
Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) is a project of the Public Health Institute (PHI) in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF), supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). STAR is a Global Health talent hub. Through fellowships, internships, and strategic partnerships, STAR supports building the capacity of diverse global health professionals and organizations at all levels to make inclusive, collaborative, and innovative contributions to global health. STAR participants collaborate in the development of systems and tools that strengthen and sustain the local and global health response.
The Office of HIV/AIDS (OHA) is the focus of HIV/AIDS technical leadership for USAID and has primary responsibility for leading the Agency’s efforts within President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a $52 billion multifaceted approach to combating the disease in more than 120 countries around the world since 2003. Under the leadership of the US Department of State’s Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) and in cooperation with other US Government (USG) partners, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations, USAID provides global technical leadership on the full range of issues related to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment; manages numerous research and field support programs; and monitors the impact of the Agency’s HIV/AIDS programs. In this endeavor, USAID works very closely with a range of USG agencies involved in the fight against AIDS, such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, and Peace Corps. More information about PEPFAR maybe found here.
Position Description
The HIV and COVID-19 Adaptations Intern (Intern) will be assigned to the Prevention, Care and Treatment Division of OHA within the Bureau for Global Health. The Intern will support the OHA COVID-19 Cluster, which coordinates analyses of COVID-19 impacts on PEPFAR programming and of programmatic adaptations and innovations in the face of COVID-19. In addition to OHA’s primary responsibility for leading the Agency’s efforts within PEPFAR, OHA/PCT provides clinical technical assistance for the Agency’s COVID-19 response, with a particular focus on care of severely ill COVID patients in coordination with the USAID-coordinated donation of ventilators to many countries.
Requirements and Qualifications
How to Apply
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Category : Academic Student Opportunities
Description
The Master’s in Development Practice Program actively welcomes students from other disciplines to enroll in our courses, space permitting. Five slots have been specifically set aside for non-MDP students in the Spring 2021 courses listed below.
To submit your enrollment request please email rebeca [dot] quintana [at] emory [dot] edu. Be sure to include the class #, your student ID, and grading option where applicable (i.e., MDP 585 courses).
Available Courses
Click here to see a PDF with detailed descriptions and meeting information for each of the available MDP courses.
Category : Alumni
Job Description
The Test and Trace Corps (T2) – the City’s initiative to test all New Yorkers, break chains of COVID-19 transmission in a timely fashion through contact tracing, and ensure they can isolate and quarantine safely – is pivotal as New York City continues to reopen. In close coordination with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), City agencies and City Hall, T2 is supporting citywide efforts to allow programs and services to operate amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
T2 is hiring a team of Data Analysts to provide targeted data management and analytic support regarding findings related to investigations of COVID-19 exposures that occur in a facilities, such as Child Cares, Camps, Schools, Universities, Houses of Worship (i.e. Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Temple), Private Gatherings, Restaurants/Bars, Work sites outside the home, or other events.
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Chief of Staff for the T2 Data, Analytics and Product Development Team and under the direction of the NYC DOHMH Surveillance and Epidemiology Data Unit Co-lead, the Data Analyst, Facility Investigations will be responsible for:
Minimum Qualifications
For Assignment Level I (For physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health only)
*Probationary Period
Department Preferences
How To Apply
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Category : Alumni
Description
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) is seeking a creative, organized, and motivated individual to become an essential member of our team. DOH works to protect, promote and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts. As one of Florida’s leading state agencies, DOH’s workforce has more than 12,000 employees who serve millions of individuals across the state striving to make Florida the Healthiest state in the nation!
Serve as team member for FLHealthCHARTS, Florida Health Performs, data support and helping website users interpret results, creating reports using Logi Analytic software, providing GIS support (i.e. geocoding and mapping with ArcGIS) and providing support for publications such as, the State Health Assessment, the State Health Improvement Plan, and the Vital Statistics Annual Report. The incumbent in this position is expected to coordinate the collection and monitoring performance indicators across divisions and county health departments for performance management and outcome assessment. Familiarity with: Florida Department of Health programs and various data sets including: vital statistics, population, and services provided by the department will be beneficial. Experience with Excel, Word, and Powerpoint is essential to perform the duties of this position. The incumbent must also have previous experience with ARCGIS, Microsoft SQL, and statistical software (e.g., SAS or SPSS).
Duties and Responsibilities
This is a highly responsible professional position located within the Division of Public Health Statistics and Performance Management. This position is primarily responsible for:
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with ArcGIS, Microsoft SQL and statistical software (e.g., SAS or SPSS) preferred. Familiarity with: DOH programs and various data sets including: vital statistics, population, and services provided by the department will be beneficial. Interest in learning new statistical and data management packages desired.
How to Apply
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Category : Student Opportunities Work Study
Description
This is temporary or hourly paid work performing professional health care services. Positions in this job are established for less than 9 months or scheduled for less than 30 hours per week and are not eligible for benefits if the position status is temporary (i.e., SCOA 513). Positions in this job are established for greater than 9 months and scheduled for greater than 30 hours per week if the position status is permanent labor (i.e., SCOA 512). Normally permanent labor positions are eligible for Health Insurance benefits.
This internship could also be used for a student’s practicum and/or thesis.
Job Responsibilities
The Georgia Department of Public Health is looking for a current MPH student or an incoming MPH-seeking student to assist in patient interviewing, data entry, data collection, data management, medical chart reviews, and other clerical work. The position includes calling cases and controls to conduct interviews related to communicable disease surveillance, special studies, and outbreaks. Data entry and management responsibilities will include using various databases, such as Excel, Access, and the Georgia electronic notifiable disease system. Although the person filling this position will have the opportunity to learn about notifiable disease surveillance in general, the focus will be following up on reportable vaccine-preventable diseases (i.e. diphtheria, measles, mumps, pertussis, polio, rubella, tetanus, and varicella). The position is temporary and intended for a student enrolled in an accredited public health degree program as the intention of the job duties is to provide applied public health knowledge and skills.
Position Responsibilities:
The incumbent will be employed for approximately 15-20 hours per week. The pay will be $14 an hour. The schedule is flexible, but the employee must conduct interviews, enter data, and perform other activities at the Department of Public Health offices in downtown Atlanta during normal business hours for more than half of the total weekly work time. During the current COVID-19 response, the intern can perform job duties remotely. Additional interviews and duties can be conducted during weeknight and weekend hours. This job can potentially include more hours during the summer and holiday breaks. The position could fulfill MPH practicum requirements. As part of a practicum experience, the student will:
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree and one year of work related experience OR four years of work related experience at an executive level.
Preferred Qualifications:
How to Apply
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Category : Academic Student Opportunities
Description
See the flyer below for details about this exciting course offering for Spring 2021: Vision Health: A Global Health Perspective!
Category : Alumni
Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the 2-year Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship in 1995 to address an ongoing demand in public health for rigorous quantitative analysis through the recruitment, internal placement, and professional development of quantitative researchers. Disease modeling is of increasing interest among CDC leadership. Mathematical or computational models can allow researchers to study problems not easily examined in real life. Through the use of models, researchers can examine the impact of a disease or intervention within a specific population. They can then adjust the agent, population, or intervention (such as social distancing, vaccine, or quarantine) variables to test theories about relevant public health policy.
The PE Fellowship is recruiting five positions specifically for modeling assignments within various programs at CDC. Applicants must have a doctoral degree in operations research, industrial engineering, mathematics, statistics, or other applied science field. Assignments focus on work related to the following types of modeling; disease transmission models, individual, compartmental, and agent-based models, spatial models, simulation and system dynamics modeling, and econometric models. Training will be provided in; decision analysis, disease transmission modeling, advanced econometrics, machine learning and big data analysis, data visualization, and key software applications such as R, Netlogo, Python, TreeAge, etc.
All doctoral degree requirements must be completed by 7/23/2021. The starting annual salary is approximately $86,000 plus Federal benefits and student loan repayment. The fellowship begins on 8/16/2021 (this date is flexible) with an intensive orientation and training program. CDC will sponsor suitable visas for non-US citizen candidates.
Learn More about the Fellowship
The MIDAS Coordination Center is planning a Zoom meeting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff, to learn more about this fellowship opportunity. on Tuesday, December 1, 2:00 – 3:00pm Eastern Time (US). Registration details to follow soon.
Application Information
Category : Academic Student Opportunities
Description
There is still space available to register in EHS 720: Introduction to Physiologically-Based Toxicokinetic (PBTK)/Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling with Dr. Qiang Zhang!
The health effects of environmental or pharmaceutical chemicals depend on the concentrations of the xenobiotics and their metabolites in the target tissues. Understanding and predicting chemical internal concentrations (tissue dosimetry) requires a physiologically-based toxicokinetic (PBTK) or pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling approach. Based on human physiology and anatomy, PBTK/PBPK models mechanistically simulate the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination (ADME) processes that affect the fates of exogenous chemicals in the human body, producing, as model output, changes in chemical tissue concentrations over time. PBTK/PBPK modeling has be increasingly applied in chemical health risk assessment and drug development. Students will learn numerical simulation tools to model what the body does to the chemicals in this course. It targets:
See the flyer below for more information about this spring course!
Category : News/Events
Description
Come join the Society for Public Health in Medicine for their first meeting as a new student organization!
The SPHM rises to meet the growing need for peer support and faculty guidance as current MPH students look to continue their academic journey in MD and DO programs. We aim to organize and support students’ career goals by providing connections with clinical mentors and opportunities, resource banks, peer review of application materials, writing assistance, and peer support groups.
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