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Maximizing Your Civic Engagement This Election Season

Category : PROspective

You have probably been hearing about tomorrow’s upcoming election for months on end from various student organizations, community members, family, and friends. Civic engagement is a very important part of public health, and it is vital that we engage positively with our community here during our time at Emory. The day has finally almost arrived, so here are some resources you can use to maximize your positive impact on the community even if you are not a registered voter here in Atlanta.

  1. Learn more about the election here. Make sure you know what issues are on the ballot this year, and become familiar with the candidates that you would like to vote for. It is never too late to start researching these topics so you can make the most informed decisions possible. You can also find your polling place, view a sample ballot, or check the status of a mail-in ballot all in the same portal. Make sure to read through this information ahead of time so everything goes smoothly tomorrow!
  2. Make a plan to vote in person. If you haven’t voted yet and you are eligible to vote in Georgia, find a time to get to your polling place tomorrow to cast your vote. If you have already voted or are not eligible to vote in Georgia, help out your friends and neighbors who need a ride to their polling place. Make plans to carpool or walk together, or help them 
  3. Volunteer with Rollins-Teer Service Day. Classes will be held asynchronously tomorrow, so you may use your extra free time during the day to volunteer at various organizations around Atlanta. This is a great way to engage with the community, especially if you aren’t eligible to vote. Search your inbox for reminders of these volunteer opportunities! 
  4. Register to vote for a potential run-off election. A runoff election may occur if no candidate wins the required majority of votes. This election would take place on December 6 in Georgia. If you missed the registration deadline for tomorrow’s election, it is still not too late to register to vote in the runoff. You have until the end of day today (11/7) to register in person or mail in the registration form found here.

Diabetes and COVID-19: A Bi-directional Relationship – Webinar

Category : News/Events

Mon | 11/07/2022 | 12PM-1PM ET | Virtual

Join us for GCDTR’s next seminar series presentation hosted by the Design and Evaluation for Equity Core, featuring a talk by Jessica Harding, PhD. Dr. Harding is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery/Medicine at Emory University. She is an epidemiologist with extensive experience in conducting chronic disease research at population and system levels in both academic and government settings. She received her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2016, and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where her research focused on describing population-level trends in diabetes and related complications in the United States. At Emory, Dr. Harding is working on improving data collection and quality related to kidney disease and transplantation as a member of the Transplant Health Services and Outcomes Research Program. Dr Harding also has interest in health equity research and the role of social determinants of health as it pertains to people with diabetes and kidney disease.

Dr. Harding is a recipient of a Pilot & Feasibility Program Grant from the Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research at Emory University. In her project, she is examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diabetes care processes within a large integrated healthcare system.

Please register for the webinar here.

Suicide Prevention Training for RSPH Students, Emory Mental Health Alliance

Category : News/Events

Emory Counseling & Psychological Services offers QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) training. It is intended to teach individuals how to recognize warning signs, and provides guidelines on how to ask the difficult question about suicidal thoughts, persuade individuals to get help, and refer individuals to local and national resources for support. This zoom training will take place on Wednesday, November 9 from 6-8pm. Please click here to register!

Ways to be Welcoming: Mental Health, Friends, and Boundaries – Online Workshop

Category : News/Events

Counseling and Psychological Services, along with Student Body Emory, presents an informative discussion on ways to be inclusive with respect to mental illness. They will go over ways to support others struggling with mental illness while also establishing healthy boundaries. Join us for an hour long discussion with time for questions all surrounding themes of mental illness and ways to be supportive of the self and others. This event will take place at 5pm on November 29, 2022. Please click here to register. 

Spring Course Offering – EH 515: Air Quality in the Urban Environment

Category : Student Opportunities

Are you interested in research that addresses air pollution exposure, assessment and modeling, and quantifying the health effects of air pollution? Consider signing up for EH 515: Air Quality in the Urban Environment taught by Dr. Donghai Liang. The class will meet in person on Tuesdays from 10am to noon. Spring registration is open through Nov. 9. For more information, contact Songhai Liang at donghai [dot] liang [at] emory [dot] edu. 

Webinar, CSTE Opportunities for Students

Category : News/Events

The CSTE Early Career Professionals subcommittee is hosting a webinar entitled “CSTE Opportunities for Students” on Friday, November 4 at 3:00 pm EDT. Registration is required to attend this webinar.

This webinar will focus on CSTE opportunities and resources available for epidemiology students, including fellowship programs, the learning platform CSTE Learn, the Mentorship Program, various subcommittees and the CSTE Annual Conference. This is a great opportunity to find out how to get engaged at CSTE and have your questions answered. This webinar will include:

  • Describing the program components and application process for the Applied Epidemiology Fellowship (AEF) and the Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship (APHIF)
  • Reviewing the CSTE Learn online training platform and available courses and resources
  • Highlighting subcommittees at CSTE, including the Early Career Professionals Subcommittee
  • Discussing the CSTE Mentorship Program
  • Discussing what to expect at the CSTE Annual Conference

Register today to participate in the webinar. The session will be recorded and archived in the CSTE webinar library.

If you have questions, please contact WFResources [at] cste [dot] org.

Temporary Staff Positions, Fulton County Board of Public Health

Category : Student Opportunities

Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) located in downtown Atlanta is hiring two (2) temporary staff to assist with a study examining the comparative effectiveness of clinician-assisted vs. self-administered lesion swabbing for Monkeypox.

Pay: $20/hour, 20 hours per week, for 26 weeks starting October 2022.

This is an in-person opportunity to work with staff from FCBOH’s community and preventive health services division at the FCBOH sexual health clinic. The clinic is located at 10 Park Place SE, Atlanta, GA 30303.

Job duties:

  1. Speaking to clinic patients, informing them of the study opportunity, screening for eligibility, and administering informed consent
  2. Preparing any paperwork, including order forms, for shipping the specimens
  3. Labeling specimen tubes with patient name, date, location of lesion swabbed, and time of collection.
  4. Assist clinician with matching specimen with completed forms for bagging.
  5. Ensuring proper storage of the closed bags of specimens prior to shipping to CDC.

 

For those interested or have questions, please contact HR manager Elanda Trice at FCBOH by email (elanda [dot] trice [at] fultoncountyga [dot] gov) or phone (770-828-9928 [office] or 404-612-1153 [cell]).

 

Collaborations in Global Health Research, The Halle Institute for Global Research

Category : News/Events

The Halle Institute is excited to host a panel discussion on “Collaborations in Global Health Research,” featuring Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Guilherme de Sousa Reibeiro (Brazil) and Hye Jun Park (Korea). They will discuss their research in Brazil and Malawi, some of the challenges they have faced, and focus on the importance of building and maintaining collaborations with local partners.

This event is on Monday, October 31 from 12-1pm in Convocation Hall, Room 104. IT is open to all members of the Emory community. Please RSVP here.

 

Tutor Positions Available, Academic Resource Center

Category : Student Opportunities

Academic Resource Center is looking for short-term tutors available to develop and present review topics in advance of midterms and finals for BIOS 500 and EPI 530.  Doctoral Students and 2nd year MPH/MSPH students are eligible to apply.

BIOS concepts for review include:

    • Conditional probabilities and Bayes Rule
    • Probability calculations using the binomial and normal distributions
    • Sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

EPI concepts for review may be forthcoming and/or not needed until the finals period.

Tutors would have access to syllabi and ARC would coordinate communication with instructors should there be questions.  The goal would be to develop slides for presentation next week offering in person and/or zoom review sessions.

We anticipate the total time commitment per tutor to be less than 20 hours at midterm and finals and this is based on how much time it takes to put slides together. PhD students will be paid at the student work rate of $20/hour. MPH students are paid at the student work rate of $15/hour.

If you are interested, please email rspharc [at] emory [dot] edu.

 

Online Workshop – Persuasive Communication: Influencing Patients, Partners, and the Public

Category : News/Events

Do you like to be told what to do or how to think? Most people don’t! But, as public health professionals, we are tasked with influencing behaviors, communities, and systems for the greater good. How do we persuade others in way that everyone wins?

This online workshop on 11/3/2022 borrows techniques from improvisational theater to help practitioners convey resonant, compelling public health messages to a variety of audiences. Participants will throw out the script and—instead of simply dispensing information—learn how to be present, show empathy and build real relationships with stakeholders. They will learn to quickly build connections, listen fully to get valuable information about an individual’s motivations, master body language to send signals of similarity, and strategize an effective plan so people feel heard, understood, and taken care of.  Public health professionals can apply this training when building coalitions, working with teams, crafting public information messages, and developing partnerships across other sectors.

Because listening and communication skills cannot be taught in a lecture or in a book, this workshop is full of fun and memorable learning experiences. Participants will be engaged in hands-on exercises, demonstrations, group activities, and games. Everything is designed to build participants’ abilities to be confident, effective communicators when they get back to workplace.

About the Trainer:
The Founder of Merlin Works, Shana Merlin, is a lecturer in the College of Medicine Texas A&M University and an associate at the Center for Health Communication at the University of Texas. Some of her most requested programs are on the topics of team building, communication, persuasion, leadership, medical communications, and creativity.

Shana is one of the most experienced and effective improv teachers in Texas. Presenting and performing nationwide, some of her clients have included Dell, Goodwill, The Four Seasons, The University of Texas and HP. Winner of “Best Improv Teacher” in Austin from the Austin Improv Collective, Shana founded Merlin Works, in 2003 to provide custom training, interactive presentations, and comedy shows to businesses and organizations using improvisation.

For more information and to register, please click here. 

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