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Statistical Analyst A/B, University of Pennsylvania Department of General Internal Medicine

Category : Alumni

Job Description Summary

The Statistical Analyst A position will support health policy-related research projects conducted by investigators at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. The Statistical Analyst position will use SAS and/or STATA programming skills to create analytical datasets from health care claims, administrative databases, clinical trials, and surveys to construct and standardize outcome measures and other analytical variables through data cleaning and data manipulation, to provide descriptive and analytical reports, and to perform specialized statistical analyses.

Statistical Analyst B will be assigned to projects that involve multiple and complex databases, requiring advanced SAS skills and more experience in the effective manipulation of large data. Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are needed to support multiple projects led by individual investigators. Statistical Analyst B will serve as a resource to Statistical Analysts A, suggesting programming solutions and sharing their skills in data creation and cleaning.

Job Description

DUTIES:

The Statistical Analyst position will support health policy-related research projects conducted by investigators at LDI the Division of General Internal Medicine.  The Statistical Analyst A will use standard SAS and/or STATA programming skills to create analytical datasets from clinical trials, surveys, and health care claims, to construct and standardize outcome measures and other analytical variables through data cleaning and data manipulation, to provide descriptive and analytical reports, and to perform specialized statistical analyses. 

Statistical Analyst B will implement non-routine macros and advanced techniques to merge different datasets and create analysis files from complex databases. Statistical Analyst B will use advanced statistical methods to analyze the data. Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are needed to support multiple projects led by individual investigators.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Statistical Analyst A:  Bachelor’s degree in Math/Statistics, Healthcare Management, Economics, or Public Health and minimum of 3 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Statistical Analyst B:  Master’s degree in Math/Statistics, Healthcare Management, Economics, or Public Health and at least 3 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience required. 

Both levels:  Experience in applying health services research methods through SAS or STATA programming is required. Statistical programming skills are required (strong expert level for B). Prior work experience in an academic or research setting in health care is preferred. Prior experience with analyzing clinical trials is preferred.

Position contingent upon funding.

For more information and to apply, please click here. 


Career Information Session, Medpace

Category : News/Events

Medpace is hosting an in-person information session regarding clinical research associate careers on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 from 12-1pm in CNR 3001. To learn more and register, please log in here. 

MISSION

Medpace’s mission is to accelerate the global development of safe and effective medical therapeutics through its high- science and disciplined operating approach that leverages local regulatory and deep therapeutic expertise across all major areas including oncology, cardiology, metabolic disease, endocrinology, central nervous system and anti-viral and anti-infective.

INDUSTRIES

Medpace is a scientifically-driven, global, full-service clinical contract research organization (CRO) providing Phase I-IV clinical development services to the following industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device

CLINICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE CAREERS

Learn about information regarding their recruiting process, desired skills, work examples, and interviewing!

 


Applications Open, Rollins Career Development Ambassadors

In partnership with the Office of Career Development, the Rollins Career Development Ambassadors program aims to promote student leadership, professional development, and career readiness. Rollins Career Development Ambassadors serve as peer-advocates by linking the professional needs of Rollins students, from a student’s perspective, with the resources, educational programming, and professional services provided by the Office of Career Development.

Time Commitment: CDA’s commit to a minimum of 5 events per semester to serve as peer-advocates, who link the professional needs of Rollins students, from a student’s perspective, with the resources, educational programming, and professional services provided by the Office of Career Development. 

We will be accepting and reviewing applications here on a rolling basis. Early applications are preferred!

The application process has 3 required components:
1) Member application/Resume submission
2) Interview with current CDA members
3) Orientation

If you have further questions, please contact Lisa Parker (lisa [dot] parker [at] emory [dot] edu).


Reorganizing your life during the busy semester

Category : PROspective

Do you feel overwhelmed with schoolwork and other responsibilities right now? For many students, balancing midterms, work, volunteering, and personal responsibilities can be incredibly overwhelming at times.  It can be hard to balance everything you have to do during this busy time of year. However, developing a few key strategies to manage your time can significantly reduce this stress, leading to better academic outcomes and personal health and wellness. Here are a few tips to help you manage your time this week:

  1. Plan ahead and stay organized. Create a schedule for yourself and stick to it. This can be a rough weekly schedule, or a detailed and specific daily routine written each day. Establishing these patterns in our work can help us be more productive in the long run.
  2. Know your strengths. If you know that you do not perform well under pressure, make sure to schedule enough time to work on something before a deadline. Leave yourself enough time to ask for help or work with others. If you know that you do perform well under pressure, you can take advantage of this while still giving yourself enough time to produce your best work. Not everyone has the same strengths, so don’t feel bad if your work habits don’t match up to your peers! Establishing your own checkpoints with hard deadlines within a task can help you play to your own strengths.
  3. Take advantage of short periods of free time. You don’t always have to accomplish large tasks every day. Using five minutes of time each day to complete small parts of a large project will still help you reach your goal, and you will appreciate the time you save in the long run when you are finally able to sit down and focus on the large task at hand. 
  4. Make to-do lists. It is important to have a visual reminder of the work you need to do. In addition to this, checking off boxes on a to-do list is always satisfying and can provide you the sense of accomplishment you need to keep going.
  5. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. No matter how well you manage your time, there will always only be 24 hours in a day. Sometimes you will have to prioritize the most important tasks in your routine and delegate the rest to others. It is important to set boundaries and let people know when they are taking advantage of your time or overburdening you with responsibilities. 
  6. Take care of yourself. There is nothing better you can do for yourself than making sure you stay safe and healthy while working on a task. This can mean taking breaks to go on refreshing walks or getting coffee, or even doing your remote work in natural spaces like a park or your backyard. Remember, it doesn’t do you any good to overwork yourself, and you are capable of accomplishing everything you need to do this week!

Virtual Information Session, Avalere Health

Category : News/Events

Avalere Health is a healthcare business consulting firm that specializes in strategy, policy, and data analysis for life sciences, health plans, and providers

Join us on October 19 from 12-1pm to learn more about Avalere’s culture, network with Recruiters and Hiring Managers and discuss future internship and employment opportunities.

Register on RSPH Career Connection here.


Program Consultant, Georgia Department of Public Health

Category : Alumni

Job Responsibilities

The Program Consultant will assist the Chronic Diseases, Health Behaviors and Injury Epidemiology Section/ Georgia Cancer Registry (GCR) Director in planning, directing, and implementing GCR goals and objectives based on the Georgia’s GCR five years grant. The Program Consultant will monitor and continuously evaluated GCR unit compliance with Georgia Department of Public Health and/or federal guidance.

  • Works closely with CHIE director to develop and recommend policies and procedures concerning GCR.
  • Create, coordinate and/or facilitate cancer registry trainings and Cancer related ECHOs
  • Assist in preparing and monitor GCR budget
  • Recruit, establish, maintain and staff the GCR advisory committee
  • Maintain and foster GCR partnership with DPH partners
  • Maintain strong relationship with GCR external partners 
  • Assist in writing GCR grant, progress reports and annual reports following CDC guideline.

 

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited college or university AND One year of related experience or completion of an apprenticeship/internship that sufficiently supplied experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position.

Preferred Qualifications: 
Preference will be given to applicants who in addition to meeting the entry qualifications possess 3 or more of the following:

  • Ability to evaluate, motivate and mentor staff
  • Ability to implement and coordinate trainings 
  • Ability to evaluate programs for quality and effectiveness
  • Ability to monitor budget 
  • Microsoft Office
  • Management Tools Software
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong writing skills

Additional Information

Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner and  leaders encourages all employees to engage in regular wellness activities and to make lifestyle choices that promote health and well-being.

The use of wellness breaks during the workday is authorized to support this philosophy and assist employees in meeting their wellness goals.  A maximum of 30 minutes in a given workday may be used to engage in wellness activities, generally in the form of two 15-minute breaks or one 30-minute break.

For more information and to apply, please click here. 


Fellowship Opportunity, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

Category : Alumni

Are you interested in a post-graduate fellowship in applied public health?  

The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to announce two fellowship opportunities for recent graduates (including those who will graduate in December 2022 and Spring 2023!) and early career professionals looking to launch their career in applied public health.  

CSTE will host an informational webinar on Thursday, October 13 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time to provide more information about both fellowships for prospective fellow applicants. Register with this link to attend the webinar: Click here to register 

Fellowship Information: 

AEF and APHIF are 2-year fellowships for recent graduates and early career professionals to work in a state, territorial, local, or tribal health agency under the guidance of two experienced mentors. Fellows are matched to a host site to provide on-the-job training and high-quality mentorship. The fellowship is a full-time paid training opportunity. 

What is the difference between AEF and APHIF? 

Applied Epidemiology Fellowship (AEF): 

·       Focused on Applied Epidemiology 

·       Subject areas include Birth Defects, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, General Infectious Disease, Infectious Disease – Food Safety, Infectious Disease – HAI, Infectious Disease – Quarantine, Injury, Drug Overdose, Maternal and Child Health, Occupational Health, Oral Health, and Substance Use/Mental Health 

Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship (APHIF): 

·       Focused on Public Health Informatics 

·       Fellows also work on projects related to data science and laboratory capacity 

Who is eligible to apply to these fellowships?  

Fellows must hold a masters or doctoral degree from an accredited academic institution. Current students who will complete their degrees by summer 2023 are welcome to apply. As training programs, these fellowships are designed for recent graduates and early career professionals.  

Application Timeline 

Applications for APHIF will open October 17, 2022 and will close on January 20, 2023. For more information about APHIF and the application link, use the following link: CSTE Fellows: APHIF For questions pertaining to APHIF, please contact APHIF [at] cste [dot] org  

Applications for AEF are currently open and will close on January 20, 2023. For more information about AEF and the application link, use the following link: CSTE Fellows | AEF Fellowship (wpengine.com). For questions pertaining to AEF, please contact AEF [at] cste [dot] org 


UCSF UC Berkeley Joint PhD Program, Computational Precision Health

Category : Alumni

Health and our healthcare systems are staggeringly complex. Advances in computation have transformed many industries, but the full promise of computation is yet to be realized for health care. To transform personal and public health through computation, we need breakthroughs in computation that use the massive data now available to do better : better disease detection, better treatment selection and monitoring, better decision support for medicine and public health, better use of resources.

The UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health (CPH) is a new graduate training and research program that will change health care practice and policy locally and globally. Our mission is to apply computation to real-world settings to improve the quality, efficiency, and equity of medicine and public health.

The PhD in Computational Precision Health trains students to rigorously formulate problems with direct impact on individual and population health, and to develop new computational methods to address these problems in the complexity of the real world.

Students in the PhD in Computational Precision Health will develop skills and expertise in both thecomputational sciences (machine learning and AI, natural language processing, statistical inference and modeling, data standards, parallel computing and data at scale, etc.) and health sciences (clinical decision sciences and cognitive informatics, clinical delivery, clinical research, implementation science, health information policy, etc.)

Students will develop the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams from ideation to development, testing, and validation in the real world. Coursework will be complemented by extensive and early interaction with world-class faculty–through research rotations, seminar series, and practicums–at the intersection of computation and health, and students will develop proficiency in cross-disciplinary research and communication. A focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, human-centered design accommodating diverse users, and the ethical implications and societal impacts of the work will be embedded throughout the program.

Applications for 2023 admission are open from September 15, 2022-January 6, 2023. Full application details, and information on curriculum, funding, CPH faculty, and more can be found at:


Call for Abstracts, Sex as a Biological Variable Workshop

The Specialized Center of Research Excellence on Sex Differences at Emory University (Emory SCORE)  is now accepting abstract submissions for our 3rd annual SABV Workshop.

One Basic/Pre-clinical research abstract and one Clinical/Public Health research abstract will be selected for oral presentations during the workshop.  

All accepted abstracts, except those giving oral presentations, will be invited to present in a Rapid Fire Poster Session during the Workshop.

Abstracts should describe research that is focused on one of the areas below:

  • Sex as a Biological Variable
  • Sex / Gender Differences
  • Gender-based Health Disparities
  • Women’s Health Research

Submitted abstracts may be recycled from previous presentations if those conferences / presentations were held on or after December 1, 2021. 

Abstract Guidelines: Abstract content should not exceed 400 words. Please use the attached template to format your abstract for submission (see next page).

Important Dates:

  • 10/24/22: Abstract submission deadline
  • 11/7/22: Abstract acceptance notifications
  • 11/7/22: Oral abstract decision notification

Information, Registration, & Abstract Submission Portal: bit.ly/SABV-2022

Questions: Please email Dr. Shannon Walker at shannon [dot] walker [at] emory [dot] edu


Fellowship on Epidemiology and Data Analysis, CDC Emerging Threats Team

Category : Alumni

Research Project: Under the ORISE Research Participation program, this fellowship will offer the opportunity to train in the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders in the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). The ORISE participant will have the opportunity to gain experience in conducting research and surveillance activities, as well as collecting, reviewing, and analyzing epidemiologic and programmatic data. Participant will train on projects that focus on the role of prenatal exposures on pregnancy, fetal, infant, and child outcomes. Prenatal exposures of interest include, but are not limited to: COVID-19, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis C, syphilis, Zika virus, and other infectious diseases. Training will occur under the direction of an assigned Advisor/Mentor on the Emerging Threats Epidemiology and Research Team. 

Learning Objectives: There are several main learning objectives that this appointment could include:

  1. Gain familiarity with the Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET) which includes mother-baby longitudinally linked surveillance for COVID-19, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis C, syphilis, and other infectious diseases;
  2. Gain familiarity for other Zika surveillance and research projects in the U.S. and in Colombia: US Zika Pregnancy and Infant Registry, Proyecto Vigilancia de Embarazadas con Zika (VEZ) and Zika en Embarazadas y Ninos (ZEN);
  3. Enhance skills in performing data management and analysis through the collection, review, and analysis of epidemiologic and programmatic data generated by these surveillance systems and studies, and other projects involving epidemiologic and programmatic data from emerging threats surveillance and research and other relevant infectious diseases during pregnancy and effect on infant health;
  4. Develop protocols and standard operating procedures for surveillance and research activities, leveraging existing surveillance and study platforms to capture pregnancy, birth, clinical, and developmental outcomes arising from a range of exposures during pregnancy and participate in data systems and approaches to improve quality and speed of the surveillance system;
  5. Perform literature reviews and, where needed, systematic reviews and meta-analyses to describe existing evidence of the influence of infectious diseases and other in-utero exposures on fetal, infant, and child development;
  6. Engage in CDC emergency response procedures; and
  7. Collaborate and engage other staff from the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), other CDC centers, institutes, or offices, other federal organizations, health departments, partners, and international health ministries and organizations.

Mentor(s): The mentor for this opportunity is Van Tong (vct2 [at] cdc [dot] gov). If you have questions about the nature of the research please contact the mentor.

 

For more information and to apply, please click here. 


Upcoming Events

  • Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar December 5, 2024 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Seminar Series Event Type: Seminar SeriesSpeaker: Sanjib Basu, PhDContact Name: Mary AbosiContact Email: mabosi@emory.eduRoom Location: CNR PLAZA - Rollins AuditoriumTitle: High-Dimensional Joint Model for Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Risk and Social Determinants of Health
  • Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar December 6, 2024 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Seminar Series Event Type: Seminar SeriesSpeaker: Kylie Ainslie, PhDContact Name: Mary AbosiContact Email: mabosi@emory.eduRoom Location: CNR_1000 Richard M. Levinson PhD ClassroomTitle: Scabies, who cares?

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