Graduate Research Assistant Positions, Open Hand Atlanta

Open Hand Atlanta works to evaluate food security and nutrition programs in metro Atlanta and across Georgia. They are looking for enthusiastic and outgoing Atlanta-based data collectors/evaluators to support in person qualitative and survey data collection, data management and analysis as well as report writing across several of these projects. This opportunity can serve to fulfill practicum requirements or provide data or other activities to fulfill a thesis. There will also be opportunities for abstract/manuscript and conference presentation submissions through these projects with Open Hand support.

The team has several paid GRA positions available. GRAs can choose from several evaluation projects and be involved in different types of program evaluation activities including M&E plan development, tool development / revision; data management; qualitative data collection and analysis, survey data collection and analysis, support with grant writing, report writing, developing infographics, etc. As students develop a relationship with a particular project, they will be able to take on leadership and management activities as well. This is a great opportunity to develop skills, work with Atlanta communities and a great community partner and get paid! Priority will be given to first year MPH and MSPH students. Students that succeed in this work have strong interpersonal skills, take initiative, are flexible and able to work independently. Oftentimes there is a need for students to work across projects and assist with data collection, meaning that there is opportunity to be involved in multiple projects even if you are more interested in taking a leadership role for one.

The projects Open Hand is working on include:

Produce Prescription (PRx) Programs — this program works with healthcare partners in metro Atlanta and throughout GA to provide fresh produce boxes, interactive cooking and nutrition education, and social support to reduce food insecurity, enhance nutrition and mitigate chronic disease risk over the course of 6-months. Seeking — 1 GRA with reliable access to transportation to support survey and qualitative data collection, data analysis and report writing for ongoing PRx classes. Metro Atlanta travel required, travel to south GA optional. Availability based on class schedule, but classes generally take place between 10am-2pm on either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. All other work can be done remotely. This would be an excellent practicum / thesis opportunity!

Kids and Teens Nutrition Education – our team manages the state-wide data for Open Hand’s children and teen nutrition education programming, which empowers youth with interactive cooking, food literacy and nutrition education. Seeking – 1 GRA to take over from a current second year. GRA manages all data entry, data management, analyses and annual reporting to Open Hand. This student also creates site-specific outcome reports at the end of each fiscal year (September/October) to be shared with community organizations who hosted programming. This work can be done remotely, attending Metro-Atlanta area classes to help with data collection is optional and can be scheduled with Open Hand’s program manager if of interest to student.

WIC – Cooking Matters + Social Marketing and Policy, Systems, & Environmental Change work – provides interactive cooking and nutrition education sessions in Women, Infants, & Children (WIC) clinics in Georgia’s Public Health District 4. Current nutrition education evaluation activities involve management and analysis of data and report writing. Open Hand also carries out a variety of social marketing campaigns throughout the clinics and this student would assist with rolling these out and helping to plan future work. This position would also entail helping Open Hand SNAP-Ed staff continue a literature review and plan for upcoming policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change work. There is a lot of opportunity for program design in this role as many new opportunities with the WIC clinics are forthcoming. Seeking – 1 GRA to support data management, analysis and reporting, social marketing design/evaluation, and PSE research/design. All activities are currently remote.

Healthy Retail Programming – Part of Open Hand’s SNAP-Ed program involves their Healthy Retail initiatives, which encourage shoppers to pay attention to budgeting, grocery lists, and nutrition labels while shopping to improve their food resource management skills and improve nutrition choices in food retail settings. This program includes the Cooking Matters at the Store grocery store tour educational classes and tours and our work with Community Farmers Market (CFM) to promote SNAP-benefit redemption at farmer’s markets around the Atlanta-metro area. Seeking – 1 student GRA leading the Healthy Retail program will help with Cooking Matters at the Store tour data collection, management, and reporting. They will also attend grocery store pop-up demonstrations and evaluate customer behavior changes and will aid in the evaluation of Open Hand’s CFM social marketing promotional project. Activities would be a mix of remote/computer-based work and attending grocery store tours and community classes, so a student with their own transportation would be preferred.

Year-End Community Partner Impact Reports – Open Hand believes in giving data classes back to community members and community-based organizational partners that they work with throughout the state of Georgia. To do this, partner-specific outcome reports and/or infographics are created at the end of each fiscal year (October) to give back to partner organizations and demonstrate program impact within their populations throughout the year. Seeking: 1 GRA to complete these reports, beginning in September 2025 and ending in December ‘25/January ’26. This is an excellent APE for anyone looking to complete their practicum during the beginning of their second year instead of over the summer. There is also an opportunity to gain experience working directly with community-based organizations and potentially presenting data to them if interested.

If interested, please send your CV to both of the following individuals:

• Julie Gazmararian, PhD, MPH – jagazma [at] emory [dot] edu
• Katie Leite, MPH, SNAP-Ed Program Manager – kleite [at] openhandatlanta [dot] org

Epi Scholars Program, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Since 2007, the Epi Scholars Program has provided rigorous training in applied epidemiology to stellar graduate and professional epidemiology and biostatistics students at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). 

This program is a full-time, paid, 10 – 12-week summer internship program for top graduate epidemiology and biostatistics students at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Scholars receive supplemental training from senior researchers including training in theory, methods, and public health practice to enhance their understanding of the root causes of disease.  

The Epi Scholars program is accepting applications for the Summer 2025 session until February 15th, 2025. For more information and application instructions, visit the posting linked here. Feel free to contact epischolars [at] health [dot] nyc [dot] gov with any questions.

APE Opportunity – Mayor of Atlanta LGBTQ Advisory Board

Background:  The Atlanta LGBTQ+ community experience multiple disparities in regards to access to healthcare and health outcomes, especially within the Trans community.  Atlanta is often ranked top worst places in the United States to receive Trans healthcare services due to the high demand and low supply of healthcare providers who specialize in LGBTQ+ and especially Trans healthcare.  There is an urgent need to enhance the availability of qualified gender clinics and healthcare providers who provide culturally affirming care for the Trans community.

Job Description:  Conduct research on the lack of healthcare access for the Trans community within the city of Atlanta.  Build a business case to showcase the need for additional healthcare resources within the city of Atlanta.  Create an understanding of the problem for the city of Atlanta Mayor’s office and create a sense of urgency to advance health equity for the Trans community.  Available stipend:  $3500

• Deliverables
  • Create a PowerPoint deck with a data-driven approach to identify key healthcare issues of the underserved Trans community in Atlanta.
  • Research Focus Areas
    • A lack of specific education and training for healthcare workers
    • A lack of surgeons to perform gender affirming surgery in the state of Georgia
    • A lack of clinical research on Trans health-related issues
    • Restrictive health benefits for Trans individuals
    • Trans people are less likely to have a regular health care provider
    • Discrimination from a healthcare provider leads to not receiving care at all
    • Georgia legislative policy affecting Trans healthcare
    • Established gender clinics at Vanderbilt University, Washington University in St. Louis, UC-Davis, UAB, Mount Sinai could provide key learnings and reference on how to build out gender affirming clinics
  • LGBTQ+ healthcare curriculum developed for healthcare professionals in Atlanta.  
• Competencies
  • Design evidence-based and culturally relevant health promotion interventions.
  • Assess the Trans population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ access to healthcare
  • Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software
  • Apply ethical principles to public health research and practice

Trans Committee Health Co-Leads:  Nicole Williams & Jamie Harrell

Contact:  Nicole Williams, Email:  Nicole [dot] L [dot] Williams1 [at] gmail [dot] com  – Cell:  314-363-3471

Student Worksite Experience Program

We are looking to bring on a student for at least 4-6 months, at about 15-20 hours per week to support the team in reviewing and extracting data from journal articles for the meta-analysis (brief position description is below.) The position is remote but we can arrange for them to come into the office if that is preferable or easier for them.

Student will be responsible for reviewing and extracting data from research manuscripts regarding enteric adenovirus.  Individual data points for each abstract, such as number tested and number positive for adenovirus, will be entered into a REDCap database.  Student will gain an understanding of the epidemiology of enteric viruses, PRISMA meta-analysis methods, and REDCap.  This work will support a meta-analysis of the global prevalence of adenovirus and inform current research into a recent association of enteric adenovirus with severe pediatric hepatitis (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0421-hepatitis-alert.html). 

Contact Sara Mirza at smirza [at] cdc [dot] gov if interested.

See the MOU and program guide in the attachments below.

SWEP-Program-Guide_Final_09132021

669B

SWEP 669A

Research Interns, American Cancer Society

Position Title: Research Interns

Department: Surveillance and Health Equity Science, Intramural Research https://www.cancer.org/research/we-conduct-cancer-research/surveillance-health-services.html

JOB SUMMARY:

This research internship can fulfill the practicum and/or thesis requirement. The intern will participate in projects related to cancer health services research, learning skills for scientific research by conducting data analyses, presenting analytical results to both internal and external collaborators, drafting research proposals and manuscripts and performing other scientific activities under the supervision of senior researchers.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Prepare and analyze data to evaluate cancer care, such as screening, treatment, and survivorship, monitor outcomes such as incidence, mortality and survival, and cancer risk factors; write, test, and submit computer programs in SAS, Stata, or R.

· Conduct literature reviews, assist in developing research proposals and IRB packages, as well as scientific writing.

· Prepare tables and figures for scientific presentations using Excel and/or PowerPoint.

· Potential to lead or co-lead a research project in cancer disparities for thesis work.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

· REQUIRED: Data analysis experience. SAS, Stata, or R programming skills in a public health research environment. Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and oral and written communication skills.

· PREFERRED: Familiarity with SAS-callable SUDAAN and SEER*Stat; experience in cancer epidemiological research.

LOCATION:

· Remotely and/or American Cancer Society Office (TBD)

TIME:

· ~15 hours/week Summer 2022; extendable to the following academia year.

CONTACTS:

· Please send your resume and cover letter to Breanna McKinnon at breanna [dot] mckinnon [at] cancer [dot] org

APE Opportunities, CDC One Health Office

CDC’s One Health Office sits within in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) at CDC. The One Health Office is involved in both domestic and global health activities that help advance CDC’s mission to protect public health and prevent disease. CDC’s One Health Office recognizes that the health of people is connected to the health of animals and our shared environment. A One Health approach encourages collaborative efforts of many experts (like disease detectives, laboratorians, physicians, and veterinarians) working across human, animal, and environmental health sectors to improve the health of people and animals, including pets, livestock, and wildlife. CDC’s One Health Office is working on a variety of projects and collaborations both domestically and internationally. Students will have the opportunity to support the One Health Office in a variety of activities, but will be primarily responsible for one of the projects below.

All of these opportunities within CDC’s One Health Office are unpaid and voluntary-based. Opportunities are typically 40 hours/week (unless otherwise noted) from Monday to Friday and will most likely be fully virtual/telework, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students may be badged under the Student Worksite Experience Program (SWEP), if eligible.
If you are interested in applying to any of these One Health Office APE Opportunities, please send a cover letter and resume/CV to the One Health Office point of contact for each project. Please also include in your email subject line the name of the project you are applying for.

Cover letters and resumes/CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are submitted. These opportunities will be filled as soon as possible.

See the pdf linked below for more information.

CDC One Health Office_Applied Practice Experience Opportunities_2022_distributed

Graduate Research Assistant, Emory Prevention Research Center

The Emory Prevention Research Center (EPRC) seeks one to two part-time Graduate Research Assistants (10-15 hours/week each) to work over the summer, with the possibility of continuing into the Fall. The position includes the opportunity to work on several EPRC projects: Communications/Dissemination, Training, and the BreatheEasy Georgia Homes Program (BreatheEasy). BreatheEasy promotes smoke-free housing by recognizing apartment communities in Georgia that adopt smoke-free policies. GRA tasks include developing infographics to communicate EPRC research in plain language for a broad audience, managing social media for the EPRC and BreatheEasy Program, including developing content, scheduling posts, and evaluating analytics. A GRA will also help to plan and host one to two EPRC Trainings for public health practitioners. Other Communications tasks include reviewing and assisting with the EPRC website and quarterly newsletter, and, in the Fall, assisting with EPRC research dissemination events. The GRA will also assist the BreatheEasy program manager in planning and hosting meetings for stakeholders across the state, developing educational content to promote smoke-free housing, and managing the BreatheEasy Recognition Program and website.

The EPRC conducts research and evaluation on chronic disease prevention and promotes evidence-based cancer prevention and control. The research and activities of the EPRC are planned with the participation and input of our community partners, in the spirit of community-based participatory research. Our cancer projects are funded by NCI and the CDC to promote the use of evidence-based cancer prevention practices. See http://web1.sph.emory.edu/eprc/ for more information about the EPRC. Information about Healthy Homes Healthy Families 2-1-1 is available at http://web1.sph.emory.edu/eprc/research/healthy-homes.html

Minimum Qualifications: Highly motivated, efficient, organized, detail-oriented and interest or experience working on communications, research, evaluation, or cancer prevention and control. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications: Prior work experience and desire to continue working through the Fall Semester preferred. Experience with social media campaigns and analytics; Clear Communication or Plain Language practices; graphic design; program coordination; website development; and the ability to write in Spanish. Experience with the following software is preferred: Social media platforms and analytics functions (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Hootsuite); Piktochart or Canva; Microsoft Office (esp. PowerPoint and Excel); Constant Contact. 

Please email cover letter and resume to Erin Lebow-Skelley erin [dot] lebow-skelley [at] emory [dot] edu

COVID-19 Outbreak Response Team

Apply to join Emory’s Outbreak Response Team as part of your Applied Practicum Experience (APE)!

This small team, which is part of the Emory COVID Response Collaborative (ECRC) and led by Dr. Jodie Guest, provides COVID-19 resources to communities in Georgia that are disproportionally affected by the pandemic. In the past, the ORT’s work has ranged from organizing and running COVID-19 testing and vaccination events to delivering masks to students through a school meal delivery program.

Applications for the ORT are due by February 21st at 11:59 PM EST.

You can apply here and learn more about the program here.