Health Services Research Seminar Series, January 26

Join the Health Services Research Center on Wednesday, January 26 at 2 PM to hear Dr. Jodyn Platt talk about aligning public policy and public preferences for health information sharing and use.

For the zoom link register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArduuspzsiG90ObTz0oyG_wusbDVQcpxv3

Jodyn Platt, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences trained in medical sociology and health policy. Her research currently focuses addresses the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of learning health systems and related enterprises. She is interested in understanding what makes learning health systems trusted and the pathways for earning, achieving, and sustaining trust.

Seminar: The End of Statistical Significance?, Jan 18th

Though statisticians have long spoken out against rote use of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) and thresholds for the declaration of “statistical significance” these calls have taken on new life and urgency in the past decade. In this talk, I will provide some background and history to the current movement to get science to a “post p<0.05” era, including recent developments. I will also present examples of what reform might look like. The goal is not to give final definitive answers, but rather to provoke thought and discussion to continue moving the conversation forward.

This seminar, by Dr. Nicole Lazar will take place on January 18th from 12-1 PM. Click here to attend the zoom session.

Dr. Nicole Lazar is Professor of Statistics and a member of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University. Prior to joining Penn State in 2020, she was a faculty member in the Departments of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Georgia. She has a BA in Psychology and Statistics from Tel Aviv University, an MS in Statistics from Stanford University, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago. Professor Lazar is past-Editor in Chief of “The American Statistician” and was the 2019 President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. She has also served as the Chair of the Statistics in Imaging Section of the American Statistical Association. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a Fellow
of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

BSHE 760R Course

Are you interested in learning how to analyze big data to end drug-related harms? Sign up for BSHE 760R!

Reducing Drug-Related Harms using Big Data: Administrative, Geospatial and Network Data Sources
(GRAD 700R / BSHE 760R)
Fridays 10 AM to 1 PM (Consists of a 2-hour lecture and 1-hour lab)

Course instructors:
Hannah Cooper, ScD, Lance Waller, PhD and Weihua An, PhD

Course description:
This interdisciplinary 4-credit course will prepare students to conduct ethical, rigorous, and theoretically informed analyses of three types of “big data” (administrative, geospatial, and social network data) in the context of research and interventions into intersecting crises of substance use disorders and drug-related harms.

This course is a part of the TADA training program on analzying big data to end drug-related harms. To learn more, please contact Marielysse Cortes at mcortes [at] emory [dot] edu.

To learn more about additional pre-doctoral training opportunities, please visit sph.emory.edu/spark/tada-program

Pre-requisites:
Familiarity with Regression (e.g., BIOS 501, BSHES 700), SAS (e.g., BIOS 501) and R (e.g., BIOS 544) is required.

Complete Course Evaluations for a Conquering Selection Bias event in the Spring!

Course Evaluations close today, December 13 at 11:59 PM. In order for the results to be made available to future students, a course must receive at least a 66% response rate. 

Your feedback is truly invaluable: all evaluations are reviewed by the instructors as well as leadership at both the department and school levels. We receive valuable information about what has gone well and where we can improve, which we then implement in future iterations of the course.

In addition to wanting the results to be made available to students, as epidemiologists, we also want to avoid selection bias in the course evaluation results. In the spirit of improving our response rates, we are offering the following incentive for your participation:

If 28 of EPI’s 31 courses exceed the 66% response rate threshold, we will host a Conquering Selection Bias thank you event at the beginning of the spring semester.

Please do your part and complete your course evaluations by tonight, and encourage your peers to do the same!

Health and Wellbeing Newsletter

Check out this month’s Health and Wellbeing Newsletter by the RSPH Office of Admission and Student Services.

Click on the attachment below to read!

_HWB Newsletter December 2021

Routine HIV Testing Offered to Incarcerated Persons Saves Millions

In collaboration with the CDC and Georgia DPH an Emory team of researchers, including the Epidemiology Department’s Anne Spaulding, MD, recently published a paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine which demonstrated that routine HIV testing of incarcerated individuals is cost-saving for society. 

Read more about the study’s findings here.

Cookies, Cocoa, and Hot Cider, December 7

Take a break from your study schedule to join the Epi Department for a cookie and cocoa/hot cider break next Tuesday, December 7 from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm on the 8^th floor balcony of CNR.

CDC Evaluation Fellowship Info Webinar, December 1, 2021

The CDC Evaluation Fellowship Program aims to expand the capacity of CDC programs to conduct evaluation and increase its usefulness and impact. The Fellowship signifies CDC’s dual commitment to making program evaluation a standard part of practice and to developing a cadre of professionals with the skills to make that happen.

The Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO) manages the Fellowship under the leadership of CDC’s Chief Evaluation Officer (Dan Kidder). Fellows are placed in host programs to work on program evaluation and related activities across the agency.  With the CDC Evaluation Fellowship, programs continuously improve their work with the appropriate resources, tools, and leadership.

The Fellowship is intended to be a two-year program, with the second year being contingent on satisfactory performance and availability of funds. The Fellowship started in 2011 with an initial class of five Fellows and has grown to about 20 Fellows per cohort.

Fellows are doctoral or master’s degree professionals with backgrounds in evaluation, behavioral and social sciences, public health, and other disciplines relevant to evaluation and CDC’s work. Successful applicants bring diverse experiences, having worked on several applied program evaluation projects in non-profit, governmental, and/or academic settings. Once at CDC, they take on a variety of projects in areas of program evaluation, evaluation capacity building, performance monitoring, and program design.

Applicants for the Fellowship go through an extensive selection process, including interviews with potential host programs. The process culminates in a match with a CDC host program based on mutual interest.

To learn more about the program click here.

An informational webinar about the fellowship will be held on December 1, 2021 from 12-1 PM EST. To register for the webinar click here.

HDGH Special Seminar: Using Rights‐Based Approaches to Health for Gender‐Based Violence Prevention & Response, Nov 23

Join the Hubert Department of Global Health for their special seminar by Dr. Dabney P. Evans on Tuesday, November 23 at 12 pm.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92160373754?pwd=aldYbVc0VVJnZFpzNXFyR0xmd3RtZz09

Dr. Dabney P. Evans is a Research Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University. Drawing on her interdisciplinary training in public health & law, Dr. Evans is a mixed-methods researcher focused on gender, health & human rights. Her global research portfolio includes projects on: intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic (US); the commercial sexual exploitation of children (US); & femicide prevention (Brazil). Dr. Evans has published over 50 peer reviewed journal articles & book chapters. She is a member of the Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence & the Maltreatment of Young People scientific advisory group.