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Doers Wanted – We Have Enough Critics Seminar, 9/15

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Join the Department of Environmental Health this week for a special seminar by Dr. Enrique Schisterman! 

Seminar Description 

Dr. Schisterman is a Senior Investigator and Branch Chief of the Intramural Epidemiology Branch at NICHD and the Editor in Chief of the American Jornal of Epidemiology. He earned both his master’s degree in Statistics and his doctorate degree in Epidemiology from the State University of New York, Buffalo. Overall, his research focuses on the development of new methodologies motivated by environmental health data, and etiologically, he is interested in the evaluation of low-cost interventions to improve reproductive health.

Event Information

  • Tuesday, September 15 at 12:30 p.m
  • Check your Outlook inbox for the Zoom meeting information! 

 

CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program Webinar, 9/9

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Description

Join the Society for Epidemiologic Research for this overview of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program.

CSTE, in collaboration with CDC, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and the Health Resources and Services Administration, established the Applied Epidemiology Fellowship to train recent graduates in the expanding field of applied epidemiology. The goal: provide a high quality training experience and to secure long-term career placement for Fellows at the state or local level. Participating fellows receive two years of on-the-job training at a state or local health agency under the guidance of an experienced mentor.

The webinar, sponsored by the Society for Epidemiologic Research Membership and Nominations Committee, will feature Amanda Masters, MPH, CSTE deputy director of governance, strategy and support, and Robert C. Orellana, PhD, MPH, Senior Epidemiologist, CDC Foundation, and an SER member since 2007.

 

Webinar Details

  • Date and Time: Wednesday, September 9th, 12 – 1pm

 

How to Join

  • Click here to learn more and register for the webinar.

Rollins Takes Action: Race, Racism & Health Webinar, 9/11

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Event Description

Join us for the next installment of Rollins Takes Action 2020 on September 11th, 12:00 – 1:00pm EST to hear panelists from the Department of Epidemiology discuss Race, Racism and Health. 

See the attached flyer for more details!

How to Join

  • Click here to register for this webinar!
  • To submit questions for the panelists in advance, click here. 

 

RSPH Fall 2020 Public Health Virtual Career Fair, 9/11

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Description

The need for diverse, well-trained public health practitioners has never been greater. In our commitment to ensuring the availability of opportunities for our students, the RSPH Office of Career Development is excited to announce our Fall Virtual Career Fair.

A highly interactive experience, this fair facilitates interactions between employers and students through a variety of virtual modalities including voice calls and video chat rooms. In addition, employers are able to virtually screen candidates, receive electronic resumes, host walk-in hours and set one-on-one appointment times. The Career Development team will also be available to address any of your last-minute questions or concerns.

 

Event Details 

Friday, September 11th, 12:00 – 6:00pm EST

 

How to Join 

Click here to register and read tips about preparing for the virtual career fair on Handshake! 

 

Center for Global Safe Wash Open House, 9/8

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Please join our faculty, staff and partners to learn more about The Center for Global Safe WASH (CGSW)!

Presentations will include an overview of the CGSW, current faculty research projects, the WASH certificate program and upcoming GFE opportunities! You will also have an opportunity to virtually visit with our partner agencies in separate break-out rooms after the presentations.

 

About CGSW

The Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (CGSW) conducts applied research, evaluation, and training to promote global health equity through universal access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

 

Event Details 

  • Date: Tuesday September 8th, 2020
  • Time: 4 – 5:30PM

 

How to Attend

  • Click here to find the meeting information on the RSPH calendar of events.

2020 Public Health Ethics Forum, 9/11

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Description 

The National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity invite you to the 2020 Public Health Ethics Forum on September 11, 2020, from 1 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET via Zoom. This year’s theme is Ethical Dilemmas in Rural Health.

The goal of the 2020 Public Health Ethics Forum is to examine ethical considerations relating to place-based public health approaches in rural areas and populations.

CDC defines public health ethics as “a systematic process to clarify, prioritize, and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values and beliefs of stakeholders, and scientific and other information.”1 In order to ensure that public health practice is ethical, ethical theory and an ethical analysis process should guide it. A public health ethics lens ensures a uniquely expanded focus on population health opportunities and challenges.

The forum will feature a diverse group of speakers who will focus on ethical issues for improving health within rural populations as well as sessions covering:

  • Impact of COVID-19 on Rural America
  • Ethical Considerations Regarding the Barriers and Solutions to Accessing Health Care Services in Rural Areas and Populations
  • Physical Determinants of Rural Health: Addressing the Natural and Built Environments and Environmental Justice Communities
  • Working to Achieve Health Equity in Rural Communities

 

Event Information

  • When: Friday, September 11, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET
  • Where:This year’s forum will be hosted virtually. Registration is required.

 

How to Join 

Click here to register and learn more about the event!

Community-Based Opportunities Information Session, 9/10

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Description 

Join the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health and HERCULES on Thursday, September 10th at 12:15pm via Zoom for a jointly sponsored Info Session on Community Based Opportunities!

This session will focus on environmental health related community-based APE and ILE opportunities, general research opportunities and more. All students who are interested in community-based research and engagement are welcome to attend, regardless of departmental affiliation. Michael Burns, the CEO and Executive Director of the Community & College Partners Program (C2P2), will also be present to discuss C2P2’s mission and share ways to get involved. You can learn more about C2P2 in the attached document. 

 

How to Join

Check your Outlook emails for the Zoom link or, for more information, please contact:  Michael W. Burns, CEO/Executive Director, C2P2 at burnsmichaelwayne [at] gmail [dot] com. 

 

 

TADA Journal Club, 9/16

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Description 

Are you interested in learning how to study big data to end drug-related harms?

Join TADA’s “Journal Club Unplugged” to speak with authors about their papers analyzing big data on drug-related harms. The journal club is part of a planned component of a new certificate program, led by the TADA pre-doctoral training program. All events are virtual.

 

Schedule

  • September 16, 2020 from 12-1pm.
    • Hannah Cooper, ScD – “Analyzing Administrative Data to End Drug-Related Harms”
  • October 14, 2020 from 12-1pm.
    • Abeed Sarker, PhD – “Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Geolocation-Centric Monitoring and Characterization of Opioid-Related Social Media Chatter”
  • November 11, 2020 from 12-1pm.
    • Lance Waller, PhD – “Local risks and resilience: Geospatial analyses of drug-related harms”

 

How to Join

To RSVP use the QR code in the flyer below or contact Laura Donnelly at ldonnel [at] emory [dot] edu.

 

Chair’s Chat, 8/24

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Join us for the first Chair’s Chat of the semester on Monday, August 24th!

This month’s Chair’s Chat will be an informal dialogue and check-in session with Department Chair, Timothy Lash; Vice-chair, Jodie Guest; MPH DGS, Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist; PhD DGS, Shakira Suglia; and ADAPs, Noni Bourne and Farah Dharamshi.  

Check your email for the zoom invite and to submit questions in advance!

 

Now is Time to Modernize U.S. Public Health Surveillance Seminar, 8/26

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Seminar Description

Our world with no borders to pandemics requires that scientists work together forming bonds of collegiality and build bridges of mutual public health benefit, not walls of separation. The world is different now. It is misguided to think that the “hoarding” of data/information/messages/specimens is the right way to act because of paternalistic, economic, or political reasons. A better way forward is to focus global efforts to reverse the current presumption of controlled access in favor of open public health policies and practices that unambiguously support open access to public health surveillance (PHS) information. Moving to open public health (i.e., the open sharing of PHS data and confidentiality protected, indicator- based data, pathogen isolates, clinical specimens) is an important step toward modernizing PHS. We have both the responsibility and opportunity to modernize U.S. PHS after recent glaring failures. Evolved over the past 70 years as a siIoed, health outcome-specific component of public health practice, U.S. PHS is neither efficient nor effective. A new, proven, more-advanced PHS approach and model was recently presented to a Federal Policy Work Group advising Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions called Integrated Public Health Surveillance (IDSR). Conceived and piloted in 1998 in Tanzania, IDSR has been successfully implemented in all of Africa under the authority of WHO/Afro; plus Pakistan and India. Now is time to modernize U.S. PHS!

 

Speaker Bio

Scott JN McNabb, PhD, MS, Rollins School of Public Health Research Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health.

Before joining the U.S. CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and serving the 2- year EIS residency in New Orleans, LA, Dr. McNabb worked for the Oklahoma State Health Department. Most of his professional efforts have focused on serving those in underdeveloped, underserved global settings. Before retirement from CDC, he was Associate Director for Science; Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office; Office for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. Now Research Professor at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, he directs the King Abdullah Fellowship Program; and is PI of the exciting, new Africa CDC Institute for Workforce Development.

 

How to Watch 

Check your Outlook email for the Zoom link or click here to find the link on the Global Health Seminar Series Live website! 

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