Weekly Newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina (PhD, MPH), an epidemiologist and data scientist, operates free weekly newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist along with a number of other public health professionals.

This newsletter aims to provide a direct line of “translated” public health science to the local, national, and international community. Over the past 4 years, YLE has covered COVID-19 topics ranging from variants to vaccines and booster rollouts, to exciting new developments like antivirals and context to some of our greatest unanswered questions.

YLE has also started to dip into other public health topics, like gun violence, reproductive health, other infectious diseases, and public health events. For more information about the mission and background of the newsletter, visit this link. To subscribe for the weekly rundown of new posts, enter your email address here. A substack of all posts from YLE is also available here.

Maternal Health Lecture, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Lagos, Centre for Clinical Trials, Research and Implementation Science (CCTRIS).

RSPH is hosting an informative Maternal Health Lecture from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Lagos, Centre for Clinical Trials, Research and Implementation Science (CCTRIS).

Speakers include CCTRIS Professor B.B. Afolabi (Director); Professor T.A. Adeyemo (Deputy Director, Clinical Trials), and Dr. M. Balogun (Deputy Director, Implementation Science).

The lecture will be on Friday September 27 from 12-1pm in RRR 800. Please RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maternal-health-lecture-by-the-university-of-lagos-tickets-1007827478117?aff=oddtdtcreato

VIRTUAL Fall 2024 Public Health Career and Networking Fair, Professional Advancement and Student Experience Center

The Office of Career Development hosts two annual Career Fairs where public health organizations network with talented and skilled Rollins students and alumni. The event provides an exciting atmosphere to learn about opportunities, hiring practices, desired skill sets, and future needs.

We are excited to offer our Fall Career Fair in a highly interactive, virtual format.

Visit 12Twenty to register for the virtual fair on Thursday, September 12th from 10 am – 2 pm EST.

The Faces of Addiction and Recovery Panel, Breakthru House and RSPH

The Rollins School of Public Health and Breakthru House are collaborating to host a panel about addiction and recovery for women in need. We will hear from women in recovery share their perspectives on the policies and services required to eradicate the stigma of addiction while ensuring effective treatment leading to recovery for women in need.

The event will be from 1:30 to 3:00 PM on Monday, September 16, 2024 at the Rollins School of Public Health–Grace Crum Rollins (GCR) Building in the Rita Anne Rollins Room 860. Light refreshments will be available. Please register for the event at this link.

The deadline to register for this event is Wednesday, September 11, 2024. If there are any questions, please email jagazma [at] emory [dot] edu or addictionrecoveryandhope [at] gmail [dot] com.

Starting Your Startup with Recha Reid (Skills Builder Workshop), The Hatchery

Join the Hatchery for a workshop centered on sparking creativity, problem-solving, and taking action. In this engaging hands-on session, you will learn: 

• A wide variety of state-of-the-art brainstorming techniques to generate new ideas and strategies 
• Critical-thinking skills for your side hustle, startup, research projects, classes, and jobs 
• How to apply creativity and problem-solving techniques to take action 

Recha Reid is the Associate Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute at Georgia State University. Recha is responsible for designing, overseeing, and marketing university-wide entrepreneurship events and activities while developing high-quality strategic partnership engagements and strengthening key relationships with the local, national, and global entrepreneurship community, industry partners, alums, and potential donors. Recha has led workshops and activities designed to help students develop successful companies and thrive within organizations. She specializes in coaching, teaching, presenting, marketing, and managing large-scale programs. 
 
Register here: https://bit.ly/f24discovery

Journal Club, Department of Epidemiology

The Epidemiology Journal Club invites students from all departments at RSPH to join for the first meeting on Monday, 9/9, 12PM-1PM in CNR3001! During the first meeting, attendees will engage with two concepts: critique and epistemology (how do we know what we know?). Throughout the semester, there will be bi-weekly meetings to cultivate a safe, interactive space for students to review epidemiologic literature and discuss key methodological and substantive concepts in public health. Meetings will be fun, informative, and intellectually engaging. All students are welcome!

Fall 2024 Workshops, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

Registration is open for the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship’s Fall 2024 workshops, which start September 11th!

This semester’s workshop series features a round-up of incredible presenters to give you research and pedagogy inspiration using digital scholarship tools. Workshops will be held on Wednesdays from 1-2pm via Zoom and will also be recorded and available afterward on our brand new ECDS Workshops site for Emory students, faculty, and staff: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds-workshops/. You can also go back and watch over 30 previous workshops on topics like manipulating and visualizing data using popular tools like R or Python, documentary and podcast tips, and many more.

For course descriptions and to RSVP for our Fall 2024 workshops, visit the ECDS calendar here. For questions about the workshops, email ecds [at] emory [dot] edu.

IN PERSON Fall 2024 Public Health Career and Networking Fair, Professional Advancement and Student Experience Center

The Professional Advancement and Student Experience (PASE) Center at Rollins SPH is hosting an in-person career and networking fair for public health careers. The event will run from 10am – 2pm on September 13th, 2024 in the RRR Plaza Lobby. 

Register to attend on 12Twenty by September 9th, 2024.

Graduate Community of Digital Scholars, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

The Graduate Community of Digital Scholars is a joint program of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative. The goal of GCDS is to offer a supportive and welcoming space for Emory graduate students to share and discuss works-in-progress which engage with the digital humanities, whether dissertation research, public humanities projects with digital components, grant applications for digital projects, or pedagogical materials using digital tools or technologies.

The format for AY 2024-25 is a works-in-progress workshop with monthly meetings over lunch. Participants are expected to attend consistently and to carefully review fellow participants’ pre-circulated materials prior to each session. Participants may share written material, digital prototypes, or a mixture of the two. Data tables or databases cannot themselves be the entire focus of a works-in-progress discussion. Applications for grants or other opportunities should contain a substantial and explicit focus on digital work.

Former GCDS participants are warmly encouraged to attend and to share their work, though presentation slots will prioritize students who have never shared work at GCDS before. The 2024-25 workshop will run from September to May. Registrations will close on September 13, 2024.

More information and registration: https://fchi.emory.edu/programs/gcds.html

For questions, please contact: Alexander Cors, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (acors [at] emory [dot] edu)

Infectious Disease Forecasting & Modeling Workgroup, CSTE

The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to invite you to attend the 2024 Annual CSTE-CDC Infectious Disease Forecasting & Modeling Workshop. The meeting will take place over 2.5 days from November 19-21, 2024 in Atlanta, GA at the Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta – Buckhead. The Workshop will start midday on November 19th and end by 5pm on November 21st.

Please secure your spot by REGISTERING HERE. There is no registration fee. Through this form, you will be able to confirm your registration for attendance and request travel sponsorship, if needed. All registrations and/or requests for travel sponsorship must be submitted by Friday, October 25, 2024. Please submit this form only once.

Tips & Tricks for sponsorship requests: We want to support your attendance! Please indicate if your attendance is contingent upon sponsorship. If you are sending multiple attendees from your jurisdiction, please indicate priority attendees; we will allocate remaining sponsorships as available after considering jurisdictional/institutional representation. If you have a deadline for receipt of sponsorship for your jurisdictional approval process, please indicate the date in your request and we will do our best to accommodate.