Children’s Environmental Health: More Than Smoke and Mold, 6/13

Training Description
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 1 in 4 child deaths could be prevented by cleaning up the environment. Because of their developing bodies and minds, children can be at greater risk of harm to environmental toxicants than adults. This broadcast will provide information on common sources of environmental hazards in the air, water, and even in our homes and schools. Viewers will learn how to offer evidence-based, practical advice to families, schools, and communities to promote a healthy environment.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Describe the unique vulnerabilities of early life to environmental exposures and threats, and how these can predispose the child to later life disease.
Describe the top environmental health issues relevant to children, and children and families at greatest risk.
Identify actionable environmental health messages to use in clinical practice.
Identify resources to support healthy environments where clinicians provide care for children and families.
Identify resources to support healthy environments where children live, learn, and play.

To register, click HERE.

Vaccine Preventable Disease Outbreaks and Challenges in Vaccination, 6/3

Training Description
This webinar will describe recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, explore trends in national vaccination rates, and discuss challenges in vaccination. The webinar also describes findings from CDC audience research, tips for communicating with parents, and CDC resources for healthcare professional education and parent education.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Describe a recent vaccine-preventable disease outbreak.
Summarize common questions that parents ask about vaccines.
Identify immunization communication resources for healthcare professionals and parents

To register, click HERE.

Communicating Research through Visual Abstracts, 5/30

The Office of Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance is hosting Dr. Joel Topf to do a free webinar on the basics of putting together a visual abstract to summarize your research. For those of you who aren’t familiar, a visual abstract is a graphic image and representation of key findings from your study. They can be a really helpful tool for disseminating your research to broad audiences who may not be able to read your entire manuscript or study.

We hope you can join the webinar! This would be a great webinar for current graduate students, researchers, academics, and anyone else who wants to disseminate good research!

See below for more information:

Date: Thursday May 30th

Time: 2pm EST

Registration: Click HERE.

Class of 2019 Epidemiology Open House, 5/13

On behalf of Dr. Timothy L. Lash, Dr. Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist, Jena Black, and Nicole Regan, you’re invited to the Class of 2019 Epidemiology Open House on 5/13. Please RSVP if you plan to stop by no later than 5pm on Wednesday, May 8th by clicking the below image.

Graduates and their guests are invited to stop by the Epidemiology Department for refreshments and mingling with faculty. The open house will be held from 1 pm to 2:30 pm on May 13, 2019.

Epi Grand Rounds, 5/10

The Epi Grand Rounds lecture will be held Friday, May 10th from 12-1pm. Dr. Robert Platt will present on “Controlling confounding in pharmocepidemiology: is machine learning the answer?”.

Webinar, Scaling Up PrEP Care to End the HIV Epidemic 5/6

To register, click HERE.

Training Description
The federal government is launching an initiative to end the HIV epidemic by 1) increasing the number of US Americans who know their current HIV status, 2) increasing the number of US Americans with HIV infection who are effectively treated and have sustained viral suppression, and 3) rapid expansion and reduced racial/ethnic disparities in PrEP provision to the estimated 1.2 million US American with sexual and injection behaviors that place them as substantial risk of HIV acquisition. This webinar will discuss what PrEP is, indicators for its use and how health departments can support its expansion and effective use.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Describe PrEP care including protocols
Identify PrEP resources
List the indicators for PrEP prescription
Discuss how health departments can support and monitor PrEP use for focus populations

EPI/GLEPI Thesis Poster Presentations, 4/30-5/2

The EPI/GLEPI thesis poster presentations will take place Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 12-1pm on the CNR bridge.

IT access after graduation, Rollins Help Desk

If you are a SPRING graduate of RSPH, your RSPH access will be removed on May 31, 2019.

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Dear Emory Graduates,

Congratulations on your graduation! As you leave Emory, you will also lose access to your Emory resources. Here is some useful information on when your access to Emory resources will run out and some steps to make your transition as smooth as possible:

You will lose access to ALL RSPH resources on May 31, 2019.
Emory resources, such as your email, Office 365 Apps and E-Journals you will lose access after 90 days from graduation.
Make sure you save a copy of any files off of the various network drives you currently have access to (e.g., H drive) that you want to keep. Research project files may not be copied/saved from the network drive without consent. Your H drive will be deleted on June 1, 2019, and will not be able to be restored. Please make sure all files for any research project are stored in the appropriate T or S drive location.
Emails cannot automatically be forwarded from your Emory email account to a different email account due to security reasons. If you have emails that you wish to have after access is cut off, please begin manually sending them to another email address that you have.
If you have any contacts that currently email you at your Emory address, please notify them that you will no longer have access after 90 days to the Emory email account and provide them with an alternate address to contact you with. Also be sure to copy down contacts that you need from your Emory email account.
You can set up a permanent Emory alumni address, but this is not connected to your current Emory account. It acts as an Emory email address that will forward to an email address of your choice, such as your Gmail account. You can register on the Emory Alumni site as this web address: HERE.

Once registered you will be able to sign up for a permanent alumni Emory email address. One note of advice if you try to create your alumni email account and get the following error… “…cannot find your record…”. Then please follow the link on the alumni site that says “Complete this request form”. This link appears under the message “Can’t find your record?” and will help you move forward.
Please also take a minute to update your contact information HERE to begin taking advantage of the alumni benefits and services available to you!
If you will continue to work on a project after May 31 or are taking a position within RSPH, please make sure your supervisor contacts the RSPH Help Desk by May 20th with what access you will need to avoid interruption in your access. They must include your netid and specify the access you need, not just that you need access.

If you have any computer issues, please email them to help [at] sph [dot] emory [dot] edu.