Africa Public Health Day Symposium, CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Organization of African Public Health Professionals (OAPHP) cordially invites Emory University faculty, staff, and students to attend the third Africa Public Health Day Symposium on Thursday, September 5, 2024, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm EDT. 

This year’s symposium centers on the ever-important theme: “Digital Health in Africa: Innovations for Sustainable Public Health Systems and Programs.” Experience this exciting hybrid event alongside your CDC colleagues and other public health professionals. Africa Public Health Day 2024 is co-sponsored by CDC’s Center for Global Health (CGH) and the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID). This event will include presentations and engaging discussions featuring champions in all aspects of African public health. 

We ask that you please register using this hyperlink via Zoom or the attached QR code. In-person attendance at CDC Roybal Campus Auditorium A-B19 (GCC) is available until Friday, August 23 and is contingent upon clearance. Indicate on the Zoom link whether you plan to attend virtually or in-person.

The event’s agenda overview is provided below:

Featured Speakers

Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and
Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

2024 CDC’s OAPHP African Public Health Day Agenda Overview

About OAPHP:

OAPHP’s mission is to contribute to CDC’s public health mission in Africa and promote a safe and diverse work environment that allows members to network and develop professionally. OAPHP is a collective of talented and resourceful public health professionals of African descent or with an interest in public health efforts in Africa.  

The OAPHP Africa Public Health Day symposium aims to: 

• Increase the awareness of CDC’s programs in Africa; 
• Heighten awareness of CDC’s efforts to strengthen disease surveillance, readiness, and workforce capabilities in Africa through science, policy, and effective partnerships; 
• Highlight CDC’s activities related to epidemic preparedness and readiness, workforce development, and capacity-building in Africa; and 
• Inspire opportunities for future engagement and partnership with other public-private partners supporting public health activities in Africa. 

Background 

As the United States’ health protection agency, CDC works 24/7 to save lives and protect people from health threats. CDC has also used its scientific expertise to help people throughout the world live healthier, safer, and longer lives. Africa has the largest CDC presence of any other continent globally.  Furthermore, CDC’s 2022-2027 Strategic Plan of Advancing Science & Health Equity has emphasized the core capabilities of ensuring a diverse public health workforce to address complex diseases while building on the foundation of strong global capacity and domestic preparedness. Recognition of the racial/ethnic, linguistic, geographic, and technical diversity present within the CDC workforce can be the keys to facilitating CDC’s public health work in Africa. Such recognition is relevant as the United Nations has also proclaimed 2015-2024 as the international decade for people of African descent, which includes promoting “knowledge and respect for the diverse heritage, culture, and contributions of people of African descent to the development of societies.” 

Please contact oaphp [at] cdc [dot] gov for more information or to share questions you may have for featured presenters ahead of the event. 

Information Session, Climate and Health Certificate Program

Tour Emory’s Innovation Center

Registration Open, CDC Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health 

August 1, 2024, 9:45 a.m.–5:30 p.m. ET 

Workshop Overview 

CDC’s Environmental Health (EH) Nexus is hosting its third annual environmental epidemiology methods workshop, “Innovative Methods for Analysis of Environmental Mixtures in Epidemiology,” on August 1, 2024. Subject matter experts will discuss innovative epidemiologic methods and how they can be applied to environmental health research and practice.   

Audience 

The workshop is designed for epidemiologists, statisticians, biostatisticians, and other environmental health professionals at state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) public health agencies and environmental health organizations.    

Presentations 

Overview of Issues in the Analysis of Mixtures 

Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, ScD 

Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health 

Weighted Quantile Sum Regression 

Chris Gennings, PhD 

Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

Kernel Machine Regression 

Jennifer Bobb, PhD 

Associate Biostatistics Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute 

Other Machine Learning Applications 

Vishal Midya, MStat, PhD 

Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

Moderator 

1. Dana Flanders, MD, DSc, MPH 

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health 

Format  

The workshop will be a hybrid event with lectures and an interactive roundtable discussion. In-person sessions will be held at the CDC Global Communications Center, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA. Remote participation will be available via Zoom.  

 Call for Abstracts 

As part of this year’s workshop, we are allowing time during the roundtable discussion for three or four short (10-minute) presentations about ongoing or planned epidemiologic projects that involve analyses of environmental mixtures. After briefly summarizing the project and potential issues, the presenter can ask the speaker panel for suggestions about methods of analyses, possible challenges, and other issues.    

For more information about how to submit an abstract, please visit Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health | EH Nexus | CDC.

Registration  

Remote participation: If you plan to attend the workshop remotely, please register online at https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_dItf3iIuR3G3SX34xK4Xow.

Registration is free. 

More information 

For more information, please visit Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health | EH Nexus | CDC or contact envepiworkshop [at] cdc [dot] gov. 

Workforce Wellness Recharge: Managing Systemic Stress

Overview:

This is an online, interactive session on June 11, 2024, from 12-1:30 pm ET. Participants will use Zoom to join with both video and audio. Please note: this workshop has limited capacity. If you are unable to enroll, the course might be full.

NOTE: Sessions will NOT be recorded in order to allow participants to fully participate and authentically share their experiences.

Monthly Workforce Wellness Recharge sessions are designed to help prevent and address burnout in the public health workforce by providing a safe online space for facilitated group learning, reflection, and support. This particular webinar series will focus on ways to improve wellness within the public health workforce while decreasing burnout. Participants will learn about holistic integration of their physical, mental, and spiritual well-being to improve engagement and presence in their daily work. The objective is to develop tools to manage daily stressors while providing high-quality service and addressing health equity deficits.    

Each session will use the same format but will offer new tools, resources, and discussions focused on the needs of the participants in the room. Attend one or all of these live-only sessions and let us know what you think! 

This month’s webinar will delve into effective strategies for managing the systemic stressorsthat can lead to burnout among public health workers. Participants will explore the impact of structural factors on individual well-being and organizational dynamics. Attendees will learn to implement proactive measures that foster collaboration, resilience, and workforce well-being. 

Session Learning Objectives: By the end of this month’s session, participants will be able to:

Lamarr Lewis, LAPC, is a dedicated public servant, mental wellness advocate, published author, and change agent. As a community-based practitioner, he has worked with such diverse groups as; individuals living with psychiatric disabilities, people in recovery, At-Hope (He does not use the term At-Risk) youth, and more. He tirelessly gives back to his community through homeless outreach initiatives, public speaking, mentoring, coaching, and finding ways to develop the next generation of leaders. He is an alumnus of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and received his master’s degree from Argosy University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. He is currently a mental health therapist, trainer, and consultant. His lifelong mission is to leave the world better than when he found it.

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

To learn more and register, click here.

Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research Workshop

Looking for cohort data collected from large, diverse, nationally-representative samples of Americans followed from high school through mid/late life that are ideal for studying the social and biological pathways through which education and other early life factors shape later life cognition and health? The Education Studies for Healthy Aging (EdSHARe) project has you covered and they are offering a workshop about the data prior to the Society of Epidemiological Research (SER) meetings!

• The SER EdSHARe workshop will be held on Tuesday, June 18th 1p – 5p CT in Austin, TX at the Austin Marriott Downtown
• Questions about EdSHARe, the pre-PAA workshop, or this scholarship?  Please email info [at] edshareproject [dot] org.

Webinar, Mental Health for the Public Health Professional

About this Training:

May 28, 2024: 10am

Co-sponsored event by the Southeast Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) and the Region IV Public Health Training Center (PHTC): For many public health professionals, the importance of understanding the foundational principles of mental health and acquiring skills to better support ourselves, our staff, and the communities is a pressing need. Through this interactive 2-hour Mental Health for the Public Health Professional training, participants will gain an understanding of the foundations of public mental health, identify mental health challenges from multiple public health perspectives, develop a process to strengthen personal as well as organizational mental wellness, and implement personal and organizational mental health strategies that can be helpful while in the office or out in the field.

Please note: **This interactive 2-hour training includes breakout rooms and group discussions. Participation during breakout rooms and/or group discussions is expected. *Space is limited for this training session. *Please email info [at] southeastmhttc [dot] org with questions or request for additional information.

Learning Objectives:

1) Describe principles of public mental health, including mental health, mental illness, prevention of mental illness, and promotion of mental health

2) Explain mental health issues from a public health perspective

3) Describe strategies for mental health self-care and burnout reduction in both individuals and organizations

4) Develop an individualized self-care plan to support personal mental health and model organizational wellness Identify mental health resources, strategies, and supports for public health professionals and the communities they serve

For more information and to register, please click here.

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If you are interested in reproductive, pediatric, or perinatal epidemiology, please consider joining the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research’s (SPER’s) Inaugural Virtual Meeting.  Two of the featured speakers are Emory PhD students and EPI alumni, Meredith Dixon and Amanda Dorsey, in addition to EPI faculty member Penny Howards as the president!

The full program is now available online https://sper.org/virtual-meeting/. There will be 3 contributed sessions featuring five talks each, a speed talk session featuring seven presentations, and a professional development session.

Meeting registration: Meeting registration is free – register today! Both SPER members and non-members are welcome to attend, but everyone must register for the virtual meeting.

Tuesday, April 16^th, 2024. A Zoom link will be sent to all those who register. 

Questions? Email Sue Bevan: sbevan [at] sper [dot] org​

TODAY! Engaging Pregnant People in Clinical and Translational Research, Webinar

Please join us for a webinar entitled “Engaging Pregnant People in Clinical and Translational Research: Challenges and Opportunities.” The speaker is Dr. Cathy Spong, Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The webinar will take place at noon on Monday April 8.

Participants can register here. 

Virtual Symposium, Charles C. Shepard Award