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The Hatchery Skills Builder Workshops

Category : News/Events

The Anatomy of Experience
When: Tuesday, September 26, 5:30-8:30 pm (Dinner included) at The Hatchery
When you attend this workshop, you will:  

  • Gain understanding of why leading with experience-design benefits long-term growth. 
  • Learn to apply experience-based theory to business.
  • Take away a practical toolkit for use. 

Learn the art of experience from Robyn Duda, an award-winning event strategist, experience designer, and thought leader who has created customer and employee-centric strategies for Coca-Cola, Spotify, Visa, and IBM. 

Click here to register!

Resilience for Innovators with Brendan Ozawa-de Silva

When: Wednesday, October 4, 5:30-8:30 pm (Dinner included) at The Hatchery
Develop the resilience you need to persevere in your innovative work

When you attend this workshop, you will:

  • Participate in an experiential introduction to the neurophysiology of resilience
  • Learn how to incorporate practical body-based tools for resilience and well-being into your everyday life and work
  • Creatively explore the potential of innovation to contribute to interpersonal, social, and cultural resilience

Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, PhD, is an Associate Teaching Professor at the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory. His research focuses on the scientific study of compassion, empathy and other prosocial emotions and their cultivation in educational, carceral, and other settings.

To register: https://bit.ly/f23resilience


PhD Application Bootcamp 2023

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Hosted by the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health and Environmental Sciences PhD program.

Applying to graduate school can be equal parts exciting and stressful. Our goal with a PhD application bootcamp is to take some of the mystery and anxiety out of the process, so that students can focus on developing their strongest graduate application.

The PhD Application Bootcamp is designed to help students complete each part of the application process, starting with deciding which PhD program is right for them, assisting with development of their personal statement and resume, as well as fine-tuning their interview skills. Students will also explore the expectations of a PhD and consider the diversity of career options for PhD graduates.

Session I: Is a PhD right for me? When: September 20; 6:00p Where: Virtual (Zoom)

Session II: Navigating a PhD When: October 12; 6:00p Where: Virtual (Zoom)

Session III: Writing your personal statement, resume, letters of recommendation
When: October 26, 6:00p Where: In-Person (TBD)

Session IV: Broadening the career path in PhD training
When: November 16; 6:00p
Where: Virtual (Zoom)

Session V: Next steps, whether you received an interview, or not When: January 10; 6:00p
Where: Virtual (Zoom) *Opportunity to schedule a mock interview with Dr. Caudle

Session VI: Deciding on a program When: March 13; 6:00p
Where: Virtual (Zoom)

To register for the workshop, please email Dr. Mike Caudle (wcaudle@emory .edu)


Maternal and Child Health Policy Workshop

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September 22nd, 2023 10:30am – 5:00pm

Presented by HMHBGA and Georgia Watch

Georgia Watch and HMHBGA are partnering to provide this all day workshop to students with an academic focus on maternal and child health in Georgia. We hope to empower students to be more engaged with policy solutions to solve the ongoing maternal mortality crisis in the state. We aim to bring students from different backgrounds together with community organizations and policy experts to address maternal and child health disparities.

This event is informed by Georgia Watch’s Civic Advocacy Training and HMHBGA Maternal and Infant health expertise. We are thrilled to partner with Morehouse School of Medicine – Center for Maternal Health Equity and Emory Rollins School of Public Health – Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence to bring this to students in our state.

For more information — including a detailed itinerary — and to register, please click here.


Fellowship with Fellows

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Hear from Health and Policy Management Alumni about their journey to kick starting their Public Health Careers with Fellowships

Interested in becoming a C-Suite level Healthcare Executive?

An Administrative Fellowship is the perfect way to start.

Attend this Virtual Lunch and Learn to hear from recent Emory Alumni about their path to becoming the next generation’s top healthcare leaders. Hear from current Administrative Fellows and Healthcare Consultants on how to land a fellowship, leverage your MPH degree, and harness relationships to be successful in this lucrative industry.

Alumni Panelists

  • Dana Harvey: Administrative Fellow | UPMC Health Services Division |Health Policy Management, 2022|
  • Phyllis Elliott: Administrative Fellow | Atrium Health WakeForest Baptist | Health Policy Management, 2022
  • Tumi Akin-Sodipo: Administrative Fellow | Massachusetts General Hospital | Health Policy Management, 2022
  • Marcus Strickland: Administrative Fellow | Duke University Health System | Health Policy Management, 2022

Date: Thursday, August 31st Time: 12 Noon
Location: Virtual

For more information and to register, click here.


BSHES X EPI: Game Night

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There will be a game night hosted by RSGA on September 13 in RRR_R800 from 5 to 7pm. This will be a chance to connect and socialize with students from the BSHES department as they go head to head in a series of board games. For more information and to RVSP, please click here


Open House, Office of Career Development

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Office of Career Development’s Open House

Explore the world of resources that the office has to offer

On Wednesday, August 23rd, the Office of Career Development will be hosting an Open House.

Career development is a lifelong process. Are you leveraging the resources available to achieve your short- and long-term career goals? Whether you’re considering a career change, seeking help with earning promotions, negotiating salaries, or developing job keeping skills, the Office of Career Development (OCD) has the tools and resources to support you.

We invite you to visit us at the Open House where we will explore the world of services we offer to students and learn how we can support, guide, and empower you in every step of the career development process, from initial planning to achieving lifelong career satisfaction.

Light Refreshments will be served!


New Student Survival Workshop

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There will be a New Student Survival Workshop (Virtual) on Saturday, August 12 from 11am to 1pm. 

Interested in how to prep for your public health courses? Would you like an introduction to Excel, SAS, R, Python and Power BI to prepare you for your upcoming class? Attend this workshop with Camila Boynton, Alumna and Public Health Scientist at the CDC. She will also provide tips on how to self study and ways to leverage your skillset on your resume.

Second-year students can also attend.

To learn more and register, click here.


Call for Abstract Submissions, Advancing the Science on Environment, Climate, and Cancer: Challenges and Future Research

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Advancing the Science on Environment, Climate, and Cancer: Challenges and Future Research” is now accepting abstract submissions for the Early Career Satellite Session, co-organized by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Capacity Building and Education Committee and ISGlobal.

This satellite session will take place on October 27th (8 am-1 pm EST) and is free, virtual, and will spotlight early-career researchers in the fields of epidemiology, environment, climate, and cancer risk. This is an excellent opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and other early-career scientists in any sector (industry, non-profit, government) to share their work in front of a diverse audience!

The deadline to submit an abstract is September 15th. We are hoping to accept 12-15 abstracts for virtual oral presentations. Please find the program scope and abstract details here. To submit an abstract, email your submission as a Word document or PDF attachment to Mar Ferrer (mar [dot] ferrer [at] isglobal [dot] org) with the subject “ECC Early Career Abstract” by September 15th.

If you have questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact Cassie Clark (cassie [dot] clark [at] yale [dot] edu) or Dr. Hari Iyer (hi97 [at] cinj [dot] rutgers [dot] edu). We look forward to receiving your submissions!


ISSS Pizza & Popsicles Speed Friending Event

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ISSS (International Student & Scholar Services) invites international students, scholars, and their families to their summer social: ISSS Pizza & Popsicles Speed Friending Event. 

Come enjoy free pizza and popsicles while making new friends on July 31 from 4-6pm at Glenn Memorial Church – Emory University. 


Qual Works: Qualitative Research Workshops

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QUAL-WORKS offers a series of training workshops on qualitative research. We offer three types of workshops: scheduled workshops, individual mentored sessions, and customized workshops. Scheduled workshops are held twice a year during summer. Mentored sessions provide individual mentoring with a QUAL-WORKS expert on your own research project. Customized workshops can be developed to meet the training needs of your organization. To learn more and register, please click here


Upcoming Events

  • Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar November 21, 2024 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Seminar Series Event Type: Seminar SeriesSpeaker: George Tseng, PhDContact Name: Mary AbosiContact Email: mabosi@emory.eduRoom Location: CNR PLAZA - Rollins AuditoriumTitle: Multi-faceted and outcome-guided cluster analysis for disease subtyping of omics data

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