Spring 2023 Course Offerings: BSHES Electives

BSHES 522: Principles of Curriculum & Instruction in Health Education

Fridays, 9-11:50am

Course Description: Introduces methods used by education practitioners in designing health interventions. Presents decision-making models for health education strategies selection for specific target populations. Explores techniques in group facilitation, mass communication, behavior modification, classroom instruction, and organizational development. Students begin and conduct activities for health promotion and education.

BSHES 557: Addressing Racism as a Public Health Issue to Promote Health Equity

Section 1: Tuesdays, 10-11:50am

Section 2: Wednesdays, 5-6:50pm

Course Description: This course provides an overview of racism as a driver of health inequities and interventions designed to dismantle racism to promote health equity. Racism causes harm at multiple ecological levels from the individual level (e.g., internalized racism) to the systemic level (e.g., oppressive and unjust policies & practices). This course will introduce students to how racism operates to create and maintain health inequities and proposed interventions (programs & policies) to promote health equity. 

Several Positions Available, WHO-sponsored systemic review of hygiene and hand washing

Who: PhD students (rotation for Spring ‘23), MPH students (REAL or non-REAL paid positions). Students with experience conducting reviews, with behavioral science background, laboratory science, policy experience, WASH background encouraged to apply. (Several positions available)

What: Support for WHO-sponsored systematic reviews of hygiene and handwashing

When: Please apply by Dec 7^th

How: email CV and short paragraph highlight key experience and interests to Bethany Caruso (bcaruso [at] emory [dot] edu) with the subject line: Student Support: WHO Systematic Review

Investigators: Bethany Caruso (HDGH, MPI), Marlene Wolfe (GDEH-MPI), Matthew Freeman (GDEH)

Details: Emory investigators have been engaged by the WHO to conduct a series of systematic reviews on effective hand hygiene in community settings. These reviews – to be completed in 2023 – will be used to support the forthcoming global guidelines (like the guideline developed for sanitation, found here). The purpose of the reviews is to synthesize and evaluate evidence related to the following questions: 

1. What constitutes effective hand hygiene;
2. What are the minimum requirements for its practice in community settings;
3. What behaviour change approaches are conducive to the sustained adoption of effective hand hygiene practice in community settings;
4. What government measures can support sustained practice of effective hand hygiene in community settings.

Students will work on a team in Spring 2023 to support search, data retrieval, data abstraction, report generation, and peer-review manuscript preparation. Students who contribute sufficiently will be authors on resulting manuscripts. For MPH students, there is an opportunity for some of the positions to extend to summer 2023 and could be used for APE.

Long COVID Clinical Research Coordinator, Human Experience and Ambulatory Technologies Lab

The Human Experience and Ambulatory Technologies (HEAT) Lab is hiring a half-time (20 hrs/week) Clinical Research Coordinator for a newly funded project focused on understanding how wearable technologies (e.g., smartwatches) can support patients who have Long COVID. The coordinator will provide project oversight, supervise undergraduate research assistants who are working on the project, and will also contribute directly to research activities such as conducting qualitative interviews with healthcare providers. Opportunities to work on other lab projects, co-author publications, present research at conferences, and receive training in ambulatory assessment research are available dependent on interest. This is an ideal position for a recent graduate seeking additional research experience and training before graduate or medical school. This is a mentored research position, and training tailored to individual professional goals (e.g., mentorship for graduate or medical school applications, support in networking with faculty in your areas of interest) is available.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in any health-related discipline (Dec 2022 graduation OK), prior research lab experience, interest in wearable and ambulatory assessment technologies.

Preferred Qualifications: At least 1 year of prior lab experience. Prior experience with any of the following are a bonus but not required: Qualtrics, qualitative interviews, systematic review. 

Other details: This position is a one-year, 20 hr/week commitment. Work hours and location are flexible. Although some on-site activities at Emory will be required each week, this can be a hybrid office/telework position if desired.

About the HEAT Lab: The Human Experience and Ambulatory Technologies (HEAT) lab is new lab in the Emory School of Medicine (SOM) dedicated to researching the impacts of wearable assessment technologies on science, mental and physical health, and healthcare. We collaborate closely with many research groups across campus, including Emory Spiritual Health and the Winship Cancer Institute. The HEAT lab is directed by Deanna Kaplan, PhD, a clinical health psychologist and Assistant Professor in Family and Preventive Medicine. 

How to apply: Send a resume and letter of interest to Deanna Kaplan at: deanna [dot] m [dot] kaplan [at] emory [dot] edu. If selected for an interview you will be asked to provide 2 professional (not personal) references. 

Review of applications is rolling and begins immediately. Training and onboarding for the position will begin in December. 

Epidemiology Department COVID-19 & Emerging IDs Journal Club: 2022-2023 Leadership Application

Open to first year MPH/MSPH students

Responsibilities include: 

• Facilitating meetings by introducing presenters, giving announcements, and engaging in discussion​
• Managing logistics including creating Zoom calendar events and maintaining Canvas page
• Communicating with Rollins community (e-mails, Listserv management, GroupMe, etc.)​, ADAPs, and faculty advisors (Dr. Guest & Dr. Spaulding)​
• Recruiting presenters

Application timeline:

Apply now via this link: https://forms.office.com/r/VfSGwbzxnX

Deadline: Friday 11/25 at 11:59 pm

Hear back Monday, 11/28

Help facilitate your first meeting Monday, 12/5!

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns:​

Lauren Miller, lauren [dot] miller [at] emory [dot] edu​

Louis Li, louis [dot] li [at] emory [dot] edu 

Graduate Student TA Opportunities

Emory College of Arts and Sciences has openings for masters students to serve as TAs for Spring 2023 undergraduate courses in Environmental Sciences, Linguistics, Psychology, Quantitative Theory and Methods, Religion, and Sociology.

Candidates must be enrolled in a masters program at Emory and available for a half-day training session on January 9, 2023, noon – 5 PM. TAs will be paid a $2000 stipend, based on approximately 10 hours of work per week over 15 weeks.

TAs may be required to attend class, grade student work, and participate in classroom and administrative activities. Details about each course are provided in the application.

Application links and instructions are included in the attachmenta here. Please apply by November 22, 2022.

Contact carlee [dot] beard [at] emory [dot] edu with questions about the application.

RISE Fellowship, Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases

The Dr. James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases RISE Fellowship includes 6-month (part-time and full time) public health research fellowships funded by the CDC for medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinarian, and graduate students in public health and social sciences. Graduate students are sponsored to present their research at a national research meeting. Application site is OPEN. Applications for the 6-month Ferguson RISE Fellowship are due on or before November 28, 2022.  Learn more – Visit https://www.kennedykrieger.org/training/programs/center-for-diversity-in-public-health-leadership-training/ferguson-rise

The 6-month fellowship begins on Saturday, February 4, 2023 with a mandatory virtual orientation and concludes Thursday, August 3, 2023. Consider the RISE fellowship for APE, thesis, and/or a brief post-graduate experience. Of note, international students are unfortunately not eligible for this opportunity.

New 6-month Ferguson RISE Fellowship begins February 2023. Applications for the 6-month Ferguson RISE Fellowship are DUE on or before MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2022! 

Remaining program applications are due on or before Monday, January 31, 2023.

Feel free to reach out to Sophia Hussen (shussen [at] emory [dot] edu) or Prudence Goss (prudence [dot] goss [at] emory [dot] edu) with any questions about this opportunity.

Spring Course Offering – EH 515: Air Quality in the Urban Environment

Are you interested in research that addresses air pollution exposure, assessment and modeling, and quantifying the health effects of air pollution? Consider signing up for EH 515: Air Quality in the Urban Environment taught by Dr. Donghai Liang. The class will meet in person on Tuesdays from 10am to noon. Spring registration is open through Nov. 9. For more information, contact Songhai Liang at donghai [dot] liang [at] emory [dot] edu. 

Temporary Staff Positions, Fulton County Board of Public Health

Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) located in downtown Atlanta is hiring two (2) temporary staff to assist with a study examining the comparative effectiveness of clinician-assisted vs. self-administered lesion swabbing for Monkeypox.

Pay: $20/hour, 20 hours per week, for 26 weeks starting October 2022.

This is an in-person opportunity to work with staff from FCBOH’s community and preventive health services division at the FCBOH sexual health clinic. The clinic is located at 10 Park Place SE, Atlanta, GA 30303.

Job duties:

1. Speaking to clinic patients, informing them of the study opportunity, screening for eligibility, and administering informed consent
2. Preparing any paperwork, including order forms, for shipping the specimens
3. Labeling specimen tubes with patient name, date, location of lesion swabbed, and time of collection.
4. Assist clinician with matching specimen with completed forms for bagging.
5. Ensuring proper storage of the closed bags of specimens prior to shipping to CDC.

For those interested or have questions, please contact HR manager Elanda Trice at FCBOH by email (elanda [dot] trice [at] fultoncountyga [dot] gov) or phone (770-828-9928 [office] or 404-612-1153 [cell]).

Tutor Positions Available, Academic Resource Center

Academic Resource Center is looking for short-term tutors available to develop and present review topics in advance of midterms and finals for BIOS 500 and EPI 530.  Doctoral Students and 2^nd year MPH/MSPH students are eligible to apply.

BIOS concepts for review include:

• • Conditional probabilities and Bayes Rule
  • Probability calculations using the binomial and normal distributions
  • Sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

EPI concepts for review may be forthcoming and/or not needed until the finals period.

Tutors would have access to syllabi and ARC would coordinate communication with instructors should there be questions.  The goal would be to develop slides for presentation next week offering in person and/or zoom review sessions.

We anticipate the total time commitment per tutor to be less than 20 hours at midterm and finals and this is based on how much time it takes to put slides together. PhD students will be paid at the student work rate of $20/hour. MPH students are paid at the student work rate of $15/hour.

If you are interested, please email rspharc [at] emory [dot] edu.