Poster Competition, Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance

The Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) program of the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance is hosting a graduate student poster competition for the 2025 Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Conference.

Date: Wednesday, March 5 – Friday, March 7, 2025 at the Callaway Resort and Gardens

Contact: Stephanie Wright at stephanie [dot] nicole [dot] wright [at] emory [dot] edu

Advancing Health Equity in Maternal Health Symposium, Medical College of Georgia

The Medical College of Georgia Advancing Health Equity in Maternal Health Symposium is an inaugural educational, community-focused conference to be held on Saturday, March 15, 2025, at the J. Harold Harrison, MD Education Commons, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA from 8 AM to 3 PM. The conference is dedicated to addressing maternal health disparities, health equity efforts and community initiatives to improve maternal health outcomes in the CSRA, Georgia, and beyond. The Symposium will host several expert speaker sessions, including topics ranging from preeclampsia to public health approaches in maternal health, as well as community member booths, student poster presentations, networking, and more.

Interested students from undergraduate and graduate programs alike are invited to submit an abstract for poster presentation here.

Research Opportunity, Emory University School of Medicine Division of Colorectal Surgery

• Title: Financial costs of cancer survivorship among patients with anal cancer and underlying perianal Crohn’s disease
• Principal Investigator: Seth A Rosen, MD
• Department: Department of Colorectal Surgery
• Database: IBM MarketScan
• Objectives:
  • Compare the financial costs of anal cancer survivorship in patients with and without a history of perianal Crohn’s disease, including post-operative complications.
  • Identify demographic and clinical factors associated with high financial cost in anal cancer patients with history of perianal Crohn’s disease.

Team Science Fellows, Stanford Center for Asian Health Research (CARE) at the Stanford School of Medicine

The Team Science Fellowship is a one-year fellowship program designed for doctoral or masters students and post-doctoral researchers to train them to become leaders in team science. Team Science Fellows with backgrounds in biostatistics, computer science, qualitative science, and epidemiology, lead multiple research teams around data science for Asian health precision medicine, mentor Stanford CARE Scholars, interface with multidisciplinary faculty, and learn the “Science” of Team Science. Team Science Fellows support Stanford CARE Scholars teams in all aspects of their research projects and help get their work shared through publication in peer-reviewed journals and high-quality conferences. The Fellowship focuses on essential skills for team science leadership, including the management of multiple projects simultaneously, development of excellent interpersonal and scientific communication skills, and mentorship/teaching of junior researchers.

The Teaching Fellowship is a program designed for doctoral/masters students and post-doctoral researchers to learn how to become exemplary educators and coaches within a Team Science program. Specifically, Teaching Fellows will teach and coach within the Stanford CARE Scholars Program. Teaching Fellows will participate in a CARE Fellows curriculum, network with Stanford faculty, learn core teaching/mentorship skills, teach within the CARE Scholars curriculum, coach CARE Scholars on their research/presentations, and receive feedback on their teaching. This Fellowship prepares participants to become educational & research leaders in their field, in a team science setting.

The program is open to applicants of all backgrounds. Most of the work will be virtual, anchored by a 9 week immersion program over the summer.

Applications are due January 10th, 2025. For more information and application instructions, visit the program webpage.

Research Opportunity, Department of Colorectal Surgery at Emory Johns Creek Hospital

• Title: Financial costs of cancer survivorship among patients with anal cancer and underlying perianal Crohn’s disease
• Principal Investigator: Seth A Rosen, MD
• Department: Department of Colorectal Surgery
• Database: IBM MarketScan
• Objectives:
  • Compare the financial costs of anal cancer survivorship in patients with and without a history of perianal Crohn’s disease, including post-operative complications.
  • Identify demographic and clinical factors associated with high financial cost in anal cancer patients with history of perianal Crohn’s disease.

The team is looking for an MPH student interested in assisting with data handling and analysis. While the analysis itself is relatively straightforward, IBM MarketScan is an insurance claims-based data source that involves complex data handling before it can be analyzed. The selected student will receive authorship on any resulting publications.

If interested, students can reach out to Usama Waqar (uwaqar [at] emory [dot] edu).

Cancer Epidemiology Educations in Special Populations (CEESP) Program, CUNY School of Medicine

CEESP provides funding of up to $7,200 to conduct summer research in U.S. minority or global settings. MPH, PhD, DrPH, and other graduate public health students from all U.S. public health school programs are eligible to apply and compete for summer 2025. Practicum, summer internship, dissertation, and other types of research could be conducted through CEESP. 

Previous internships have been conducted in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Morocco, Vietnam, Kenya, Egypt, Tunisia, Zambia, Romania, Colombia, and the United States. 

CEESP is funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute. 

The application deadline for this opportunity is January 31st, 2025. For more information, please contact CEESP Director Dr. Amr Soliman (asoliman [at] med [dot] cuny [dot] edu) or visit the CEESP webpage for more information and application instructions. 

Summer 2025 Research Sciences Internship, Flatiron Health

Flatiron Health is looking for 2025 Summer Interns within Research Sciences to help us accomplish their mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

What You’ll Do

As an intern, you will work as a member of the epidemiology and biostatistics track within the Research Sciences (RS) department. Some of the work that RS produces includes:

• Real-world evidence studies to address critical research questions across clinical development, market access, and commercial use cases for our life sciences partners
• Validation analyses to characterize the quality of real-world datasets built using various curation approaches, including human review of patient charts and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)
• External scientific publications to advance the oncology real-world evidence field

Throughout the summer, you will:

• Spend 12 weeks embedded in the epidemiology/biostatistics track on the RS team with the Knowledge Management (KM) initiative, which is responsible for internally-facing technical resources that drive adoption of Flatiron Health methodology and best practices
• Develop an understanding of oncology real-world data (RWD) and methodologies used to generate real-world evidence and insights
• Whiteboard ideas with colleagues across RS and learn from cross-functional professionals (e.g., medical writers, regulatory strategists, health equity researchers)
• Under the guidance of an experienced RS mentor, execute and present on a project that supports the conduct of consistent, rigorous analyses of RWD, so that the RS team can deliver high-quality RWE solutions to clients

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. This role is based in Durham, NC.

Applications are due February 1st, 2025. For more information and application instructions, please visit the job posting on 12Twenty.

Spring Applied Practice Experience, Hubert Department of Global Health

Are you an Epi or GLEPI student looking for an APE? Want to use your quantitative analysis skills? Interested in intimate partner violence/homicide? If you answered yes to all these questions you may be interested in working with Dr. Dabney Evans (HDGH) on a Spring Applied Practice Experience. During this APE you will have the opportunity to conduct secondary quantitative analysis of data from the National Violent Death Reporting System. This secondary analysis will be descriptive in nature including bivariate analysis and some stratification. You will also have the opportunity to join as co-author on a publication using these data.  If interested, please send a cover letter and your CV to dabney [dot] evans [at] emory [dot] edu.