GH 512 TA

JOB DESCRIPTION: Assists faculty with course preparation, preparing teaching or teaching-related duties. May grade or assist with grading exams, projects, or papers; may proctor exams. Maintains all supplies needed for classes. Meets with students to discuss course related issues related to the class, as specified by the instructor. Maintains records for classes, such as grades, student concerns, and attendance. Performs other related duties as required. 

JOB DESCRIPTION: TA for Course GH 512

Duties of the position will include, but are not limited to:

• Planning for course administration
• Managing the course Canvas site
• Class attendance
• Writing exams/quizzes/homework assignments
• Grading
• Holding office hours/review sessions
• May participate in class lectures

Preferred: Enrolled in the CHE certificate program, course and/or fieldwork related to complex humanitarian emergencies.

Employment period: December 1, 2021-Jan 14, 2022

Please send a cover letter and your resume to agreiner [at] cdc [dot] gov.

Grady Food as Medicine Practicum

In 2017, Grady formed the Food as Medicine (FAM) Partnership with the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Open Hand Atlanta to address food access and chronic disease among Grady patients, employees and the greater community. Through this partnership, Grady has established interventions including produce distributions, SNAP assistance, and home-delivered meals, and opened Jesse Hill Market at Grady Hospital featuring a Food Pharmacy, Teaching Kitchen, and Cafe. Grady is looking for 2-3 students to assist with implementation and evaluation of FAM programs, including Fresh Food Carts serving three neighborhood clinics, JHM Food Pharmacy, cooking classes, and employee wellness efforts.

Responsibilities
Practicum students will work with Grady’s Community Benefit Manager, the Food as Medicine team, and our Registered Dietitians. The primary responsibilities of practicum students will include:
 Support JHM Food Pharmacy and Fresh Food Cart operations including planning, food packing and distribution to patients, evaluation and sustainability
 Assist with patient and employee cooking classes and food demos in the Teaching Kitchen
 Lead FAM volunteer recruitment, training, and tracking
 Support program evaluation efforts including data collection, entry, analysis, and presentation of findings
 Continue development of employee engagement opportunities related to FAM
 Assist with required FAM reporting for research and philanthropic grants
*Attendance at Fresh Food Carts at Grady clinics 2x per month is required. Addresses are located here.
 Asa Yancey: 1st Wednesday of the month at 8am-2pm
 Brookhaven: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 8am-3pm
 Ponce Center: 3rd Wednesday at 8am-2pm

Timeline
The practicum may take place over one or two semesters starting January 2022 and students must work a minimum of 10 hours/week.

Grady Health System Requirements
Students must complete a background check, drug screening, and health clearance through the ACEMAPP platform at their own expense (estimated cost is $100-150). Students must adhere to all Grady COVID precautions including vaccination, universal masking, and social distancing.

How to Apply
For more information or to apply, contact Katie Mooney, Sr. Manager of Population Health and Community Benefit, at klmooney [at] gmh [dot] edu or 678-296-2282. Applicants should send their resume and a brief explanation of interest by Friday, November 12, 2021.

New INFO 521 Course in Spring 2022

INSTRUCTOR NAME: Ramesh Manyam
INSTRUCTOR CONTACT INFORMATION
EMAIL: ramesh [dot] manyam [at] emory [dot] edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this course, you’ll learn about the basic structure of relational databases and how to read and write simple and complex SQL statements and advanced data manipulation techniques. By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid working knowledge of structured query language. You’ll feel confident in your ability to write SQL queries to create tables; retrieve data from single or multiple tables; delete, insert, and update data in a database; and gather significant statistics from data stored in a database. This course will teach key concepts of Structured Query Language (SQL), and gain a solid working knowledge of this powerful and universal database programming language. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the language of relational databases: Structured Query Language (SQL). Topics covered include: Entity-Relationship modeling, the Relational Model, the SQL language: data retrieval statements, data manipulation and data definition statements. Homework will be done using databases running in MySQL which students install on their machines and proc SQL in SAS. Students develop a real-world database project using MySQL during the course. Prerequisite: SAS proficiency (BIOS 500 or equivalent)

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Learn structured query language (SQL) to an intermediate/advanced level.
• Be able to write data retrieval queries and evaluate the result set.
• Be able to write SQL statements that edit existing data.
• Be able to write SQL statements that create database objects.
• Understand the structure and design of relational databases.
• Understand the importance and major issues of database security and the maintenance of data integrity.

INFO Concentration COMPETENCIES:
■ Develop public health information systems to support public health efforts
■ Assist in the development and adoption of information technology in public health
■ Identify software for the interface of data entry and statistical analysis
■ Apply standard statistical methods in the analysis of public health information

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INFO 521 – Manyam

Sleep Epidemiology Research Assistant

Position: Research Assistant in Epidemiology

PI: Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MSW, MS

Sleep Epidemiology Research Group (SERG): SERG is aimed at understanding the root causes of sleep health disparities and their impact on cardiovascular disease. More specifically, our research further explicates the social contributors to racial/ethnic and gender disparities in sleep by quantifying the contribution of social, household-level and neighborhood-level factors with objective and well-validated subjective measures of insufficient sleep using data from epidemiologic cohorts. Our current research aims to understand the determinants of insufficient sleep and sleep disorders as well as the subsequent influence on blood pressure among African Americans. This research integrates social, environmental and sleep epidemiology.

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):

Assist in all research-related tasks of the Emory Sleep Epidemiology Group including, but not limited to, administer questionnaires, data entry, quantitative and qualitative analyses, literature reviews and manuscript preparation.

This position may involve delivering research equipment to participant homes (using social distancing) in Atlanta, therefore, availability during evenings and weekends as well as transportation is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Masters Student or Doctoral student

· Quantitative analyses experience-experience with SAS and R

· Familiarity with survey data

· Focus group transcription

· Strong verbal and writing skills (writing samples may be requested)

· Experience with literature reviews

· Strong interest in health disparities

· Experience working with health disparity populations

· Experience with GIS or spatial analyses preferred but not required

· Detail-oriented

· Excellent organizational skills and proactive approach

Hours: Approximately 10-20 hours per week

Please contact Dayna Johnson at dayna [dot] johnson [at] emory [dot] edu with any questions relevant to this position.

Call for Papers of COVID-19 and Student Publishing Opportunity

Outstanding APE Award Call for Abstracts

The Office of Career Development is pleased to host our 16th annual Outstanding APE Award recognizing RSPH students who best demonstrate excellence in practice-based public health practicums with goals to improve the quality of health for people & communities, to deliver quality public health services, or to develop policies that improve public health infrastructure. Finalists will be notified by mid-December and winners announced at the Public Health in Action Celebration (PHIA) Spring 2022.

Qualification:
RSPH students who have completed/are completing a public health APE between June 2021 and October 2021

Abstract Requirements:
Format: Word document; Times New Roman; 12 pt. font; single space; 0.75’ margins
Page Count: 2 pages max
Header: Project Name; Applicant Name, Department, Expected Graduation Date & E-mail Address
Section Headings and Descriptions: (All sections listed below are REQUIRED!)

• Background – Provide background information supporting the purpose of your project. Include the target population your practicum impacted, location of the target population and the public health issue(s). Provide references and citations.
• Project Goal(s) – Provide a summary or list of goals that your assigned tasks supported in addressing the public health problem(s).
• Action Plan – Provide a summary of all the tasks you were assigned to complete for the project relative to the project goals.
• Time Period of Implementation – Include the overall start and end date for your assigned tasks.
• Project Impact & Accomplishments – Summarize the impact your work had on the target population. Explain the successes that directly resulted from your involvement on the project.
• Professional Skills Applied & Learned – Summarize skills gained in your first year from coursework that you were able to apply. Also, explain skills you learned as a result of working on the project that you previously didn’t have experience.
• Acknowledgements – Thank your project/practicum supervisor, host/funding organization, faculty and any other people/organizations that provided support for the project.
• References – Use APA format for all references and citations used.

Abstract Submission & Deadline:
Saturday October 30th, 5:00pm
Apply via 12Twenty Search in job postings: Outstanding APE Award
Late or incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Finalists selected are REQUIRED to:

• Create a poster
•  Present your poster during Spring 2022
• Attend PHIA in Spring 2022

Grady Healthy Living Volunteer Opportunity for 2nd Years

Background on the project: The Grady Healthy Living student-run organization at Emory SOM has maintained updated resource guides for the city of Atlanta since 2016. The most recent resource guides were published in 2018, and included one version organized by resource category, and one version organized by neighborhood/zipcode. These resource guides, which were initially created for use in the primary care pods at Grady, have now been circulated to the greater Grady hospital system through online pdf access. They allow clinicians and care providers to share updated information on resources address patients’ social determinants of health needs in real time. In order for these resource guides to be useful to our patients, we need to ensure that the information they contain is up to date and organized, especially since many of these organizations have changed/closed since Covid.

Student responsibilities: We are looking for two types of volunteers to assist with this project. 

1. We would like to first identify a volunteer or two who would be willing to spearhead the project, think about how the spreadsheet of resources needs to be organized, how the columns should be labeled, how to make the inputs of the spreadsheet uniform and searchable, etc. 
2. We would like to have a larger number of volunteers to help update the information about the resources. They would verify and update the existing resource guide—this will entail contacting all listed resources/organizations in the current guidebook, editing and reformatting the document as needed. Students will receive faculty mentorship/guidance from the Grady Primary Care division, as well as consulting from the student leadership team of Grady Healthy Living as they work on this project.

Please email zmorton [at] emory [dot] edu if interested!

Qualitative Research/Interviewer Opportunity

Through funding from a Synergy Award, a study team from the Emory University Center for Ethics and Emory Healthcare (EHC) is investigating ethical challenges experienced by EHC multidisciplinary team members during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Phase 3 of the research will focus on qualitative research involving interviews of multidisciplinary team members.

We are seeking one or two students who will be integrally involved in this phase of the research project. Students will:

• receive training and utilize an interview guide to conduct 20 to 25 total interviews of healthcare team members
• participate in thematic analysis of transcribed interviews

We anticipate:

• flexibility in scheduling interview times
• interviews may be in-person or remote
• variable work schedule, with 5 to 10 hours/week during the interview weeks and projected 10 to 15 hours/week during thematic analysis.
• completion of interviews and majority of thematic analysis by the end of 2021.

Preferred candidates will have:

• experience with qualitative research
• excellent communication skills
• ability and comfort with working with individuals with diverse perspectives
• interview experience
• strong analytic skills
• thematic content analysis experience desired

Interested applicants please provide a brief statement of interest addressing your experience and skills as well as a CV/resume to:

kkinlaw [at] emory [dot] edu

Please place “Qualitative Research/Interviewer – Ethical Challenges” in the Subject Line