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Graduate Research Assistant, Emory Prevention Research Center

Category : Student Opportunities Work Study

***REAL or Non-REAL Position***

 

Position Description

The Emory Prevention Research Center (EPRC) seeks a part-time Graduate Research Assistant (15-20 hours/week). The position includes the opportunity to work on both Communications for the EPRC as well as the BreatheEasy Georgia Homes Program (BreatheEasy). BreatheEasy promotes smoke-free housing by recognizing apartment communities in Georgia that adopt smoke-free policies. GRA tasks include developing infographics to communicate EPRC research in plain language for a broad audience and managing social media for the EPRC and BreatheEasy Program, including developing content, scheduling posts, and evaluating analytics. Other Communications tasks include reviewing and assisting with the EPRC website and quarterly newsletter. The GRA will also assist the BreatheEasy program manager in planning and hosting meetings for stakeholders across the state, developing educational content to promote smoke-free housing, and managing the BreatheEasy Recognition Program and website.

 

Background

The EPRC conducts research and evaluation on chronic disease prevention and promotes evidence-based cancer prevention and control. The research and activities of the EPRC are planned with the participation and input of our community partners, in the spirit of community-based participatory research. Our cancer projects are funded by NCI and the CDC to promote the use of evidence-based cancer prevention practices. Click here for more information about the EPRC. Information about Healthy Homes Healthy Families 2-1-1 is available here.

 

Minimum Qualifications

Highly motivated, efficient, organized, detail-oriented and interest or experience working on communications, research, evaluation, or cancer prevention and control. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

 

Preferred Qualifications

Prior work experience preferred. Experience with social media campaigns and analytics; Clear Communication or Plain Language practices; graphic design; program coordination; website development; and the ability to write in Spanish. Experience with the following software is preferred: Social media platforms and analytics functions (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Hootsuite); Piktochart; Microsoft Office (esp. PowerPoint and Excel); Constant Contact.  

 

How to apply 

Outstanding APE Award Abstract Submission, RSPH

Category : Academic Student Opportunities

Description

The Office of Career Development is pleased to host our 15th 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 2021.

 

Qualification

  • RSPH students who have completed/are completing a public health APE between May 2020 and November 2020

 

How to Apply

  • Submit an abstract about your APE experience, following the requirements listed below, here 
  • Abstract submissions are due on Friday, October 30th at 5:00PM
  • See the flyer below for more details about the Outstanding APE Award!

 

Emerging Infections Program Intern, Georgia DPH

Category : Student Opportunities Work Study

Description 

The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is the lead agency entrusted by the people of the state of Georgia with the ultimate responsibility for the health of communities and the entire population. Georgia is also one of ten Emerging Infections Program sites that participates in enhanced surveillance for foodborne and invasive bacterial infections. 

DPH is looking for a current MPH student or an incoming MPH-seeking student to assist in patient interviewing, data entry, data collection, data management, medical chart reviews, and other clerical work. The position includes calling cases and controls to conduct interviews related to communicable disease surveillance, special studies, and outbreaks during weekday, weeknight, and weekend hours. Data entry and management will include various databases including Excel, Access, and the Georgia electronic notifiable disease system. Although the person filling this position will have the opportunity to learn about notifiable disease surveillance in general, notifiable enteric and invasive bacterial disease surveillance conducted by the Emerging Infections Program will be the focus.

 

How to Apply 

Click here to read more about this position and apply on Handshake! 

 

Evaluation Kit

Category : Academic Student Opportunities

Description 

Stay on the look out for Evaluation Kit (EKIT), RSPH’s new course evaluation tool that will be launching soon! 

 

Office of Science Intern, CDC

Category : Student Opportunities Work Study

Description 

This position will be Part-Time and the student will telework 100% of the time as CDC currently remains in full-time telework status. The CDC Office of Science (OS), Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI) safeguards the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) science and research activities by protecting the rights and welfare of people who participate in CDC-sponsored research; providing guidance and consultation to safeguard individual privacy and confidentiality; facilitating clearance of CDC-sponsored data collections; and providing leadership, tools, technical assistance, and training related to the various ethical and regulatory obligations that govern CDC scientists’ work. The student will have the opportunity to learn about how CDC promotes quality, integrity, and innovation in science to improve the public’s health.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

The student will participate in various activities conducted by OS/OSI, including assisting with activities that ensure CDC research and data collections are conducted in ways that are consistent with regulatory obligations and ethical principles, assisting with efforts to evaluate and enhance OS/OSI training activities, and assisting with efforts to build upon and measure progress towards OSI, Office of Science, and CDC strategic priorities. In addition, there will be opportunities for the student to contribute towards developing and improving OS/OSI information collection systems, including systems that track compliance with regulatory requirements and other OSI-related databases.

 

How to Apply 

Click here to read more about this position and apply on Handshake! 

 

 

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Global Safe WASH

Category : Student Opportunities Work Study

Project Summary

The Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (CGSW) is seeking Graduate Research Assistants (GRA) with strong data skills to support one of the existing projects: The Accelerating Cholera Prevention, Preparedness, and Control in Kenya through Hotspot Mapping, Genotyping, Exposure Assessment, and WASH+OCV Interventions (AChoPACE) study is aimed at using hot spot mapping to assess exposure to fecal contamination, specifically Vibrio Cholerae in urban informal settlements to design and implement integrated intervention strategies. 

 

Student Role 

Under the guidance of CGSW faculty and staff, the GRA will assist with database development, monitoring the data collection and data quality, data manipulation and analysis, data visualization, and publications.

 

Qualifications

  • Applicants must have good knowledge of public health, statistics, and computer programming.  
  • Skills: intermediate skill in R/SAS and knowledge about ODK/mobile data collection are required.

 

How to Apply    

Please send your CV and an e-mail describing your interest, background, and availability during Fall 2020 semester to Habib Yakubu (habib [dot] yakubu [at] emory [dot] edu) and Sarah Durry (sarah [dot] elias [dot] durry [at] emory [dot] edu).

PhD Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health, Harvard T.H Chan SPH

Category : Post-Grad Student Opportunities

Program Description

The PhD program in Biological Sciences in Public Health (BPH) emphasizes interdisciplinary basic research spanning from molecular biology to human populations. BPH students develop individualized research projects focused on defining the molecular underpinnings of human health and disease by employing cutting-edge approaches in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, genomics, metabolic biology, physiology, immunology, biophysics, computational and systems biology, and bioengineering. A central goal of the research in this program, whether basic or translational, is the improved understanding, prevention, and treatment of the most common and impactful global health threats.

The program encompasses laboratories and faculty mentors in the Departments of Environmental Health, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Molecular Metabolism, and Nutrition. Major areas of investigation include: 

  • The Metabolic Basis of Health and Disease: Metabolic function and dysfunction are at the core of human physiology and pathology, impacting a diverse array of chronic and infectious diseases. BPH laboratories are focused on metabolism research as a core element in understanding and therapeutically intervening in aging, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, inflammation, obesity, and neurodegenerative diseases, among others. 
  • Immunology and Infectious Diseases: Defining the complex interplay of infectious agents and microbes with their hosts is central to preventing and treating many of the world’s most widespread and deadliest diseases. BPH laboratories are focused on infectious and immune-mediated diseases, including HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Chagas, Malaria, Pneumonia, Enteric Diseases, Inflammatory Bowel, and Autoimmune diseases.
  • Environmental Health: Environmental exposures are a major underlying risk factor for numerous chronic diseases. BPH laboratories are focused on how cells and tissues adapt and respond to air pollution particles, environmental toxins, infectious agents, and radiation. Research projects employ a range of modern techniques to mechanistically define the pathogenesis of asthma and other lung diseases and responses to radiation and environmental stresses impacting health risk and outcomes.

While the program roots cut across the entire range of biological sciences, the research also employs core quantitative disciplines (e.g., biostatistics and epidemiology), as well as approaches that bridge biology, chemistry, engineering, and computation. Students attracted to this program generally share this interdisciplinary interest and a desire to confront the most pressing health issues of our time.

 

Program and Application Details

All students admitted into this training program are provided full tuition, health insurance and stipend support. Our graduates hold distinguished positions in academia, industry, government, and other arenas of life science research, consulting, communications and policy. The application deadline for the 2021-22 Academic Year is December 1, 2020. 
 
Please note: The BPH program does not require or consider the GRE as part of its application process. In addition, applicants who are non-native English speakers and who received their undergraduate degree from an academic institution where English is not the primary language of instruction now have the option to submit scores for the International English Language Testing System – Academic test (IELTS) as proof of English proficiency.

 

Learn More about the Program

More information can be found on their website or through these upcoming recruitment events:

BPH Virtual Open Houses

Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) Open House

Mental Health & Well-Being Programming Series, CAPS

Category : Student Opportunities

Description

Emory’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has a variety of resources and workshops surrounding aimed at helping students manage academic and personal stress during distance learning, as well as activism and self-care.  See the flyers below for a summary of the opportunities and resources available to you. 

To sign up for any of the events or workshop series listed below, click here to check out all of the events scheduled by CAPS, and make sure to log in with your Emory credentials in order to register. 

 

Procrastination and Anxiety Toolkit

  • Click here to register for one or both of the Toolkit workshops.

 

Doing the Work: Activism and Self-Care

  • Click here to register for one of the events in this series. 

 

Stress Clinic

  • Click here to register for a Stress Clinic workshop.  

 

Virtual Workshops Series 

  • CAPS also has a variety of weekly workshops on Friday afternoons during the semester, click here to register for one of the events listed below. 

 

Isolation and Quarantine Support Resources 

  • Click here to register for one of the online support groups for Emory students in medical isolation or quarantine. 

Graduate Research Assistant – Data Manager, RSPH

Category : Student Opportunities Work Study

Role Description

The Lopman Lab team conducts research globally and in the United States with research targeted at diarrheal diseases, specifically those caused by rotavirus and norovirus. More recently, this research has also focused on COVID-19. We employ a range of approaches including field studies, statistical analysis, and dynamic mathematical modeling to address public health policy relevant research questions.

We are seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to work on a project examining social mixing patterns that are relevant to transmission of COVID-19 in nursing homes. The project will collect and analyze social mixing patterns of workers in several nursing homes in the Atlanta area in order to better parameterize infectious disease models, and thus evaluate COVID-19 interventions.

The GRA will assist with data collection and management in REDCap. The candidate must reside in the Atlanta area to assist with data collection and the schedule is approximately 20 hours per week.

 

Qualifications

  • Proficient in REDCap.
  • Ability to work well independently and efficiently.
  • Self-motivation and a high level of responsibility to complete tasks in a timely manner and make significant progress with limited supervision from doctoral student mentors.
  • Attention to detail and time management skills.
  • Data management skills. 

 

How to Apply

Click here to read more about this position and apply on Handshake

*This position is REAL eligible but not required*

Student Assistant, CDC

Category : Student Opportunities Work Study

Opportunity Description

The CDC Prion and Public Health Office (within the Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases) is looking for assistance from an MPH (epidemiology) student who has finished the first year of study. This is a part-time, paid position (not work-study) that will include helping with epidemiologic projects through data entry, literature searches, and SAS analysis.

 

Application Information

Interested students may contact Ryan Maddox at rmaddox [at] cdc [dot] gov for additional information.

Note that the ongoing pandemic will obviously affect the hiring, onboarding, and training process.

 

 

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  • The Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) July 15, 2024 – July 31, 2024 Conference / Symposium Event Type: Conference / SymposiumSeries: The Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID)Speaker: Leaders in the FieldContact Name: Pia ValerianoContact Email: pvaleri@emory.eduLink: https://sph.emory.edu/SISMID/index.htmlThe Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) is designed to introduce infectious disease researchers to modern methods of statistical analysis and mathematical modeling.
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