Category Archives: Student Opportunities

Student Volunteers for COVID-19 Study in Jails, RSPH

Category : APE/ILE Student Opportunities

Opportunity Description 

Dr. Anne Spaulding of the Epidemiology department is seeking students who can assist with contacting jails in the state for information on cases of COVID. They anticipate few jails have made definitive diagnoses and many might not have the bandwidth to pursue testing. Their first need is for a large group of students to help with phone calls to the jails.

We can share the protocol of our project with anyone interested. It meets criteria for non-human subjects research. We have discussed the project with GA Department of Public Health. For students who become interested in this project, their participation may lead to an APE in the coming months.

Information for interested students 

Student Summer Scholarship, IPRCE

Category : APE/ILE Student Opportunities

Overview of Scholarship

This is a grant opportunity designed to support students with research or practice-based projects in injury prevention.

Three research or practice-based projects will be funded for $1,000 each.

Eligible applicants must be enrolled as a full time student in an undergraduate or graduate degree program.

The proposed research or practice-based project must address one or more of the following topics:

  • Violence Prevention
  • Motor-Vehicle Crash or Crash injury Prevention
  • Preventing Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Falls Prevention
  • Prevention of drug misuse/abuse

How to Apply: 

  • Click here to submit application and supporting documents here: 
  • Click here to submit references and LOS

See attached flyer for more details! 

Clinical Research Assistant I, Boston Children’s Hospital

Category : Student Opportunities

Job Description

The Department of Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking a Clinical Research Assistant who is passionate about maternal and child health. The research assistant will support the HaSET (“happiness” in Amharic) Global Maternal and Child Health Research Program, which is conducted jointly by Boston Children’s Hospital, the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and Ethiopian institutions St. Paul’s Millennium Medical College and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute. Under the leadership of Dr. Grace Chan, HaSET works closely with partners in Ethiopia and Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health to generate evidence to improve maternal and child health programs and policies. We are working on several newborn and child survival projects focused on the discovery of interventions to improve child health and the delivery of care in underserved settings. This position will provide full-time research support, working closely with the Boston and Ethiopia team in the following areas:

  1. Program implementation and protocol development
  2. Data management and analysis
  3. Program coordination

The Clinical Research Assistant I will be responsible for:

  • Developing study questionnaires
  • Developing and implementing study protocols in coordination with the study team
  • Assisting in data management – cleaning and quality assurance
  • Assisting in data analysis
  • Assisting with project implementation – data collection, quality assurance, analysis, dissemination of findings
  • Performing literature searches, data abstraction, contribute to writing of systematic reviews, grant proposals, reports to funders
  • Coordinating and preparing the necessary documentation for Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions, together with the Private Investigator of the study.
  • Supporting administrative duties including scheduling, procurement, and meeting management
  • Participating in the training of newly hired research study assistants and interns, as required.

To qualify, you must have:

  • A Bachelor’s degree in an appropriately related discipline (e.g., public health or health sciences); prior research experience preferred.
  • Excellent communication, verbal, writing, and presentation skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills to work with collaborators, stakeholders, and team members
  • Strong attention to detail, excellent time management, Exceptional organizational skills, ability to prioritize multiple tasks, goal and detail-oriented work style, and meticulous and consistent follow through on projects are required
  • Commitment to maternal, newborn, and child health
  • Knowledge of statistical methods frequently used in public health research
  • Demonstrate professionalism and respect for human research
  • Preferred experience: Experience with IRB submissions, data abstraction, and literature reviews

Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits, including a rotating days/evenings and week-end schedule, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition Reimbursement and discounted rates on T-passes (50% off). Discover your best.

Apply:

Click here to learn more about the position online and to apply!

APE Opportunity, Hubert Department of Global Health

Category : APE/ILE Student Opportunities

Overview

A comparative analysis of published institutional Research Fairness Initiative (RFI) reports.

Opportunity

The Human Engagement Learning Platform (HELP) for Global Health, led by Dr. Jim Lavery, in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, is seeking 4 MPH students to conduct a comparative analysis of the first 4 published institutional reports of the Research Fairness Initiative (RFI), a new tool to help global health institutions to improve their partnership practices and promote research capacity building in low and middle income countries.

The RFI is administered by the Council for Health Research for Development (COHRED) in Geneva. HELP and COHRED have a long-standing collaborative partnership and this project will help to launch a new component of that partnership, focused on data analysis and support for participating institutions through the development of a dedicated learning platform.

The analysis will include a critical assessment of the data in the RFI reports, and forecasting and recommendations regarding additional analytic categories and strategies that might be considered for improving and/or expanding RFI data reporting and for structuring comparative analyses.

The project is an excellent opportunity for students to creatively apply skills acquired during the MPH program, including qualitative data analysis, critical appraisal, the design of data collection and analysis strategies, and persuasive writing.

Deliverables

The analysis will be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Jim Lavery, and with regular analysis meetings with the COHRED team. The final results of the analysis will be prepared in a way that will be most useful for COHRED, at their direction.

We anticipate at least one academic paper from this project and expect the participating students to be co-authors on that paper.The publication rights of any and all analyses will remain the property of COHRED.

Details

  • This project will be based at the Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA. Remote working options are available.
  • The project can begin as early as May 15th, pending interest
  • This is an unpaid position.

How to Apply

  • Send a resume and a brief description of previous research experience in the body of an email to Michelle Grek at mgrek [at] emory [dot] edu.
  • No formal cover letter is needed.
  • Applications will be accepted through April 15th.

Opportunity for Spanish-Speaking Student, InterAmerican Bank

Category : Student Opportunities

Student opportunity offered by Dr. Anne Spaulding: 

Description: 

A colleague from ICPA is seeking a Spanish speaking student with clinical knowledge who could join a call organized by InterAmerican Bank on COVID-19 in prisons in Latin American with regional Ministers. It will be a call with all of the Latin American Ministers of Justice. 

Student Qualifications:

Seeking a fluent Spanish speaker, interested in correctional health issues, ideally with experience in clinical settings, who can participate in a call with public health leaders from Latin America.

Contact:

Contact Dr. Anne Spaulding at aspauld [at] emory [dot] edu, to express interest and discuss the opportunity further. 

Fall 2020 Course Offering: NRSG 736

Category : Academic Student Opportunities

Course Description:

This course focuses on practical application of statistics addressing clinical research questions. Analyzing data is the major emphasis of the course including examining if assumptions of the statistical analyses are being met and interpreting the findings. Course assignments and a final project focus on using statistical software and computing resources to analyze data sets from actual clinical research studies and literature with interpretation and assessment of conclusions.

Course Times and Location:

  • In Class/Computer lab time: 1 hr lecture; 2 hr computer lab per week Location: School of Nursing
  • Mondays 11:00-11:50am; Wednesdays 1:00-2:50pm

See the attached flyer for more details! 

Paid Short Term Position, CDC

Category : Student Opportunities

**Immediate opportunity, reach out to contact ASAP if interested**

Description

Dr. Peter Cegielski, who works in the Laboratory Branch in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is seeking short term help with a research project having to do with the impact of nutrition on different infectious diseases using NHANES data.  

Timeline

If you are looking for something to do over your extended break or while studying from home, this paid opportunity may be perfect for you.  It might take 1-2 weeks of full time work or an equivalent number of hours if you spread it out. 

Contact

Please send an email to Dr. Cegielski’s CDC (gzc2 [at] cdc [dot] gov) and CC his gmail address (peter [dot] cegielski [at] gmail [dot] com)  to express interest and to discuss the opportunity further.

Summer Data Science Fellowship, Data Incubator

Category : APE/ILE Student Opportunities

The Data Incubator’s Summer 2020 Data Science Fellowship application is open!

Program:

The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship.

Who Should Apply:

Anyone who has already obtained a masters or PhD degree or who is within one year of graduating with a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome.

Locations:

You can attend our program in:

  • New York City
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Washington, DC.
  • Online

Application Link: https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship/apply.html

Session Dates: 2020-06-29 – 2020-08-21
Early Deadline: 2020-04-03
Regular Deadline: 2020-05-02

We are assessing and interviewing candidates who apply for the Early Deadline first and then based on remaining availability, will take candidates who applied for the Regular Deadline on a first-come first-serve basis.

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Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Signup soon as space is limited.

Learn More:

You can learn about our fellows at The New York Times, LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One, or Palantir. To read about our latest fellow alumni, check out our blog. To learn more about The Data Incubator, check us out on Venture Beat, The Next Web, or Harvard Business Review.

Opioid Crisis Research Position, Ohio State University

Category : Post-Grad Student Opportunities

Description

Ohio has experienced a severe opioid and substance use crisis over the past several years. Our team at The Ohio State University College of Public Health is seeking a professional with an MPH or MS in epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral science, or similar field to join our research and data management team. We are looking for a team player to work with several ongoing research projects related to opioid use and infectious diseases in southern Ohio.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include project management and monitoring study activities and data collection, implementing changes to the protocol and data/specimen collection procedures, assuring study protocols are in compliance with appropriate rules and regulations, creating and submitting IRB modifications, creating reports for meetings with the principal investigators and co-investigators to monitor recruitment and retention, creating agendas, and leading/facilitating project team meetings. The projects work closely with collaborators at the University of North Carolina.

To Apply 

If you are interested, please contact Dr. Kathryn Lancaster (lancaster [dot] 111 [at] osu [dot] edu) or Dr. William Miller (miller [dot] 8332 [at] osu [dot] edu) at Ohio State.

APE Opportunity, Task Force for Global Health

Category : APE/ILE GLEPI Student Opportunities

Study on the Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases:

The Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center (NTD-SC) is seeking an MPH student to conduct a study on the impact of the Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases (COR-NTD), for which NTD-SC serves as Secretariat. The study would include an analysis of studies funded through and influenced by COR-NTD activities, as well as a series of interviews with key coalition stakeholders on the impact of COR-NTD on their research activities. Deliverables will include a data analysis and written report, which will be leveraged to promote COR-NTD to funders and prospective partners.

About NTD-SC:

The NTD-SC is a program of The Task Force for Global Health, which is an affiliate of Emory University based in Decatur, GA. We support the global effort to control and eliminate diseases which impact poor and neglected populations, by:

  • Engaging partners – including ministries of health, researchers, NGOs, donors, and the World Health Organization – to identify knowledge gaps and other barriers to disease prevention
  • Informing best practices through operational research studies and other innovations that improve and sustain essential health services
  • Reaching those most affected so that they may benefit from our innovations and so that progress towards disease prevention is accelerated.

Applied Practicum Experience (APE) Competencies:

For the literature review portion of the APE, we are seeking a student with familiarity of Web of Science. In addition, the student should have an interest in qualitative methods to design, implement, and analyze a study of key informant interviews.

The APE will leverage the following RSPH competencies:

  • Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy or practice
  • Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes
  • Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation

Additional Information:

Per the policy of The Task Force for Global Health, this APE will be conducted on a volunteer basis. This APE will be based at The Task Force for Global Health in Decatur, GA, but remote work will also be considered (with regular check-ins via Skype).

To Apply:

Interested applicants may send a resume and cover letter to Chelsea Toledo, Associate Director of Communications & Development at ctoledo [at] taskforce [dot] org.

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