PUBH 502 Teaching Assistant, RSPH

The RSPH Dean’s Office is seeking several Teaching Assistants for a professional development course. Responsibilities include managing the Canvas course site, grading of assignments, managing logistics around scheduling of a one-time workshop at RSPH, leading five small group discussions of about 15 first year MPH/MSPH students, and being available to address student questions. Following a February training session, the majority of the tasks will be completed after Spring break through the end of the Spring 2020 semester (approximately 20 hours total) . Specific requirements include:

• must be a 2nd year MPH/MSPH student or PhD student
• attendance at a 1-hour training session in February
• able to navigate Canvas
• enthusiastic and willing to lead a small group discussion following training

Division of Health and Environment Intern, Abt Associates

• Conduct literature reviews and perform data extraction on chemical exposures and health effects
• Develop and maintain databases of the literature searched
• Summarize and critically evaluate the results of environmental epidemiological and toxicological studies
• Research and summarize various documents, reports, and related materials
• Assist with preparation for meetings, and scheduling and set up
• Assist with social media efforts and building visibility of project online
• Assists with maintaining up to date records for program budget

• Is currently enrolled in an graduate level degree program
• Ideal candidates will have academic or work experience in environmental health, risk assessment, toxicology or environmental epidemiology
• Familiarity with federal government chemical risk assessment procedures
• Ability to multi-task while maintaining attention to detail

• Has completed at least two years of college coursework
• Has excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Is available to work full-time throughout the 10 week internship
• Is eligible to work in the United States
• Transitioning military are encouraged to apply

Click here to learn more about the position, and apply on Handshake. 

Applications close February 24th at 11am. 

HRTP: A Public Health Internship Program, New York City DOHMH

HRTP: A Public Health Internship Program at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is accepting applications for our Summer 2020 internship session.

The program is open to undergraduate, graduate and professional school students of public health, health education, laboratory sciences, medicine, social work, environmental engineering, public administration, accounting, mathematics, computer science, law, nursing, the social sciences, and many other majors.  HRTP offers dynamic internships in public health research, community health outreach and education, fieldwork, laboratory work and public health administration.

The application period for our summer 2020 session will be open from January 15 – February 15, 2020.

For full consideration, HRTP should receive the following or postmarked on/before the February 15th deadline:

1. An electronic application
2. A current cv/resume
3. A personal statement/ essay
4. An official school transcript from your current institution
5. One letter of recommendation and the recommendation form

Click here for an online guide to the application. 

For more information about the program, please visit us at www.nyc.gov/health/hrtp.  

2020 Student Research Poster Session, Applied Public Health Statistics Section

Eligibility: Master’s, Doctoral, and first-year Post-Doctoral students are
invited to apply.

To Enter: Applicants must submit an online paper abstract to APHS by
February 19, 2020.

For more information: https://apha.confex.com/apha/2020/aphs.htm

Internship, Roche

We are looking for an intern to join an exciting, multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team of scientists at Roche for an internship project in summer 2020. The focus of this project is to leverage advanced analytics/machine learning techniques to quantify and predict economic burden associated with cancer treatment, to inform Roche’s value-based healthcare initiative.

Job description:

o Responsible for co-planning and executing the proposed project, leveraging healthcare claims data

o Perform high quality, timely and accurate analyses using most relevant state-of- the-art methodologies

o Identify additional research hypotheses and product opportunities based on study findings

o Communicate and present analysis results, adhering to industry standards

Qualifications:

o Currently enrolled as a Master or PhD student with a background in epidemiology, economics, health service research, statistics/biostatistics or related disciplines (those graduating in 2020 will also be eligible)

o Hands-on research experience involving study design, statistical analysis and machine learning techniques in the context of healthcare. Experience in using claims data is a plus

o Working knowledge of the healthcare system and oncology care

o Proficiency with R or Python

o Excellent communication and presentation skills

o Able to work independently but also comfortable in a collaborative environment

Ideal start & end dates:

o The starting date of this internship is upon availability and it will ideally run for 6 months (length can be adjusted based on the candidate’s academic schedule).

Contact:

Baiyu Yang, Senior Quantitative Scientist, Roche Diagnostics

baiyu [dot] yang [at] roche [dot] com

Spring 2020 Course, Evidence-Based Decision Making

Course Description

GH584 – “Evidence-based decision making” is a course where we critically assess (a) what is data, (b) how do we use it for policy and recommendation development in both the US and global settings, and (c) what are the implications of these recommendations and how they change over time.  Enrollment is open to students in all departments, as we want different perspectives on how these recommendations are made and how they impact different aspects of global health. 

Click here to view the syllabus: GH 584 syllabus

For more information, contact: 

Spring 2020 Course, Perspectives on Mental Health

Course Title
SOC 532, Perspectives on Mental Health

Description
This course entertains two broad questions within which numerous models, theories, and empirical studies are employed. First, what is the nature and burden of mental illnesses and the benefits of mental health? Second, what are the causes of mental illnesses and mental health? This course employs a bio–psycho–social causal model of health. It therefore examines mental health and illness in terms of their proximal (biological), medial (psychological), and the distal (sociological) causes. This course is intended to train students to be theoretically–driven, interdisciplinary scholars of ‘public’ mental health.

Instructor
Dr. Corey Keyes

Time
Monday 1:00-4:00 pm

Location
Tarbutton Hall 206