In This Issue
British Columbia Epidemiologist Calls For Harm Reduction Strategy That Can Save Lives Now In Opioid Epidemic
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“It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way,” Says Speaker In a compelling TEDMED talk made available online this month, the executive director of British Columbia’s Center for Disease Control has made the case for acting effectively now to address the opioid epidemic. Calling the epidemic a true public health emergency, epidemiologist Mark Tyndall says a harm reduction strategy which provides a clean dry space with fresh needles surrounded by people who care is the appropriate response and the first step in truly dealing with the epidemic.
Tyndall calls the scale of the problem “unbelievable” with some 54,000 deaths in the United States alone in 2016 and drug related deaths now the leading cause of death for persons between the ages of 20-50 years old. Experience Tyndall first encountered the drug problem some 20 years ago in Vancouver and saw first hand the benefits conferred by creating a supervised injection site for drug
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Death Likely From Drowning, According To Police
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Missing CDC Epidemiologist Found In the Chattahoochee River The body of CDC epidemiologist Tim Cunningham was found in early April in a river near his home. Cunningham had been missing for several weeks and his body was found in an inaccessible area of the Chattahoochee River about four miles from his home.
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Autopsy reports describe drowning as the most likely cause of death with no signs of trauma or evidence of underlying medical conditions. - Missing cont'd on page 2 Volume Thirty Nine
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addicted persons. Yet 20 years later, this type of harm reduction strategy is still a radical concept, he says, despite going against everything we have as evidence. Opponents Critics give many reasons for their opposition to injection sites, but Tyndall counters that they are truly the first step in treatment and recovery. He attributes what he calls the “paralysis” in thinking about drug addiction to populations being bombarded with images of guns, jails, and handcuffs and thinking of drugs as a law enforcement problem when instead it is really a public health issue requiring social and health interventions. He cites the example of Portugal which decriminalized drugs. Drug use is down dramatically, overdoses are uncommon, and the number of persons in treatment is much increased, according to Tyndall. Supreme Court The BC epidemiologist describes and counters the arguments of critics of harm reduction strategies and makes clear that societies need to change their ways of thinking to be able to see the ample evidence for the effectiveness of harm reduction interventions. He cites a 9-0 decision of the Supreme Court in Canada in 2011 which voted in favor of these programs saying “The effect of denying the services of INSITE (a harm reduction intervention service) to the population it serves and the correlative increase in the risk of death and disease to injection drug
users is grossly disproportionate to any benefit that Canada might derive from presenting a uniform stance on the possession of narcotics.” Tyndall concludes “It does not have to be this way.” To listen to the TED talk, visit: https://tinyurl.com/ycs9ahnw
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-Missing cont'd from page 1 Open Questions According to police, the Cunningham case is not closed. There are multiple unanswered questions surrounding his disappearance. First, how did Cunningham end up in the river and where did he enter the river? Second, was Cunningham’s drowning an accident or was it an intentional act by him or others? Friends report that Cunningham was upset that he did not get selected for a higher level position, although he had received a promotion earlier in 2017. There was confusion about this in the media because CDC said he did receive a promotion last year but it did not clarify the more recent event in which he was passed over for a higher level job in the agency. Third, did Cunningham leave his home with the intention of returning or not? Many of his possessions, including keys, were found in his home undisturbed. - Missing continues on page 3
Policy Brief On Firearm Violence Prevention To Be Released By International Network for Epidemiology In Policy The newly renamed International Network for Epidemiology in Policy (INEP) is scheduled in April to publish an editorial in the International Journal of Epidemiology calling for various actors to take meaningful action to stem what it calls “pandemic levels” of firearm violence, especially from privately held firearms. Violence with these weapons “is indicative of underlying social disharmony and thus is a social disease,” according to the editorial. The INEP is a consortium of 23 national and international member societies and associations of epidemiology spanning six continents. At least 14 member organizations have endorsed this statement.
For the World Health Organization: Continue to encourage countries to collect and disseminate epidemiological and other scientific data For national and local governments, private organizations, and non profit organizations: Prioritize research funding on the scale and scope of firearm violence and evaluate interventions.
“Violence with these weapons 'is indicative of underlying social disharmony and thus is a social disease'..."
For epidemiologists: Engage in firearm violence prevention research and in the evaluation of intervention programs. ■
Solutions The INEP states that existing policies “fail to adequately protect people from firearm violence, often because they mainly focus on the purchase and illegal uses of guns while neglecting underlying social determinants of the violent use of firearms.” The editorial clearly expresses the group’s belief that more research information to better inform policy decisions would make a big impact in reducing harm from guns. It calls for a multi-sectoral approach to better identify causes. Recommendations For national and local governments: Collect and make epidemiological and other scientific data relating to firearmrelated morbidity and mortality publicly available for research.
-Missing cont'd from page 2 According to some media reports, it is possible we will never learn the answers to these questions. Police report that there is no evidence of foul play. A $15,000 reward is being offered to help solve the case. A celebration of Cunningham’s life was held at Morehouse on Saturday April 21, 2018. Also, many memories and condolences have been expressed online. Readers may access these at:
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Summer Programs In Epidemiology At-A-Glance
“...we report on 19 different programs..."
Each year we provide a short recap of summer programs of interest to epidemiologists and other public health professionals. For 2018 we report on 19 different programs available in multiple different locations in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. These programs emphasize many different topics including public health, epidemiologic methods, statistics, and global health. A new program focused on digital epidemiology is being offered in Manchester UK on how to capture and use digital data, and a relatively new
program in its second year focuses on causal inference and big data. We interviewed the organizers of the new digital epidemiology course to learn more about the details of this program. The interview with Will Dixon, Program Organizer, is published on page 7 in this issue. This summary provides a link to each of the programs so readers can obtain additional information on those of greatest interest. Keep in mind these programs have registration deadlines.
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May 21-June 8
Summer Public Health Institute University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN https://tinyurl.com/y8s7ej7k
As the name states, this has a public health focus.
May 23-June 29
Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute Columbia University New York New York https://tinyurl.com/y93cdp32
Most of the courses are in June, including 13 online courses and two dozen regular courses of varying lengths.
May 28-June 1
Summer School in Health Statistics McGill University Montreal, Canada https://tinyurl.com/y8nlfdh6
Primarily for registered students at McGill. Takes place just before the Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting.
June 3-16
Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology Sponsored by Biostatepi Treviso, Italy http://www.biostatepi.org/
Several Stata courses also offered on two Sundays before and during the summer school.
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June 10-14
Summer Program in Epidemiology For undergraduate students, a five week and Biostatistics program of course taking and mentoring. Harvard University Boston, MA http://tinyurl.com/jgwl7w8
June 11-29
Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland https://tinyurl.com/yb7ympje
In place for over 30 years with a wide offering of topics and formats, including a certificate program.
June 11-22
Epi on the Island Summer Courses Center for Veterinary Epidemiological Research Prince Edward Island, Canada http://cver.upei.ca/training/epion-the-island-2018
Two courses this year, each a week long on multilevel modelling and multivariate visualization and analysis.
June 11-16
Pharmacoepidemiology Summer School in Denmark Aarhus University, Grenaa, Denmark https://tinyurl.com/zy8wxvd
A week long program offering three courses.
June 11-22
Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health McGill University Montreal, Canada http://mcgill-idgh.ca/
Two weeks with nine courses to choose from. Some are already full.
June 18-July 6
31st Residential Summer Program in Epidemology EEPE (European Educational Program in Epidemiology) Florence, Italy http://www.eepe.org/
With over 30 years of experience, this program is one of the original summer programs. It includes four offerings during a “pre-course� week.
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June 18-22
Summer Program in Population Health Ohio State University Columbus, OH https://u.osu.edu/cphp/summerprogram/
In its 19th year, the program is organized by the Center for Public Health Practice with courses that appeal to a broad public health workforce.
June 25-28
Causal Inference & Big Data Summer Institute University of Pennsylvania Center for Causal Inference http://www.cceb.med.upenn.edu /cci/cbd
Described as a four day intensive learning experience, the first two days focus on causal inference and the second two days on big data with some crossover.
July 2-6
Health and Society Summer School: Social Determinants of Health University College London London, England http://tinyurl.com/h74x2kl
A one-week opportunity that will be led off and closed by Michael Marmot.
July 8-20
Advanced Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel https://tinyurl.com/y8yfsh8q
Four intensive courses offered, two each week.
July 8-27
Summer Session in Epidemiology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI https://tinyurl.com/h882ocw
The granddaddy of all the summer programs has been around for over 50 years and has a wide variety of offerings for 1 or 3 week courses and online courses as well.
July 9-25
Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases University of Washington Seattle, WA https://tinyurl.com/yc5mkuth
The 10th annual institute given by the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health.
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July 18-20
Digital Epidemiology Summer School Arthritis Research UK Center for Epidemiology Manchester, UK https://www.herc.ac.uk/events/ manchester-digital-epidemiologysummer-school/
An inaugural 3 day program about how to capture and use digital health data to support high-quality epidemiological research.
July 23-27
International Summer School of Epidemiology Ulm University Ulm Germany https://tinyurl.com/yah7v3vw
In cooperation with the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. Four courses presented.
August 6-24
Summer Program Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://tinyurl.com/y7pjlfuz
Described as á la carte research training in quantitative medical and health research. Some free lectures open to the public.
An Interview With Will Dixon Organizer Of The New Digital Epidemiology ■ Summer Program In Manchester UK EM: Where did the idea come from to have this program? Dixon: Over the course of the last few years, the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology in Manchester has been accumulating experience in running successful digital epidemiology projects. We have, for example, run Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, a national smartphone study in the UK examining the relationship between weather and pain in people with arthritis and other long-term conditions. We successfully recruited over 13,000 participants, with one in seven entering daily data for six months or more. The analysis has also involved lots of novel challenges given the continuous nature of the weather exposure and daily symptom reports. In this and other projects, there has been lots of learning that we thought would be useful to share - so we set up the Summer School. Whilst we draw on expertise within our own department, we have also invited an excellent and diverse faculty to give us wide coverage of how new digital opportunities will change epidemiology, noting both the opportunities and challenges. EM: Is this the first program of its kind that you know about? Dixon: Yes, this is the first Digital Epidemiology course that we’re aware of.
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-Manchester cont'd from page 7 EM: What are the key topics you will cover? Dixon: Throughout the three days, participants will learn all about how to capture and use digital health data to support high-quality epidemiological research. The programme covers opportunities, challenges and methods across a variety of data types, with day 1 dedicated to electronic health records and linked data; Day 2 to patient-generated data, for example as collected through smartphones; and Day 3 to data from wearable sensors, internet of things and social media. EM: Who would find this program of special interest? Dixon: In line with the multidisciplinarity of the field, we developed the program with a broad audience in mind, including: clinical epidemiologists and population health researchers; health data scientists and informaticians; but we also expect that clinicians or people from industry with an interest in epidemiology or data science will get plenty from this course. EM: What other things would you like to say about your program, or the people in it, or what you hope comes from the program? Dixon: The program will be delivered by an internationally renowned and multidisciplinary faculty. The programme is led by John McBeth and Sabine van der Veer and myself. Our guest Faculty includes epidemiologists such as Liam Smeeth, Malcolm Maclure and Soren Brage, biostatisticians including Antonio Gasparrini, health informaticians like David Ford and John Ainsworth and computer scientists including Goran Nenadic. We also have industry faculty members from Google and Google DeepMind. The faculty will deliver interactive seminars on cutting-edge methods for collecting and analysing digital data in the context of epidemiological studies, and use real-life examples to demonstrate these methods in action. The course will remain strongly anchored in how digital methods relate to the fundamentals of epidemiology. â–
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On The Light Side Readers Asked To Pick Their Favorite Epi-Related Limericks Vote Now And Earn A Chance To Win One Of Three Visa Gift Cards Worth $50 Each Several entries have been received in our limerick contest to write the definition of a common word or phrase in epidemiology which weaves a joke into an accurate description of the meaning. Some entries were provided as untitled. We are asking readers to vote for the best limerick judged as the most clever, humorous, and still accurate. Readers have until May 19th to vote. Please vote via email (epimon@aol.com) by giving us the number of the limerick you think is the best. The winner of the $300 first prize will be announced in the June issue. Three lucky voters will be selected randomly for the gift cards. Thank you to all readers who submitted limericks and to each reader who votes. 28 entries for the contest are included below 1. Relative risk
2. Effect measure modification
A son's odds of soon coughing foretold by two brothers each down with a cold as opposed to those less Mom and sis would assess from within their own rooms were they polled.
When an effect varies significantly by class, please stratify or your colleagues will be crass. And yell, "The effect has heterogeneity!" So you now use interaction terms with spontaneity. But ARGH, more than one sure is a pain in the SAS...
3. Statistical significance
4. Statistical Significance
Significance is easy to see If your alpha is more than your p It means your events Would not be present If the null's true and the sample's bias-free
Pertaining to matters statistical, Significance testing is critical. For each explicandum, Chance can’t be too random, Or outcomes are prob’ly sophistical.
5. Bias
6. Intervention
When bad methodology’s bias Skewed the link ‘tween pandemic and virus, We tried to explain How we’d misread the strain, But this error will surely retire us.
Consider the term “intervention,” The opposite of inattention: In short, what you do Once you’ve processed the clue, While avoiding a show of pretension.
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On The Light Side 7. IBS Disease
8. Health
A woman with “ibs” can’t control it; She stays off her bed lest she soil it. So to take all the guess Out of gastric distress, She spends all her days on the toilet.
My doc declared smoking is barred: I should stop or my lungs will be scarred. Then he said with a wheeze "The solution's a breeze... It’s just the commitment that's hard."
9. Effect modification
10. Bias
Exposures have differential impacts in the presence of effect modification A third variable produces dissimilar strengths of association With outcomes that vary Inference could get scary! Unless you nix the overall estimate in favor of stratification.
Bias is an often unavoidable terror Systemically skewing estimates with error Hidden, social, or from recall It sends validity into free fall If only like Poisson's tail end, it was rarer!
11. Correlation
12. Vaccination and Herd Immunity
It could be a spurious association Or is it a defined relation? If the latter is true vaccination might cause flu But correlation is not causation
We all are a part of a herd Vaccines, they're the best, have you heard? To protect all the weak When the season hits peak Get your shot, please, and don't be absurd!
13. Influenza
14. Bias
There once was an outbreak of flu The public cried "what should we do?" A vaccine is the best Then liquids and rest And cover up when you "achoo"
There once was an Epi from Utah Whose study she knew had a true flaw The errors, she knew Caused her data to skew So unadjusted results, they could fool ya
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15. Papa’s swan
16. The Unusual Suspect: Confounding
“Sir, keep calm,.. give me the standard deviate Cohen’s kappa and coefficient of determination Chi-square distribution and measured random variation” “Shucks Houston, no time here for Papa’s swan's postulate The asteroid just passed the ISS, it’s the size of Empire State.”
Extra! Extra! Of coffee beware! Causing a huge pancreas cancer scare! But what of smoking cigs, Often paired with java swigs? The real culprit confounded, no fair!
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18. Epidemiology
When P values have shown you lubricity You may suffer from heteroscedasticity If your rho is too large Say ‘GEE’ and take charge, And that should restore your felicity!
There once was a Science called Epidemiology Statistical results, they make no apology The distribution and determinants Ever changing, never permanent Then followed the trends and looked to defend All random outcomes through information bias
19. Epidemic
20. Surveillance
It’s more than expected given the past It’s rife, it’s grim, everyone’s aghast The egg salad is to blame Picnics won’t be the same Let’s just hope this one ends fast
Disease can spread fast and furious Explanations are often times spurious Surveillance in action Can give us the traction To find answers for those who are curious.
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A world free of TB is our mission It’s a disease that’s the worst of conditions We won’t ever stop Til we can shout from rooftops: “No more need for Red Snapper physicians!”
We Epis are often called gumshoes Tho’ cocktail parties will sometimes confuse At the mention of skin We just have to grin And creepy rash diagnoses refuse.
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On The Light Side 23. Untitled
24. Science for the novice
BSE made him stop eating cheese Steaks and burgers he gave up with ease He thought eating this way Kept infection at bay But he died of mad cabbage disease
I had a passion for epidemiology Counting the neighbours' cats meouws, kept me buzy After meeting Schrodinger's cat Made EPI-Info fruitbat And my passion changed to astrology.
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26. Bayesian
When evaluating sets of Mammography Using x-ray data Photography, A pair may be a healthy, and Ample Size But it’s not what we mean by a large Sample Size— ‘cause >P is simply Pornography!
There once was a post-doc named Ian Who found frequentist stats most plebeian. His approach to statistics? More probabilistic. For Ian was truly Bayesian.
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There once was a man with inflamed gums Who dissed flossing the choppers with his chums While he kept his teeth clean He failed to get in between And the plaque left in there made him glum
There once was a boy with dental caries Because he mostly just ate confectionaries Though not one to attack He needed a new snack Something to cause less tooth worries
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Notes on People Honored: Leslie Bernstein, with the American Association for Cancer ResearchAmerican Cancer Society award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention. The award recognizes her contributions showing the impact that lifestyle and reproductive factors have on breast cancer risk and survival. Dr Bernstein is a professor in the Division of Biomarkers of Early Detection and Prevention, Department of Population Sciences at The City of Hope.
Profiled: Christina Tan, state epidemiologist in New Jersey, in the New York Times Business Day section. The article provides a perspective on Vocations, and describes Tan’s answers to a half-dozen or so questions about how she became and epidemiologist and what her role is like in real life. The headline for the article read “Fighting Disease Is A Battle Often Won With Spreadsheets”.
Profiled: Eve Waltermaurer, senior research scientist at the State University of New York, New Paltz, in the publication Hudson Valley One following her appointment to the New Paltz Valley Planning Board. Waltermaurer is credited with applying her epidemiologic training and perspective to ask probing questions and to look for patterns of all kinds in making planning decisions.
Appointed: Cora Lewis, as chair, Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Lewis was formerly professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine in the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Her research interests include a focus on the epidemiology of chronic diseases.
Appointed: Robert Redfield as the 18th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has experience in clinical research and clinical care of chronic human viral infections and infectious diseases, especially HIV. He served as the founding director of the Department of Retroviral Research within the U.S. Military’s HIV Research Program and he co-founded the University of Maryland’s Institute of Human Virology and served as the Chief of Infectious Diseases and Vice Chair of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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Notes on People Honored: Eduardo Franco, with an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Fenando Pessoa, in Porto Portugal. In his acceptance speech, Dr Franco expressed his gratitude for having been a part of the community which identified human papillomavirus as a cause of cervical cancer and developed vaccines to prevent it. Dr Franco is Chair of the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology at McGill University.
Interviewed: JoAnn Manson, Harvard epidemiologist, by Medical Xpress after her article published in JAMA on vitamins and supplements. Asked why the topic is so confusing, she noted the discrepant findings between randomized trials and observational studies and the hype about supplements in the media and advertising.
Speaker: Preetha Rajaraman, at the commencement ceremony for Reed College graduates. Dr Rajamaran currently serves as the health attache for India for the US Department of Health and Human Sevices. She has a PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins and is a Reed graduate.
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Near Term Epidemiology Event Calendar Every December The Epidemiology Monitor dedicates that issue to a calendar of events for the upcoming year. However that often means we don't have full information for events later in the year. Thus an online copy exists on our website that is updated regularly. This year we will print upcoming events in the Monitor monthly. To view the full year please go to: http://www.epimonitor.net/Events
May 2018 May 2-4 https://tinyurl.com/y9gxryms Conference: 2018 Conference / World Psychiatric Association - Epidemiology & Public Health Section / New York, NY May 3-4 https://tinyurl.com/y7a82nvm Conference: 2018 WREN Conference / Western Regional Epidemiology Network / Ashland, OR May 8-10 https://tinyurl.com/y83hz87a Short Course: Epigenic Epidemiology / University of Bristol / Bristol, England May 11 https://tinyurl.com/yc6lvcxl Short Course: Advanced Epigenic Epidemiology / University of Bristol / Bristol, England May 12-23 https://tinyurl.com/y874fnht Short Course: Epidemiology & Statistics for Mental Health Research / University College London / London, England May 14-18 https://tinyurl.com/ml96d49 Short Course: Public Health Surveillance / Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health / Atlanta, GA May 14-18 https://tinyurl.com/yayfeluc Short Course: Cancer Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands May 16-18 https://tinyurl.com/y8lxn9vb Conference: 10th Regional Scientific Conference / TEPHINET (Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network) / Cartegena, Columbia May 20-23 https://tinyurl.com/yaerhuhk Conference: 39th Annual Meeting / Society for Clinical Trials / Portland, OR May 21-24 https://tinyurl.com/gowea7x Conference: WHO World Health Assembly / World Health Organization / Geneva, Switzerland May 21 - June 8 https://tinyurl.com/y8s7ej7k Summer Program: Summer Public Health Institute / University of Minnesota / Minneapolis, MN May 23-24 https://tinyurl.com/ycejzfyo Short Course: Cardiovascular Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands May 23-26 https://tinyurl.com/y76ah6wp Conference: Preventive Medicine 2018 / American College of Preventive Medicine / Chicago, IL May 28- June 1 https://tinyurl.com/y8nlfdh6 Summer Program: Summer School in Health Statistics / McGill University / Montreal, Canada May 28 - June 1 https://tinyurl.com/ybqnghse Conference: 44th Annual Conference / Kettil Bruun Society / Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Near Term Epidemiology Event Calendar May 29 - June 1 https://tinyurl.com/yb3qvq5y Conference: 26th Annual Conference / Society for Prevention Research / Washington, DC May 31 - June 1 https://tinyurl.com/yb3qvq5y Conference: 4th International Molecular Pathological Epidemiology Meeting / Multiple Sponsors / Boston, MA May 31 & June 1 https://tinyurl.com/y8tqaw7n Short Course: Introduction to Epidemiology & Study Design / University of Bern / Bern, Switzerland May - TBA https://tinyurl.com/y8wbpg83 Short Course: Psychiatric Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 2018 June 3-16 http://www.biostatepi.org/ Summer Program: Summer School on Biostatistics and Epidemiology / Biostatepi / Treviso, Italy June 4-8 https://tinyurl.com/pmw4pbf Short Course: Evidence Based Clinical Practice Workshop / McMaster University / Hamilton, Ontario, Canada June 4-6 https://tinyurl.com/yal6cyd8 Short Course: Causal Inference in Epidemiology / University of Bristol / Bristol, England June 4-15 http://tinyurl.com/n2bspqy Short Course: Epidemiology in Action w/Epi Info Training / Emory University / Atlanta, GA June 7-8 https://tinyurl.com/yczavde5 Short Course: Statistical Methods for Mediation Analysis / University of Bristol / Bristol, England June 7-9 https://tinyurl.com/y94d2zp8 Conference: 6th International Conference on Infectious Diseases / Euroscience Meetings / London, England June 9-16 https://tinyurl.com/ycfusard Conference: NAACCR 2018 / North American Association of Central Cancer Registries / Pittsburgh, PA June 10-12 https://tinyurl.com/y88g7t8r Short Course: Mendelian Randomization / University of Bristol / Bristol, England June 10-14 https://tinyurl.com/yc7wy3rl Conference: CSTE 2018 / Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists / Palm Beach, FL June 10-14 http://tinyurl.com/jgwl7w8 Summer Program / Harvard University / Boston, MA
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Near Term Epidemiology Event Calendar June 11-13 https://tinyurl.com/yddppn3y Conference: Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria / Wellcome Trust / Cambridge, England June 11-16 https://tinyurl.com/zy8wxvd Summer Program: Pharmacoepidemiology Summer School in Denmark / Aarhus University / Grenaa, Denmark June 11-22 https://tinyurl.com/ydchyjpc Summer Program: Epi on the Island Summer Courses 2018 / University of Prince Edward Island / Prince Edward Island, Canada June 11-22 http://mcgill-idgh.ca/ Summer Program: Summer Institute in Infectious Disease and Global Health / McGill University / Montreal, Canada June 13-15 https://tinyurl.com/y9n95enk Conference: APIC 2018 / Association for Professionals in Infection Control / Minneapolis, MN June 15-17 https://tinyurl.com/yac7w8bn Conference: Conference on Epidemiological Birth Cohort Studies / University of Oulu / Oulu, Finland June 15-18 https://tinyurl.com/y7trccc4 Conference: 2018 Student Conference / Canadian Society for Epidemiology & Biostatistics / Thunder Bay, Canada June 16-20 https://tinyurl.com/y8tqaw7n Workshop: Observational Epidemiology / University of Basel / Basel, Switzerland June 18-19 https://tinyurl.com/zhk3kk3 Conference: SPER 2018 / Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiological Research / Baltimore, MD June 18-20 https://tinyurl.com/m99p8gr Short Course: Applied Epi Info Training / Emory University / Atlanta, GA June 18-22 https://tinyurl.com/ydxjc9xz Short Course: Genetic Epidemiology / University of Bristol / Bristol, England June 18-22 https://tinyurl.com/yd45dzf3 Short Course: Genomic Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases / McGill University / Montreal, Canada June 18 - July 6 http://www.eepe.org/ Summer Program: 31st Residential Summer Program in Epidemiology / EEPE (European Educational Program in Epidemiology) / Florence, Italy June 18-22 https://cph.osu.edu/ Summer Program: Summer Program in Population Health / Ohio State University / Columbus, OH June 18-29 https://tinyurl.com/y8qms8wb Short Course: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modeling / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine / London, England June 19-21 https://tinyurl.com/y8j368j8 Conference: Advancing Brain Tumor Epidemiology / Brain Tumor Epidemiology Network / Copenhagen, Denmark
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Near Term Epidemiology Event Calendar June 19-22 https://tinyurl.com/y9hk2hcq Conference: SER 2018 / Society for Epidemiologic Research / Baltimore, MD June 24-26 https://tinyurl.com/y84jujup Conference: 2018 Annual Research Meeting / Academy Health / Washington, DC June 26 - July 14 https://tinyurl.com/y76m4da9 Short Course: Introduction to Epidemiology & Medical Statistics / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine / London, England June 26-27 https://tinyurl.com/y9pq6f4z Conference: 1st International Meeting on Teaching Epidemiology / University of Zurich / Zurich, Switzerland June TBA https://tinyurl.com/yaugxs5e Short Course: Introduction to Causal Interference / Harvard University / Boston, MA June TBA https://tinyurl.com/y7yw5ul7 Short Course: Statistical Analysis with Missing Data / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine / London, England
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Cancer Epidemiologist Faculty Position Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, New York
Applications are invited for a faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. We seek a colleague who will build a program of independent research in cancer epidemiology in a multidisciplinary collaborative environment located in a major academic cancer center. The MSK environment encourages and provides unparalleled opportunities for fostering multi-disciplinary collaborations with clinicians, geneticists, pathologists, biostatisticians, cancer biologists and others involved in cancer research as well as patient care. Our large patient population, coupled with the extensive core facilities and distinguished research tradition provides exciting opportunities and a dynamic environment for the creation of an independent research program in epidemiology. Unique features of the institution include access to considerable numbers of rare cancer types, patients with double malignancies or other known genetic syndromes, and rapid access to large populations of patients with more common types of cancer. There are also numerous opportunities to build upon and expand existing on-going epidemiologic investigations. Candidates should hold a PhD or an MD, and should have post-doctoral research training. Any level of experience will be considered, with the appointment at an appropriate academic rank. MSKCC is an equal opportunity employer with generous compensation and benefits packages. Please send a cover letter, CV, research statement, and contact information for 3 references to the address below. Information about the Department is available at: http://www.mskcc.org/research/epidemiology-biostatistics/epidemiology. Katherine Cheung [Epidemiology Search] Assistant to the Chairman Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 485 Lexington Avenue, 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 wongk1@mskcc.org
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