Call For Application: Training Course In Maternal And Child Health Epidemiology

Chicago, IL
Hyatt Regency - Chicago
May 19 – 23, 2014
 

The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are offering a Training Course in MCH Epidemiology as part of their ongoing effort to enhance the analytic capacity of state and local health agencies.

Who Should Apply?
This national program is aimed primarily at professionals in state and local health agencies who have significant responsibility for collecting, processing, analyzing, and reporting maternal and child health data. This year, the course is geared to individuals with intermediate to advanced skills in statistical and epidemiologic methods, preferably in MCH or a related field.  Content for this year’s course will be organized in the following four domains:

• Needs Assessment (e.g., prioritization methods, impact estimates)
• Multivariable Regression Modeling (e.g., model building, linear and log models)
• Program and Policy Evaluation (e.g., design and analytic methods)
• Economic Evaluation (e.g., cost-benefit, return on investment)

Details!

• The course will begin mid-day Monday, May 19 and conclude Friday, May 23.
• Hotel lodging will be covered.
• A limited number of scholarships for airfare are available.
• Complete applications must be submitted by 5 pm PST, Friday, February 28, 2014.

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American Public Health Association 141st Annual Meeting and Expo

The APHA 141st Annual Meeting and Exposition will take place November 2–6 in Boston. Registration and housing for the Annual Meeting opened June 3. Discounted registration fees will be available until August 22. Opening General Session speakers include attorney and spokesperson on leadership and public issues, Sarah Weddington, internationally acclaimed epidemiologist, Michael Marmot, and Boston Mayor, Thomas Menino. The Closing General Session will focus on the health of native people. Keynote speaker Evan Tlesla Adams will share his experience as British Columbia’s first-ever aboriginal health physician advisor. The meeting will include more than 1,000 scientific sessions and countless networking opportunities. Find more information and register for the APHA Annual Meeting and Expo

John Snow's legacy: epidemiology without borders

The Lancet, Volume 381, Issue 9874, Pages 1302 - 1311, 13 April 2013


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This Review provides abstracts from a meeting held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on April 11—12, 2013, to celebrate the legacy of John Snow. They describe conventional and unconventional applications of epidemiological methods to problems ranging from diarrhoeal disease, mental health, cancer, and accident care, to education, poverty, financial networks, crime, and violence.

Common themes appear throughout, including recognition of the importance of Snow's example, the philosophical and practical implications of assessment of causality, and an emphasis on the evaluation of preventive, ameliorative, and curative interventions, in a wide variety of medical and societal examples. Almost all self-described epidemiologists nowadays work within the health arena, and this is the focus of most of the societies, journals, and courses that carry the name epidemiology.

The range of applications evident in these contributions might encourage some of these institutions to consider broadening their remits. In so doing, they may contribute more directly to, and learn from, non-health-related areas that use the language and methods of epidemiology to address many important problems now facing the world………….”

a. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

b. Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil

c. RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

d. Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

e. Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

f. Chatham House Centre on Global Security, London, UK

g. Cure Violence, University of Illinois—Chicago, School of Public Health, IL, USA

h. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

i. UCL Jill Dando Institute for Security and Crime Science, University College London, London, UK

j. School of Education, Durham University, Durham, UK

k. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA