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In this month’s issue look at wastewater surveillance epidemiology and the rise of mathematical modeling. We are also pleased to review Bill Gates’ new book: How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. From our archives pulled an article on ethics in environmental epidemiology. The popular crossword feature returns this month along with a curated list of articles.
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Sadly our Notes on People feature includes, among others, information about the passing of five prominent epidemiologists, four of whom were part of the EIS. Finally, don’t miss the Job Bank offerings this month. We have several employers looking for up to 10 new hires each along with many other interesting opportunities both here and on our website. monthly update covering people, events, research, and key developments Wastewater Surveillance Epidemiology Key Tool With An Emerging Role The Rise of Mathematical Modeling How The Next Pandemic Bill Gates Guidelines from Environmental Epidemiologists
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Editor’s The August issue of the EpiMonitor marks the beginning of a number of changes to publications and website in response to your comments in our reader survey. This month will be able to read the EpiMonitor three different formats including one designed specifically for people who interact with the EpiMonitor on mobile devices.
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1. In a few sentences, can you describe what you do? In my research I play with community poop for public health surveillance. But seriously, in addition to wastewater SARS CoV 2 concentration and genomic surveillance in Kentucky, I have also recently asked the public what they think this expanding epidemiological field.
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2. Why or how did you get into this subspecialty?
pumping, or study sanitation related health behavior changes. I think a lot of researchers got into this subspeciality of SARS CoV 2 related wastewater based epidemiology by pivoting their research to focus on the pandemic as I did.
3. What are some advantages to wastewater surveillance in epidemiology?
A Key Tool With An Emerging Role
Wastewater Surveillance Epidemiology
There are so many advantages, where to even start: it is anonymous, passive, and captures the infection status of anyone who is using a toilet flushing to the sewer system. And, while it still excludes some of our youngest population (e.g., children in diapers) or those with some medical conditions, it is more inclusive public health surveillance than clinical testing in urban areas. We can all admit access to clinical testing during COVID 19 has not been perfect, but when this is combined with wastewater surveillance there is an improved picture of the community infection levels.
4, What are some disadvantages? Wastewater based epidemiology does leave behind some rural areas, in the United States this is about 15% of the population; these areas are often serviced by household septic tanks rather than wastewater utilities. Also, and more generally, I see a disadvantage to the wastewater based epidemiology field is the lack of awareness and formal curriculum for public health workers and wastewater engineers to see how their fields can have multi disciplinary collaboration. We are still not yet showing our public health students how to open a streetline manhole (tip, they are heavy!) to collect a wastewater sample, and on the other side we need to introduce wastewater engineers to community health surveillance that can be accomplished by tracking fecal and urine markers.
I have a PhD in Environmental Science. Prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, I led a water and sanitation research center at a government university in the east African country of Malawi. My research foundation has focused on sanitation systems and health, so for example I would sample outhouses for pathogens or the thickness of the sludge for safe - Wastewater cont'd on page 3
Wastewater surveillance epidemiology is playing a key role in our response to COVID19 and other public health emergencies, like monkeypox and polio. And, it seems like it’s here to stay. We interviewed Dr. Rochelle Holm, an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville who leads wastewater surveillance.
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Although hypothetically it should be a seamless pivot from a COVID 19 wastewater surveillance system to add monkeypox and polio, my experience is adding wastewater pathogens takes time. For one, it takes utilities time to add and remove wastewater sample sites due to field logistics such as considering safety of sampling a site in the middle of a busy street. The best geographic sample location for monkeypox is likely to be different than for community level COVID 19 tracking. Also, in any pivot there will be a lag time in the availability of new primers and probes for quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT qPCR) platforms. As great as wastewater based epidemiology is there is a lot of laboratory method work to add a new virus. Lastly, and unique to polio for wastewater, the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN), is well established and hard for new labs globally to add surveillance. The GPLN consists of 146 WHO accredited polio laboratories, in 92 countries across the six WHO regions of the world. In a low resource laboratory environment, even if a RT-qPCR platform and staff is available, adding polio surveillance locally may not be possible.
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6. What is the turnaround time from flush to testing, testing to detection, detection to reporting, reporting to public health system action item (and what that action item(s) is/are)…how long does this entire process take from start to finish?
7. What do you envision as the future of wastewater surveillance in the U.S.? Wastewater based epidemiology is here to stay, and I hope that the future helps us have healthier communities and better public health decisions for pandemic prevention.
In Louisville it is ~5 days: Sunday, our utility team starts a 24 hour composite sampler pulling a small volume of wastewater from the sewer every 15 minutes; Monday, we deliver a 125 ml allocate of this composite wastewater sample for RT qPCR and sequencing. On Friday afternoons, RT qPCR and bioinformatics analysis is together presented to our public health officials for action. 3
Rochelle Holm is an Associate Professor with the Christina Lee Browne Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville
5. How easy is it to pivot from surveilling one virus to the next? For example, if you have a COVID-19 surveillance system in place, can it be easily adapted to polio?
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While researchers from 156 countries were represented among the retrieved articles, the majority were from the United States (39%) and the UK (19%). Indeed, within the United States, sites coupling mathematical modeling with attractive data visualization run the gamut from genomic epidemiology to population forecasting. Low and middle income countries were not well represented in the mathematical modeling literature retrieved in this review. Southeast Asia and Africa were among the regions with the fewest publications utilizing mathematical modeling, but remain among the regions with the highest health needs. Mathematical models can provide rich insight to guide policies on testing, mitigation strategies, and the effect of travel restrictions, as well as predict how an outbreak may behave. This gap in mathematical modeling in certain regions evidences the need for international research collaboration to help meet needs in these areas and to shore up global health Understandingsecurity.infectious disease dynamics— spread, methods of control, impact of mass immunization on transmission patterns is critical to policy development. A systematic review of WHO guidelines found that from 2007 to 2019, approximately 30% of WHO guidelines were informed by mathematical modeling, typically for infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Challengestuberculosis.of mathematical modeling include the difficulty of representing real life systems in mathematical relationship terms, understanding the limitations of the data, and the need for many assumptions to account for the high degree of uncertainty. For example, despite an excellent track record in COVID 19 modeling, and despite accounting for aerosol spread and a host of potential uncertainties, modelers at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, did not anticipate that some college students would outright defy quarantine requirements and attend parties while COVID positive. The result was more students testing positive one week into the semester than the model predicted by Thanksgiving. Human behavior may be one of the most challenging uncertainties to contend with.
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A 2022 systematic review traces the use of mathematical modeling in epidemiology from 1760 England, where Daniel Bernoulli modeled the epidemiology of Smallpox, to modern mathematical modeling used by Ronald Ross in his work on malaria transmission, through present day with COVID 19. The author reviewed the literature for global research activity in which mathematical modeling was applied to transmission and control of several infectious diseases.
The Rise of Mathematical Modeling
Mathematical modeling for transmission and control of some infectious diseases began to increase in the epidemiological literature in the late 1960s. Through the mid 1980s, there were 5 or fewer epidemiology publications per year using mathematical modeling. This number nearly quadrupled by 1995 (from 7 to 27), then doubled every 6 to 9 years, until it more than doubled in one year 2020 with the advent of COVID 19. In 2021, there were 1,074 epidemiological articles using mathematical modeling. The author defines a mathematical model as an equation that describes changes in a system with time, which can be used to forecast the impact of certain measures of interest. Within this systematic review, the most frequently modeled infectious diseases were: HIV/AIDS (27.4%), coronaviruses (23.5%), and influenza (12.3%). Other modeled infectious diseases included malaria, tuberculosis, Dengue fever, and Ebola, among others.
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In How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, Bill Gates presents a cogent, scientific approach to pandemic prevention rooted in lessons learned from COVID 19, without satisfactorily addressing matters of government and science skepticism as well as mis/disinformation. This book offers a robust overview of what worked in COVID 19 by culling observations from across the globe on strengths and weaknesses in public health systems, governments, and technological applications. Gates outlines how we can learn from the COVID 19 experience and better prepare for the future, but stops short of contending with the current societal Thecontext.strength of the book is in compiling and presenting pandemic prevention best practices, while offering examples of developing technologies aimed at making these practices faster and/or cheaper. In highlighting the importance of quickly increasing testing capacity, Gates discusses the high capacity Nexar test processing machine, which can process 150,000 tests daily and is the subject of pilot projects planned to determine how it works in a variety of contexts, such as airports and schools. And the inspiring story of how a Kenyan physician disrupted the single supplier oxygen market in Kenya, built oxygen plants at several of the country’s busiest hospitals, and reduced the Kenyan market price for oxygen by half, supplying oxygen to thousands more patients.
A third of the chapter titles contain an expression of timeliness or rapidity: “Get better at detecting outbreaks early”, “Help people protect themselves right away”, “Find new treatments fast,” and this is how a sizable portion of the book struck me continuing research and streamlining processes to do what we are already doing faster and better. There were some exceptions. Gates suggests the creation of a global team whose aim is to detect and prevent outbreaks from developing into pandemics. He approximates this aim could be achieved with a decentralized, cross disciplinary team of 3,000 individuals (epidemiologists, bioinformaticians, logistics planners, etc.) He presents a comprehensive overview of this global task force dedicated to disease surveillance and response, which he names the GERM (Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization) team. This seems like a feasible, valuable addition to the global public health landscape inasmuch as it establishes a designated task force with communication lines across disciplines and across the globe. However, the book aims to prevent the next pandemic, and to do so, I think we must deal with our current context. Two of the most central issues which handicapped the United States’ response to the pandemic were lack of a coordinated, uniform response across the federal, state, and local levels, and mis/disinformation often stemming from a mistrust of government and science. Gates mentions these without offering a clear path forward.
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Book Review – Context is Crucial How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates
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Several critical steps of pandemic response doing the right things early, people electing to test themselves and report their results, people electing to vaccinate are predicated upon a baseline level of trust in scientific research and/or government.
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a believer in innovation and technology. Here, he nicely compiles the science of pandemics and discusses the next iteration of innovation. I share his enthusiasm and applaud his optimism in a time when both are in short supply, but innovation, technology, and science will only take us so far as public confidence therein is not eroded.
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increase in mathematical modeling within the epidemiological literature highlights the rise of a powerful tool in infectious disease forecasting and other subspecialties in epidemiology. This is a call for current and future epidemiologists to continue pursuing biostatistical and mathematical training as a means for understanding and predicting outbreaks and epidemics.
Microbiology and Biology Education discusses how to teach mathematical modeling for disease transmission using zombie epidemics and this simulator of zombie apocalypse transmission Thisdynamics.pronounced
Within the United States, COVID 19 revealed deep schisms in the nation, and that in some areas public trust in government and science is injured and eroded. To ignore this reality is to face the fallout unprepared. Addressing reservations, let alone outright opposition, is non trivial. Research (here and here) on misinformation, conspiracy theories and those who subscribe to them indicates that worldview threatening information can be presented in a manner that abates psychological resistance (the so called “Backfire Effect”) when that information is coupled with self affirmation. Research also demonstrates that presenting people who hold extreme beliefs with even more extreme arguments supporting their beliefs actually caused them to take a more moderate position compared to conventional persuasive approaches. Gates aptly states that “good science is messy, uncertain, and prone to change.” In addition to vigilance against mis/disinformation, public health needs a scientific diplomacy team to build bridges and inroads for public trust in science while acknowledging its limitations. If you’re an epidemiologist or work in public health, much of the book will not be novel to you. This book is suited for those interested in a comprehensive overview of what worked well in the fight against COVID 19 and how it can be built upon for future Mr.outbreaks.Gatesis
11. Obligation to design studies that utilize appropriate methodology to address research 12.questions.Obligation to fairly represent research findings
7 October 2012 Ethics Guidelines Revised By Environmental Epidemiologists To Take Better Account Of Emerging Challenges In The Field The Epi Wayback Machine - Articles From Our Archives
Challenging Topics According to the article, the ethics committee of the ISEE was one of the earliest groups to create such guidelines and it felt that the time was ripe to revise earlier guidelines because of the evolving political and social context. The new issues that have emerged or intensified in the years between the first and the current guidelines, according to Kramer, include the following:
“Perhaps more than most other applied sciences, the discipline of environmental epidemiology faces significant ethical challenges because of the involvement of powerful stakeholders whose influence may affect all levels of research and policy formulation.”
1. Embracing the Precautionary Principle
6. Ownership of data on human subjects
2. Obligation to protect the most vulnerable and underserved (including fetuses, children, minorities, socially or economically disadvantaged)
4. Rights and participation of human subjects in the research process
Theprofessionguidelines are organized to address four major categories of responsibility which epidemiologists have to 1) individuals, 2) society, 3) funders and employers, and to 4) colleagues. - Ethics cont'd on page 8
8. Abuses of power and authority, especially as they relate to conflicts of interest, financial influence, political pressure, etc. These abuses may occur at many levels, including journal editorial/review; IRB; institutional promotion; rights of students; grants; and many others.
7. Conflicts of Interest (this is emphasized in the new Guidelines, as this issue has grown more prominent over time)
So write Shira Kramer, Colin Soskolne, B. Adetune Mustapha, and Wael K. Al Delaimy, in the August issue of Environmental Health Perspectives in introducing new revised ethics guidelines for the International Society for Environemental AskedEpidemiology.abouthow
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10. Fair allocation of research resources, especially to the poorest and most vulnerable populations and areas of the world
5. Data access issues, e.g. balancing the need for data with confidentiality requirements
relevant these guidelines might be for non environmental epidemiologists, Kramer told the Epi Monitor, “I believe that the Ethics Guidelines are applicable to all epidemiologists, but we have attempted to highlight issues that are particularly relevant to environmental epidemiologists.
9. Intellectual property rights, and fair attribution of research ideas and effort
3. Protection of individuals' rights regarding future use of biospecimens
Core Values
Among the core values described in the guidelines which the authors relied upon to formulate them are objectivity, and advancing overall public health as well as that of disadvantaged and vulnerable population subgroups. On the topic of objectivity, the guidelines discuss “unconscious partiality” stating that this is a human tendency and that sociological evidence shows that one’s ethical and political worldview influences the many phases of the scientific process. According to the guidelines, researchers have “a moral duty to the profession and an ethical duty to society to seek a range of advice including from those who often disagree with us.” According to the authors, this second edition makes even more clear the obligation to include communities in our research. The authors note that “there is no consensus among ISEE members as to whether environmental epidemiologists have a duty to go beyond objectively communicating facts or to become policy advocates.” Also, there was no consensus among environmental epidemiologists about what funding sources are acceptable when a particular environmental factor has been implicated or exonerated.
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8 more user friendly than what the first edition from 1996 ever was/could have been, given the advent of electronic hot and cross links through a well organized table of contents. We thus are hopeful that fellow environmental epidemiologists seeking guidance on normative approaches to choices that face us at every step in the research and/or practice mode of our day to day work can be successfully aided through the current Herevision.”added, “The next steps that the Ethics and Philosophy Committee is striving for are to populate the guidelines with links to case studies that will serve as examples of the many issues that face us in our day to day work. We hope to achieve this by the time of the next ISEE conference in Basel, Switzerland in 2013.” According to Kramer, “We hope that the addition of case studies, based upon actual experiences of the contributors, will help illuminate the Guidelines and facilitate their usefulness as a teaching tool in schools of public health.” ■
Process As for the process of revision, it took nearly 3 years from start to finish, according to Kramer. It included the ISEE’s Ethics and Philosophy subcommittee on the Ethics Guidelines. Once a working draft was developed, it was released to the full Ethics & Philosophy Committee for comment and revision, and then finally to the Governing Council of the ISEE. There were many revisions to be accommodated during this process, and the four primary authors of the article in Environmental Health Perspectives were the most involved. The Guidelines were ultimately formally accepted by the Governing Council of the ISEE on April 25, 2012.
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Epi Crossword Puzzle – August 2022 First Women in Public Health - Crossword Questions cont'd on page 10 -9Our crossword puzzle was created by by Dr. Richard Dicker A former CDC employee and not quite retired epidemiologist, For an online version go to: https://bit.ly/3eawF5T
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11 What We're Reading This Month Employment ♦ Readying The Applied Epidemiology Workforce For The Future Of Public Health Practice https://bit.ly/3crRLfB ♦ Epidemiologist Explains Why Earning A Masters In Public Health Can Be ‘Critical’ For Your Careerhttps://bit.ly/3Rj72Ol ♦ Big City Health Departments Warn Of Major Epidemiologist Shortage https://bit.ly/3cEHX1o ♦ JHSPH Offers New Free Virtual Class On Infectious Disease Transmission Models For Decisionhttps://bit.ly/3e71YOIMakers COVID-19 ♦ Lessons Learned Epidemiologists Share What They’ve Learned From The Corona Virus Pandemichttps://nyti.ms/3AyKrXg Monkeypox ♦ Epidemiologist Debunks 7 Monkeypox Myths https://bit.ly/3RljgpS ♦ Monkeypox Is a Sexually Transmitted Infection, and Knowing That Can Help Protect Peoplehttps://bit.ly/3CCGcfZ Editor's Note: All of us are confronted with more material than we can possibly hope to digest each month. However, that doesn't mean that we should miss some of the articles that appear in the public media on topics of interest to the epi community. Moving forward, the EpiMonitor will curate a list of some of the best articles we've encountered in the past month. See something you think others would like to read? Please send us a link at info@epimonitor.net and we'll add it to the list. Reading cont'd on page 12
12 What We're Reading This Month - con't from page 11 Monkeypox continued ♦ How Does Monkey Pox Spread? An Epidemiologist Explains Why It Isn’t An STI And What Qualifies As Close https://bit.ly/3RljQUAContact Other Topics ♦ The Threat Of Polio In Spain “What Worries Us” https://bit.ly/3CCGO5h ♦ Epidemiologist Alana Llanos Investigates The Synergy Of Society And Biology https://bit.ly/3AyYiwX ♦ Fearing The Wurst: The Association Of Red And Processed Meats With Chronic Disease Risk https://bit.ly/3Avtxc8 ♦ Persistent Low Wages Linked To Faster Memory Decline Later In Life https://bit.ly/3AXhAgY ♦ Daily Cannabis Users Less Likely To View Heavy Cigarette Smoking As Dangerous https://bit.ly/3R5o2rJ ♦ Brown Epidemiologist Breaks Down ‘Forever Chemicals’ And The Research On Their Healthhttps://bit.ly/3pRDnjEEffects ♦ Climate Epidemiologists Attempting To Discover Who Suffers When The Power Goes Out https://bit.ly/3RkOiOx ♦ Univ of Wyoming Researchers Tapped To Help Improve Post Pandemic Disease Models https://bit.ly/3pVrb1g ♦ CDC Names Rice / Houston Health Dept A Wastewater Center of Excellence https://bit.ly/3e9pLNW
Awarded: Brooke Staley, a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and former co chair of the Minority Student Caucus, was selected as one of 38 awardees in the 2022 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship competition. Selected from more than 600 applicants, she is the first Gillings student to receive this distinction, which is rarely awarded to public health trainees.
Hired: West Virginia University has named Tyler Quinn to the faculty. Dr. Quinn graduated with his Ph.D. in exercise physiology with an emphasis in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020. Since graduation, he has worked as an Associate Service Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NIOSH, Pittsburgh). Dr. Quinn’s current research focuses on the relationship between occupational physical activity exposure and cardiovascular health.
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Named: President Biden named Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator. FEMA’s Robert Fenton and Daskalakis will lead the Administration’s strategy and operations to combat the current monkeypox outbreak, including equitably increasing the availability of tests, vaccinations and treatments. Dr Daskalakis is currently Director of the CDC Division of HIV Prevention. Widely known as a national expert on health issues affecting the LGBGQIA+ communities, his clinical practice has focused on providing care for the underserved LGBTQIA+ communities. He previously oversaw management of infectious diseases for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. -13-
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Published: Mya Brady (Univ of Pittsburgh SPH ’21G) is marking her first publication as first author (and second to date) with a study in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, “Transmission Visualization of Healthcare Infection Clusters: A Scoping Review,” Brady and colleagues analyzed 30 publications to ascertain the most common elements used to map infectious disease outbreaks and spread in institutional settings. Of the more than three dozen data visualizations studied, the team found none they felt included all the factors most useful to determine likely transmission pathways.
Awarded: The Government of Japan has awarded the Fourth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for Medical Research to Columbia faculty members Salim S. Abdool Karim, CAPRISA Professor for Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology and director, Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and to Quarraisha Abdool Karim, professor of epidemiology and associate scientific director of CAPRISA
Awarded: David Waltner-Toews, Toews is a veterinarian and epidemiologist, researcher and teacher and the founding president of Veterinarians Without Borders. Waltner Towes, a retired Guelph University professor, has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was recognized for his “leadership and expertise in ecosystem approaches to health, and for supporting development worldwide,” the Governor General of Canada said in a recent statement.
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Resigned: Chief Epidemiologist of Iceland Þórólfur Guðnason has resigned. Þórólfur is leaving the job both for personal and professional reasons. According to the Directorate of Health, the main reason for Þórólfur’s resignation is that the current wave of COVID 19 infection has mostly subsided and a new chapter is beginning in the Chief Epidemiologist’s role. “This new chapter includes, among other things, a review of the response to the COVID pandemic with the aim of improving response to future pandemics,” the notice from the Directorate states. The Chief Epidemiologist will also be shifting focus back to the routine projects that were largely put on hold due to the pandemic.
Passed: Neal Nathanson who served as Chair of Microbiology for 15 years, Associate Dean for Research, Vice Provost for Research, and Director of the Global Health programs at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He spent 22 years at Johns Hopkins University, in the School of Public Health, where he was a Professor of Epidemiology, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Epidemiology and founding Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Dr. Nathanson also spent two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the Centers for Disease Control, where he headed the Polio Surveillance Unit. -14-
Passed: James “Jimmy” Beecham who was a member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service in ’76 ’78. He was involved in the 1976 Legionnaire’s Disease investigation and was a subject of the book “Inside the Outbreaks”. He practiced medicine in both Maryland & Pennsylvania. In 1982 joined the US Navy as an infectious disease doctor and served in 15 different countries with a focus on Southeast Asia. He initiated the Navy’s collaboration with Dr. Jonas Salk in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and was awarded the Navy’s Legion of Merit for his work. -15-
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Passed: Peter Boyle known for his work in tobacco control, bringing orthodoxy and truth to interpretation of scientific data, his forecast of a cancer epidemic in the developing world, his advocacy of cancer prevention and his mentorship of young scientists. He was a former member of the faculty at of the Harvard School of Public Health in the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Later he joined the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the United Nations cancer agency.
Passed: Peter Schantz who served as Chief of the Laboratory of Parasitology for the Pan American Zoonoses Center/World Health Organization in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1970 1974. He was a consultant on hydatid disease control to public health authorities in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. In 1974 Peter joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) as a Commissioned Officer in the Division of Parasitic Diseases. Peter served the division as epidemiologist until his retirement in 2008. Afterwards he served as an Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University School of Public Health.
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Passed: Eugene "Gene" J. Gangarosa the former head of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service who spent his career serving institutions for the public good, including: the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—where he received the William C. Watson Jr. Medal of Excellence, CDC's highest honor American University of Beirut and Emory University’s School of Medicine. He played a key role in the evolution of Emory’s graduate program, now known as the Rollins School of Public Health.
October 20 22 https://bit.ly/3DKGSgj Conference / ID (Infectious Disease) Week / Multiple / Washington, DC
September 21 23 http://bit.ly/35hZRhG Conference / 2022 CityMatch Leadership & MCH Epi Conference / CityMatch / Chicago, IL
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 upcoming year. Thus an online copy exists on our website that is updated regularly. To view the full year please go to: http://www.epimonitor.net/Events
September 20 23 https://bit.ly/2pNWzQF Conference / Interdisciplinary Approaches for Advancing Population Health Equity / Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science / Minneapolis, MN
September 13-14 http://bit.ly/2RzkcLF Conference / Swiss Public Health Conference 2021 / University of Bern / Bern, Switzerland
September14-17 https://bit.ly/3DWuTMA Conference / 13th Intl Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII) / ESCMID (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) / Bath, England
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September 7 https://bit.ly/3GGYN9L Event / World Field Epidemiology Day / TEPHINET (Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network) / SeptemberWorldwide8-11 https://bit.ly/3DV3zhY Conference / American College of Epidemiology Annual Conference / ACE / Scottsdale, AZ
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This position is for a full time faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor in the tenure stream/Associate Professor in the tenure stream or with tenure and requires a doctoral degree in epidemiology or a related discipline with post doctoral training in epidemiology. We seek an exceptional individual with nationally recognized research expertise in population neuroscience and in aging muscle and brain physiology. The successful candidate will collaborate with a highly multi disciplinary team of investigators with expertise in population neuroscience, muscle biology, and gerontology.
The ideal candidate will have expertise in computational biology and analyses of genetic and epigenetic data, as well as proteomic and metabolomics. Preference will be given to candidates with a history of extramural research funding and high profile publications. Other qualifications that will be taken in consideration include strong leadership skills including experience leading large, collaborative research consortia, projects, and/or epidemiologic cohorts as principal investigator; capacity to conduct research with high scientific rigor and integrity; a demonstrated commitment in promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity; potential for teaching and mentoring of master’s and doctoral students within the Department of Epidemiology; and ability to contribute to the mission of the School of Public Health through service
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This position is for a full time faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor in the appointment stream and requires a doctoral degree in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, data science, bioinformatics, or a related field with experience in managing and analyzing data from clinical research studies, including randomized clinical trials and observational studies. The successful candidate will be part of a research group involved in designing, coordinating, and analyzing clinical trials and epidemiologic studies. The individual would be expected to participate in study design, study management, data analysis, supervising students or staff, preparing data reports, and writing manuscripts. This individual will also be expected to assist with teaching, by lecturing in courses, and mentoring students. This position is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and other funding organizations.
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In addition to the qualifications above, appointment at the Associate Professor level requires five years of experience and demonstrated scholarly productivity, including teaching, funded research, and extensive publications in peerreviewed journals.
The Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh invites applications for two full-time faculty positions that are available immediately. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Review of applications will commence upon receipt of all application materials and will continue until the position is filled. Please apply by going to www.join.pitt.edu and applying for the corresponding requisition Please attach a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a statement of current and future research directions, and the names of three references to your online Theapplication.University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer and values equality of opportunity, human dignity and diversity, EOE, including disability/vets.
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The School of Public Health is going through multiple years of expansion having hired ten new faculty members in the past year, and will be recruiting at least ten tenure track positions this year. Cluster hires are possible, and salary will be commensurate experience. track Faculty full time, open rank: Faculty full time assistant or associate: the School of Public Health (public-health.tamu.edu) , Center for Population Health and Aging USA Center for Rural Emergency Preparedness be submitted through Interfolio. Dennis Gorman, search committee chair gorman@tamu.edu for tenure track Patrick Tarwater, Department Head tarwater@tamu.edu for all other positions.
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In addition, for consideration at the tenure-track associate and full professor level, applicants must also have a commensurate record of teaching experience, peer reviewed publications, and extramurally funded Toresearch.applyfor this position, please visit http://jobs.uiowa.edu, faculty requisition #74558. Candidates should provide a letter of interest, research statement, diversity statement, curriculum vitae, and names of three references. Please address inquiries and nominations to the search committee chair, Ryan Carnahan, ryan carnahan@uiowa.edu or call 319-384-1556.
Applicants must hold a PhD or other doctorate in epidemiology or in a relevant field or a MD with experience in epidemiology or relevant field. As minimum qualifications for consideration at the tenure-track assistant professor level, applicants should demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching and advising graduate students; comprehensive and contemporary epidemiologic methods; demonstrated potential or ability to obtain an extramurally funded research program; and evidence of peer reviewed publications and research productivity commensurate with years of professional experience. Candidates must demonstrate a commitment to promoting a diverse academic environment. Desirable qualifications include the ability to engage in multi disciplinary collaboration between departments across the university and with public health agencies and other related organizations.
The Department of Epidemiology in the University of Iowa, College of Public Health invites applications for open rank tenure track faculty positions (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor). We welcome applicants with experience in any area of epidemiology, including clinical, interventional, and population-based studies, cancer, chronic/noncommunicable diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, nutrition, infectious diseases, molecular and genetic, maternal and child health, injury, disability, social epidemiology, health disparities, use of technology for disease monitoring and intervention, or other areas. The Department provides a strong infrastructure for Epidemiology research including prospective observational studies, interventional/clinical/pragmatic trials, and established laboratories for molecular methods.
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