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♦ Cities hire chief heat officers to address an unequal impact of climate change (Yahoo News) https://bit.ly/442eFzq

♦ Epidemiologist updates and validates ‘gold standard’ of prenatal physical activity tools (MedExpress via Apple News) https://bit.ly/44iB2Az

COVID-19

♦ Epidemiologist warns Aussies to be vigilant as Covid grows in advance of flu season (NCA Newswire) https://bit.ly/46twzN9

♦ Podcast: The scientific search for the origin of COVID-19 (The Economist) https://bit.ly/3CR9JS2

♦ Losing a parent early in life impacts a person’s immune system as they age – the ongoing impact of Covid (Univ of Michigan) https://bit.ly/3CQpCIE o you have news about yourself, a colleague, or a student?

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Appointed: President Biden has named Dr. Mandy Cohen, former state health secretary in North Carolina, to serve as the next leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cohen, 44, is an internal medicine physician who has served in top positions in state and federal government and in the private sector. From 2017-2021, she served as health secretary in North Carolina, where she worked on expanding access to health care for low-income residents and became the face of the state's COVID-19 response during the public health emergency.

Named: Dr. Kathryn Taylor has been named the Mississippi Interim State Epidemiologist, effective July 1, 2023.Currently serving as Deputy State Epidemiologist since 2019, Dr. Taylor has worked at MSDH for several years, previously District V Health Officer and Medical Consultant for the Office of Communicable Diseases. Dr. Taylor has been vital in providing direction for surveillance and surveillance systems to the agency, has led and been involved in numerous outbreak and reportable diseases investigations and in the responses to other diseases of public health significance.

Appointed: Dr. Julie Kornfeld will become president of Kenyon College, effective Oct. 1, 2023. Kornfeld is currently vice provost for academic programs at Columbia University. She has also served as vice dean for education and associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health; and assistant dean and director of education at University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Kornfeld holds a bachelor’s in journalism from Boston University, a Master of Public Health from University of Miami, and a Ph.D. in epidemiology also from UMiami.

Appointed: Saint Louis University has appointed Leslie McClure, Ph.D., as the next permanent dean of SLU’s College for Public Health and Social Justice (CPHSJ), effective Nov. 15. McClure is the associate dean for faculty affairs at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. She also has served as the chair of the school's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics since 2015 and previously served as the interim director of the Drexel Biostatistics Service Center.

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Honored: Professor David Hunter has been awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours list. is a world-renowned epidemiologist specialising in disease prevention and early detection now based at Oxford University in the UK. Joining the faculty at the Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1989, he went on to establish the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention in 1997 and later its Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology. Occupying deanships at the T.H. Chan school from 2019 to 2016, he was made an Emeritus Professor in 2016.

In the spotlight: Erica Rapheal, an epidemiologist from St. Paul, competed on “Jeopardy!” in an episode that aired at 4:30 p.m. Friday June 16th.

“Finally allowed to announce the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me,” Rapheal wrote in an Instagram post that showed her and host Mayim Bialik on the game show’s set.

To view the episode on YouTube click here: https://bit.ly/3NtrziT

Passed: Susan Elizabeth Goodwin Gerberich (Mayo Professor of Public Health Emerita, University of Minnesota), died on June 4, 2023. she launched the first major comprehensive study of football injuries in Minnesota high schools in 1978, that included documentation of high rates of concussions and spinal trauma symptoms, among other injuries. Other major studies of sportsrelated injuries, including hockey, were subsequently developed and conducted by her with a research team. She joined the School of Public Health faculty fulltime, 1983-2021, where she developed a major teaching and research program in injury epidemiology and prevention that included the first federally funded training program in occupational health and safety. https://bit.ly/3Da2epL

Passed: Dr. John Richard Hebel, 87, passed away peacefully on June 1, 2023, in York, PA, after a long battle with Guillain-Barre disease. Rich began his career in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine as Assistant Professor in 1966. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1971 and to Professor in 1984. He participated in research concerning prenatal care for low- income women, blood pressure variability, smoking cessation during pregnancy, hospital mortality, hypertension screening, lead exposure, hip fracture recovery, dementia in nursing homes, alcohol abuse intervention, urinary tract infection, and health effects of exposure of pfiesteria. Rich was also the author or co-author of over 200 journal articles. https://bit.ly/440E6RT

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 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 The events that we are aware of for the next month follow below.

July 2023

July 1-8 https://bit.ly/3G0Hwuu

Summer Program: ESCMID Summer School / ESCMID Summer School / Seville, Spain

July 3-14 https://bit.ly/2Kxw9QD

Short Course: Epidemiological Evaluation of Vaccines: Efficacy, Safety and Policy / London School of Health and Tropical Medicine / London, England

July 10-13 https://bit.ly/3GC1mtG

Conference: NACCHO 360 Conference / NACCHO / Denver, CO

July 10 – August 4 http://bit.ly/2LSdUmP

Summer Program: 8th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics for Clinical & Epidemiological Research (SISCER) / University of Washington / Seattle, WA

July 11-22 http://bit.ly/3mOlFtn

Summer Program: 8th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics for Big Data (SISBID) / University of Washington / Virtual

July 11-26 https://bit.ly/2RWT7iZ

Summer Program: 13th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) / University of Washington / Seattle, WA

July 11-29 https://bit.ly/2QnqkHv

Summer Program / 56th Summer Session in Epidemiology / University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI

July 24-28 https://bit.ly/3G2Vz2P

Conference: Integrative Molecular Epidemiology Workshop / American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) / Boston, MA

July TBA http://bit.ly/38Agng0

Summer Program: 31st International Summer School of Epidemiology at Ulm University / Ulm University / Ulm, Germany

July TBA http://bit.ly/2WO6wOg

Summer Program: Summer Institute of Advanced Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine / Tel Aviv University / Tel Aviv, Israel

July TBA http://bit.ly/2RB5xja

Summer Program: Annual RAND Summer Institute / Rand Corporation / Santa Monica, CA

August 2023

August 3-4 https://bit.ly/34bPNIB

Conference: 7th International Conference on Public Health (ICOPH 2023) / Multiple / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia & virtual

August 5-10 https://bit.ly/3HF6IYM

Conference: JSM 2023 (Joint Statistics Meeting) / American Statistical Association / Toronto, Canada

August 8-26 https://bit.ly/38pSFlY

Summer Program: Erasmus MC Summer Program / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 8-12 https://bit.ly/3pVSNDh

Short Course: Principles of Research in Medicine and Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 8-12 https://bit.ly/3pYjt6k

Short Course: Principles of Genetic Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 8-12 https://bit.ly/3pWfN4V

Short Course: Advances in Clinical Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 8-12 https://bit.ly/327ATVW

Short Course: History of Epidemiologic Ideas / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 15-19 https://bit.ly/3ILLQx4

Short Course: Causal Inference / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 22-26 https://bit.ly/3pV8Ml0

Short Course: Social Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 22-26 https://bit.ly/3pUSXus

Short Course: Practice of Epidemiologic Analysis / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 22-26 https://bit.ly/3E1IH8Y

Short Course: Data Science in Epidemiology / Erasmus MC / Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August 23-27 https://bit.ly/3mXQ4qe

Conference: ISPE Annual Conference / International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology / Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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