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♦ Unexplained rise in brain infections in children worries pediatricians (NBC News) https://nbcnews.to/3qaUqk9 https://bit.ly/3ILfcx0

♦ Diego Cuadros, A University of Cincinnati epidemiologist explained how limited access to technology in rural parts of the United States is leading to greater disparities in health care.

COVID-19

♦ The latest Covid variants have a surprising feature in common (The Atlantic via AppleNews) https://bit.ly/3IMQD2V

♦ Where you live makes you more susceptible to long Covid (The Independent – England) https://bit.ly/3N3ow29

♦ Coronavirus emergency over, do we unmask and grin? (NPR) https://bit.ly/3OJaRyc

♦ Variant Arcturus now responsible for 14% of Covid cases (Forbes) https://bit.ly/3q6kkW8

♦ CDC sets first target for indoor ventilation to prevent the spread of Covid-19 (CNN) https://bit.ly/42bgU1G

♦ Has Covid created a generation of germaphobes? (Daily Mail) https://bit.ly/3IIea4U

♦ CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for Covid following CDC conference (Washington Post) https://bit.ly/3MG1sVv o you have news about yourself, a colleague, or a student?

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Awarded: Kathryn H. Jacobsen, PhD, MPH, received the 2023 Velji Global Health Award for Teaching Excellence from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Dr. Jacobsen is a professor of epidemiology and global health and holder of the William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair at the University of Richmond (Virginia, USA). She has authored more than 200 peerreviewed journal articles as well as two widely used textbooks, Introduction to Global Health (now in its 4th edition) and Introduction to Health Research Methods (currently in its 3rd edition), both published by Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Appointed: Dr. Francesca Beaudoin, associate professor of epidemiology and of emergency medicine at Brown University, has been appointed chair of the Department of Epidemiology effective July 1, 2023. A clinical epidemiologist and practicing physician, Dr. Beaudoin began her academic career as assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School in 2010. Conducting research at the intersection of pain, opioid use, and opioid use disorders, her work is widely recognized as impacting the landscape of pain management and improving post-overdose care in acute care settings.

Appointed: Nicole Deziel, associate professor of epidemiology (environmental health sciences), has been named a co-director of the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric, and Environmental Epidemiology (CPPEE), starting July 1. She will share leadership duties with the center’s current director, Andrew DeWan, associate professor of epidemiology (chronic diseases).DeWan has been the lone director of CPPEE since Brian Leaderer, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences), retired in June 2020. DeWan recently approached Deziel, who is on sabbatical this school year, about co-directing.

Awarded: One of the recipients 2023 Harvard Alumni medals, Paula A. Johnson is an internationally recognized physician-scientist and educator, who has committed her career to advancing the well-being of women. As the president of Wellesley College, and the first African American in that role, Johnson has advanced inclusive excellence and STEM education for women, among other accomplishments. Johnson was also the Grayce A. Young Family Professor of Medicine in Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School a professorship named in honor of her mother and professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Honored: Michael Hudgens, PhD, is the winner of the 2023 Larsh Award from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Hudgens is a professor and associate chair of the Department of Biostatistics and serves as the director of the Biostatistics Core of the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). He has experience in collaborative research and statistical methodology development related to studies of infectious diseases.

Honored: Lindsey Smith Taillie, PhD, is the winner of the 2023 McGavran Award from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Taillie is a nutrition epidemiologist who received her doctoral degree in nutrition from the Gillings School in 2014. She is a current associate professor in the nutrition department and the department’s associate chair for academics. She also co-leads the UNC Global Food Research Program.

Honored: Erin Haynes, Dr.P.H., Kurt W. Deuschle Professor of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, is one of 16 University Research Professors for 2023-24. The University Research Professorships honor faculty members who have demonstrated excellence that addresses scientific, social, cultural and economic challenges in our region and around the world.

Appointed: Texas Women’s University professor, Loan Van Auker, has been appointed to the team at LiquiTech, a leading provider of sustainable water treatment and management solutions for commercial and institutional customers. VanAuker brings more than 15 years of experience in disease outbreak surveillance, investigations, and prevention, most recently as an Infection Prevention Practitioner at Baylor Scott & White Health Systems.

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Appointed: LinKinVax, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, has announced the appointment of Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., to its scientific advisory board. Giuliano, a professor of epidemiology, is the founding director of the Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer (CIIRC) at the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. Early in her career, she worked on the links between human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and cervical cancer in women, before moving on to other HPV-related male and female cancers. Prof. Giuliano, currently leads a CIIRC research team at the Moffitt Cancer Center to accelerate the development and use of vaccines and compounds to prevent and treat cancer.

Passed: Kenrad E. Nelson, a professor of epidemiology and internationally recognized AIDS expert who spent nearly four decades on the Johns Hopkins faculty, died April 21 at the age of 89. In an email announcing his death and paying tribute to his memory Tuesday, Bloomberg School of Public Health Dean Ellen MacKenzie honored Nelson's "stellar record as a researcher, teacher, and mentor." Nelson joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1986 as a full professor in the Department of Epidemiology with joint appointments in International Health and the School of Medicine's Department of Medicine. He was an early investigator of HIV in blood donors and recipients and, with David Vlahov, co-investigator on a grant that would revolutionize AIDS research, The natural history of HIV infections in injection drug users in Baltimore: The ALIVE study https://bit.ly/43cWdUy

Passed: Malaria kills more than half a million people every year, mostly children under the age of five in Africa. Saving the lives of those children was the lifelong mission of Dominic Kwiatkowski, who has died suddenly aged 69. A professor at Oxford University, Dominic recognised that bringing the power of genomics to bear on malaria would need data from multiple studies in many countries. He saw that the only way to achieve that was in partnership with researchers based in the countries where malaria was endemic. In 2005 Dominic won funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to set up the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN). https://bit.ly/3MICmpe