Professional Development Programming
Networking Nights / Poster Presentation
On Monday and Wednesday evenings, in-person SISMID attendees are invited to attend a networking mixer with fellow attendees and program instructors. The networking mixer will feature a poster session, with all attendees welcome to share their recent or ongoing work. This is a great opportunity for participants to interact and debrief with instructors and each other. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be provided.
Lunch and Learn
During Tuesday and Thursday lunches, students are invited to attend optional professional development programming. These will be presentations or panel discussions with featured experts. Topics include skills building and information about fellowships and career opportunities. Some days have 3-4 concurrent sessions and students are able to select one session to attend.
Lunch and Learn Schedule
Tuesday, July 15th
Session 1
Title: Making A Website with Quarto
Facilitator: Zane Billings, PhD Student, University of Georgia
Room Location: RR 340
Session 2
Title: Public Health Leadership
Facilitator: Sean Kaufman, Chief Executive Office, Safer Behaviors
Room Location: RR 344
Thursday, July 17th
Session 1
Title: Refining your Public Health Message
Facilitator: Rob Spahr, Director of Public Relations, Rollins School of Public Health
Room Location: RR 340
Session 2
Title: Building and Curating your Brand
Facilitator: Dr. Andreas Handel, Professor, Department Head, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Georgia
Room Location: RR 344
Session 3
Title: CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Services Program
Facilitator: Dr. Eric Pevzner, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Services Program
Room location: RR 102
Tuesday, July 22nd
Session 1
Title: Updates from the CFA Predict Division
Facilitator: Dr. Beau Bruce, Chief CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics
Room Location: RR 344
Session 2
Title: The CDC Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship
Facilitator: Dr. Carlo Davilia Pavon, CDC
Room Location: RR 340
Session 3
Title: Reproducible Project Organization
Facilitator: Dr. Julia Wrobel, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Room Location: 102
Thursday July 24th
Session 1
Title: Updates from the CFA Predict Inform Division
Facilitator: Dr. Rebecca Kahn, Team Lead, CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics
Room Location: RR 340
Session 2
Title: Publishing in Peer Reviewed Journals
Facilitators: Dr. Timothy Lash, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health and Dr. Patrick Sullivan, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
Room Location: RR 344
Tuesday, July 29th
Session 1
Title: Refining your Public Health Message
Facilitator: Rob Spahr, Director of Public Relations, Rollins School of Public Health
Room Location: RR 340
Session 2
Title: Data Visualization
Facilitator: Dr. Paula Edwards, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health
Room Location: RR 344