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2021 Elections

The control and administration of SER is vested in an Executive Committee, which, as per SER bylaws, includes a President, Past-President, President-Elect, five Members at large and an Executive Director. All positions, except for the Executive Director, are elected individually by majority vote of the members voting.  

The 2021 Elections include candidates for President-Elect, Member at Large (Communication), and Member at Large (Education). SER members are entitled to vote for one candidate in each position. The voting period begins on April 1, 2021 and concludes on May 7, 2021. 

 

President-Elect

Onyebuchi Arah

Onyebuchi Arah

Candidate Statement:

I am humbled by the opportunity and privilege to run for the President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), my primary professional home. It is also poignant and terrifying to be running for this important office in 2021, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, when the terms epidemiology and epidemiologist have become household terms.

I believe my leadership, research, training and service experiences will be important assets to the position. Currently, I am a Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and an affiliated Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Read more

Pam Factor Litvak

Pam Factor Litvak

Candidate Statement:

I am very humbled to be considered for President-Elect of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER). In the over 40 years that I have been a member, I have considered SER to be an intellectual home for all epidemiologists. My first meeting, in 1979, introduced me to a society in which there was a healthy discourse regarding study design, analytic methods and, more recently, causal inference. SER is our society, building a community of scientists, from a wide variety of backgrounds, who come together with the common goal of improving health and society. On a personal level, attending annual meetings has continuously provided a means to hone my own thinking about these issues, and to improve both the way I conduct my own research and teach and mentor a new generation of epidemiologists. Read more

Member at Large – (Communications)

Sunni Mumford

Sunni Mumford

Candidate Statement:

I am excited for the possibility to serve as Member-At-Large for SER. I have been an active member of the Society for 14 years, after having joined during my doctoral training. Every year, I look forward to the annual meeting as an opportunity to connect and re-connect with talented colleagues and friends and to be inspired by the great research being performed in our field. I have served many roles in SER meetings, from co-chairing the SER Communications committee, to helping coordinate the SER/SPER Fun Run, to presenting my own nutrition and reproductive epidemiology research, to organizing symposia featuring a wide-range of epidemiologic sub-disciplines. Read more
Peter Rebeiro

Peter Rebeiro

Candidate Statement:

Hello, fellow epidemiologists. Though I feel fairly awkward addressing you this way, after the plague year we’ve been having, maybe it’s just par for the course; I’m generally a very introverted person, you see. That said, I love learning new things about and from my colleagues, and because of what SER does so well– bringing epidemiologists together in a spirit of shared scholarship– it’s been one of the most wonderful parts of practicing this profession. That’s why, with your support, I hope to be a bit more extroverted this coming year: I hope to help communicate all that SER has to offer as a Member-At-Large on its Executive Committee. Read more

Member at Large – (Education)

Jessie Edwards

Jessie Edwards

Candidate Statement:

I am honored to be considered for the member-at-large position on the SER Executive Board. Epidemiology is fundamental to improving public health, and SER is the beating heart that drives advances in the discipline. It is a Society that connects those with methodological expertise with those looking to expand their knowledge of epidemiologic methods. Those with important scientific questions to those with data. Those seeking collaborators to new friends. Read more

Mustafa Hussein

Mustafa Hussein

Candidate Statement:

Becoming a member in SER is one of the most fortunate moments in my life! I joined SER during my doctoral training in health policy at the University of Tennessee. My PhD program focused on public policy analysis, particularly in healthcare policy and economics, and provided ample opportunities for advanced methods training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and econometrics. It was that early exposure to epidemiology that prompted me to seek out SER and has guided my career trajectory ever since. Read more

Student and Postdoc – President Elect

Sharia Ahmed

Sharia Ahmed

Candidate Statement:

I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for President-Elect of the SER Student & Postdoc Committee (SPC). I am a post-doctoral fellow in the Microbial Pathogenesis T32 training program at the University of Utah, where I develop clinical prediction tools for pediatric diarrhea prevention and management. I earned my doctoral degree in public health epidemiology from Oregon State University, MPH in global epidemiology from Emory University, and BA/BS from the University of Minnesota. Read more

Kelli Gribben

Kelli Gribben

Candidate Statement:

My name is Kelli Gribben, and I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for President Elect of the Society for Epidemiologic Research Student and Post-Doc Committee (SER-SPC). I am a PhD Epidemiology Candidate at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. My dissertation research investigates genetic and environmental risk factors for adult asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). I joined SER in 2017 and started serving on the Membership and Nominations Committee in 2020. I am excited about the opportunity to become more involved in SER. Read more