SPC President’s Message
Allow me to (hopefully) be the last person to wish you all a happy new year! I hope we are all past the point of accidentally dating things as 2021, and I trust that those of you who made them, are all diligently holding on to your resolutions. There are a lot of exciting things happening in the year ahead, and I look forward to experiencing them all together in the months to come.
I want to thank everyone who joined us for last month’s SERjournal club. Dr. Peter Tennant led a great session on his article “Use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to identify confounders in applied health research: review and recommendations”, and we had well over 100 attendees! Of course, if you were one of the unfortunate folks who could not attend, members can always catch the recordings on the SER website. (Pro tip: if you have not done so already, now is the time to renew your SER membership to maintain access to all of the amazing online content). And of course, make sure to keep an ear out for updates regarding our next journal club, which will take place on April 20th.
New this year, we’re really excited to announce a partnership between the SPC and the journal Epidemiology that will help our SPC members gain experience and opportunities with scientific peer-review. Make sure to keep your eyes open as more information and details for signing up will be released soon.
“That sounds great, John – but I don’t have much experience with peer-review. Is there a way I can learn more about how to do a fantastic peer-review?”
That’s a GREAT question, SPC member. As a matter of fact, there is! Make sure you join us on Wednesday, February 9th at 12PM (ET) for a very special SERexperts, where Special Editor at Epidemiology, Dr. Hailey Banack, and Editor in Residency at the American Journal of Epidemiology, Dr. Catherine Lesko, will talk “Peer Review 101 for students and postdocs”. If you have not done so already, make sure you register for that here.
Finally, we are all super excited for our Spring SERdigital, titled, “Health disparities research in epidemiology: present and future directions”. You can click here to read more about the session and of course, to register.
I know, it’s a lot – and that’s not even including next month’s Mid-Year Meeting, or #SER2022, which will be here before you know it. But you can always check in with the SERcalendar to keep up to date with all upcoming events and programming. In the meantime, I look forward to engaging with you all at the many upcoming events and if there is anything else you’d like to see from your SPC, we’d love to hear from you. With that, I wish you all a healthy, productive, and rewarding 2022!
John R. Pamplin II
SER SPC President