SPC Presidents Message

Hello Students, Postdocs, and other Early Career Epidemiologists! The 2024-2025 Student-Postdoc Committee (SPC) has been hard at work over the past few months. We hosted a very well attended event on NIH pre- and post-doctoral grant applications (F and K awards). Many thanks to our speakers Drs. Maria Glymour, Katrina Kezios, and Sirena Gutierrez. The next SERpresents event will be November 13, 2024, on the topic of “Quasi-experimental approaches in Epidemiology.”

Looking forward, I encourage everyone to consider submitting a Mid-Year Meeting abstract by November 15, 2024. The virtual format reduces burden on presenters. If you need some inspiration, I recommend the new Descriptive Epidemiology SERplaylist put together by Kate LeMasters and Lauren Zalla (https://epiresearch.org/2024/08/05/descriptive-epidemiology/). Everyone should keep some space on your calendar between February 10-14, 2025, and expect amazing symposia and abstract speakers on a diverse range of topics during the SER Mid-year Meeting.

Finally, I want to thank the members of the 2024-2025 SPC board for their early work and commitment to making SER a wonderful community for students, postdocs, and early career epidemiologists. Nedghie Adrien is now the Past President and Anthony Nixon will serve as President Elect. The education co-chairs are Lisha Lin and Xuexin Yu. The program co-chairs are Taylor Mobley and Gina Nam. The Media co-chairs are Amy Zheng and Ami Sedani. Finally, Morgan Wolff is the internal affairs chair and Meghana Shamsunder is the diversity and inclusion chair. Please feel free to reach out to any of us with ideas, questions, or comments.

Sincerely,
Alvin G. Thomas
SER SPC Present