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President Message
Happy April! Hopefully, you and yours weathered well whatever extreme weather came your way—be they atmospheric rivers with nearly incessant rain, feet of snow, or sweltering heat. We ordered excellent June weather without any warranty to befit our 2023 Annual Meeting in Portland. Come what may, our Portland meeting is still on track to be our most popular, with the most submitted abstracts, symposia, workshops, posters, lunchtime sessions, and late-breaker sessions. The Board worked hard to open as many in-person and online presentation opportunities as logistically possible to accommodate the extraordinary volume and variety of high-quality submissions. To navigate the rich program with all these goodies, we will use an interactive online schedule with an accompanying mobile phone app that allows each attendee to select and save sessions of interest to their calendar. We will record several sessions for later on-demand viewing to alleviate the fear of missing out. We thank our colleagues at UC Berkeley for hosting an incredible U.S. Mid-Year Meeting in California with a roster of thought-provoking and timely presentations. Naturally, we are already soliciting hosts for the 2024 Mid-Year Meeting, keeping in mind that we want new locations outside our usual Annual Meeting locations. Our International Mid-Year Meeting in Mexico was […]
SPC President Message
Hello Students & Postdocs! Happy Spring and welcome to the home stretch before the Annual Meeting in June! By now you should have heard back about your regular submission abstracts. If not, please reach out for clarification. Note you may not hear back about latebreaker abstracts until May 1. Whether you had an abstract accepted or not, there’s still a lot to get out of the Annual Meeting – networking with experts, connecting with other trainees, learning new analytic skills, and having lots of nerdy fun. The early registration deadline is May 12, after which prices go up. The conference hotel is almost full already, so talk to your cohort-members and make plans ASAP. This year, you can register to attend in-person or virtually. In-person gives you access to any session, while virtual attendants have a live-stream of the most popular sessions throughout the day. These streamed sessions are also recorded and available to all registrants. Also note there are reduced registration fees for student/postdocs, and those attending from a low- or middle-income country. In addition to the regular conference program, there are a number of specialized opportunities that require additional registration ahead of time – education workshops (including some […]
SER President Message
The New Year is in full swing, and so is everything, it seems. Our 2023 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, is shaping up to be quite well, and it could be our largest, most diverse, and most impactful. Following our record-setting submissions for symposia, sessions, and workshops, we outdid ourselves by submitting the highest number of abstracts in the history of SER! This is also the first time every abstract category has received a submission. This high level of excitement bodes well for our 2023 meeting. I share your excitement and can’t wait to see you all in Portland in June. We also have more opportunities for presentations at SER to meet the expanded interests, including at our mid-year meeting events. This year’s mid-year events are particularly rich and include a Virtual Poster Session, a Pre-Conference Workshop, a Mid-Year Meeting at UC Berkeley, and a Mid-Year Meeting in Mexico. We look forward to learning from these events to inform SER’s inclusive expansion to provide a global platform for epidemiologists everywhere. Another exciting development is that the Board applied for and received a generous grant award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help increase diversity and representation at SER. The […]
SPC President’s Message
Hello Students & Postdocs! I hope you all had a safe, healthy, and (dare we hope) rejuvenating winter break, and that the transition back to school/work hasn’t been too jarring! Before we get into the fun epi stuff, I want to take a minute to talk about self-care and mental health. For many of us, our graduate and early career training is one of the most stressful things we have ever done. It encompasses education, job security, and our passions, all in one awesome but messy emotional jumble. It often includes moves to new places where we know no one, and complicated power dynamics. Graduate training is hard! And it’s all on top of any other BIG LIFE STUFF we have going on. While it’s not part of official grad school curriculums, I fiercely believe that EVERYONE can benefit from working with a therapist or counselor to help them survive and thrive in graduate school and beyond. Even things that seem super common or not that big a deal – like procrastinating writing, or dreading talking to your advisor, or changes in eating and sleeping habits – these are things that a mental health professional can help you understand and […]
SER Presidents Message
I can’t believe it’s November! This means we are more than halfway through the quarter or semester for those in academia or nearing the end of the work year. The holiday season and the end of another challenging year are fast approaching. Naturally, there are SER reasons for looking forward to Fall and the New Year. We are preparing for our 2023 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, and the 2023 Mid-Year Meeting. Our plans are buoyed by the growth in size, diversity, and increasing global reach of our membership. Gratifyingly and perhaps unsurprisingly, we received record-setting submissions for symposia, breakfast and lunchtime sessions, professional development sessions, and pre-conference workshops. Given the limited space and time at the Annual Meeting to accept many more excellent and thoughtful submissions, we expanded opportunities to present them at the Annual Meeting, mid-year meeting, or special events throughout the year. The Board and I are grateful for and excited about the timely, engaging, and impactful research, talks, moderated discussions, debates, and workshops slated for the Annual Meeting. Furthermore, we have a call for submissions for abstracts, nominations for awards, and applications to the Course Development and Revision Workshop and the Student Dissertation Workshop. We should […]
SPC Presidents Message
Alright Students and Postdocs, it’s time to start gearing up for SER submission season! Yes, the Annual Meeting is half a year away. Yes, there are midterms and finals and projects that need your attention. But whatever you’re able to do now is going to set up your SER experience for next year. So here we go (*cracks knuckles*). SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT. Abstracts are due the MORNING of January 13th (or earlier, see #2). Given how long it takes to do an analysis, write an abstract, get feedback from coauthors, and make appropriate edits, NOW is the time to start working on these. https://epiresearch.org/annual-meeting/2023-meeting/abstract-submission/ APPLY FOR TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS. These are due December 9th, and they require you to have ALREADY submitted an abstract. This is real money that SER awards to real students and postdocs to help you get to the Annual Meeting. Also be sure to ask your advisors and check with your graduate schools etc. for additional funding options. There is often internal support for academic conferences, and those will have their own deadlines. https://epiresearch.org/annual-meeting/awards/spc-travel-scholarships/ STUDENT DISSERTATION WORKSHOP. Applications are due February 3rd. This program is specifically geared towards epidemiology doctoral students MIDWAY through their training. SER pays […]
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SER Presidents Message
I continue to bask in the afterglow of the 2022 annual meeting, our first in-person meeting since our last in 2019. I hope you do too. By many accounts, it was a successful meeting. We reconnected with friends, mentors, mentees, and collaborators in person as responsibly as we could, given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you all for making the annual meeting safe, memorable, and edifying. Nonetheless, we must recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic prevented some members from joining our yearly in-person meeting. The executive committee is looking into making our events and programs through the year as accessible to all as feasible and affordable. Not to put too much pressure on us, but we face the unfinished challenge of COVID-19, which is now worsened by new threats from monkeypox and poliomyelitis. Furthermore, we must deal with deteriorating reproductive health rights in the US, climate change threats to our health, homophobia, transphobia, racism, violent policing, disinformation, misinformation, social disorder, and wars. These threats often intersect to affect the most vulnerable among us. To make matters worse, parts of society are increasingly at odds with science and the work of epidemiologists and other scientists. Our work has become more complicated. From […]