Congratulations to the latest recipients of the Dr. Carol S. Gleich Development Award! This award is available to faculty members and graduate students in the College of Public Health to support travel expenses to perform an official function at a national or international meeting.

Applications for this award are reviewed twice yearly, on or around October 1 and March 1. Award details, eligibility, and submission guidelines are available here.

March 2024 Recipients

Students

David-Erick Lafontant PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: International Biometric Society’s Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Meeting
Location: Baltimore, MD
Meeting Dates: March 10-13, 2024
Purpose: Presentation, “Recursive Clustering by Heterogeneity of Repeated Measures”

Cynthia Maharani PhD Student, Occupational & Environmental Health
Meeting: International Congress on Occupational Health (ICOH) Meeting
Location: Marrakesh, Morocco
Meeting Dates: April 28 – May 3, 2024
Purpose: Presentation, “Occupational Safety and Health Concerns among Small and Medium Food and Bag Manufacturing Businesses in Indonesia: Owners and Employees Perspectives”

Megan McCabe PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: Society for Clinical Trials Annual Meeting
Location: Boston, MA
Meeting Dates: May 19-22, 2024
Purpose: Outreach Committee – Leading Roundtable Discussion

Tabitha Peter PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics Conference
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Meeting Dates: May 1-3, 2024
Purpose: Presentation, “Penalized Linear Mixed Models for Genome-Wide Association Data with Complex Correlation Structure”

Evan Steinberg PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: International Biometric Society’s Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Meeting
Location: Baltimore, MD
Meeting Dates: March 10-13, 2024
Purpose: Presentation, “Enhancing Multilevel Functional Principal Component Analysis in Application to Four-Level EEG Data”

Amy Wu MS Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: International Biometric Society’s Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Meeting
Location: Baltimore, MD
Meeting Dates: March 10-13, 2024
Purpose: Presentation, “Survival & Mediation Analysis of Race, Telomere Length, and Mortality in NHANES Subset”

Faculty

Paul Gilbert Associate Professor, Community & Behavioral Health
Meeting: Research Society on Alcohol Annual Meeting
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Meeting Dates: June 22-26, 2024
Purpose: Symposium Speaker, “There is Room for Improvement on Walking the Walk: RSA Members’ Feedback and Recommended Actions in the 2023 Climate Survey”

Diane Rohlman Professor, Occupational & Environmental Health
Meeting: International Congress on Occupational Health (ICOH) Meeting
Location: Marrakesh, Morocco
Meeting Dates: April 28 – May 3, 2024
Purpose: Semi-Plenary, “Health Effects of Organophosphorus Pesticides on Children Working in the Agricultural Industry”; Chair, Neurotoxicology and Psychophysiology Scientific Committee – Hosting Meeting