Congratulations to the 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.

March 2019 Award Recipients

Name: Sato Ashida, Associate Professor of Community and Behavioral Health
Meeting: Gerontological Society of America
Location: Austin, TX
Dates: November 13-17, 2019
Purpose: Presentation, “Harnessing Social Networks to Optimize Environmental Contexts for Diverse Aging Experiences”

Name: Divya Bhagianadh, PhD student in Health Services and Policy
Meeting: Population Association of America
Location: Austin, TX
Dates: April 10-13, 2019
Purpose: Presentation, “Does Dementia Diagnosis Increase the Likelihood of Exercising?”

Name: Biyue Dai, PhD student in Biostatistics
Meeting: International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium
Location: Raleigh, NC
Dates: June 10-12, 2019
Purpose: Presentation, “Two State Adaptive Design for Prognostic Biomarker Signature with Survival Outcome”

Name: Anne Welhaven, PhD student in Biostatistics
Meeting: Society for Clinical Trials
Location: New Orleans, LA
Dates: May 19-22, 2019
Purpose: Presentation, “Evaluation of Continual Reassessment Method with Lagged Cohort”

Name: Geneva Wilson, PhD student in Epidemiology
Meeting: Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Conference
Location: Boston, MA
Dates: April 24-26, 2019
Purpose: Presentation, “A Randomized Control Trial on the Efficacy of Antimicrobial Impregnated Hospital Privacy Curtains in Inhibiting Bacterial Contamination in an Intensive Care Unit”

October 2018 Award Recipients

Name: Toluwani Adekunle, PhD student in Community and Behavioral Health
Meeting: American Public Health Association
Location: San Diego, CA
Dates: November 10-14, 2018
Purpose: Presentation, “Community-based savings groups, domestic violence, and maternal depression: Evidence from Mozambique”

Name: Yuan Huang, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Meeting: Eastern North American Region
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Dates: March 23-27, 2019
Purpose: Committee representative of Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics of the American Statistical Association

Name: Erin Mobley, PhD student in Health Management and Policy
Meeting: Global Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Congress
Location: Sydney, Australia
Dates: December 4-6, 2018
Purpose: Presentation, “Rurality and Other Factors Affecting Clinical Trial Enrollment for AYAs with Cancer in a U.S. Population-Based Study”

Name: Jim Torner, Professor of Epidemiology
Meeting: American College of Epidemiology
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Dates: September 23-25, 2018
Purpose: Executive Board Member, Membership Committee Member, Fellow

Name: Brad Wright, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy
Meeting: Society of Academic Emergency Medicine
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Dates: May 14-17, 2019
Purpose: Presentation: “Evidence of Racial, Geographic, and Gender Disparities in Observation Stays”

Name: Gideon Zamba, Professor of Biostatistics
Meeting: African International Conference in Statistics
Location: Asri, Ethiopia
Dates: May 26-29, 2019
Purpose: Invited keynote and plenary speaker: “Recursive Bayesian Approaches to Disease Modeling for the Case of Influenza”