Jodie Guest is Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins and the School of Medicine at Emory University. She also serves as faculty for the CDC’s Epidemiology Intelligence Service program, is the Associate Program Director for the Emory PA Program and is the Director of the PA/MPH dual degree program. She is the co-founder of the HIV Atlanta VA Cohort Study (HAVACS) and has led more than 40 HIV-related studies. Throughout the pandemic, she has served as an advisor for multiple organizations, including serving as the COVID Czar for the 2021 Iditarod Race, directing all prevention plans, testing and tracing for the 1,100-mile race. She has also led the COVID-19 Outbreak Response Team in Hall County, Georgia and other hard-hit communities, and is the host for Emory’s Facebook Live COVID-19 updates. Additionally, Jodie is the Founder and Executive Director of Teen Corp, a medical and philanthropy organization created to bring experiential learning to youth leaders. She has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards at Emory, most recently the 2020 Rollins School of Public Health Professor of the Year, 2020 Teaching Excellence Award from the Department of Epidemiology, and the Emory School of Medicine Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award. She was also awarded Emory’s 2021 MLK Community Service Award for her work with her Outbreak Response Team.
Jodie will present Epidemiology 101. In addition to getting their footing on basic epidemiology terms, attendees will learn:
The principles of study design:
Designing a study
Issues around bias
Identifying study participants
Pre-test/post-test
How to use data literacy when navigating the media – the critical approach to listening to researchers discuss what they have done during a study and what that actually means
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