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Primary Instructor (Fall 2016), Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky

CPH 612 – Infectious Disease Epidemiology

This course emphasizes the epidemiological and microbiological methods used to study infectious diseases including new, emerging, and re-emerging diseases. Topics covered include the history, epidemiologic concepts and tools needed to understand and investigate the maintenance, transmission, and effects of infectious disease in human populations.

Primary Instructor (Spring 2016), College of Public Health, University of Kentucky

CPH 410– Epidemiology in the Web of Causation: People, Place, Politics

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to applications of epidemiology in the context of political, community, social, and behavioral influences on health. The course reviews principles and introduce novel methods used in epidemiologic research. Students learn approaches to collecting data about sensitive health behaviors, examining social networks, integrating information from interviews and focus groups, and collecting spatial data. These topics are explored using a range of case examples, including infectious disease, humanitarian crises, sexual health, substance abuse, obesity, and others.

Primary Instructor (Fall 2015), Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky

CPH 612 – Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Primary Instructor (Spring 2015), Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky

CPH 751 – Introduction to Global Public Health

This course provides students with basic knowledge about the issues of global public health and its importance to all peoples of the globe. After receiving an introduction to the principles and goals of global public health, students will begin to acquire functional knowledge of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of global public health practice. Key content areas such as health determinants, issues of health, education, and poverty, ethical and human rights concerns, the impact of culture on global public health, the burden of disease on the global human population, and other pertinent global public health topics will become focal points for class discussion. This course will emphasize theory-driven empirical investigation of key behavioral issues that influence the health and well-being of people around the globe.

Primary Instructor (Fall 2014), Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky

CPH 612 – Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Co-facilitator (Spring 2014; Spring 2015), Colleges of Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Public Health and Center for Interprofessional Healthcare, University of Kentucky

CPH 365 (Spring 2014) / CPH 778 (Spring 2015) – ‘Interprofessional Teamwork in Global Health’

Supervisor (Spring 2013), Department of Biology, Transylvania University

BIO 4212 – Independent Research

This independent research opportunity allows students to engage in academic research while being mentored by a research supervisor. In this specific course, students from the Department of Biology participated in planning analyses and preparing manuscripts on topics related to hepatitis C and HIV transmission among drug users in rural Appalachia. The students will serve as co-authors on the manuscripts when they are submitted for peer-reviewed publication.

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Adjunct Instructor (Fall 2012), Departments of Biology, Exercise Science, and Anthropology, Transylvania University

ANTH 3204.01 / BIO 2424.01 / PE 2294.01 – ST – Social and Behavioral Epidemiology

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to epidemiology and its applications in the context of health behavior and sociocultural influences on health. Epidemiology is the study of patterns of diseases, injury, and other indicators of health in human populations. The course introduces principles and methods used in epidemiologic research and explores social, behavioral, and biological determinants of morbidity and mortality. Structural-, social-, and individual-level theories of health behavior are discussed using examples from infectious and chronic disease and mental health. These topics are explored within a range of contexts, including humanitarian crises, immunization practices, sexual health, substance abuse, and others. In the lab component of the course, students engage in hands-on data collection, participate in discussions of primary research literature, and gain exposure to software for statistical analysis, geospatial analysis, and social network analysis.

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Co-preceptor (Fall 2012), Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Kentucky

MD 811 – Introductory to Clinical Medicine I

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Teaching Associate (Spring 2012), Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University

BSHE 560R – Grant Writing

This course presents an overview of the grant writing process from planning a proposal to after a proposal receives funding. It describes common grant writing terminology, how to locate grant announcements, various sources of funding, and the mechanics of writing the common sections of a grant proposal. Specifically, the course provides students with basic knowledge about the grant application process, the criteria of how grants are reviewed and critiqued, the art and science of grantsmanship, the essential elements needed for preparing an application, and how to “put the pieces together” to create a clear, cogent and compelling application. The course includes lectures, guest presentations, classroom discussions and team exercises, and a grant writing assignment.

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Teaching Assistant (Fall 2011), Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University

BSHE 517 – Behavioral Epidemiology

Provides the student with basic knowledge about epidemiological applications in a behavioral area. Content stresses ways in which behavioral research differs from other applications of epidemiology with respect to approaches to measurement, terminology, and analytic methods.

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Graduate Fellow (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012), Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Emory University

Provide course support for material relating to research methods and statistics to undergraduate students in Economics, Political Science, Neurobehavioral Biology, Sociology, and Psychology.

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