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Areas of a spatial segregation model significantly different from null expectations

I present code to identify areas of a spatial segregation model that exceed our null expectations using the relrisk function in the spatstat package and an assumption of normality of the estimated probabilities.

2020 William G. Coleman Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award

I will be taking over a project entitled “Evaluating the impact of concentrated animal feeding operations on Campylobacter jejuni infections in rural agricultural communities” previously led by Dr. Joseph Shearer as he is departing the National Cancer Institute.

Interim Co-Editor-in-Chief of DFEB

I took over for Dr. Maeve Bailey-Whyte as Interim Co-Editor-in-Chief of the DCEG Fellows Editorial Board (DFEB) while she is on maternity leave until March 2020. I join Dr. Sarah Jackson in this role.

New Postdoctoral Mentor

I started working with Dr. Rena Jones in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch within the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute part of the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program as my Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program preceptor.

New Postdoctoral Cancer Prevention Fellow

I started as a Postdoctoral Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute.