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I received a William G. Coleman Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) for a joint research proposal entitled “HDoCS in PLCO: Health Disparities of Cancer Survivors in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial.”

I received a DCEG Fellows Award for Research Excellence from the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics for an abstract entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study participants.”

I took over for Dr. Sarah Jackson as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the DCEG Fellows Editorial Board (DFEB). I join Dr. Maeve Bailey-Whyte in this role.

I presented my abstract entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Participants” at the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology held virtually due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

I present code to create the hexsticker for the sparrpowR package using the hexSticker and spatstat packages. The sparrpowR calculated the statistical power for a spatial relative risk function from the sparr package.

My first R package is in the Comprehensive R Archive Network named sparrpowR. It provides a statistical power calculation for the spatial relative risk function via the sparr package. See the public Github repository for more details. The featured image comes from the package vignette.

I present an update to my previous posts #1 and #2. This update can also be found on a public GitHub repository.

I gave an invited talk at the National Cancer Institute entitled “A place for spatial analysis in the Cancer Control Continuum.”

I received an Informatics Tool Challenge Award from the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics for a project entitled “sparrpowR: A flexible R package and webtool to estimate statistical power of a spatial cluster detection technique.”

I present code to identify relative spatial clustering in multidimensional scaling / principal coordinate analysis (MDS/PCoA) space. I use a spatial relative risk function risk from the sparr package. I use a spatial segregation model relrisk from the spatstat package.