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I present an update to my previous post. Starting May 17, 2020 the DC Mayoral Office began releasing testing information by neighborhood on their coronavirus data portal. Molly Tolzmann zmotoly added this feature to her publicly available Google Sheet presented at the DC health planning neighborhood level. The update here can also be found on a public GitHub repository.

After moving to DC last year, PoPville has been a personal favorite for local scoop. A post on May 11, 2020 captured my attention. Molly Tolzmann zmotoly adjusted the daily coronavirus data publicly released by the DC Mayoral Office at the DC health planning neighborhood level by the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) census tract data and demographic data from Open Data DC. This post is a replication of the data visualization using R and can be found on a public GitHub repository.

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.

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.

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 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.

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