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Dr. Derek Brown and I presented our “Spatial Power” webtool for the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics January 2021 monthly Geographic Analysis Working Group meeting. Spatial Power is an upcoming webtool to calculate power for spatial statistics. Stay tuned for its launch.

I presented my abstract entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of Agricultural Health Study applicators” at the Society for Epidemiologic Reserach 2020 annual meeting held virtually due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

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 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 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.