CDC as a Career Path for Social Workers
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CDC as a Career Path for Social Workers
National Association of Deans and DirectorsAtlanta, GAOctober 26, 2011
Bryce D. Smith, PhD, MSSW
Agenda Background Opportunities for Social Workers at CDC
Full-time employees Fellowships and internships
Doctoral preparation for CDC
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Background University of Texas at Austin – MSSW
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clinical mental health for seven years University of Georgia at Athens – PhD
Research methods Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HIV/AIDS prevention – five years Viral hepatitis prevention – three years
• Public/private partnerships through the CDC Foundation
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HIV/AIDS prevention Program Evaluation
• Data collection for state and local health departments• Multi-site evaluations of HIV prevention interventions
Viral hepatitis prevention Hepatitis C screening studies Guidelines development Cost effectiveness studies Hepatitis C rapid test evaluations Hepatitis C treatment and prevention in opiate agonist
settings
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Opportunities for Social Workers at CDC Health Scientists Behavioral Scientists Policy Analysts
Development of guidelines and other policies Fellowships
Student internships and fellowships Post-doc research fellowships
http://www.cdc.gov/Fellowships/ http://www.cdc.gov/Fellowships/CareerIntern
ships.html
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Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
ORISE fellows serve in many capacities all over CDC, at both masters and doctoral levels
Most masters level fellows have an MPH, but not always
http://www.orau.gov/cdc/ http://www.orau.gov/cdc/presearchFRAMESE
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Selected Content Areas for Social Workers
Infectious disease HIV/AIDS, STIs, Viral Hepatitis, TB
Injury prevention Chronic disease (cardiovascular disease,
obesity, nutrition, cancer) Adolescent and school health Adult and community health Reproductive health
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Doctoral Preparation for CDC Protocol development – what is that? Leave the case-study design to the Masters
program Delve more deeply into rigorous designs,
including RCTs and other comparison group designs
Develop more research proposals Increase emphasis on evaluation
Focus on commonalities of evaluation methods across content areas
Formative evaluations, process monitoring and evaluation, outcomes monitoring and evaluation
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Thanks!