Multiple Entries Submitted For Epi Haiku Contest
Start Writing
Now—Last Chance To Win $300
Deadline Is June
10, 2016
Multiple entries have been submitted in our Haiku contest first
announced in March 2016. To prompt readers to try their hand at
writing one or more of these short , we are publishing a sample of the
entries received so far.
Excerpts from the March 2016 article announcing the contest and
providing rules and guidance are reprinted in case you missed them in
our March issue.
Sample Entries In 2016 Haiku Contest
1
Study germ outbreaks
Epidemiology
Stop spread of disease
2
What
study design
To
determine risk factors
For
chance to be excluded
3
Confounded no more
Perhaps association
Reveals causation
4
Germs or miasma
Disease incidence patterns
Will solve the outbreak
5
Access to data
Like a Y chromosome, you’ve
Got it or you don’t
6
Estimate disease
Prevalence, causes, and risks;
Incidence reduced.
7
Across disciplines,
Epidemiologist:
Sleuth of diseases
8
preventable deaths -
epi curves will save the world
if funding follows
9
Statistician no
Population steward yes
Soul of public health
10
Disease grips mankind
Understand untangle it
To loosen its grip
Contest Rules and
Guidance
The purpose of this contest is to elicit haikus which best capture the
methods or purposes of epidemiology. The winner for the best entry
will receive a $300 cash prize and bragging rights. We might be
persuaded to create a t-shirt with the winning haiku, including the
author’s name to be worn around in epidemiology and other less formal
situations. All entries become the exclusive property of the
newsletter. The deadline for submission is June 10, 2016. Send your
entries to
epimon@aol.com
Send us your imaginative haikus expressing the power of epidemiology!!
There is no limit to the number of entries allowed. In the event that
two haikus are very similar, the earliest one submitted will receive
priority consideration. All decisions made by our panel of judges will
be final. Be the first to submit at
epimon@aol.com ■
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