Haiku Contest and Amazon Gift Card Winners Announced
Francois Theriault,
a second year PhD student in the School of Epidemiology, Public
Health, and Preventive Medicine at the University of Ottawa is the
winner of our popular haiku contest and a $300 cash prize. He
submitted a single haiku and received more than double the number of
first place ranks compared to the nearest competitors. His winning
haiku by this wide margin is:
Silent fall of tears
Wasted grant and
squandered youth
P of point o six
When asked to comment on his inspiration for the winning haiku,
Theriault told the Monitor “I am often frustrated with the importance
attributed to arbitrary p-value cut-offs. This frustration was the
main inspiration for my haiku. I tried to capture the absurdity and
angst of the precise, deflating moment when researchers realize that
their findings fall just short of an arbitrary cut-off for statistical
significance, and that few people will consequently be interested in
their results.”
The haiku receiving the most second place rankings was submitted by
Sheila Weiss a Consultant Epidemiologist with Avigilan LLC in
Potomac Maryland.
Sheila added an interesting note with her poem submission. “My Haiku
is inspired by Dr. Leon Gordis. He introduced thousands of
public health professionals (myself included) to epidemiology while
instilling a healthy fear of summer picnics and potlucks.” She
entitled her poem Epidemiology Exercise #1
Egg salad, stuffed ham
Hot sun, cool shade,
eat and play
Outbreak tomorrow
We are awarding the
third place finish based on rankings to Ed Pettitt a student at
the University of Texas School of Public Health. His entry was:
Disease detective
Searching for a cause
and cure
Alas, no funding
Other top 10 haiku
which garnered the most rankings are listed below:
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With Snow in
pursuit
Of pump handle
causation
A science is
born
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Larry Kushi
Division of Research
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, CA
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Genies grant
wishes
But poor epi
researchers
Wish for grants
instead
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Rosi Hirst
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Imperial College London |
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Preventable
deaths
Epi curves will
save the world
If funding
follows
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Tamara
Chavez-Lindell
East
Tennessee Regional Health Office,
Knoxville, TN
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“Association’
Be sure not to
confuse this
Word with
“causation”
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Aisha
Dickerson
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow
Departments
of Environmental Health and Epidemiology
Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health
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Confounded no more
Perhaps
association
Reveals
causation
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Talia Malagon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Oncology, Division of Cancer Epidemiology
McGill University
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Disease shed data
Epidemiology
Spreads
understanding
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Matthew
Francis
Epidemiologist
Procter & Gamble
Morrow, Ohio
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Disease
within few
Provides
us with the insight
To prevent
in more
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Matthew Francis
Epidemiologist
Procter & Gamble
Morrow, Ohio
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More than 200 readers ranked their three favorite poems
and the following eight readers were randomly chosen to receive a $25
Amazon gift card.
Tabatha Offutt-Powell
State Epidemiologist and Section Chief
Epidemiology, Health Data, and Informatics
Delaware Division of Public Health
Dover, Delaware 19901
Adaze Wosu
PhD student in Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Starr Eaddy
Director of Service- Learning
Associate Professor
Department of Biology and Health Science
St. Francis College
Brooklyn Heights, NY
Lara Blumstein
Research Project Manager
University of Illinois at Chicago,
Institute for Health Research and Policy
Craig Olbrich
Senior Hardware Design Engineer
HP Inc.
Corvallis, OR
Amy Hirst
VTTI MLP Services Ltd
Warwick House
25-27 Buckingham Palace Road
London
Cheryl
Broussard
National Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Margaret Wrensh
Professor Emeritus
University of California
San Francisco
Many thanks to all
for participating in our Epi Haiku Contest!
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