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CDC as a Career Path for Social Workers

CDC as a Career Path for Social Workers. Bryce D. Smith, PhD, MSSW. National Association of Deans and Directors Atlanta, GA October 26, 2011. Agenda. Background Opportunities for Social Workers at CDC Full-time employees Fellowships and internships Doctoral preparation for CDC.

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CDC as a Career Path for Social Workers

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  1. CDC as a Career Path for Social Workers • Bryce D. Smith, PhD, MSSW National Association of Deans and Directors Atlanta, GA October 26, 2011

  2. Agenda • Background • Opportunities for Social Workers at CDC • Full-time employees • Fellowships and internships • Doctoral preparation for CDC

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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/CareerInternships.html

  6. 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/presearchFRAMESET.htm

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Thanks!

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