{"id":6786,"date":"2024-12-04T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:10:15","slug":"ssis-jacob-gizamba-presents-at-the-2024-world-congress-of-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/2024\/12\/04\/ssis-jacob-gizamba-presents-at-the-2024-world-congress-of-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"SSI&#8217;s Jacob Gizamba presents at the 2024 World Congress of Epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6789 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/12\/WCE2024-Poster-P2-B9-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/12\/WCE2024-Poster-P2-B9-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/12\/WCE2024-Poster-P2-B9-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/12\/WCE2024-Poster-P2-B9-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/12\/WCE2024-Poster-P2-B9-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/12\/WCE2024-Poster-P2-B9-1449x2048.jpg 1449w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/12\/WCE2024-Poster-P2-B9-scaled.jpg 1811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/profile\/jacob-gizamba\/\">Jacob Gizamba<\/a>, Ph.D. candidate in the Population, Health and Place doctoral program at the University of Southern California, presented his research in a poster session at the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wce2024.org\/\">World Congress of Epidemiology<\/a> (WCE). This year\u2019s WCE, the world&#8217;s premier epidemiology conference, took place in Cape Town, South Africa from September 24-27, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Gizamba\u2019s poster was on \u201cIdentifying High-Risk areas for Untimely Administration of Hepatitis B Birth Dose (HepB-BD) in Low-Middle Income Settings: A Spatial Epidemiological approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained, \u201cMy work dives deep into the nexus of population health and place, using spatial epidemiology thinking to answer critical public health questions. I like to frame it as: &#8216;Mapping WHERE to explain WHY, to direct HOW.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, I&#8217;m applying this thinking to tackle Hepatitis C, a pressing global health challenge targeted for elimination by 2030,\u201d Gizamba added.<\/p>\n<p>Gizamba\u2019s Ph.D. advisors and mentors include Jeffrey Klausner, <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/profile\/darren-m-ruddell\/\">Darren M. Ruddell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/profile\/siqin-sisi-wang\/\">Siqin (Sisi) Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/profile\/brian-k-finch\/\">Brian K. Finch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/profile\/laura-ferguson\/\">Laura Ferguson<\/a> and Matteo Sesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SSI&#039;s Jacob Gizamba presents at the 2024 World Congress of Epidemiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/2024\/12\/04\/ssis-jacob-gizamba-presents-at-the-2024-world-congress-of-epidemiology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SSI&#039;s Jacob Gizamba presents at the 2024 World Congress of Epidemiology - 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