Student Caucus

Join a Committee

Please e-mail the committee chairs below if you are interested in serving on the committee.

Annual Meeting Programs Committee
Co-Chairs: Leona Bessonova (leona.b@uci.edu) and Miranda Ritterman (miranda1@berkeley.edu)

  • solicit ideas and suggestions specifically for SER-SC sponsored workshops, panels, poster sessions or presentations addressing student needs to be held concurrently with the Annual SER Meeting;
  • coordinate, plan, and implement selected programs for the Annual SER Meeting;
  • plan and implement other programming events and services for the membership;
  • develop tools for program evaluation by the membership;

Abstracts Committee
Chair: Kellee White (kwhite@hsph.harvard.edu)

  • promote abstract submission among student membership;
  • assist the SER by the review of abstracts submitted for the SER annual meeting;
  • assist the SER student poster judging process as requested.
  • NOTE: to serve on the abstracts committee one must be at least an epidemiology student beyond their comprehensive examinations

Nominations Committee
Chair: Elizabeth Brownell (elizabeth_brownell@URMC.rochester.edu)

  • coordinate and oversee the nomination and election of officers;
  • verify SER membership status of all nominees for positions in the SER-SC Executive Committee;
  • implement election procedures as described in the by-laws;
  • disseminate results of elections to the membership.

Membership Committee
Chair: Elizabeth Brownell (elizabeth_brownell@URMC.rochester.edu)

  • assist SER Executive Committee and SER staff in all membership outreach and recruitment;
  • provide information and referrals to individual SER-SC members;
  • encourage involvement by the membership in the SER-SC Executive Committee and committee leadership and affairs;
  • present semi-annual reports to the SER-SC Executive Committee