Jasmine Harrison

Weekly Journal Entry 4

This was a very exciting week. On Monday and Tuesday, I focused on doing more

research on nurse-led annual wellness visits. I didn’t have any meetings, so I spent the day

reading articles and becoming more familiar with the benefits of AWVs. On Wednesday, I had a

Cardiff mapping and project work meeting. I was finally able to officially meet Philip Hudson,

who is a biostatistician on this project. We spent the meeting getting acquainted with the work

that I’ll be doing. I learned a lot of information at the meeting, so I made sure to take good notes

so that I could start mapping the data. My responsibility currently with CARDIFF is to take the

data sent to DPH from the Grady and Albany Police Departments and clean it. This involves

renaming variables and finding the latitude and longitude of the locations to be able to geocode

them later in the project. Philip gave me a lot of resources to be able to practice coding. He sent

me a link for learning R, which is something that I will be practicing in my free time. For now, I

am using basic code in Excel to clean the data. It’s good to learn a wide variety of software,

especially because I may not always have access to certain software if it’s not free. I spent the

rest of the day looking over the resources in our data folder and the steps for recoding the data,

which involves a lot of steps to make sure the data isn’t altered.

On Thursday, I went to a coalition meeting with the Georgia Emergency Preparedness

Coalition for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults. This is one of many meetings that

my coworkers will send me. I try to attend all of them if I’m available because they are a great

way to learn more about the topics I work on and I get to make connections. At this meeting, I

was able to connect with Kalie Burke, who works for the Georgia Department of Behavioral

Health and Developmental Disabilities, and Keilondria Robertson, who works for DPH. I was

able to talk to them about my projects, and they told me to reach out if they could offer any

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assistance in my research. Keilondria also gave an interesting presentation at the meeting on

emergency preparedness.

On Friday, I attended a meeting with UGA to discuss creating a survey for family

physicians for GAFP-DPH and CARE. I'm hoping that in the next few weeks I’ll be able to assist

their team in creating the survey. I spent the rest of the day practicing cleaning up the data from

Grady and APD. This was definitely a challenge at first, learning how to gain access to the

encrypted files and transfer them to the master data folder. After practicing on one file and

looking at the data cleaning a previous intern did, I was able to finally get the hang of it. It is a

bit time-consuming to rename the variables and add the geolocation, but it was still fun.

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DATE TIME IN LUNCH/CLASS TIME OUT HOURS

WORKED

Monday 9:00 AM 12:00 - 12:30 PM 5:30 PM 8

Tuesday 9:00 AM 11:00 – 1:00 PM 4:30 PM 5 1/2

Wednesday 9:00 AM 12:30 - 1:00 PM 5:30 PM 8

Thursday 9:00 AM 11:00 – 1:00 PM 4:30 PM 5 1/2

Friday 9:00 AM 12:00-12:30 PM 5:30 PM 8

Total Weekly 35

Hours

Total Hours to 91

Date

WEEK 4: