Question: What do you get when a female epidemiology graduate student marries a male graphic designer?

Answer: Well if the graphic designer has a sense of humor and a good ear and the epi grad student has friends who crack jokes about the world around them, at least one outcome is a magazine entitled œEpiGrad Today” (see below).

The magazine features a new cover each month with the picture of a young, vivacious female encircled with tongue in cheek headlines and subheadlines describing the contents of each issue. Of course, there are no articles in the magazine, but that is besides the point. The tongue in cheek headlines and subheadlines descibing the contents are whatÃs fun to read. For example, œAlone and Afraid Á Inside The Mind of a Male Epi Grad” , or œP-Values Á Going the Way of the Dinosaur?, or œYour Hot...The DataÃs Not Á How to Spice Up Your Data Without Losing Your Integrity”. http://www.unc.edu/~lsampson/epigradtoday/Epigradweb.html

Even the advertisement for EpiGrad Today is fun to read. It asks Á Lonely? Stressed? DonÃt know what to wear to SER? It states Á From informative articles on lifestyle micromanagement to trend setting fashion tips, EpiGrad Today will take you there!

Always on the lookout for a new contest idea, we contacted Robby Poore, the creator of œEpiGrad Today” and agreed to collaborate on a contest to select the best tongue in cheek headlines and subheadlines for the cover of a new magazine to be called œTodayÃs Epidemiologist”.

After all, why limit the fun to epi grad students when there are far more practicing epidemiologists out there with their own tales to tell.

The advertisement for œTodayÃs Epidemiologist” might read like this Á Still Unpublished? Still Not Proven? Now thereÃs a safe harbor where you can share your frustrations with todayÃs epidemiology research and public health worlds. œTodayÃs Epidemiologist” will take you there!

HereÃs how the contest will work. Submit your tongue in cheek or other humorous headlines and associated subheadlines for inclusion on the inaugural cover of œTodayÃs Epidemiologist”. There is no limit to the number of individual headlines or pairs of headlines and associated subheadlines which you can submit. The headlines and subheadlines should be as short as they are on the covers of œEpi Grad Today”. The headlines and subheadlines will be read and judged by the editor of The Epidemiology Monitor and a panel of epidemiologists chosen by the editor. We will pay $25 for each individual headline or for each headline and subheadline pair selected for the inaugural cover and expect to select approximately 7-10 winning entries for our cover. The entries become the sole property of The Epidemiology Montor, however, we will acknowledge the winning headlines and subheadlines and credit the authors. The contest closes on May 31, 2001 and if all goes well we may be able to print and circulate the inaugural cover in time for the Congress 2001 meeting in Toronto.

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