EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. Be sure to check out Webinars, below.

Wednesday April 22, 12:10-1:10 PM. On zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97106869103. Demography Brown Bag Short talk. Speakers: Jessica Metcalf of Princeton University on the intersection of epidemiology and demography (https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-demographers-view-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic) and and David Reher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) on “The COVID-19 Pandemic in an Aging World” (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/bfvxt/) Bring your own cookies.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, 10:00-11:00 a.m. April 21. BIDS and the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) is presenting “Understanding and Seeking Equity amid COVID-19” part of an ongoing series of live video conversations with UC Berkeley researchers leveraging computing and data science to support COVID-19 response and recovery. Register HERE to learn more about speakers and to submit questions in advance.

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Wednesday April 15, 12:10-1:10 PM. On zoom: Demography Brown Bag Short talkThis week’s topic is “Forecasting Epidemic Mortality” featuring short talks by Adrian Raftery, University of Washington, Joseph Lewnard (Berkeley) and Nicholas Jewell (Berkeley).Bring your own cookies.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Monday, April 13, 2020, 4:30-6:00 PM. Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19. A follow-up from the first School of Public Health Town Hall. For more information, visit https://bids.berkeley.edu/events/coronavirus-science-and-solutions.

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Wednesday April 8, 12:10-1:10 PM.  On zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/497300534.  Demography Brown Bag Short talks. Kristen Harknett presents work with Danny Schneider, How Service Sector Workers are Faring During and After the Coronavirus Outbreak: Evidence from The Shift Project”.  Lia Fernald, “Effects of COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies on Economically-Disadvantaged Children and Families in California.” Julianna Deardorff with Brenda Eskenazi, “Psychosocial consequences of COVID-19 fears and prevention measures among Mexican-origin youth and parents in an agricultural community in CA.” Bring your own cookies.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, April 7, multiple times. BIDS is hosting a conversation with researchers from across UC Berkeley who are leveraging computing and data science to blunt the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and support a robust recovery. Pleas e visit BIDS.berkeley.edu for more information. These talks feature Saul Perlmutter, Henry Brady, Michael Lu, Jesse Rothstein, Hilary Hoynes, Sandi McCoy and others.  All events are, of course, online.

April 7 | 4-5 p.m. Global Views on COVID 19: Lessons from the 1918 Flu Pandemic in India and Indonesia Workshop. Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University. Online via Zoom. Register HERE.

EVENTS
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Wednesday April 1, 12-1:30 PM.  On zoom:  https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/8533880737.  Demography Brown Bag. Short talks by Profs. Ayesha Mahmud, Dennis Feehan, and Claude Fischer. Ayesha and Dennis will discuss their project gathering new data on social contacts and the effectiveness of social distancing. Claude will discuss what the ongoing UCNets project can tell us about the social networks of millennials and boomers.  Bring your own cookies.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
 

SAVE THE DATE
Monday, March 30, 2-3:30 PM.  “The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes” Justine Hastings, Brown University. zoom. Contact camillen@berkeley.edu for information.

FUNDING
Innovations for Improving the Impact of Health Campaigns (Round 25). Grand Challenges Explorations. deadline: 22 APR 2020 – 11:30AM PDT.  We are seeking innovative solutions that accelerate the improvement of coverage, reach, efficiency, and effectiveness of mass health campaigns that deliver health products or services in low-and middle-income countries, specifically through improved planning/microplanning and focus on unreached populations. Specifically, we are looking for innovations in approaches, practices, or tools that dramatically improve the planning/microplanning that will lead to improved effectiveness of campaigns. We are also looking for innovative tools and technologies to more effectively identify and reach the most vulnerable populations when countries are designing and implementing mass campaigns.  For more information, visit HERE.

EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. For the time being I will post only online events of interest to population researchers.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Wednesday March 18, 12:10-1pm pacific time: Covid-19 pandemic research brainstorming session.  WHERE: Zoom https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/576944528 or phone +16699006833,,576944528#  DESCRIPTION: The Berkeley Population Center (BPC), Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) and the School of Public Health invite you to a 1-hour open brainstorming session on research ideas related to the covid-19 pandemic. E.g., topics could include population-level determinants, prevention, and mitigation of pandemic spread; modeling and estimation of health, social, and economic implications, etc.  There will not be a formal presentation, but rather this will be an open brainstorming discussion moderated by Will Dow and Josh Goldstein.  If you know in advance that you have a specific research area that you would like to discuss during the session, please contact Will Dow at wdow@berkeley.edu.  Also contact him or Leora Lawton llawton@berkeley.edu if you have an idea for a pilot project; NIH and NSF are encouraging covid-19 related proposals, and BPC will be issuing a small pilot grant announcement shortly for topics related to the covid-19 pandemic. For those who cannot attend, we have also created a google doc for ideas: 

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[All events are subject to change, especially given the coronavirus situation.]
Assume events have been cancelled. I have not searched for remote events but expect to see more of these in the near future.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

FUNDING
RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded to Emerging. Information about how to apply for the second round of the Pipeline Grants Competition will be posted on the RSF web site by early September 2020. Proposals will be due Monday, November 30, 2020. Scholars. Read more about the Pipeline Grants Competition here.

RSF Behavioral Economics; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality programs, and the special initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration. Letters of inquiry are due May 21, 2020.

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[All events are subject to change, especially given the coronavirus situation.]

No Demography Brown Bag this week due to cancellation.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Monday, March 2, 4-5 PM. The 2020 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures. David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, “Are We Under-investing in Education?” In the Chevron Auditorium at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.

Monday, March 2, 2020, 2 – 3:30 p.m.,”The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap” Ricardo Perez Truglia, UCLA, Evans Hall, room 648.

Tuesday, March 3, 11 AM – 12 PM. “The importance of individual and family characteristics in explaining racial disparities in criminal justice contact” with Yotam Shem-Tov, UCLA, 648 Evans Hall.

Tuesday March 3, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. California’s Master Plan for Aging. David Ragland, Adjunct Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health; Carrie Graham, Consultant, California Department of Aging. 5101 Berkeley Way West.

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Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 to 1:15 pm: Demography Brown Bag. “ Three Centuries of Comparative Demographic Analysis of Ancient Social Networks” Adam Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Digital Humanities, UC Berkeley. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.” Demography Department Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and beverages served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, February 25, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. SPH Brown Bag: Using mobile-GIS Apps to Collect Survey and Water Quality Data. Charlotte Smith, 5101 Berkeley Way West.

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Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 to 1:15 pm: Demography Brown Bag. Iain Mathieson, Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. “Polygenic scores for complex traits: uses, biases and evolution.” Demography Department Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and beverages served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, February 18, 11:30-12:30 PM. UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health for a Brown Bag Series presentation titled “Bigger than AIDS? The clash of population growth & climate change in the West African Sahel.” Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves. 5101 Berkeley Way West.

Tuesday, February 18, 12-1 pm. Development Lunch: “The Long-Run Effects of a Girls Scholarship Program” Michael Walker, Post-Doc, CEGA| 648 Evans Hall.