Weekly News – April 18, 2018 - Population Sciences

EVENTS

Wednesday April 18, 12-1:10 PM. Demography Brown Bag: The roles of mortality risk, contraception access and social norms in fertility choices in Burkina Faso: Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room. Cookies and refreshments served.
A selection of Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Monday, April 16, 2-3:30 PM. “Organizing Pollution: Organizational Demography, Neighborhoods, and Racial Inequality in Exposure to Toxic Chemicals, 1987-2012.” Daniel Shrage, USC. 402 Barrows Hall.

Tuesday April 18 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. “Hazed and Confused: Air Pollution, Dementia, and Financial Decision Making” Nicolai Kuminoff, Arizona State University | 248 Giannini Hall.

Wednesday, April 18 | 4-5:30 pm. “”Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: What Does It Do and What Does That Mean?” with Amy Finkelstein, MIT | 648 Evans Hall.

EVENTS

Tuesday April 18 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. “Hazed and Confused: Air Pollution, Dementia, and Financial Decision Making” Nicolai Kuminoff, Arizona State University | 248 Giannini Hall.

Wednesday, April 18 | 4-5:30 pm. “”Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: What Does It Do and What Does That Mean?” with Amy Finkelstein, MIT | 648 Evans Hall.

Thursday April 19 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective” Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard. Wells Fargo Room C420 | Note change in location

Thursday, April 19, 4:00pm–6:00pm “Reflections on the End of the Safety Net as We Know It” Sheldon Danziger, President of the Russell Sage Foundation. Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall. Please register to secure your spot.

Thursday April 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. The Contested Logistics of Racial Capitalism: How Global Commodity Chains Transformed Southern California’s Spatial Politics. Juan De Lara, Assistant Professor in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California. | 575 McCone Hall.

Thursday, April 19 | 6:00-8:00pm. Towards a Public Health for Liberation: New Insights from Latin American Critical Epidemiology. Jaime Breilh, Rector of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador with Amani Nuru-Jeter, Associate Professor, Public Health, UC Berkeley as respondent. Gifford Room (Kroeber 221)

SAVE THE DATE
Tuesday, April 24, 4-5 PM. “Equity and the Environment: What’s the connection?” With Rachel Morello-Frosch. BIDS: 190 Doe Library.

May 2, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm. “Women’s Empowerment and Fertility Decision Making in Niger” Nouhou Abdoul Moumouni, Director of OASIS Niger. University Hall Room 401, University Hall.

Friday May 04, 12:10pm – 1:30pm. “A Structural Analysis Of The Decline Of Home-Cooked Food” Valerie Lechene- University College London (UCL), 201 Giannini Hall

Friday, May 18, 2018, 12pm to 1pm, “More than Medicine: The Case for Social Investment to Improve America’s Health.” Dr. Robert Kaplan has served as director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences at NIH, Chief Science Officer at AHRQ, Chair of the Department of Health Services at UCLA and Chair of the Dept. of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD. He is currently Adjunct Professor and Research Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at Stanford University. Please RSVP Now at CHC@chc.ucsf.edu. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be provided. UCSF, Laurel Heights Room 474.

PAA EVENTS

Population Health Reception and Discussion. “Assessing the Marriage of Demography, Genetics, and Population Health.” Thursday, April 26 at 6:30pm at the Sheraton Denver in Director’s Row H. Please join us for a member-initiated session at the Population Association of America annual meeting in Denver. Speakers at the session organized by Jason Boardman include John Hewitt, Dalton Conley, and Jonathan King. There will be plenty of time for discussion, networking, and enjoying refreshments and a cash bar. Sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, the California Center for Population Research, the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, the University of Colorado Population Center, the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, the Princeton Office of Population Research, the Carolina Population Center, and the Columbia Population Research Center. Please contact Christine Bachrach for more information.

FUNDING
Evidence for Action—a signature program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—is funding studies of programs, policies and partnerships and their impact on health and well-being, specifically to help vulnerable children and families. RWJF is looking for researchers, advocates, or public and private-sector professionals in a variety of fields to bring fresh approaches, untapped datasets, or methodologies to better understand the challenges and opportunities of making health a priority in public policy and personal decision-making. Learn more about eligibility and selection criteria. Join an informational webinar on Monday, April 16 from 4–5 p.m. ET, for an overview and answers to frequently asked questions.

WORKSHOPS
Faculty Workshop: Using the American Community Survey in Undergraduate Courses — June 14-16, 2018 (Application Deadline Extended to April 22). As part of an NICHD funded project, the Social Science Data Analysis Network at the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center will host a workshop to enable college and university professors to develop class modules using topics from the American Community Survey for courses they will teach during the 2018-19 academic year. The workshop will be held Thursday through Saturday, June 14-16, 2018 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey (ACS) provides national and localized social, economic, and demographic information that can provide instructors with fresh statistics to support key concepts in such courses as Intro Sociology, Social Problems, Stratification, Gerontology and Aging, Population-Focused Healthcare, and more. The ACS sample of 3.5 million households annually offers usable statistics that can be tailored to courses at all levels ranging from trend analyses to more analytic approaches, for specific population groups and geographic areas.

Program Details: Workshop participants should come prepared to develop one or more class modules to enrich a course they already teach. At the workshop, SSDAN staff will introduce participants to the resources in “hands on” training sessions, and participants will work with SSDAN staff to develop easy-to-use classroom exercises specific to their own courses. Workshop time will be divided between seminar discussions, practice exploring the SSDAN materials, and working with staff to develop individual exercises. The faculty will include sociologist-demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution and University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center, Dr. Jill Bouma of Berea College, Dr. Esther Wilder of Lehman College, and Dr. Kathy Rowell of Sinclair Community College. Instructors from all disciplines who teach undergraduate courses in four-year colleges, two-year colleges, or universities, both public and private, are encouraged to apply. Graduate student instructors are also welcome. Primary consideration will be given to applicants who are prepared to develop class exercises from the SSDAN materials and use them in their courses during the academic year subsequent to the workshop.

Participants are expected to attend the full workshop at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor from 10AM-6PM on June 14th, 9AM-6PM on June 15th, and 9AM-1PM on June 16th though exact times are subject to change. Participants will receive a certificate of completion.

Expenses & Requirements: Travel support, including housing, may be available for out-of-town participants. Additionally, as a requirement of participating, attendees agree to provide feedback and to create and share through SSDAN a learning exercise using ACS data. For completing these requirements, participants will receive compensation of $300.

To Apply: Complete and submit application found at http://pips.ssdan.net/pips-2018-summer-workshop-application by April 22, 2018. The application takes approximately 15 to 30 minutes for most to complete. Successful applicants will be notified of their acceptance by early May.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Social Science Matrix GRAD SLAM! April 20, 2018, 4pm-6pm, 820 Barrows Hall. Doctoral students from UC Berkeley’s Social Science Departments are invited to participate in the first-ever Social Science Matrix GRAD SLAM, which is modeled after the UC Grad Slam and Three-Minute Thesis competitions. Presenters are invited to give a three-minute summary of their dissertation research for a lay audience. Visuals are encouraged; jargon and extensive literature reviews are not. Prizes will be given in several categories, and snacks and drinks will be served. Even if you do not participate, you are still invited to attend as an audience member. Join us for this fun event, learn about each other’s work, and forge connections in a relaxed atmosphere! Location: Social Science Matrix, 820 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley. Learn more—and sign up here.

D-LAB
D-Lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description.

JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs. This list advertises positions of all sorts relevant for social and behavioral scientists with advanced degrees.

MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list (immigration_group@lists.berkeley.edu), which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and not all of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News.