Weekly News – April 9, 2018 - Population Sciences

EVENTS

Wednesday April 11, 12-1:10 PM. Demography Brown Bag: Building Segregation: The Role of Housing Characteristics in Racial Segregation between Neighborhoods. Ann Owens, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California. 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 9, 2-3:30 PM. “Using sampled social network data to estimate the size of hidden populations.” Dennis Feehan. 402 Barrows Hall.

Monday, April 9 4-5:30 p.m. “Genetics and education: Recent developments in the context of an ugly history and an uncertain future.” Ben Domingue, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University; Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder | 2515 Tolman Hall.

EVENTS

Monday, April 9, 2-3:30 PM. “Using sampled social network data to estimate the size of hidden populations.” Dennis Feehan. 402 Barrows Hall.

Tuesday, April 10 | 12:40-2 p.m. “Do Medical Marijuana Laws Harm Youth and Young Adults?” Joanne Spetz, PhD, Professor, UCSF School of Medicine, Institute for Health Policy Studies. | 104 Genetics & Plant Biology Building.

Tuesday, April 10 | 4-5:30 p.m. “What Do Consumers Consider Before They Choose?” Featured Speaker: Jason Abaluck, Yale School of Management. | 648 Evans Hall.

Thursday, April 12, 12:30-2 PM. “The Impact of the Medicaid Primary Care Fee Bump on the Cost and Quality of Care for Dual-Eligibles with Multiple Chronic Conditions.” Mark Unruh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College. 198 University Hall.

Thursday, April 12 | 12-1:30pm. “Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace.” Katrinell Davis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida State University. Register here for a FREE lunch.Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall.

Thursday, April 12, 2018 • 7:30pm–9:00pm. The 23rd annual Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy: “When Black Lives Matter: Racial Differences in Police Use of Force & What to do About It.” Roland G. Fryer, Jr. is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Boalt Hall, Room 100.

Friday, April 13 | 12-1 p.m. “Administrative Records Use at the U.S. Census Bureau”. John Voorheis, CARRA | 648 Evans Hall

Friday, April 13 | 4 p.m. “Understanding, Utilizing, and Predicting Human Mobility Data” Jessie Li, Penn State. | 502 Davis Hall

Friday April 13, 2018, 12:10pm – 1:30pm. Household Recombination, Retrospective Evaluation and Educational Mobility over 40 years Andrew Foster – Brown University. 201 Giannini Hall.

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.

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 atCHC@chc.ucsf.edu. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be provided. UCSF, Laurel Heights Room 474.

FUNDING
NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP2). Funding opportunities for outstanding early career scientists ready for independence. Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the award supports outstanding junior scientists with the intellect, scientific creativity, drive, and maturity to flourish independently launch independent research careers and bypass the traditional postdoctoral training period. Must complete doctoral degree or clinical training between June 1, 2017 and September 30, 2019. Must be in non-independent research position at time of application. Single PI only. Requires significant institutional support. Preliminary data not required. $250,000 direct costs per year for up to 5 years. Minimum of 80% research effort in first 2 years. 3-5 Letters of Reference required. Due September 27, 2018. See https://commonfund.nih.gov/earlyindependence for more information.

National Science Foundation – National Institutes of Health NSF-NIH Interagency Initiative: Smart and Connected Health. The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is the development of technologies, analytics and models supporting next generation health and medical research through high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering and technology, behavior, cognition, robotics and imaging. Collaborations between academic, industry, and other organizations are strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science, medicine and healthcare practice and technology development, deployment and use. This solicitation is aligned with previous reports by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and others calling for new partnerships to facilitate major changes in health and medicine, as well as healthcare delivery and is aimed at the fundamental research to enable these changes. Realizing the promise of disruptive transformation in health, medicine and healthcare will require well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary approaches that draw from the computer and information sciences, engineering, social, behavioral, and economic sciences, medical and health research and biology. For more information, visit:https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-18-149.html.

NSF: Long-term Reuse of Scientific Data. NSF has issued a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter expressing interest in grant applications that propose innovative ways to use existing data of all forms. This initiative may be of interest who work with BIDS, within data science, or simply have a complex ways of dealing with data. For more information, click here or visit: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18060/nsf18060.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click.

WORKSHOPS
Apply Now to the 2018 Health Disparities Research Institute! The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) from July 23-27, 2018. The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising minority health and health disparities research scientists early in their careers, stimulating research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science. The program will feature lectures, mock grant review, seminars, small group discussions on research relevant to minority health and health disparities. It will also include sessions with NIH scientific staff engaged in related health disparities research across the various institutes and centers. This program is intended for early stage research investigators. Applications will only be accepted from post-doctoral fellows, assistant professors, or individuals in similar early stage research career positions who are engaged in minority health and health disparities research. Early career researchers from diverse backgrounds interested in the conduct of health research, within academic, community-based, non-profit, and other non-academic settings, are encouraged to apply. The online application is now open on the NIMHD website: https://nimhd.nih.gov/programs/edu-training/hd-research-institute/hdri_logon.asp. The due date for submitting an application is April 27th, 2018, (5:00 PM EST). Sign up for our listserv to get updates on the application process! Learn more here: https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/programs/edu-training/hd-research-institute/hdri_logon.asp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.

CONFERENCES
5th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP). The conference theme is “Investing for a Lifetime of Returns,” and it will be held in Kigali, Rwanda on November 12-15. There is a special track on “Returns on investment in family planning and the Demographic Dividend.” For more information and to submit a paper, visit: http://fpconference.org/2018/abstracts/. Please note that authors of accepted papers may apply for travel support. The deadline for submitting an abstract is on April 13th.

13th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health. Taking place in Oakland, California, on June 18-21, this four-day-long event will give you access to insights from worldwide national and international recognized experts who will teach the relationship between migration and global health from a diverse array of perspectives. This will be a great opportunity for researchers, students and professionals to learn about various health issues affecting mobile populations, and to create new professional networks. Learn more and register here: www.regonline.com/migranthealth2018.

Eleventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, held 16–17 April 2019 at the Pryzbyla Center, The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., USA, invites proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. Deadline for proposals: May 16, 2018. For complete information, click here.

FELLOWSHIPS
Joint CRDF Global-NIH Office of AIDS Research Training Fellowship Funding Opportunity: CRDF Global is accepting proposals from early-stage investigators working in the field of HIV research forthe U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of AIDS Research (OAR) Training Fellowship Awards, 2018. This initiative is funded by CRDF Global [utilizing funds provided by OAR through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)]. The fellowship program aims to promote the training and inclusion of early-stage scientists in HIV-related collaborative research. Due date for proposals is May 30, 2018. More information can be found 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, visithttp://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.