Population Science News

Weekly News — August 24, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Demography Brown Bag this week. Enjoy your summer!

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

Thursday, August 27, 2-3:30 PM. “Topic Forthcoming” Stephen Machin, London School of Economics. Event Contact:  camillen@berkeley.edu

SAVE THE DATE
Cancelled: August 27. The talk with Dr. Fauci has been postponed.

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Demography Brown Bag this week. Enjoy your summer!

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

Thursday, August 27, 2-3:30 PM. “Topic Forthcoming” Stephen Machin, London School of Economics. Event Contact:  camillen@berkeley.edu

SAVE THE DATE
Cancelled: August 27. The talk with Dr. Fauci has been postponed.

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Webinar- Racial Disparities and its impact on Incidences of Dementia and Barriers to Caregiving.
 Friday, August 28th, 1pm-2pm (EDT). Learn more and register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/9206614788765647371.

Monday, Sept 21, 12-4 PM EDT. Bowling Green’s Center for Family & Demographic Research presents Declining Fertility in the U.S.: Interpretations, Predictions, and Implications. The symposium is free, but pre-registration is required. Please contact the CFDR office, cfdr@bgsu.edu,  to register. Speakers include Lawrence Wu, NYU, Allison Gemmill, Johns Hopkins and Joshua Goldstein, UCB.

AGING FOCUS
This new section 
is for those specifically interested in demography and economics of aging, and are likely to be affiliates of our Center for Economics in Demography of Aging (CEDA: ceda.berkeley.edu). Look here in the future for aging-specific funding opportunities, events and more.

CEDA Call for Pilot Grants:  The UC Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA, https://www.populationsciences.berkeley.edu/ceda) is pleased to announce a new call for pilot research proposals for AY 2020-2021, with a submission deadline of October 1, 2020.  CEDA continues its long-standing NIA-funded pilot grant program to support promising new research. We seek proposals in areas related to demography and economics of aging, especially those aligned with CEDA’s signature themes: Mortality measurement; Policy and behavioral determinants of adult health; Biodemography of aging; and Macro consequences of global aging. We also seek innovative aging-related behavioral and social research proposals regarding timely topics such as COVID-19, the Census, political demography related to the upcoming election, etc. We encourage you to review the research topics prioritized by CEDA’s funder, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Division of Behavioral and Social Research, as per the report at: https://www.nia.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2020-02/2019-BSR-Review-Committee-Report-508.pdf.  Please also note this clarification of NIH’s priorities for health economics research: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-025.html, and reach out if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of a potential topic.   We prioritize applications that will likely lead to competitive extramural research proposals to NIA and other funders, but other highly innovative or high impact projects will be considered.  For this call for pilots: Submit by October 1, 2020 for fullest consideration.   Funded proposals are generally in the range of $15,000-$30,000 direct costs (over one year), but larger and longer-term proposals will be considered if well justified. The timeline should anticipate a substantial portion of the work to be conducted between January and June 2021.  To be eligible for this call, any human subjects work must have IRB approval or exemption determination by October 15, 2020, and the research should not require foreign site approval. (For projects requiring a longer lead time, we will issue another call this winter for pilots that will begin in summer 2021.) Eligibility: Must have or be eligible for PI status at Berkeley, or if at another institution, be a CEDA member. Application Format and Process: Submit a 2-page proposal (plus rough budget): please read the guidelines for detailed instructions. Email the completed proposal to CEDA Manager Maria Hernandez (mt_hernandez@berkeley.edu). For preliminary feedback on your proposal idea please contact CEDA Director Will Dow (wdow@berkeley.edu) or Berkeley Population Center Executive Director Leora Lawton (llawton@berkeley.edu).

Request for Pilot Proposals: Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America (NLCHDD). Due Date: Monday, October 12, 2020. The NLCHDD, funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites interested researchers to submit pilot proposals that have potential to better understand how US adult health and mortality outcomes are shaped by meso-level contexts. By meso-level, we mean the county, metro area, city, carceral apparatus, commuting zone, housing or labor market, hospital catchment area, and other contextual levels of influence that are not state-level but are also broader than local contexts such as neighborhoods. To learn more and download the pdf for submission instructions, visit the website: https://gero.usc.edu/nlchdd/pilot-projects/.  The target PIs are those who are thinking of K99/R00, K01, R03, R01 awards in the future.

Engaging Communities of Hispanics for Aging Research (ECHAR) Network Pilot Grant Program: Pilot funding ($25,000) for new investigators to address effective recruitment strategies of Hispanics/Latinos into aging and Alzheimer’s disease research. Due 10/1/20, see https://www.echarnetwork.com/uploads/1/3/2/5/132522244/echar_pilotcall_2020-july.pdf

Diverse approaches to studying diverse populations RCMAR symposium (Oct 26): Dr. Steven P. Wallace, Director of the Coordinating Center along with Dr. Patricia Jones, NIA Director of the Office of Special Populations will facilitate a RCMAR symposium at this year’s APHA annual meeting that will include presentations from RCMAR scientists from across the country. The scientists Drs. Tiffany Kindratt, Kevin Lu, Jennifer James and Kia Shrine Jeffers, will highlight their new research on health disparities faced by older adults in diverse communities using both quantitative analyses of large datasets and community-engaged qualitative studies. Learn more: https://rcmar.org/events/rcmar-symposium-at-apha-diverse-approaches-to-studying-diverse-populations/.

FUNDING
NIH Notice of Special Interest: Secondary Analyses of Existing Alcohol Research Data. Special funding for R01, R21 and R03 applications to support the secondary analyses of existing data sets with the goal of enhancing our understanding of the following: 1) the patterns and trajectories of alcohol consumption, 2) the epidemiology and etiology, including genetics, of alcohol-related problems and disorders, and 3) alcohol-related health services and health systems, including access, quality, and efficiency. This Notice encourages applications proposing innovative analyses of existing alcohol research data, answering novel research hypotheses and questions, and developing and testing advanced analytical methodologies applicable to alcohol related epidemiological, behavioral and genetics research.  For more information, see: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AA-20-018.html.

WEBINARS
How Data Collection has Changed During COVID-19, September 15, 2020, 1-2:30pm EST. A Webinar presented by DC-AAPOR. Registration is open for an exciting webinar presented by DC-AAPOR. In this webinar, representatives from various sectors (government, non-profit, private sector) will share how their organization’s survey data collection methods had to change in the time of COVID-19. Each panelist will present followed by a Q&A with attendees. Panelists include: Jaki McCarthy (USDA-NASS); Jenny Hunters Child (Census); Pat Moynihan (Pew Research Center); Eran Ben-Porath (SSRS). Please click the link below or copy and paste the URL into your browser to register.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-data-collection-has-changed-during-covid-19-tickets-114325486608. DC-AAPOR Members Free; Non-members $20 (includes DC-AAPOR membership.

PAA Webinars:
COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa. October 15 – 12:00pm EDT. Register now.

ON THE WEB
PAA Job Board:  PAA announces a new job board. Advertisers who are members of PAA can post for one month with no charge.  For more information, visit: https://populationassociation.careerwebsite.com/

STUDENTS
The Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (PAPOR) announces the early opening of its annual Student Paper Competition. We welcome entries from students of any discipline that employs survey and opinion research, including political science, communications, psychology, sociology, and marketing. Eligible papers should focus on survey methods, public opinion, or market research and be authored by graduate or undergraduate students currently attending colleges and universities in PAPOR’s geographic region: California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, or Wyoming. Papers should not exceed 30 pages.  
1st prize:
– Cash award of $250.       
 – Up to $250 in travel expenses to the AAPOR Annual Conference in Los Angeles, May 13-16 2021.*
– PAPOR virtual conference registration, recognition in the program.**
– An opportunity to present the research at the virtual conference.**
– Honorary 1 year membership to PAPOR.
 2nd prize:
– PAPOR virtual conference registration, recognition in the program.**
– An opportunity to present the research at the virtual conference.**
– Honorary 1 year membership to PAPOR.
Students submit papers by email to studentpaper@papor.org). The entries will be judged by a panel of survey and public opinion researchers selected from PAPOR’s membership. The deadline for submission is October 9, 2020. Interested students can learn more about the student paper competition on the Resources tab at http://www.papor.org/ or by emailing studentpaper@papor.org
*Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 crisis, details of the $250 travel reimbursement to the AAPOR Conference may be subject to change.
**Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 crisis, details of the virtual PAPOR conference may be subject to change.

D-LAB
All D-Lab workshop instruction, events, and consultation are moving to online delivery for the rest of the semester. The D-Lab Collaboratory and Convening Room will be closed to the public during this time. We will assess and share decisions at a later date about how and when we will return to in-person delivery. Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.

RELATED LISTS
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 which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link

School of Public Health Mailing List
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu.

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