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

Thursday Feb 6, 4-5 pm, “Towards an Emotional Demography: The Role of Emotion and Emotion Culture for Fertility” A job talk with Natalie Nitsche. 2121 Berkeley Way, room 1213 (ground floor, Department of Psychology)..

Monday February 3, 2-3:30 pm. Monica Bell. Policing and Residential Segregation: Toward a Research and Policy Agenda.  Blumer Room – 402 Barrows Hall

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

Thursday Feb 6, 4-5 pm, “Towards an Emotional Demography: The Role of Emotion and Emotion Culture for Fertility” A job talk with Natalie Nitsche. 2121 Berkeley Way, room 1213 (ground floor, Department of Psychology)..

Monday February 3, 2-3:30 pm. Monica Bell. Policing and Residential Segregation: Toward a Research and Policy Agenda.  Blumer Room – 402 Barrows Hall

Monday, February 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. Racialization, Colorism, and Stalled Upward Mobility Among Low-Income Rural Families, with Linda M. Burton, Dean, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley | 1102 Berkeley Way West. More about the event here.

Friday, February 7, 12-1:30 pm.  Migration and Informal Insurance.  Melanie Morten (Stanford, economics), job candidate. 150 University Hall. 

Friday February 7, 3-5 pm. The US Census and Social Media Archiving. Catherine Marshall, I-School.

SAVE THE DATE

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 • 4:00pm–5:00pm Overregulating Community College Students through Racist Financial Aid Policies and Practices. With Dr. Devon Lomes Graves, Success Center at the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Social Science Matrix, 8^th floor. More information here.

March 19, 2020, 12pm, Matrix On Point: Taxation and the 1%. With Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan. 820 Barrows Hall.

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
NIMHD 10th Anniversary Scientific Symposium: Innovations to Promote Health Equity. This symposium will provide an opportunity to discuss research ideas about how innovations in reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities, persons of disadvantaged socioeconomic status, sexual and gender minorities, and underserved rural residents can improve the future of minority health and ensure an equal opportunity to live long, healthy, and productive lives for all populations. March 3, 2020, 9am– 4:30pm ET on the NIH Main Campus and streaming. Register to attend the symposium in person here.  Also available on NIH Videocast and archived for those unable to attend in person.

FUNDING
National Institute of Justice “Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2020”. NIJ strives to support objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women (VAW) (including violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls), promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses. For that reason, this solicitation seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics including the crimes of homicide, intimate partner and dating violence, rape and sexual assault, stalking, and trafficking, along with the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies. This year, NIJ is particularly interested in research responding to the following two priority areas: Evaluation research on VAW programs. All applications are due by 3:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 13, 2020. For more information download https://nij.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh171/files/media/document/NIJ-2020-17331.pdf

Call for pilot proposal/new RCMAR Scientists. The Columbia Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Alzheimer’s Disease Disparities (CIRAD) is soliciting applications for its pilot project program from investigators who will become RCMAR Scientists. Postdoctoral scientists, early, or mid-career investigators in the greater New York City area are encouraged to apply. Investigators must meet the NIH definition of underrepresented in biomedical research. Investigators must demonstrate an interest in an enduring career in ADRD-relevant research. Applications due 3/1/2020. Visit the RCMAR National Coordinating Center’s website, Call for pilot proposal/new RCMAR Scientists. The Columbia Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Alzheimer’s Disease Disparities (CIRAD) is soliciting applications for its pilot project program from investigators who will become RCMAR Scientists. Postdoctoral scientists, early, or mid-career investigators in the greater New York City area are encouraged to apply. Investigators must meet the NIH definition of underrepresented in biomedical research. Investigators must demonstrate an interest in an enduring career in ADRD-relevant research. Applications due 3/1/2020. Visit the RCMAR National Coordinating Center’s website for more information.

CONFERENCES
Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 4-8, Philadelphia. The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting theme, “Turning 75: Why Age Matters,” was selected as a celebration of GSA’s 75th Anniversary.  Submit your abstract by March 12, 2020, 11:59 PM EDT to be eligible to present at the GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting. For more information, visit: https://www.geron.org/meetings-events/gsa-2020-annual-scientific-meeting/call-for-abstracts.

WORKSHOPS
Michigan Integrative Well-Being and Inequality (MIWI) Training Program is a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary methods training program that prepares participating scholars to investigate the intersection of mental and physical health, with an emphasis on how this intersection relates to health disparities. The training encompasses conceptual frameworks, study designs, data collection needs, and analytic approaches necessary to conduct this innovative research. The program includes an intensive 4-day summer institute in Ann Arbor, MI, followed by ongoing collaboration with a mentorship team. This program is funded by the National Institutes of Health through the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). It is the only NIH-funded program focused on building the methodological expertise needed to address the intersection of mental and physical health. This program will support efforts to increase cross-pollination in interdisciplinary scientific teams and foster an integrative approach to clinical care and health services programming that can better meet the needs of persons with comorbid mental and physical health conditions. The MIWI Summer Institute will take place from June 22-26 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The application for the MIWI Training Program is now open! Applications are due by March 1, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST. Visit our Website for information on how to apply.

The Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD) is an NIH/NIA-funded Alzheimer’s disease focused Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR) that seeks to address disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) through research findings, mentorship, community links, and increased numbers of behavioral and social scientists from underrepresented backgrounds. The Summer Data Immersion (SDI) program provides hands-on training in the use of publicly available data resources to address important research questions relevant to ADRD. The theme of the 2020 program will be “Family Care: Racial/Ethnic and Contextual Factors. During the 4-day program, data will be used from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and its linked National Study of Caregiving (NSOC). The SDI program advances a team science approach. It will include informational presentations about best practices for working with NHATS/NSOC data by a study Principal Investigator, as well as discussion on the topics of race/ethnicity, culture and family care. Interested individuals should complete the application and upload a CV/Biosketch using the following link 2020 MCCFAD SDI Application. Completed applications with CV/Biosketch should be submitted by February 15, 2020. Please contact mccfad.isr@umich.edu with any questions. Program website: 2020 MCCFAD Summer Data Immersion Program

The Duke Network Analysis Center (DNAC) and the Duke Population Research Institute, with support from the  NICHD, will be hosting the fifth, week-long Social Networks and Health workshop from May 11 – 15, 2020.  The program from last year is here: https://dnac.ssri.duke.edu/social-networks-health-scholars-training-program-2019.php and general registration will go live in March.  We are writing now to invite applications for Fellowships to the workshop. Fellows will participate in the week-long training course, but also be matched with a mentor to work on an ongoing research project that the fellow has proposed. All participation costs (including domestic travel and lodging expenses to come to Duke) for SN&H fellows will be covered by the program.  There is additional funding fellows can access throughout the year to travel to meetings and otherwise support research meetings with their program mentor. SN&H fellows must commit to presenting the results of their project at next year’s workshop.  Due to NIH policy, we can only consider applications from US citizens or permanent residents and can only cover domestic travel costs.  SN&H Fellowships will be primarily targeted at pre-doctoral students, post-docs and junior faculty and is open to participants both in the triangle and across the nation. Women, individuals from underrepresented minority groups, and disabled individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. To apply for an SN&H fellowship, we need two things.  First, please send an email with your CV and a brief (not more than two pages) description of research project you propose to work on over the year to snhtrain@soc.duke.edu  by Feb 22, 2020.  Second, fill out the short demographic background survey here: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3fOqey37WMGpcod.  Feel free to contact me (jmoody77@soc.duke.edu) if you have any questions.
The Social Networks and Health workshop will cover topics in social network analysis related to studying health behaviors, including:
·         Data collection
·         Ego network analysis
·         Diffusion and peer influence
·         Communities in networks
·         Respondent-driven sampling
·         Network visualizations
·         Statistical Models for networks (ERGM, AMEN, SOAM)
·         Agent-based modeling
The workshop will also contain a substantial lab component, which will give attendees an opportunity to learn how to use the R statistical computing language to analyze networks.  Last year’s presentations and labs are available online at https://dnac.ssri.duke.edu/social-networks-health-scholars-training-program-2019.php.

WEBINAR
RCMAR webinar, Feb 14th, 9am PST. “Legacy of Syphilis Study and Ethical Considerations for Health Disparities Research with Older Adults: A Bioethics Dialogue “will be presented by Stephen O. Sodeke, PhD, MA, Bioethicist and Professor of Allied Health Sciences and Bioethics at Tuskegee University College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Biomedical Research. For more information and to register please visit here: https://rcmar.org/events/feb14webinar/.

D-LAB
Tom Piazza is giving a workshop on sample weights Feb 27, 11-1 pm.  Register here: https://dlab.berkeley.edu/training/weighting-data-2  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.