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.
SAVE THE DATE
Disrupting Upstream Determinants of Family and Community Violence in the COVID-19 Era
Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy. For more information and registration, visit: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/
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.
SAVE THE DATE
Disrupting Upstream Determinants of Family and Community Violence in the COVID-19 Era
Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy. For more information and registration, visit: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Lost Our Census? Congressional Briefing July 9: Getting an Accurate 2020 Count during the COVID Pandemic, Thursday, July 9, 12:00 – 2:30 PM ET. Panelists: Mr. Albert Fontenot, Jr., Associate Director for Decennial Census at the U.S. Census Bureau; Dr. Dudley Poston, Jr., Texas A&M University; Dr. C. Matthew Snipp, Stanford University. Click on above link to RSVP.
Insights on COVID-19 Impacts: International Comparisons and Possibilities. Wednesday, July 15 – 1:00pm ET/10:00am PT. Click on the above link to learn more and to register.
Inclusion Across the Lifespan-II (IAL-II) workshop. September 2. IAL-II will provide a new, crucial opportunity to share evidence-based practical advice and lessons learned regarding the inclusion of children and older adults in clinical studies. For registration and more information: https://www.nia.nih.gov/
FUNDING
NIH released the parent awards for the Predoctoral F31 grant, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/
RWJF, through its Systems for Action (S4A), a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that builds a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems, is seeking applications that will provide supplemental research funding to teams that are already engaged in the study of a promising system alignment mechanism, with the objective of learning how this mechanism performs in addressing health and social needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit http://systemsforaction.org/
Submitting NIH Administrative Supplements: Effective July 25 2020, NIH will begin accepting administrative supplement applications for multi-project awards electronically. Since the administrative supplement applies to the parent award as a whole, the single-project application form package used for research grants and cooperative agreements will be used for these submissions (e.g., Competition ID= “FORMS-F-ADMINSUPP-RESEARCH.”) See https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/
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.
NIH’s National Institute on Aging (NIA) is accepting applications for the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITC) for Aging Research program to promote the development and implementation of artificial intelligence approaches and technology through demonstration projects to improve care and health outcomes for older Americans, including persons with dementia (PWD) and their caregivers. This is a limited submission of one per campus, so if you are interested you send a brief notification of interest to ltdsubs@berkeley.edu. VCRO will initiate a selection process when campus interest exceeds a given program’s submission limit. Potential applicants should review the full solicitation and eligibility criteria at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Name of this funding opportunity
Name of the lead PI
Name of the campus department/ORU submitting the application
A brief statement (up to 200 words) on the ability of the PI and collaborators to be effective in meeting the goals of this program. Internal Deadline is July 23.
Registration Now Open for the Summit Virtual Meeting Series: 2020 National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers. This series will include three meetings, with research presentations, panelist remarks, sharing of the draft research gaps and opportunities, and moderated discussion/Q&A. These draft gaps and opportunities, developed by the Summit Steering Committee with input from stakeholder groups and organized into six themes, are intended to identify important potential areas for future research in the fields of dementia care and caregiving. The dates of the Summit Virtual Meetings Series are:
Summit Series Virtual Meeting 1 – Friday, July 10, 2020, 1:30-4:30 pm EDT
Summit Series Virtual Meeting 2 – Thursday, July 21, 2020, 1:00-4:30 pm EDT
Summit Services Virtual Meeting 3 – Thursday, August 13, 2020, 1:30-4:45 pm EDT
For full information visit: https://www.nia.nih.gov/2020-
Small grants: for up to five projects that address scientific gaps in relation to telomere length (YL) as it applies to epidemiological research. The projects can include secondary analyses of large samples (>300) that examine TL as a sentinel of environmental exposures, psychosocial stress and disease susceptibility. This is targeted for postdocs or Early Stage Investigators. Deadline extended to July 20. See https://www.stressmeasurement.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Xlab, with Juliana Schroeder as the new director, continues to be capably managed day-to-day by long-time manager Rowie del Castillo. Although in-person sessions have not been possible during the pandemic, the lab can still help researchers identify research participants and online tools for data collection. The Xlab also continues to award small grants to worthy projects led by doctoral students, post-docs, or junior faculty members. Send grant applications to Dr. Schroeder. Visit: xlab.berkeley.edu.
The Data Peer Consulting Program in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society strives to help make data science accessible across the broader campus community, by aiming to help undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, researchers and faculty with research that involves data or with other projects and modules that incorporate data. Visit their website to learn more about the peer consultants and to find one that can help you! Our services include:
*Virtual Office Hours open M-Th, 11am – 4pm
*Appointment Consultations – Email us at ds-peer-consulting@berkeley.
*Workshops, Mini Projects, Collaborations – Stay tuned on our Facebook Page to learn about upcoming workshops
WEBINAR
Optimizing Mentoring Experiences, Part II: Addressing Challenges that Arise, (July 17, 9 am PST): This is part 2 of the May 15 webinar on mentoring that explored ways to optimize the mentoring experience for both mentors and mentees. Our panelists Roger Fillingim, Phd, Roland Thorpe, Phd and Anna Napoles, Phd, will address issues raised by RCMAR scientists during our first webinar on mentoring, including how to manage conflicts, ways of handling cultural/racial misunderstandings, and tips for ending mentoring relationships.
ON THE WEB.
Societal Experts Action Network COVID-19 survey summary. New highs in Americans’ concerns about the course of the coronavirus pandemic, increased use of face masks and a darkening public mood overall mark results of the past week’s surveys on the crisis.
PAA Virtual Talks: If you missed the recent Data Collection in Longitudinal Studies webinar, you can check out the recorded livestream here and the slides.
DATA
The US Census 2020 Planning Database (PDB) is now available at https://www.census.gov/topics/
• The ACS 2014–2018 5-year Self-Response Rates (at the tract level).
• ACS 2014–2018 5-year tract person and household internet/technology variables.
• Additional ACS 2014–2018 ACS tract variables related to the coverage of young children.
The PDB is updated annually. The files are available in a CSV format, and an API will be available soon. The Census Bureau has also produced a special release of the 2020 PDB at the state and county levels to aid data users who wish to easily add many popular demographic and socioeconomic variables from the 2010 Decennial Census and the 2014–2018 American Community Survey 5-year dataset as auxiliary information to their own state- and county-level datasets.
nb: This product needs your feedback to support moving it onto a production platform. Email about your uses to john.maron.abowd@census.gov.
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.
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.