Weekly News – July 9, 2018 - Population Sciences

NIH FUNDING
“Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) Grants”, released by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Applications are due no later than August 20, 2018! Information on the FOA is below and the link for additional information is:  https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-18-016.
•         FOA Number: TI-18-016
•         Application Due Date: Monday, August 20, 2018
•         Purpose: The program aims to address the opioid crisis in tribal communities.
•         Eligibility: Federally recognized tribes, and tribal organizations. Tribes and tribal organizations may apply individually, or in partnership with an urban Indian organization.
•         Anticipated Total Available Funding: $50,000,000
•         Anticipated Number of Awards: 263
•         Anticipated Award Amount: Funds will be distributed noncompetitively. For more information, view Appendix K in the FOA.
•         Length of Project: Up to 2 years
•         Cost Sharing/Match Required?: No

WORKSHOPS
Call for applications: 2018 Regional Health Data Mapping Workshop. The DHS Program is now accepting applications for the 2018 Regional Health Data Mapping Works hop in South Africa. The workshop will focus on the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in public health. The deadline to apply is July 9. Apply today.

Registration Open: Summer 2018 eLearning Survey Sampling Training Course. The DHS Program is searching for potential participants to take part in the DHS eLearning Survey Sampling Training Course. The course aims to equip participants with the knowledge, tools, skills, and abilities to design samples for population surveys, such as the DHS surveys. The deadline to apply is June 26.

CONFERENCES
Berkeley Summit on Aging Research and Technology Innovation, UC Berkeley campus, August 17, 2018. A full day of speakers, awards, poster sessions, and valuable networking focused on cutting-edge aging research and technologies. The event will highlight the educational and research mission of the University of California and its diverse and significant impact on improving the well-being of older adults. In addition to emerging research and technology updates by leading UC researchers, the program will include an overview of student and older adult education at UC Berkeley, poster sessions of student research, technology innovations, and the presentation of the Paola S. Timiras Memorial Award for Aging Research. We expect the summit to foster the cross-pollination of ideas and help forge new collaborations between UC faculty and leaders in industry, government, and the not-for-profit sectors, while exposing students and key stakeholders alike to a vision of healthy aging.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Applications: Investigative Workshop Extending the Theory of Sustainability NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Deadline: 9/5/2018)

Call for for Abstracts: 2019 CUGH Conference (3/7/19-3/9/19) Consortium of Universities for Global Health (Deadline: 8/25/2018)

WEBINARS
PAPOR Chapter Spotlight Webinar – Public Opinion of the Affordable Care Act: A Deeply Loved/Hated Law, July 19, 2018, Noon – 1:30 PM CDT. Presented by Mollyann Brodie, PhD, Kaiser Family Foundation. The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), has a storied history including several near-death experiences, including most recently efforts in 2017 by President Trump and Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the law. Since the law’s passage in 2010 and throughout its implementation, public opinion of the law has been characterized by deep divisions, underpinned by partisanship. Using public opinion polling conducted monthly since 2010, this webinar examines the past, current, and future of polling on the controversial ACA and how the lessons learned during the past eight years can help researchers in several ways. Specifically, this webinar will delve into three lessons learned from this extensive research. First, we will examine how when polling on the views and experiences with the ACA, responses are largely partisan, regardless of question wording or questionnaire design. Second, we will review the data that shows that although polling on the nuances of the complex legislation is complicated, it can yield deeper insights into the public’s views and actual experiences with the health care law. And finally, we will show that what most Americans mean, both presently and in the past, when they say they want health care reform is a reduction in their own health care costs. These polling lessons explored in this webinar, while directly applicable to the eight years since the passage of the ACA, may also prove useful in future polling on the seemingly ongoing health care legislative debates and other controversial laws in highly polarized political climates and will help illuminate the role of health care in the upcoming midterm elections. For more information and to register, click HERE.

DATA
NIH-FUNDED SCIENTISTS PUT SOCIOECONOMIC DATA ON THE MAP The Neighborhood Atlas is now available to all for health research, improvement. The Neighborhood Atlas <http://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/>, a new tool to help researchers visualize socioeconomic data at the community level is now available. This online platform allows for easily ranking and mapping neighborhoods according to socioeconomic disadvantage. Seeing a neighborhood’s socioeconomic measures, such as income, education, employment and housing quality, may provide clues to the effects of those factors on overall health, and could inform health resources policy and social interventions. The Neighborhood Atlas is housed at the University of Wisconsin, and described in a perspective in the June 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The project is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), both part of the National Institutes of Health. Where someone lives can determine several health-related factors, such as safety, stress and access to food. A person’s neighborhood can influence many conditions, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes, which are disproportionately more common among racial and ethnic minorities and the socioeconomically disadvantaged. “Socioeconomic disadvantage is one of the fundamental factors that result in health disparities; and understanding those factors is what will lead to development of interventions to reduce disparities,” said Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., director of NIMHD. “Having a tool to better understand social factors impacting health disparities is an important step forward to achieving health equity.” Developed by Amy Kind, M.D., Ph.D. https://www.medicine.wisc.edu/people-search/people/staff/537/KIND_AMY_JO, from University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Neighborhood Atlas uses the “Area Deprivation Index,” which includes 17 measures of education, housing quality and poverty, updated with current American Community Survey <https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/> data. Users can easily download maps indexed with measures of neighborhood disadvantage — ranging from national down to the local level.

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.