EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Demography Brown Bag this week but stay tuned as more are in the planning stages.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
California’s public sector and economic recovery: lessons from the Great Recession for the COVID-19 response. Jun 25, 2020 01:00 PM. The UC Berkeley Labor Center invites you to join us for a webinar to discuss two upcoming releases about public sector workers: Data Brief: Public Sector Impacts of the Great Recession and COVID-19 and a blog post: California’s Public Sector: Lessons from the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Response. We will discuss the impact of the Great Recession on public sector employment, the importance of the public sector to economic recovery, and the impacts of COVID-19 on public sector workers. As the state and local governments face significant revenue losses and COVID-19 expenditures, we highlight some important lessons for policymakers about the negative impacts of austerity on long-term economic recovery. Register in advance for this webinar:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/
EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Demography Brown Bag this week but stay tuned as more are in the planning stages.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
California’s public sector and economic recovery: lessons from the Great Recession for the COVID-19 response. Jun 25, 2020 01:00 PM. The UC Berkeley Labor Center invites you to join us for a webinar to discuss two upcoming releases about public sector workers: Data Brief: Public Sector Impacts of the Great Recession and COVID-19 and a blog post: California’s Public Sector: Lessons from the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Response. We will discuss the impact of the Great Recession on public sector employment, the importance of the public sector to economic recovery, and the impacts of COVID-19 on public sector workers. As the state and local governments face significant revenue losses and COVID-19 expenditures, we highlight some important lessons for policymakers about the negative impacts of austerity on long-term economic recovery. Register in advance for this webinar:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/
Structural Racism and COVID19: The Political Divide, Re-Opening the Society and Health Impacts on People of Color. Live webcast: Friday, June 26 12–1 P.M. The event will be broadcast live on this page.
You can also watch the event live on the UC Berkeley Facebook page.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Upcoming PAA Online Events. PAA members have organized several virtual events and sessions to keep the momentum going after PAA 2020.
COVID-19 Data Collection in Longitudinal Studies. Tuesday, June 23, 1:00pm EDT. Are you interested in doing empirical work on COVID-19? This webinar session will detail how six existing publicly available longitudinal studies are incorporating new measures to capture peoples’ experiences of the pandemic. Read more.
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.
FUNDING
CITRIS 2020 Seed Funding Program – Applications due September 10th — The RFP deadline for the 2020 Seed Funding Program has been extended to September 10, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the availability of additional funding .
NIH Covid-related R01s to be announced. NIH institutes and centers will shortly release Funding Announcements for Covid-19 research. One will focus on health disparities for vulnerable populations, and another will focus on economic, social and behavioral aspects of the pandemic. So if you have something that could be funded more broadly, please start preparing. The due date will be mid-summer (est July 20), so not long from now. Contact me for help in strategizing and assembling any applications.
Community Interventions to Address the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Health Disparity and Vulnerable Populations (R01- Clinical Trial Optional). This FOA applications to implement and evaluate community interventions testing 1) the impacts of mitigation strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in NIH-designated health disparity populations and other vulnerable groups; and 2) already implemented, new, or adapted interventions to address the adverse psychosocial, behavioral, and socioeconomic consequences of the pandemic on the health of these groups. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative to speed innovation in the development, commercialization, and implementation of technologies for COVID-19 testing. Accurate, fast, easy-to-use, and widely accessible testing is required before the nation can safely return to normal life. Learn more here.
CONFERENCES
Now accepting abstracts for presentation at the UC Berkeley Social Networks Symposium. This brief two-day meeting (August 6-7, 2020) is for researchers interested in examining longitudinal data on ego-centric networks. It will be held virtually on Zoom just before the originally scheduled American Sociological Association 2020 conference. The event will be from approximately 9 AM PDT to 2 PM PDT each day. There will be a break for lunch and to be away from the screen, but the Zoom meeting will remain open during that time for networking. If you have experience with longitudinal analysis of ego-centric network data, we invite you to present on your work, including the challenges you have faced using panel data. If you are interested in conversing on these topics, we invite you to host or join one of our Breakout Rooms. Finally, let us know if you’re simply interested in attending and would like to receive a Zoom invite to join the symposium. Click on the ‘Sign Up Here’ button below to submit an abstract or to express interest in attending. All forms are due on July 1st, 2020. Submit your abstract and/or register here. Learn more about the symposium here: http://ucnets.berkeley.edu/
National Transfer Accounts: Preliminary agenda for the upcoming Virtual NTA meeting, August 3-7, 2020 https://ntaccounts.org/web/
ANNOUNCEMENTS
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Town Hall. Wednesday, July 1, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET. The event will be broadcast through Zoom Webinar. During this town hall, NCCIH invites comments from stakeholders, experts, communities, and members of the public. When registering for the town hall, those who wish to make a comment are encouraged to select one of the themes from the Request for Information (RFI) (NOT-AT-20-013) on which to comment. We will listen to comments theme by theme with a brief recap in between each theme. Find out more and register here.
NIA’s Strategic Directions: Priorities for continued progress. NIA’s Strategic Directions document for 2020-2025 is now available. The National Institute on Aging: Strategic Directions for Research provides a point of reference for setting future priorities and a framework for systematically analyzing the institute’s scientific portfolio and assessing progress. We encourage the scientific community to review it for a clear signal about NIA’s scientific priority areas within the rapidly evolving field of aging research. Read HERE
for more information.
WORKSHOPS
Urban Displacement Project Symposium. Predicting neighborhood change using big data and machine learning: Implications for theory, methods, and practice – Part 2. August 10-11, 2020, University of Sydney, Virtual Participation. This symposium will convene international urban researchers with deep interests in data science and neighborhood change. The first symposium in this series was held at UC Berkeley on January 9-10, 2020, and this second event will be held at the University of Sydney on August 10-11, 2020, with each two-day program consisting of a mix of keynote speakers, seminars, panels, and workshops with data science researchers and government officials. For more information, visit: https://bids.berkeley.edu/
ON THE WEB
COVID-19 Cases and Political Parties: Are politics driving new COVID-19 infections rates as Whatcom and Skagit counties reopen from the shutdown? David Swanson and Eric Tyberg take you through the analysis. Read more here: https://nwcitizen.com/entry/a-
DATA
This week’s Societal Experts Action Network COVID-19 survey summary covers more than 15 national, state and international surveys released in the past week covering a range of pandemic-related topics. Our summary includes links to all data sources, and source materials are available via the open-access SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive, with full-text search and retrieval of individual questions and related materials. The archive contains more than 275 probability-based surveys from the United States and more than 25 other countries, with more than 100 datasets and 3,000 individual questions.
The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) is pleased to announce that the MHAS data and documentation from Wave 5 (2018) is now available to the public at www.MHASweb.org. Wave 5 follows the 2001 baseline cohort (born 1951 or earlier) and the additional Wave 3 cohort (born between 1952-1962), and adds a new cohort born between 1963-1968. Version 1 of Wave 5 includes the Individual Level Data File, Household Level Data Files, Next-of-Kin Data Files and Master Follow-up Data File, and the companion Codebooks. Please note that the data files exclude sampling weights.
New holdings at the Berman Jewish DataBank
U.S Local Studies:
2018-19 Greater Denver Jewish Community Study (Rose Community Foundation, Sturm Family Foundation, and Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado)
2019 Cincinnati Jewish Community Study (Jewish Federation of Cincinnati and Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati)
2008 Demographic Snapshot of the Kansas City Jewish Community (Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City)
U.S. Topical Studies
Unlocking the Future of Jewish Engagement (Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Genesis Philanthropy Group, Jim Joseph Foundation, and Maimonides Fund)
Connecting the Dots: American Jews and Civic Engagement (Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah)
Jewish Grandparents Survey (Jewish Grandparents Network)
2020 Political Poll of the American Jewish Orthodox Community (Nishma Research)
What Americans Know about the Holocaust (Pew Research Center)
Global Studies:
2019 Analysis of Anti-Semitism in France (AJC Paris)
Data Collection: Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS): Latest data available: 2015. Provides detailed information on the characteristics of persons who had some type of contact with police during the year, including those who contacted the police to report a crime or were pulled over in a traffic stop. The PPCS interviews a nationally representative sample of residents age 16 or older as a supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The survey enables BJS to examine the perceptions of police behavior and response during these encounters. For more information, see https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?
Round 9 of the European Social Survey (ESS): The first edition of our Round 9 dataset – published in October 2019 – included survey responses collected from 19 countries during late 2018 and 2019. This included data from: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In this second edition, data and documentation for an additional eight countries has been added: Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. Many of these countries have participated in the ESS after missing some rounds. In addition Montenegro participated for the first time. This newest release of data and documentation also includes post-stratification weights (PSPWGHT) for all countries. With the addition of these eight countries, it means that the integrated ESS9 file now includes data for 27 countries. In addition to the core questionnaire two topics were covered in Round 9 specifically – questions were asked on the timing of life events (repeated from Round 3, 2006/07) and justice and fairness, in the context of income. The data can be analysed on-line or downloaded for free from our website https://www.
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.