Weekly News - May 4, 2020 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. Be sure to check out Webinars, below.

Wednesday May 6, 12:10-1:10 PM. On zoom: Demography Brown Bag Short talks. This week we feature Ted Miguel speaking about “The impact of Covid-19 in the developing world: Kenya” and Luis Rosero-Bixby on “Metrics of a generally mild COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America: bad data or reality” Bring your own cookies. https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96563625426.

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

SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, May 14 | 11am PST. [Webinar talk] Work Supports and Health: Work Scheduling. Sound job creation and employment maintenance efforts will be critical to improving public health and restoring the economy in the coming months and years. Experts, including Kristen Harknett of The Shift Project, will discuss the role of flexible work scheduling in worker health outcomes. See https://cc.readytalk.com/registration/#/?meeting=k0g1eqrztei1&campaign=lke0gpoklj42.

EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. Be sure to check out Webinars, below.

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

May 5 | 12-1 p.m. U.S. 2020 Census: How to Ensure Everybody Counts in the Time of COVID-19. Lecture | | Online via Zoom (link provided upon registration). Featured Speaker: Casey Farmer, Executive Director, Alameda County’s Complete Count Committee for Census 2020. Sponsor: UC Berkeley Extension. Learn how Alameda County engages youth in a Student Census Challenge, partners with County’s Complete Count Committee to promote Census centers, and provides census information to students, families and the public via school districts (before and during COVID). The presenter will share a real time map of Census response rates thus far. You’ll receive a link to the Zoom event via an email in advance of the event. Registration required

OFF CAMPUS
Webinar: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Join this public CNSTAT webinar featuring several PAA members on Friday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. ET. In their new book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case and Angus Deaton document the rise in pain and the decline in health and mental health among the white working class that accompanied the increases in mortality, and examine the proximate and underlying causes of the rise in deaths of despair. View more.

FUNDING
NICHD COVID-19 Administrative Supplements: NICHD announces administrative supplements to address COVID-19 impacts on vulnerable populations. NICHD has particular interests in COVID-19-related research on vulnerable populations falling within the NICHD scientific mission area, including pregnant and post-partum women, infants, children, and adolescents; individuals with physical and/or intellectual disabilities; and children who are homeless or in foster care. See the Announcement here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-097.html.

CONFERENCES
2020 Global NTA conference will be held in just a few days. The start time for WS I is 8:00 PM on May 4, 2020, Pacific Time. (5:00 PM Hawaii on May 4; 12:00 AM Rio de Janeiro, 3:00 AM Dakar, 5:00 AM Continental Europe, 9:00 AM Mumbai, 11:00 AM Manila, 12:00 PM Tokyo on May 5). The agenda is attached. Additional details about connecting via zoom will be provided shortly. Title: Micro-Distributional NTA: Investigating Inequality, Human Capital, and Changing Population Composition in a Longitudinal Context. Organized by: Berkeley Center of the Economics and Demographic of Aging and the East-West Center Conveners: Ronald Lee, Gretchen Donehower, Andrew Mason, and Sang-Hyop Lee. Write to Gretchen for the zoom link: gdonehower@gmail.com.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Free Student Memberships for the Insights Association https://www.insightsassociation.org/, “the leading voice, resource and network of the marketing research and data analytics community,” is now offering FREE membership to all students enrolled in graduate programs in survey, opinion and marketing research, customer intelligence, and data analytics, and MBAs and marketing graduate programs with a focus on such topics. This membership will allow them access to all members-only content, learning and networking opportunities, membership in any one of IA’s 12 local Chapters, and access to our Job Board. IA’s mission is to protect, connect, inform and promote the insights industry, thereby allowing insights leaders to make intelligent decisions and deploy strategies to build trust and inspire innovation. Its members are the world’s leading producers of intelligence, analytics and insights, including companies such as Ipsos, Dynata, IQVIA, GfK, Burke, Kantar, Edelman, and Escalent, as well as brands like American Express, Eli Lilly & Company, Merck, Prudential Financial, MetLife, Aflac, and Hulu. We strongly encourage you to share this note with the relevant grad students you know, so that they may join and utilize this resource. Prospective student members should simply complete and submitting this form https://www.insightsassociation.org/student-membership . Shortly after form submission, they will receive an onboarding email with instructions to create their own personal member account, which will grant access to IA member benefits. For any questions, please reach out to IA’s VP Membership, Nicole Symelidis at Nicole.symelidis@insightsassociation.org

DATA
Census Bureau Rolls Out Household Pulse Survey During COVID-19 Pandemic. The US Census Bureau has received emergency approval from OMB to email/text an online survey link to 13.8M homes over 12 weeks to measure employment, spending, food/housing security, education disruptions, physical/mental wellbeing during COVID-19 pandemic […] Some 13.8 million people in the U.S. may start receiving an official Census Bureau email or text like this about the new “Household Pulse Survey” as early as April 20, 2020. Documents are available here. Learn more about it here: https://www.census.gov/householdpulsedata.

ICPSR Launches New Repository for COVID-19 Data. Learn more HERE.

Public opinion surveys on the COVID-19 pandemic, produced in support of the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), is now available. This week’s report groups key results from 15 national, three state and 10 international surveys in the following categories: Reopening America, Contact and Concern, Daily Life, Health Impact, Economic Impact, Government Response, Election Concerns, State Results and International Results. Links to all original sources are included. See also the SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive, with more than 130 probability-based surveys from 25 countries, full-text searchable for individual questions and related materials. Sign up on the SEAN homepage for notice of our weekly survey summaries. Many study producers have contributed datasets, data summaries, scripted questionnaires, analytical reports and more, for which we are grateful. See our Contributors’ Guide to participate in this open-access resource, designed to share the latest attitudinal and behavioral research on COVID-19 with policymakers, researchers, news media and the public.

Center for Economic and Social Research’s Understanding America Study probability-based internet panel (https://uasdata.usc.edu) includes a tracking study on COVID-19, surveyed every fourteen days (about 500 a day for a full sample of 7000+ over 14 days). Topline results are posted daily in the form of about 3000 graphs on https://covid19pulse.usc.edu. This rich resource of longitudinal micro-data on the economic, physical, and mental health effects of the pandemic that we have been collecting since March 10, 2020. Graphics and aggregate data can be scraped from the tracking site. The full underlying microdata sets are available as they are finalized, from https://uasdata.usc.edu/covid19, subject to a simple registration process. Questionnaires, methodologies, and other information about the surveys are available without registration. Current coronavirus survey topics include: symptoms, testing, health and healthcare; coronavirus knowledge and expectations; protective social and health behaviors; coronavirus risk perceptions; mental health and substance abuse; discrimination and stigma; economic and food insecurity; social safety net; housing and debt; crime and safety; labor market outcomes; educational effects on children and the effect school closures on families. In addition to the March survey data, the first full wave of the tracking survey is available as of today, representing responses mainly collected in the first half of April. Subsequent waves will be made available on May 14th and 28th. Moreover, this data can be linked to all of our other surveys on financial, health, and other topics.

WEBINAR
Webinar: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Join this public CNSTAT webinar featuring several PAA members on Friday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. ET. In their new book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case and Angus Deaton document the rise in pain and the decline in health and mental health among the white working class that accompanied the increases in mortality, and examine the proximate and underlying causes of the rise in deaths of despair. View more.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) May 14, 2020 from 1:00 – 2:30 PM Eastern Time. Electronic Research Administration (ERA) Forum Webinar on the new requirement beginning June 1, 2020, to use an NSF-approved format for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support sections of NSF proposals; the new Award Notice; and a Research.gov Demo: Separately Submitted Collaborative Proposals from Multiple Organizations. On April 1, 2020, NSF announced the availability of two, NSF-approved formats for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support sections of NSF proposals. NSF conducted a Webinar to discuss the policy and system implications for this new requirement. We encourage you to send questions ahead of the May 14, 2020 ERA Forum webinar to nsferaforum@nsf.gov. Registration for the webinar will be sent in an invitation to follow. We look forward to your participation on May 14, 2020. Please share this information with your colleagues. They can also subscribe to our listserv to receive future ERA Forum notifications by simply sending a blank email to NSF-ERA-FORUM-subscribe-request@listserv.nsf.gov to be automatically enrolled.

May 15th at 9am PST. Getting the Most Out of Your Mentoring Relationships presented by Roger B. Fillingim, PhD, Director of the RCMAR UF Center for Advancing Minority Pain and Aging Science. Fillingim will discuss the topic of mentoring, including characteristics of effective mentors and mentees, and actions of effective mentors. The critical roles of communication and aligning expectations will also be discussed. Register here (no fee) https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9615870755599/WN_QQ16nN-mQoSKgLTcvWlOKw

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.