EVENTS
Wednesday, November 20, 12:10-1:10 PM. David Rehkopf (Stanford University Department of Medicine) will present, “The long-term impacts of large-scale public works spending on population health.” Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, November 18, 12:10–1:30pm. “Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning: An Experiment with Digital Credit in Kenya” With Josh Blumenstock, Assistant Professor (UC Berkeley, School of Information). Goldman School of Public Policy
Wednesday November 20 4:00–5:30pm. “The Trouble with Inequality” with Jeff Manza, New York University. 127 Dwinelle Hall.
Friday, November 22 1-2:30 PM. “Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil’s March to the West” (with Heitor Pellegrina). 150 University Hall.
EVENTS
Wednesday, November 20, 12:10-1:10 PM. David Rehkopf (Stanford University Department of Medicine) will present, “The long-term impacts of large-scale public works spending on population health.” Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, November 18, 12:10–1:30pm. “Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning: An Experiment with Digital Credit in Kenya” With Josh Blumenstock, Assistant Professor (UC Berkeley, School of Information). Goldman School of Public Policy
Wednesday November 20 4:00–5:30pm. “The Trouble with Inequality” with Jeff Manza, New York University. 127 Dwinelle Hall.
Friday, November 22 1-2:30 PM. “Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil’s March to the West” (with Heitor Pellegrina). 150 University Hall.
OFF CAMPUS
December 4, 2019, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM. “Uses and misuses of DNA methylation to explain health inequalities” Led by Dr. David Rehkopf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University. UCSF Mission Hall, Room 1406. For more information including remote access: https://healthequity.ucsf.edu/
FUNDING
The Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD), a National Institute on Aging funded Alzheimer’s Disease-related Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR), announces the 2020 research career enrichment program involving seminar participation and mentoring in AD-relevant research. We invite applications from those interested in enhancing their knowledge of contextual factors in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Funds are available for investigator-initiated research projects that support the development of independent NIH-funded projects. Proposals with high likelihood of advancing research on ADRD disparities, especially among Arab Americans and Latinos, are particularly encouraged. Three proposals will be selected to receive funds of up to $30,000 for one year with the grant period beginning on July 1, 2020. It would be greatly appreciated if you could please distribute this announcement within your department and/or program. Please click this announcement link for full details. Completed applications, and budget (please see attached budget template) should be emailed as a single pdf attachment to mccfad.isr@umich.edu by 11:59pm on January 10, 2020. If you have questions, please email mccfad.isr@umich.edu.
Butler-Williams Scholars Program in 2020 for New and Early-Career Researchers: Catalyze Your Career. Are you a late post-doc looking for a career in aging research? Or a junior faculty member looking to expand your career options? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, then the time is now to apply for the 2020 NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program! The B-W Scholars program gives early career investigators a unique opportunity to engage with other researchers interested in the field of aging, learn about NIA science, discuss funding opportunities with NIA staff, and sharpen grant writing skills. Read the full blog post.
NIH F99/K00 where graduate students can submit an application for a program to take them from dissertation to a post-doctoral research program. The NIA version is here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Request for Pilot Proposals: Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America. Due Date: Friday, January 10, 2020 @ 5:00pm. The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America (NLCHDD), funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites interested researchers to submit pilot proposals that have the potential to better understand how health and mortality outcomes across the adult life course are shaped by US state contexts. Read the complete call here. https://csde.washington.edu/
Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grants Competition. The RSF expects to fund between 10-15 one-year projects by assistant and associate professors. The funded researchers will be invited to submit their findings at a conference at the Russell Sage Foundation the following year, with investigators, mentors, advisory committee members, and other experts in attendance. The program seeks to promote racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity and will prioritize applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences. Deadline: Decemeber 3, 2019. Apply Here.
OPPORTUNITIES
Healthy Longevity Global Competition, Founded by the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. Join our global movement to extend the human healthspan by accelerating research, innovation, and entrepreneurism in healthy longevity. Learn more and apply here https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD):
Federal Policy Fellowship Program (Closes: January 3, 2020)
xState Policy Fellowship Program (Closes: January 3, 2020)
CALL FOR ARTICLES
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, ISSUE ON: Low-Income Families in the 21st Century: Effective Public Policy Responses to Complexity and Change. Edited by Marcy Carlson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Christopher Wimer, Columbia University; and Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution. In this volume, we will consider aspects of work and family life for those in poverty or near poverty—and their intersection, highlighting the extent to which public policy is effectively serving low-income families and ways that it might be improved. The co-editors envision that papers will address a range of topics related to contemporary work arrangements (including paid and unpaid care work), family configurations, and public policy supports. Papers may focus on any particular aspect of work, of family, or both—but should explicitly address policy implications and needs, providing evidence about exemplar strategies and programs. We strongly encourage papers that directly focus on ways that policies are—or are not—meeting the needs of low-income workers and families. We envision papers from many disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches, and we expect that particular subgroups of interest (e.g., by race/ethnicity, immigration status) will be relevant. Please click here for a full description of the topics covered in this call for articles and information about submitting.
AWARDS
2019 IPUMS RESEARCH AWARDS. These awards honor the best research using IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes. Cash prizes will be awarded for best published work and best graduate student work (published or unpublished) in six categories, for a total of 12 awards:
*USA: Best paper using data from USA and/or CPS
*International: Best paper using data from International and/or the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP)
*Health Surveys: Best paper using data from NHIS or MEPS
*Spatial: Best paper using data from NHGIS and/or Terra
*Global Health: Best paper using data from DHS and/or PMA
*Time Use: Best paper using data from Time Use
We are looking for papers that use innovative approaches, comparative analyses, and multiple IPUMS datasets. In short, we are looking for papers that use the data to its full potential.
Deadline: Wednesday, February 12, 2020. To learn about entry requirements and the submission process, visit our Research Awards webpage.
DATA
Introducing the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research: NaNDA is a publicly available data archive containing contextual measures for locations across the United States. NaNDA offers theoretically derived, spatially referenced, nationwide measures of the physical and social environment. Each NaNDA dataset represents a set of measures on a single topic of interest. Examples of topics to be found in NaNDA (now or in the future) include socioeconomic disadvantage and affluence, walkability, crime, land use, recreational centers, libraries, fast food, climate, healthcare, housing, public transit, and more. Measures are available at multiple levels of spatial scale, from county to census tract to block group. New measures and spatial scales are added regularly. Anyone with research questions that address “place” – researchers, students, clinicians, policy makers, public health departments, and community organizations, among others – can download NaNDA contextual measures and link them with other data sources (such as survey data, cohort studies, electronic medical records, or other microdata). The project’s mission is to augment the scientific power of existing data, cohort and clinical studies by making available contextual characteristics that can be easily linked to understand the multilevel factors shaping population health. NaNDA is administered by the Social Environment and Health program at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Funding for NaNDA comes from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. URL: https://www.openicpsr.org/
D-LAB
Be sure to check their calendar by visiting 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.