Our next brownbag seminar will be Wednesday, November 13th, 12pm, with Manisha Shah, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, who will present her research on, “Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica.” As usual the event will be in 310 Social Sciences and also be available via Zoom. Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB. See the full event details here.
Featured affiliate research of the week: Joshua R. Goldstein and Thomas Cassidy. 2024. The Formal Demography of Peak Population. Demography, Volume 61, Issue 2.
See further announcements and opportunities below.
EVENTS
November 5 | 12:40-2pm | UC Berkeley Health Policy Colloquium Series | Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University. 2121 Berkeley Way West Building, 1st Floor, Room 1102. Event details are here.
November 7 | 4-5:30pm | Yang Su, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine. Book Talk: Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre (Cambridge University Press, 2023). 370 Dwinelle Hall. Event details are here.
Reserve your spot! Limited tickets left. November 19, 4:10pm | Berkeley Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences, with Edward (Ted) Miguel, Distinguished Professor of Economics, the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, & Faculty co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action. “Do Cash Transfers Save Lives?” Alumni House, Toll Room. Event details and registration.
OPPORTUNITIES
The Association of Population Centers offers a Working Paper Series for original population science research papers. Papers can be works in progress or pre-publication versions of articles. When papers are subsequently published in journals or edited volumes, the archive will link to the published citations. Working papers are archived at SocArXiv, an online server for the social sciences. Learn about the moderation processes and how to submit a paper here.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) invites you to the Fall 2024 NSF Virtual Grants Conference on December 9 – 12, 2024. This is an excellent opportunity to gain insights into NSF’s current issues, policies and procedures, and specific funding opportunities. Registration is free and opens on Wednesday, November 13, at 12 PM ET. Keep an eye on your inbox for the official “Registration is Open” email, where you will find all the details and the registration link to secure your spot. In the meantime, please visit Policy Office Outreach for resources and previous event recordings, such as the Spring 2024 Grants Conference recordings available on the Resource Center and our YouTube channel. If you have any logistical questions about this virtual conference, please contact us at grants_conference@nsf.gov.
The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) recently released the 2024 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) data via IPUMS CPS and the 2023 American Time Use Survey’s Eating and Health Module via IPUMS ATUS. IPUMS CPS now includes the 2024 ASEC data as well as August and September BMS samples and telework variables. The 2023 ATUS Eating and Health module has also been released, which provides insight into decisions on eating patterns, grocery shopping, and meal preparation, along with the economic and health status of individuals and households. Learn more here.
FUNDING
Implementation Research for Multi-morbidity Management in the Context of Non-communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and US Tribal Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-25-213). Two informational webinars are scheduled on November 12th; register here.
Environmental Health Disparities Centers (P50) Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-MD-24-010).
Request for Information (RFI): Research Strategies for Addressing Obesity Heterogeneity (NOT-DK-24-026).
Notice of Special Interest: Women’s Health Research (NOT-OD-24-079).
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-25-143).
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-25-144).
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-25-233).
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Announcing that Grand Challenges partners are awarding 59 grants totaling $9.6 million under the “Catalyzing Solutions for Climate Change’s Impact on Health, Agriculture, and Gender” request for proposals.
See here to read short descriptions of the awarded proposals. This diverse collection of groundbreaking projects represents the kind of innovation that Grand Challenges was created to support.
- Our global network of partners provided leadership and funding and sourced proposals from around the world.
- The proposals are designed to address the challenges at the intersections of climate, health, gender, and agriculture.
- Many of the projects already have proof of concept and are ready for scale, and impact.
The request received support from five Grand Challenges network funders (GC-Africa, GC-Brazil, GC-Ethiopia, GC-India, and GC-Rwanda, in addition to the Gates Foundation) and four additional funders (Foundation S, Pasteur Network, Rockefeller Foundation, and Wellcome Trust). The awardees represent institutions in 20 countries on four continents.
We would also like to announce grants under six additional requests-for-proposals launched by the Gates Foundation in 2023. Click below to read descriptions of these grants:
- Opportunities to Advance Women’s Health Innovation.
- Strengthening African National Regulatory Authorities Data Systems to Enhance and Track Performance.
- Strengthening Childcare Models that Advance Women’s Economic Power.
- Collaboratory Platforms 2023: Democratizing Access to Technologies.
- Strengthening Health and Disease Modeling for Public Health Decision Making in Africa.
- 2023 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting Call-to-Action, an annual request for proposals generated during the annual meeting, which was held in Dakar, Senegal in 2023.
CONFERENCES
The 2025 Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) Annual Meeting will be held at UC Berkeley on February 27, 2025. Submissions for presentations are being accepted through November 17, 2024.
Abstract submissions are now open for the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2025 conference theme is Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata. It will be held August 6-7, 2025, in Minneapolis, MN, and online. We seek submissions that use full count census data to examine health and population dynamics. We are particularly interested in projects that link persons, families, or communities across censuses or link full count data to other sources, including the creation of place-based measures or person-level linkages to external data. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract. Abstracts are due by January 31, 2025.
WEBINAR
Join us on November 8 at 1:00 pm EST for a webinar sponsored by the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA)’s TRENDS Network highlighting recent trends and disparities in U.S. mortality. The webinar will feature empirical work on recent U.S. mortality among mid-life adults: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota will present her work: U.S. Mortality Trend and Disparities After the Pandemic: What did and Didn’t Change?
A discussion led by Shivani Patel, Emory University will immediately follow the presentation.
Register here to receive a zoom webinar link.
DATA RELEASE
The National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) Data Linkage Program is pleased to announce the release of Linked Mortality Files (LMFs) for the 2021 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) Health Center (HC) Component. The 2021 NAMCS HC Component has been linked with 2021-2022 death records from the National Death Index (NDI). This linkage marks the first time in the over 50-year history of NAMCS that its survey data have been linked to external data files.
The NAMCS HC Component collects electronic health record (EHR) information for all patient visits occurring in participating federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and FQHC look-alikes to describe patterns of health care delivery and utilization in health centers. The NAMCS HC LMFs provide the data resources needed to conduct a vast array of studies focused on mortality among patients who visited FQHCs and FQHC look-alikes. Due to confidentiality requirements, access to the NAMCS HC LMFs is available only through the NCHS and Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (RDCs). Interested researchers must submit a research proposal to the NCHS RDC. For more information on the NCHS RDC, please visit: https://www.cdc.gov/rdc/index.htm.
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