Weekly News – November 6, 2017 - Population Sciences

EVENTS

There is no brownbag this week, so this is a good time to listen to a previous one that you missed on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Tuesday, November 7, 5-6:30 pm. Intimate partner violence and links to women’s and children’s health. With Damazo Kadengye from Uganda. Troy Duster Rm (Bowditch St between Channing and Haste).

Tuesday, November 7, 7-9 PM. Global Health Expert Panel: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health, Panelist/Discussants: Dr. Malcolm Potts, Founder of the Fred H. Bixby, Jr. Center for Population and Family Planning, UC Berkeley; Dr. Woutrina Smith, Co-Director for UC Global Health Institute Planetary Health Center of Expertise, UC Davis; Dr. Craig Cohen, Co-Director, Center of Expertise in Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment, University of California, Global Health Institute, UC San Francisco. Anna Head Alumnae Hall (2537 Haste St.). RSVP here.

EVENTS

There is no brownbag this week, so this is a good time to listen to a previous one that you missed on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Tuesday, November 7, 5-6:30 pm. Intimate partner violence and links to women’s and children’s health. With Damazo Kadengye from Uganda. Troy Duster Rm (Bowditch St between Channing and Haste).

Wednesday, November 8 I 4:00-5:30pm, “Chronic Cultural Impossibility: Ideologies that Undermine Health as a Fundamental Social Right” with Clara Mantini-Briggs, Departments of Anthropology and Demography, UC Berkeley. Wildavsky Conference Room, 2358 Channing Drive.

SAVE THE DATE
Tuesday, November 28th from 3 – 4 pm. Child Marriage & Youth Empowerment Speaker Series. With Daniel Perlman, co-director for the Centre for Girls Education, a joint program of the OASIS Initiative, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and Ahmadu Bello University. The presentation will last 20 minutes, followed by in-depth discussion. In room 198 of University Hall.

November 14, 12-1 PM. Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia” with Willow Lung-Aman, Univ of Maryland, College Park. Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing Way.

November 16, 2017, 4:00pm-6:00pm. “Dependence and Precarity in the ‘Sharing’ Economy” featuring Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College. UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2521 Channing Way.

Thursday, November 30th, 2017, 4:00 – 5:30 PM. Kitty Calavita, Interviewed By Jonathan Simon. Room 140 (Moot Courtroom), Reception To Follow. Kadish Library, 2240 Piedmont Ave.

November 28, 2017 (8:30 AM Pacific). Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health: A Workshop. Cal State East Bay Conference Center (Grand Lake Conference Room), Trans Pacific Centre, 1000 Broadway Suite 109, Oakland, CA 94607. For more information, visit here and here.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tuesday, November 7, 1:00-2:30 pm, Steve Martin will host a meeting with John Hepburn, Vice-President of Research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Steve is looking for participants in that meeting that might be interested in CIFAR’s Global Call for Ideas. CIFAR convenes researchers to take on collaborative research efforts under the broad themes of improving human health, creating successful societies, using technology to make life better, and sustaining life on Earth. The Institute provides fellows with flexible research support, support for face-to-face interactions and support for high-risk, collaborative endeavors. CIFAR’s Global Call for Ideas is the institute’s mechanism of creating new interdisciplinary, global research programs. For more details, see https://www.cifar.ca/assets/cifar-global-call-for-ideas/. To participate in the Call, someone currently working in Canada should be involved (but they don’t have to be a citizen). FYI, current CIFAR fellows/advisors at Berkeley include: Irene Bloemraad, Chris Chang, Daniel Green, Daniella Kaufer, Nicole King, Bruno Olshausen, Paul Pierson, Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, John Taylor, and Peidong Yang. Please let David Trinkle, in VCRO (dtrinkle@berkeley.edu) know if you would like to attend (to be placed on the access list at California Hall), or if there are others you would like to suggest. The meeting with be in 119 California Hall.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Call for Proposals – UC Berkeley Social Networks Study Conference. We welcome proposals for original research analyzing Wave 1 of the UCNets data. UCNets is the University of California Berkeley Social Networks Study, a longitudinal study funded by the National Institute on Aging (R01 AG041955-01), with Claude Fischer as Principal Investigator. The objective of the UCNets study is to understand how network composition changes over time as a result of life course transitions – e.g., graduation, marriage, retirement or widowhood – and how these changes are related to health status and outcomes. Research will be presented in a conference and workshop in June 14-15, 2018. Travel and lodging for invited speakers will be paid by the conference. The first day of the event will be a conference featuring the research presentations, and the second will be a workshop on using the UCNets data. Proposals will be judged for contribution to theory and substantive topic, and commitment to presenting a solid research result for the conference. Proposals should be about 4 pages long, and propose a research topic, background and theory, hypotheses, operationalization and method. Please include full contact information. The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2017, and should be sent to Dr. Leora Lawton, UCNets director, llawton@berkeley.edu. Requests for data and other questions are also to be addressed to her. The survey instrument and codebook can be downloaded from the project website ((http://ucnets.berkeley.edu). To acquire the Wave 1 data, please download and sign the Data Use Agreement on the website, and indicate your preferred data format. Decisions will be announced by January 1, 2018. Visit the websitefor more information.

CONFERENCES
The Criminalizing Immigrants: Border Controls, Enforcement, and Resistance conference will be held November 9-10 on Cornell’s campus. The “criminalization” of immigration through more restrictive immigration policies and stricter enforcement of existing policies affects migrants and their families, communities, and labor markets in sending and receiving nations. The conference will examine the causes and consequences of the criminalization of immigration, drawing on empirical projects from around the globe. The conference is organized by CPC affiliates Filiz Garip (Sociology), Shannon Gleeson (School of Industrial & Labor Relations), and Matthew Hall (Policy Analysis and Management). See the program here.

FUNDING
National Institute on Aging Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-18-297). Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): January 25, 2018; May 25, 2018; January 25, 2019; May 28, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. Each application submitted to this FOA must include at least three related research projects that share a common central theme, focus, and/overall objective and an administrative core to lead the project.

Effective Interventions to Address Immigrant Population Health Disparities: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support and accelerate innovative exploratory and developmental research to develop and test feasibility of effective interventions to address health disparities among U.S. immigrant populations. This comes in an R01 (PA-18-284) and R21 (PA-18-285) .

Prevention Research in Mid-Life Adults (R21 Clinical Trial Optional). (PA-18-153). NIA and NINR. This FOA seeks to stimulate research on mid-life adults (those 50 to 64 years of age) that can inform efforts to optimize health and wellness as individuals age, and prevent illness and disability in later years. Also issued as an R01 (PA-18-134).

GRADUATE STUDENTS
WRITING THE DISSERTATION: STRATEGIES AND PITFALLS
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 3-5 p.m.; 309 Sproul Hall
This workshop will focus on the basic strategies of successfully writing a doctoral dissertation. It will cover both strategies for organizing a large research project and for writing up the results of that project. Open to graduate students in all disciplines. Preregistration for this workshop is required. To preregister, please go to this link. Wheelchair accessible. For disability-related accommodations, please call (510) 643-9392, in advance.

ON THE WEB
NIH Video: New Video Provides Overview of New NIH Policies on Human Subjects Research and Clinical Trials. Do you do research with human participants? If so, you play an important role in NIH initiatives to improve accountability and transparency in the human subject research we fund. This 15 minute video Overview of New NIH Policies on Human Subjects Research and Clinical Trials provides a succinct explanation of the various policy changes and what they mean for you.

D-LAB
D-Lab sponsors 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.

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 immigOKration. 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.