For those of you with NIH era commons accounts, you will shortly have to update your password (sometime in November most likely) from a ‘word’ to a phrase. The good news is now you will only have to update this passphrase once each year, instead of every 3 months.
If you have (or are), students or postdocs on NIH NRSA grants (e.g. T32, F) and they have young children, then please let them know about childcare funds that NIH is now making available. See the Announcements, below.
For those of you with NIH era commons accounts, you will shortly have to update your password (sometime in November most likely) from a ‘word’ to a phrase. The good news is now you will only have to update this passphrase once each year, instead of every 3 months.
If you have (or are), students or postdocs on NIH NRSA grants (e.g. T32, F) and they have young children, then please let them know about childcare funds that NIH is now making available. See the Announcements, below.
Events and announcements follow.
Be well,
Leora
*******
EVENTS
We are hosting virtual and/or hybrid talks this semester. Assume virtual unless noted otherwise. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
*The Population Sciences events calendar can be found here: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html.
Wednesday, October 20, 12-1 PM. David Levine – “Can interventions based on theories of identity help us overcome COVID vaccine hesitancy?” | Zoom Meeting ID: 998 5935 0488 Password: DEMOG_BB.
*View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, Oct 18, 4-5:30. “The Effect of Immigrant Networks on Labor Market Integration, Firms and Local Employees: Evidence from Random Refugee Placement in Switzerland” with Dennis Egger, UC Berkeley. 648 Evans Hall. Event contact: mduhon@berkeley.edu
Tuesday, October 19, 11:40 am – 12:30 pm PDT. SPH seminar: “Understanding the contribution of social, economic and environmental drivers in the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador” Jay Graham is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Environmental Health Sciences Division. More information including zoom here.
Wednesday, October 20 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. “The Environment of Childhood Poverty” with Gary William Evans, Professor, Cornell College of Human Ecology. | 1104 Berkeley Way West. Access Coordinator: Elizabeth Peele, elipeele@berkeley.edu, 510-642-5050.
Wednesday October 20 | 4-5 p.m “COVID-19 in Italy: characterizing epidemic waves through Functional Data Analysis: Neyman seminar” with Francesca Chiaromonte, Pennsylvania State University. Access Coordinator: Song Mei, songmei@berkeley.edu, 650-285-7071.
Thursday, October 21 | 2:10-3:30 p.m.”Misdemeanor Prosecution” with Amanda Agan, Rutgers. 648 Evans Hall. Access Coordinator: Camille Fernandez, camillen@berkeley.edu.
OFF CAMPUS
Wednesday October 27th 12:15- 1:20 pm EDT. Hopkins Population Center Virtual Seminar Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Minnesota Population Center, speaking on “The Deaths America Treats as Normal: Structural Racism and Racial Disparities in Mortality During the COVID-19 and 1918 Flu Pandemics”
SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS
Cross-NIA Center Research: Early Results from Pilot Projects on the Health of Older Americans. The Coordinating Center for the Centers of the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias is holding a meeting to highlight research on aging that crosses disciplinary divides. Researchers who have received pilot funding from the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) will present early results from their Cross-NIA Center collaborative research and talk about the process of building cross-disciplinary collaborations. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the attached flyer for full program details.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Childcare for NRSA trainees on T32, F31, F32, K99 and other career awards. NIH will now begin providing childcare cost support to full-time predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees appointed on NRSA institutional research training awards. This is anticipated for awards made beginning in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2022. The NRSA childcare costs apply to each full-time predoctoral or postdoctoral NIH-NRSA-supported institutional research training award appointment. Each trainee is eligible to receive $2,500 per budget period for childcare costs provided by a licensed childcare provider.
Join the Network for Data Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA) sponsored by the University of Minnesota Life Course Center. NDIRA supports an emerging interdisciplinary community of scientists using novel collections of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and contextual data—including IPUMS—for research on population aging. One of the benefits of membership is eligibility for pilot grants that support innovative research on the demography and economics of aging. The pilot program encourages population-based questions related to later life course health and well-being through improved understanding of social and economic contexts, disparities, and social participation. Join NDIRA and find out more information about the program and key dates on the LCC website.
FUNDING
NICHD Now participates in the R01 program “The role of work in health disparities in the US”. Areas of interest to NICHD includes, but is not limited to:
*Work and educational, occupational, and/or life course pathways contributing to health disparities,
*The impact of employment on health outcomes for persons with intellectual, developmental, learning, physical and psychological disabilities,
*Variation in state employment policies on health outcomes,
*Labor market change (e.g., growth/dissolution of occupations/industries, changes in certification/education requirements) and associated occupational exposures with health, fertility, and pregnancy outcomes,
*Consequences of bias and discrimination in workplace policies (e.g., differential hiring, salary and promotion practices) on health, fertility, and pregnancy outcomes,
*Job-related exposures (e.g., essential and frontline workers during the COVID19 pandemic, high risk/stress occupations, shift work, etc.) and their impact on child health, reproductive health, and pregnancy outcomes.
USC Schaeffer Center’s Aging and Cognition Initiative announces two funding opportunities through the Center for Advancing Sociodemographic and Economic Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (CeASES-ADRD) & USC Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR):
1. CeASES ADRD – pilot funding (for scholars of all levels and all social science disciplines) – up to $33,000 – is an interdisciplinary research center launched in 2020 by USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Texas Population Research Center and Stanford Health Policy. Our mission is to advance innovative social science research in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), increase and diversify the number of researchers working in the field, and disseminate findings for impact. Goals are accomplished through network meetings, workshops, pilot project support, and the annual Science of ADRD for Social Scientists Program. We encourage applications from scholars at all stages of their research career interested in social science research related to ADRD. Funding will support 3 pilot at $35K each. Proposals for the CeASES ADRD pilot program may be submitted online by January 28, 2022: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6n8tPvdyUv5e742. Direct questions about suitability of projects or process for CeASES ADRD to Dr. Johanna Thunell, jthunell@usc.edu.
2. USC RCMAR· – RCMAR pilot funding and mentorship (for junior scientists underrepresented in their discipline) – up to $25,000 – offers talented junior investigators, known as RCMAR scientists, funding to pursue a pilot research project, and multidisciplinary mentoring and training. Potential RCMAR scientists may come from disciplines including but not limited to public policy, economics, computer science, medicine, gerontology and social work. We will consider scholars from academic and research institution in regions outside Southern California and states outside of California. Funding will support 3 scientists at $25K each. USC RCMAR one page Letters of Intent and CV are due February 25, 2022. Letters will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are submitted. To apply online please click here: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5Bjrf5bwdi29sUt. Applicants can also submit initial applications or questions to Brianawh@usc.edu.
CONFERENCES
American Sociological Association. The 2022 Annual Meeting portal will open for submissions on November 8, 2021. The deadline to submit is February 9, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. In addition to paper/extended abstract submissions, proposals will be accepted for courses, workshops, preconferences, the Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium, and the Teaching and Learning Symposium.
ON THE WEB
Network For Data Intensive Research On Aging Minding Memory podcast is now available. To listen, please visit the link HERE. Co-hosted by Matthew Davis and Donovan Maust, Minding Memory is a podcast that focuses on topics related to dementia research and is supported by the Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s (CAPRA) at the University of Michigan. In this first episode, Matt & Donovan introduce themselves, the Minding Memory podcast, and interview CAPRA Center Director, Dr. Julie Bynum. Future season one episodes of Minding Memory will be released on a biweekly basis. You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcasting platforms, as well as accessing them directly from the Michigan Medicine Podcast Network. All available episodes are also posted on our CAPRA website. We hope you enjoy listening to Minding Memory!
D-LAB
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. Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu.
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.–
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The POPSCIENCES listserv is an announcements list for affiliates of the Berkeley Population Center, the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, the Bixby Population Center and other interested parties. Archives are available by visiting the Group page (see below). Only the List Managers can post, but we accept submissions for possible publication. UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students should be able to subscribe via Google Groups. For any submissions, requests for subscribing or posts, questions, contact the list administrator, Leora Lawton, llawton@berkeley.edu.
Events and announcements follow.
Be well,
Leora
*******
EVENTS
We are hosting virtual and/or hybrid talks this semester. Assume virtual unless noted otherwise. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
*The Population Sciences events calendar can be found here: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html.
Wednesday, October 20, 12-1 PM. David Levine – “Can interventions based on theories of identity help us overcome COVID vaccine hesitancy?” | Zoom Meeting ID: 998 5935 0488 Password: DEMOG_BB.
*View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, Oct 18, 4-5:30. “The Effect of Immigrant Networks on Labor Market Integration, Firms and Local Employees: Evidence from Random Refugee Placement in Switzerland” with Dennis Egger, UC Berkeley. 648 Evans Hall. Event contact: mduhon@berkeley.edu
Tuesday, October 19, 11:40 am – 12:30 pm PDT. SPH seminar: “Understanding the contribution of social, economic and environmental drivers in the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador” Jay Graham is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Environmental Health Sciences Division. More information including zoom here.
Wednesday, October 20 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. “The Environment of Childhood Poverty” with Gary William Evans, Professor, Cornell College of Human Ecology. | 1104 Berkeley Way West. Access Coordinator: Elizabeth Peele, elipeele@berkeley.edu, 510-642-5050.
Wednesday October 20 | 4-5 p.m “COVID-19 in Italy: characterizing epidemic waves through Functional Data Analysis: Neyman seminar” with Francesca Chiaromonte, Pennsylvania State University. Access Coordinator: Song Mei, songmei@berkeley.edu, 650-285-7071.
Thursday, October 21 | 2:10-3:30 p.m.”Misdemeanor Prosecution” with Amanda Agan, Rutgers. 648 Evans Hall. Access Coordinator: Camille Fernandez, camillen@berkeley.edu.
OFF CAMPUS
Wednesday October 27th 12:15- 1:20 pm EDT. Hopkins Population Center Virtual Seminar Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Minnesota Population Center, speaking on “The Deaths America Treats as Normal: Structural Racism and Racial Disparities in Mortality During the COVID-19 and 1918 Flu Pandemics”
SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS
Cross-NIA Center Research: Early Results from Pilot Projects on the Health of Older Americans. The Coordinating Center for the Centers of the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias is holding a meeting to highlight research on aging that crosses disciplinary divides. Researchers who have received pilot funding from the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) will present early results from their Cross-NIA Center collaborative research and talk about the process of building cross-disciplinary collaborations. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the attached flyer for full program details.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Childcare for NRSA trainees on T32, F31, F32, K99 and other career awards. NIH will now begin providing childcare cost support to full-time predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees appointed on NRSA institutional research training awards. This is anticipated for awards made beginning in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2022. The NRSA childcare costs apply to each full-time predoctoral or postdoctoral NIH-NRSA-supported institutional research training award appointment. Each trainee is eligible to receive $2,500 per budget period for childcare costs provided by a licensed childcare provider.
Join the Network for Data Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA) sponsored by the University of Minnesota Life Course Center. NDIRA supports an emerging interdisciplinary community of scientists using novel collections of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and contextual data—including IPUMS—for research on population aging. One of the benefits of membership is eligibility for pilot grants that support innovative research on the demography and economics of aging. The pilot program encourages population-based questions related to later life course health and well-being through improved understanding of social and economic contexts, disparities, and social participation. Join NDIRA and find out more information about the program and key dates on the LCC website.
FUNDING
NICHD Now participates in the R01 program “The role of work in health disparities in the US”. Areas of interest to NICHD includes, but is not limited to:
*Work and educational, occupational, and/or life course pathways contributing to health disparities,
*The impact of employment on health outcomes for persons with intellectual, developmental, learning, physical and psychological disabilities,
*Variation in state employment policies on health outcomes,
*Labor market change (e.g., growth/dissolution of occupations/industries, changes in certification/education requirements) and associated occupational exposures with health, fertility, and pregnancy outcomes,
*Consequences of bias and discrimination in workplace policies (e.g., differential hiring, salary and promotion practices) on health, fertility, and pregnancy outcomes,
*Job-related exposures (e.g., essential and frontline workers during the COVID19 pandemic, high risk/stress occupations, shift work, etc.) and their impact on child health, reproductive health, and pregnancy outcomes.
USC Schaeffer Center’s Aging and Cognition Initiative announces two funding opportunities through the Center for Advancing Sociodemographic and Economic Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (CeASES-ADRD) & USC Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR):
1. CeASES ADRD – pilot funding (for scholars of all levels and all social science disciplines) – up to $33,000 – is an interdisciplinary research center launched in 2020 by USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Texas Population Research Center and Stanford Health Policy. Our mission is to advance innovative social science research in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), increase and diversify the number of researchers working in the field, and disseminate findings for impact. Goals are accomplished through network meetings, workshops, pilot project support, and the annual Science of ADRD for Social Scientists Program. We encourage applications from scholars at all stages of their research career interested in social science research related to ADRD. Funding will support 3 pilot at $35K each. Proposals for the CeASES ADRD pilot program may be submitted online by January 28, 2022: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6n8tPvdyUv5e742. Direct questions about suitability of projects or process for CeASES ADRD to Dr. Johanna Thunell, jthunell@usc.edu.
2. USC RCMAR· – RCMAR pilot funding and mentorship (for junior scientists underrepresented in their discipline) – up to $25,000 – offers talented junior investigators, known as RCMAR scientists, funding to pursue a pilot research project, and multidisciplinary mentoring and training. Potential RCMAR scientists may come from disciplines including but not limited to public policy, economics, computer science, medicine, gerontology and social work. We will consider scholars from academic and research institution in regions outside Southern California and states outside of California. Funding will support 3 scientists at $25K each. USC RCMAR one page Letters of Intent and CV are due February 25, 2022. Letters will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are submitted. To apply online please click here: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5Bjrf5bwdi29sUt. Applicants can also submit initial applications or questions to Brianawh@usc.edu.
CONFERENCES
American Sociological Association. The 2022 Annual Meeting portal will open for submissions on November 8, 2021. The deadline to submit is February 9, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. In addition to paper/extended abstract submissions, proposals will be accepted for courses, workshops, preconferences, the Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium, and the Teaching and Learning Symposium.
ON THE WEB
Network For Data Intensive Research On Aging Minding Memory podcast is now available. To listen, please visit the link HERE. Co-hosted by Matthew Davis and Donovan Maust, Minding Memory is a podcast that focuses on topics related to dementia research and is supported by the Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s (CAPRA) at the University of Michigan. In this first episode, Matt & Donovan introduce themselves, the Minding Memory podcast, and interview CAPRA Center Director, Dr. Julie Bynum. Future season one episodes of Minding Memory will be released on a biweekly basis. You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcasting platforms, as well as accessing them directly from the Michigan Medicine Podcast Network. All available episodes are also posted on our CAPRA website. We hope you enjoy listening to Minding Memory!
D-LAB
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. Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu.
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.–
—–
The POPSCIENCES listserv is an announcements list for affiliates of the Berkeley Population Center, the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, the Bixby Population Center and other interested parties. Archives are available by visiting the Group page (see below). Only the List Managers can post, but we accept submissions for possible publication. UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students should be able to subscribe via Google Groups. For any submissions, requests for subscribing or posts, questions, contact the list administrator, Leora Lawton, llawton@berkeley.edu.