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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR: Tricia Ruiz -- Live Together, Learn Apart? An Application of the Segregation Typology Measure for Schools and Neighborhoods in the U.S., 2000
CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS: CSDE Morning Tea -- The Basics of Longitudinal Data Analysis; Sustainable Development -- CSDE 595A: Special Topics in Population Studies
CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS: Stevan Harrell is quoted in a Seattle Times article on the Dalai Lama's popularity; Stevan Harell & Amanda Henck -- Epistemologies of Anthropology and the Environment Colloquium
CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST: Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- Chris Hans; WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy -- Amy K. Glasmeier; WGHA Discovery Lecture Series -- Mark Kane; World Health Cinema: Invisible Children Screening -- Black is for Sunday
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: Health Research with Diverse Populations (R01); Epidemiology Of Drug Abuse (R01)
CALLS FOR PAPERS: 2008 Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth
CONFERENCES: Western Regional International Health Conference
TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Critical Junctures Institute Executive Director -- Western Washington University; Research Assistant -- Evans School of Public Affairs
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST: The Population Reference Bureau has added new content to its website; World Bank Publications Announcement; Center for Aids Research -- James McIntyre; The Grants and Funding Information Service announces a new blog

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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR

Tricia Ruiz -- Live Together, Learn Apart? An Application of the Segregation Typology Measure for Schools and Neighborhoods in the U.S., 2000

Friday, April 4
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Parrington Hall Commons

CSDE Seminar Schedule

CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS

CSDE Morning Tea -- The Basics of Longitudinal Data Analysis

Jane Shofer, CSDE Biostatistician
The Basics of Longitudinal Data Analysis

Wednesday, April 23
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Raitt Hall room 221

Sustainable Development -- CSDE 595A: Special Topics in Population Studies

Instructor: Wolf Latsch

3-credit graduate course on Sustainable Development in Spring quarter (listed in the time schedule under CSDE 595A: Special Topics in Population Studies) -- please see below for more information.

This course is designed as an introduction to the political economy of sustainable development and to the study of sustainability. Wolf is an economist but the course assumes no familiarity with economics. There is a broad range of readings and international case studies to help introduce students to the key concepts and tools required to frame and understand issues of sustainability in relation to both institutional and environmental development.

To see the reading list, click here.

CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS

Stevan Harrell is quoted in a Seattle Times article on the Dalai Lama's popularity

Stevan Harrell, Professor of Anthropology, is quoted in a March 23, 2008, Seattle Times article on the Dalai Lama's popularity, and the complex relationship between China and Tibet. Read the article here http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004300190_dalailama23m.html

Stevan Harell & Amanda Henck -- Epistemologies of Anthropology and the Environment Colloquium

Stevan Harell, Professor Anthropology and CSDE Affiliate, and Amanda Henck, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
"Epistemologies of Erosion: Is a tree by the water really like your mother's brother?"

Friday, April 4
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Denny 401

CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST

Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- Chris Hans

Chris Hans, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
"Bayesian Aspects of Lasso Regression"

Wednesday, April 2
12:30 - 1:20 PM
Denny 401

WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy -- Amy K. Glasmeier

Amy K. Glasmeier, Professor of Geography and Regional Planning, Pennsylvania State University, author of An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003

Monday, April 7
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Parrington Hall Commons

WGHA Discovery Lecture Series -- Mark Kane

Mark Kane, MD, MPH
"The Revolution in Global Immunization"

Monday, April 7th
5:00 PM
Foege Auditorium S-060, Genome Sciences Building

World Health Cinema: Invisible Children Screening -- Black is for Sunday

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
5:30pm
Foege Auditorium S-060, Genome Sciences Building

Invisible Children members will be in attendance to facilitate discussion.

Four Americans traveled to Northern Uganda to live in one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. This is the story of the displaced.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Health Research with Diverse Populations (R01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-409.html

Priority is given to research that characterizes the biological, behavioral, and social processes of health and of disease among LGBTI populations, and that develops effective preventive, treatment, and counseling interventions and service delivery methods for LGBTIs. The focus of such work should be on specific, measurable, and replicable health outcomes. Basic research that leads to new directions and advances in health research is also invited. Across all research areas, investigators are encouraged to incorporate innovative approaches and methodologies in their research designs to enrich the knowledge gain and to advance our understanding of health and disease among diverse populations that extends beyond the particular sample investigated. Applicants should provide precise descriptions of their study population and the sampling methods to be employed, with attention given to sexual orientation, gender-related characteristics, background or historic prevalence rates of drug and alcohol abuse, age, generational cohort, race/ethnicity, education, and cultural, geographical, socioeconomic, physical, and psychological qualities. Given the ever-increasing diversity among LGBTI populations, it is expected that most projects will focus on one or a few well-defined subgroups or segments of these populations.

Submissions Dates: February 5, June 5, October 5

Epidemiology Of Drug Abuse (R21)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-124.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-125.html

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), supersedes PA-07-118 and is intended to support projects with the R01/R21 that enhance our understanding of: (1) drug use patterns and trends within and across populations; (2) interplay of social interactions, social environment, structural context with individual behavioral characteristics and genetic vulnerability; (3) the phenotypic heterogeneity of drug abuse; (4) causal mechanisms leading to onset, maintenance, and remittance of drug abuse and HIV risk behaviors, as well as protective mechanisms that reduce these risk behaviors; (5) drug abuse over the life course, including developmental processes that influence drug use and HIV risk trajectories and behavioral, health, and social consequences of drug abuse and HIV; and (6) medical consequences of drugs of abuse and co-occurring viral and bacterial infections (e.g., HIV, HCV, TB, STIs and others). In addition, research is encouraged to develop methodologies to improve the accuracy, efficiency, scope, timeliness, and analytic yield of drug abuse epidemiologic data. Because of the breadth of epidemiology research, applications are anticipated to reflect diverse and multidisciplinary putative approaches and multiple levels of causation. To take advantage of the strength of specific research fields in an efficient manner, and to maximize the generalizability of findings, researchers are encouraged to develop and/or incorporate innovations in epidemiologic study design. Such designs may include nesting of biological and/or basic research, contextual analysis, and contemporary longitudinal analyses.

Submissions Dates: February 5, June 5, October 5

CALLS FOR PAPERS

2008 Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) announces the 2008 Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and issues this Call for Papers. The Conference will be held on Thursday and Friday, October 16 and 17, 2008, at NCHS located in Hyattsville, Maryland, just outside Washington, DC.

The purpose of the conference is to present and discuss original, unpublished analyses of the National Survey of Family Growth. Participants in the conference (discussants and 1 presenter per accepted paper) will be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses. About 20 papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Topical sessions will be organized around the themes represented by the accepted papers.

Papers are welcome on any topic provided the principal data source is one or more cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth. Priority will be given to papers using Cycle 6 of the NSFG (2002), based on 12,571 interviews with men & women aged 15-44. Papers or extended abstracts (3 or more pages) should be submitted electronically (preferably in PDF or Word format) to nsfg@cdc.gov or mailed by overnight mail to William Mosher for receipt by 5 pm EDT Tuesday, June 17, 2008.

William Mosher, PhD
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7421
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Authors will be notified by e-mail of acceptance or rejection of their papers by 5 pm EDT Monday, July 14, 2008.

Some of the topics that may be studied with the Cycle 6 NSFG are:

male or female fertility; contraceptive use; infertility;

marriage and cohabitation; attitudes toward family life;

reproductive health, including use of health care;

sexual behavior and orientation;

parenting activities by men (fatherhood roles); and

socio-economic, religious, and contextual variations in these behaviors.

For additional information, please visit the NSFG website.

CONFERENCES

Western Regional International Health Conference

May 23-25th, 2008
Burnaby (Greater Vancouver), BC

Also, extended deadline for poster and oral presentation abstracts - 11 April, 2008. http://www.sfu.ca/wrihc2008

Simon Fraser University's Global Health Program, and the Centre for International Health at the University of British Columbia are pleased to host...the 6th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference (WRIHC), May 23 to 25, 2008, on the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University. This multidisciplinary conference for faculty, students, and community members crosses disciplines such as medicine, health education, advocacy, global health, development, and international service. The purpose is to share experiences, discuss crucial global health issues, and advance the global health community in the Pacific Northwest.

This year's theme is Meeting the Challenge: the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond and is framed to encourage the discussion and evaluation of our global development agenda and its effect on the health of diverse populations. Who's left out? How far do we have to go? Join us in examining the MDGs, global health issues and the global development movement.

For more information or to register, get involved, and submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations check our website: http://www.sfu.ca/wrihc2008.

TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Critical Junctures Institute Executive Director -- Western Washington University

The Executive Director of the Critical Junctures Institute for Health Care Research and Advancement provides leadership for the development of the Institute, oversees daily operations, and works with the Institute staff and board, Western faculty, people in the healthcare field, grant making institutions, and the local community to ensure mission fulfillment. The executive director is responsible for implementation of the strategic direction set by the Leadership Board, as well as the financial, program, and administrative management of the Institute. Reports to: Leadership Board Chair, ongoing guidance from the Leadership Board Core Group.

Closing Date Notes: Application review begins April 20, 2008; position is open until filled.

For full details, click here.

Research Assistant -- Evans School of Public Affairs

The research assistant will work 20 hours a week providing database development and management support for the Community Vitality Project. The project examines community vitality within a framework of community- and individual-asset-based development, poverty reduction, economic development and other factors (such as cultural vitality) at different levels of analysis within the 8 states upon which the Northwest Area Foundation focuses its philanthropy: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. The goal of the project is to identify the policy levers that are most likely to positively influence progress on poverty reduction and community development. The project is now in its second year and has gathered a large amount of economic, social, and related data – primarily at the state, county, and sub-county level. To most effectively use this data, the project seeks a research assistant to develop and maintain a query-able, flexible, and expandable database that enables the project’s interdisciplinary team to analyze the relationships between policy levers on the one hand and poverty reduction and community development at the other.

To ensure consideration apply before April 9, 2008

For full details, click here.

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

The Population Reference Bureau has added new content to its website

http://www.prb.org/

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Family Planning Worldwide 2008 Data Sheet

The worldwide demand for family planning services is growing because of two trends: the burgeoning number of young people entering childbearing age and the increasing adoption of contraceptive use. "Either trend would lead to greater demand," said Toshiko Kaneda, co-author of the Population Reference Bureau's new data sheet, Family Planning Worldwide 2008, "but the two acting together mean there are likely to be huge increases in the future." This PRB data sheet presents information about women, fertility rates, and contraceptive methods used in more than 150 countries. The data sheet was prepared by PRB staff Donna Clifton, communications specialist; Toshiko Kaneda, research associate; and Lori Ashford, program director, policy communications.

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2008/familyplanningworldwide.aspx

Family Planning in West Africa

For many years, donors and governments focused attention on family planning in West Africa to both improve maternal and child health and enhance economic development. However, as fighting HIV/AIDS became a priority in the region, family planning received much less attention. This article is the first of two articles that examine trends and patterns in the use of family planning in West Africa. (Data are drawn from the Population Reference Bureau's Family Planning Worldwide 2008.) This article was written by James N. Gribble, director of the BRIDGE Project at PRB. The second article will focus on three countries within the region—Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Mali—to illustrate similarities and differences.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/westafricafamilyplanning.aspx

Family Planning Policies and the Poor in Peru

Over the past two decades, the government of Peru has instituted a series of laws and policies designed to expand access to family planning services. A recent article in International Family Planning Perspectives notes that in practice, these policies have not always achieved their desired effect. James N. Gribble, director of the BRIDGE Project at PRB, was lead author of the article.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/perufamilyplanning.aspx

MIGRATION

Managing Unauthorized Migration

On March 25, Phil Martin, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California-Davis, led an online discussion on “Managing Unauthorized Migration.” A transcript of the questions and answers is posted at http://discuss.prb.org/content/interview/detail/2150/. Martin is the co-author of the just-published PRB Population Bulletin, “Managing Migration: The Global Challenge.” Access the full report at: www.prb.org/bulletins/63.1migration.pdf (PDF: 875KB)

UNITED STATES

Population Losses Mount in U.S. Rural Areas

Despite rapid population growth in parts of the U.S. South and West, 43 percent of all counties lost population since 2000, nearly twice the number that lost population during the 1990s. The data, based on the new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, reveal a wide demographic divide between fast- and slow-growing areas. Mark Mather, associate vice president of domestic programs at PRB, conducted the analysis and wrote the article.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/populationlosses.aspx

PopWire: Preschoolers With Working Moms Rely on Grandparents’ Care

There were nearly 11.3 million children younger than 5 whose mothers were employed in 2005. Of those, nearly one-third counted on regular care by a grandparent during their mother's working hours (30 percent), according to tables recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/popwiremarch2008.aspx

AGING AND POVERTY

How Older Women Can Shield Themselves From Poverty

Elderly women are highly vulnerable to poverty. On average, they are likely to live 13 or 14 years longer than their male partners. And they are more likely than men to run out of resources in late life. Divorced or separated older women are the most vulnerable, because they have lower incomes and fewer resources. It's a group that will grow in size as the baby boomers age and as more women divorce or separate, said Timothy Smeeding in a presentation at the Population Reference Bureau on Feb. 28, 2008. Also view a 13-minute webcast interview with Professor Smeeding.

http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2008/olderwomen.aspx

TAKE A NUMBER

Population, Health, and Environment News You Might Have Missed

This month: More than 80 percent of marine invasive species are introduced unintentionally; most older adults’ escalator-related injuries are due to slips, trips, and falls; and U.S. life expectancy doesn’t rise for the less-educated.

http://www.prb.org/Journalists/TakeANumber.aspx

World Bank Publications Announcement

Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia: Serendipity and Science
Edited by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima, and Shoichi Yamashita
Industrial clusters in Silicon Valley, in Hsinchu Park, in Northern Italy, and around Cambridge, U.K. have captured the imagination of policymakers, researchers, city planners and business people. Where clusters take root, they can generate valuable spillovers, promote innovation, and create the critical industrial mass for sustained growth. For cities faced with the hallowing out of their industrial sectors and economic decline such as Kitakyushu in Japan, creating a cluster which would reverse the trends, is enormously attractive. By synthesizing the essential conditions and policies responsible for the dynamism and resilience of successful clusters, this volume delineates both the conditions which contributed to past successes, and also how the reading of this experience is being used to seed new clusters in Singapore, Bangalore and Seoul. The volume sheds fresh light on the promise of clusters, the challenges facing policymakers and the track record to date of progress with promising new starts.
March 2008. 304 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7213-5

The World Bank's Commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa : Our Agenda for Action, 2007-2011
HIV/AIDS reverses life expectancy gains, erodes productivity, consumes savings and dilutes growth efforts, threatening the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa. The report is the result of an extensive analytical and consultative process begun in 2006, that engaged more than 1,000 people from over 30 countries and many institutions mostly in Africa, as well as UN agencies, multilateral and bilateral donors, and foundations. The report reaffirms the Bank's commitment to combating HIV/AIDS in Africa, moving from its initial emergency response to the next phase, including the goal to provide at least US $250 million annually and to create an Africa HIV/AIDS Incentive Fund to enhance the evidence base, promote the multisectoral response and provide technical support, analysis and policy advice to countries.
March 2008. 144 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7448-1

Mexico's Transition to a Knowledge-Based Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
Edited by Carl J Dahlman and Yevgeny Kuznetsov
Knowledge and its application are now widely recognized to be key sources of growth in the global economy. Putting knowledge to work allows countries to improve everyday life for their people, opening up new possibilities for small and medium-size enterprises and other less-developed economic groups. This volume examines the challenges and opportunties for Mexico's knowledge-based economy, offering strategies for making major improvements in the country's capacity to generate knowledge and transform it into wealth.
March 2008. 184 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-6921-0

The Welfare Impact of Rural Electrification: A Reassessment of the Costs and Benefits
Rural electrification can have many benefits - not only bringing lighting, but improving the quality of health care, spreading information and supporting productive enterprises. The extent of these benefits has been questioned, arguing that they may be insufficient to justify the investment costs. This book quantifies these benefits. It finds that the benefits can indeed be high, substantially outweighing the costs, and that consumer willingness to pay is generally sufficient to achieve financial sustainability. However, benefits could be increased further by providing smart subsidies to assist connections for poorer households, promote productive uses and further consumer education.
March 2008. 173 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7367-5

Costs and Financing of Higher Education in Francophone Africa
Tertiary education in francophone Africa is confronted by a quick increase of enrollment and major budgetary constraints. This book analyzes the costs and the ways higher education is financed in 14 countries and runs various scenarios to test the sustainability of different options. It makes useful comparisons between countries that help identify policy measures to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Africa Human Development Series
March 2008. 132 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7468-9

Strategies for Sustainable Financing of Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Keith M. Lewin
Working Papers - Africa Human Development Series
March 2008. 188 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7115-2

Higher Education in Francophone Africa: What Tools Can Be Used to Support Financially-Sustainable Policies?
By Pierre Antoine Gioan
Working Papers
March 2008. 48 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7470-2

To Order:
Online: www.worldbank.org/publications
e-mail: books@worldbank.org
Phone: 703-661-1580 or 1-800-645-7247
Fax: 703-661-1501
Mail: World Bank Publications, P.O. Box 960, Herndon, VA 20172-0960, U.S.A.

Center for Aids Research -- James McIntyre

James McIntyre, MBChB, FRCOG, Executive Director of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
"Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV: unfinished business"

Thursday, April 3
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Discovery Conference Room on the First Floor
307 Westlake AVE N, Seattle WA 98109

The Grants and Funding Information Service is happy to announce a new blog

The GFIS blog will collect and post information about open assistantships, upcoming fellowship opportunities, information sessions for specific fellowships across campus and other important information for students looking for opportunities to fund their graduate career at the University of Washington.

Students, faculty and staff can subscribe to the blog to find out when new items are posted.

View the new blog at: http://uwgfis.blogspot.com/