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Gates Foundation Grand Challenge: Estimating the Global Burden of Diarrheal Diseases (06/16/26)

The Global Partnerships & Grand Challenges Team announced a new grant opportunity, with applications due no later than June 16, 2026, at 11:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time. Estimating the Global Burden of Diarrheal Diseases: Reliable burden estimates are essential for guiding investments in prevention, treatment, and product development. However, estimating diarrheal mortality, morbidity, and pathogen-specific burden remains challenging for a number of reasons. Through this RFP, the Gates Foundation seeks to support independent estimation efforts that inform the overall burden of diarrhea and pathogen-specific contributions, clarify key sources of uncertainty, and produce decision-useful estimates for policymakers, researchers, and global health partners.

Please refer to the RFP for full details on scope and eligibility. We will also host a dedicated webinar on May 14, 2026, from 8:00–9:00 a.m. PT, featuring an overview of the opportunity and time for Q&A. Please register to attend, and submit your questions ahead of the session. A recording will be posted on the challenge page following the session for those unable to join live.

Collaborate with CACHE to Host Your Code and Data 

Have you recently finished a project or published a paper that integrates social and health science data with disaster, climate or environmental data? Would you like to share your code on CACHE? Code can be in any language and will be reviewed and run by peers (CACHE post-docs and staff) before making it public. CACHE welcomes code that uses single data sets of interests (e.g., social or health data that ask about disasters or environmental, climate or disaster data) or integrates between these two types of data.  Submit a short application here.

*New* CACHE Symposium at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting 2026

CACHE will be at the GSA 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting, November 4 – 7 in National Harbor, MD, and is organizing a symposium “Pushing the Boundaries on Aging-Climate Topics and Methodologies”. To learn more about the GSA and to connect with leaders in aging and gerontology, find out more here. This year’s theme: “Reinforcing Resilience in Aging Science, Research and Education.”

11th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society (06/16/2026 – 06/18/2026)

The  11th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society will take place at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, from June 16–18, 2026. The EvoDemoS11 meeting brings together researchers working at the intersection of evolution, demography, ecology, and life-history theory. It provides a space to share new empirical findings, develop and test theoretical ideas, and explore how evolutionary processes shape variation in survival, reproduction, aging, and population dynamics across species, including humans. The conference is designed to foster lively discussion across disciplinary boundaries, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, conceptual synthesis, and methodological innovation.

We look forward to a stimulating program featuring talks, posters, and informal exchanges that highlight both cutting-edge research and emerging directions in the field.

To participate, please complete your registration here:
https://evodemos11.weebly.com/registration.html

The registration process will help the organizing committee assign appropriate presentation formats (e.g., long talk, short talk, or lightning talk with poster) and finalize the scientific program in preparation for the meeting in mid-June.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at EvoDemoS11@gmail.com

We look forward to welcoming you to Fort Collins for what promises to be an engaging and productive meeting.

Summer School on “Frontiers in Telecoupling and Metacoupling: Research for Addressing Global Sustainability Challenges” (06/15/26)

Join the International Summer School on Geography and Sustainability 2026 this August 9-16 online ( via Zoom) or in person at Beijing Normal University.  This theme is “Frontiers in Telecoupling and Metacoupling  Research for Addressing Global Sustainability Challenges” (e.g.,  biodiversity loss, climate change, food insecurity, energy insecurity, pollution, shocks such as disasters and war,  disease spread, and degradation of ecosystem services and natural resources).   Topics include integrated frameworks, methods and tools for operationalizing the frameworks, applications to address global challenges, and skills in doing high-impact research and writing peer-reviewed papers.

The deadline to apply for participation is June 15, 2026. Here are the links to the application form and registration. More information is available at http://igu-geosus.org/pages/telecoupling-summer-school.html.
More information:
  • Curriculum consists of lectures, hands-on exercises, discussion, and research projects.
  • Instructors are relevant experts, including members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, as well as authors of papers in Science and Nature family journals and PNAS
  • Target audience: Master’s students, PhD students, Postdocs, and other researchers
  • The school will be hybrid – online ( via Zoom) or in person at Beijing Normal University (a top university in China). It will be held from August 9-16, 2026. The registration fee can be paid in multiple currencies (the fee for online participation is 600 RMB, equivalent to about US $90). For in-person participation, international participants can apply for funding from the organizer.