Join our panel discussion about how labor impacts health, focusing on precarious employment. We will discuss policy and other approaches to supporting workers. The event will take place on April 11, 2024 from 12pm to 1:30pm in the Hans Rosing Center for Population Health, Room 101. Please bring your lunch, we will provide coffee and other beverages. See the event flyer here!
Panelists:
- Érica Chavez Santos (UW PhD candidate in Public Health, Labor & Industries Work Equity Research Center)
- Sybill Hyppolite (Government Affairs Director, Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO)
- Julie Vanderleyden (Vriie Universiteit Brussel PhD candidate in Sociology)
- Shuxuan Zhou (Affiliated Faculty at UW Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies (GWSS), Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP), and City of Seattle Office of Labor Standards (OLS))
Sponsored by:
- Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
- UW School of Public Health
- UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE)
The Paul G Allen Family Foundation is seeking projects that implement Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) in the Pacific Northwest . The foundation will allocate $5 million and anticipates funding up to five rigorous, place-based NCS projects. They encourage projects that are led by, or in partnership with, Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A Letter of Intent (LOI) is due by April 12th and applicants who meet the foundation criteria will be invited to submit a full proposal by May 15th. Applicants are encouraged to submit LOIs early, as the foundation will be reviewing them on a rolling basis through April 12th. Learn more on the RFP webpage.
Attend the Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics, with its 2024 focus on Race, Health, and Justice. This cross-disciplinary symposium brings together students, faculty, researchers and members of the public to discuss racial disparities in population health and health care, and the broader social, political, economic and historical structures in which they occur. The event will take place on Friday, April 12th from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM in the Walker Ames Room of Kane Hall. Learn more and register here!
JSDE (Joint Seminar in Development Economics) will be hosting Madeline McKelway for a seminar on April 15th from 11:00-12:30 in Savery Hall. McKelway will present a paper on “The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women’s Employment”. See the link and stay tuned for more information on this talk!
RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under its four core programs and two special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. It will also accept LOIs relevant to its core programs that address the effects (a) of social movements, such as drives for unionization and mass social protests, and the effects of racial/ethnic/gender bias and discrimination on a range of outcomes related to social and living conditions in the U.S. and (b) of the 2023 Supreme Court decision on race-conscious affirmative action and the relative merits of different models to promote diversity and the educational attainment and economic mobility of underrepresented and lower-income students. Learn more here. The deadline for LOIs is 2PM ET, April 16, 2024.
The MIT Blueprint Labs Charter School Research Collaborative is now accepting research proposals. The Collaborative aims to make charter research more actionable, rigorous, and efficient. Blueprint will fund proposals that develop, pilot, and conduct high-quality charter school research on long-term effects, charter school practices, non-test score outcomes, authorizing practices, and more. Proposals may be of various sizes, with grants ranging from $10,000 to $500,000 based on research scope and stage. Blueprint prioritizes funding projects that address policy-relevant questions, propose a rigorous research design, are conducted in partnership with practitioners or policymakers, and align with the research agenda. Apply here by April 17, 2024.
Join CSSS for a seminar with Stephanie Lee & Lynette Shaw on April 17th from 12:30-1:30 PM in 409 Savery and on Zoom. Learn more about the talk and how to attend on the event page.
The new National Sustainability Society is a multi-sector initiative that aims to support the growing field of sustainability, including representatives from universities and the private, public, and non-profit sectors. They are excited to announce the call for contributions for the inaugural meeting of the society on the UW Seattle campus between Sept. 9-12. This first national conference will showcase work that advances sustainability innovation, closes the implementation gap, and supports workforce development at all levels. Learn more about the conference and submit your contribution here.
As the first major deliverable of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced the ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health, which commits $100 million towards transformative research and development in women’s health. ARPA-H will seek funding proposals with revolutionary, evidence-based ideas from a diverse mix of scientific visionaries to improve the lives of millions of women. Awardees will develop unconventional approaches and innovative new avenues to push high-impact biomedical research forward. Awardees and potential additional funding opportunities will be announced later in the year.
