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Participate in the One Seattle Open Data Mini-Hackathon (12/14/23)

Are you interested in using publicly available City data to design a data dashboard that tells a story or highlights an issue? Please join the City of Seattle for a friendly half-day hackathon at Tableau’s Fremont office, hosted by Salesforce. The event will take place on Thursday December 14, 2023 with a kickoff at 10:00 and presentation and awards at 2:00 PM. Teams will design and build a new dashboard or visualization that tells a story using a dataset assigned from Seattle Open Data (https://data.seattle.gov). Any dashboarding or visualization tools can be used. This opportunity is open to faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate level participants (or younger).
This is a very friendly competition. A panel of judges including the Seattle Chief Technology Officer and Mayor’s Office and Tableau representatives will score dashboards. The winning team or teams will receive a non-monetary award and will be recognized by the City, including on the Innovation Hub. Anyone, regardless of experience, is welcome to form a team or join with others at the event. Developers and data experts will be available for coaching and technical help before and throughout the day and there will be optional workshops on civic design, using open data, and building dashboards. Hackathon rules and more details will be sent in early December. Please save the date! This mini-hackathon celebrates the release of Seattle’s One Seattle Data Strategy, a vision and plan to advance our use of data and analytical information. Lunch, coffee, snacks, and water will be provided.Spots are limited but registration is currently OPEN!

Oral PrEP and Male Partner HIV Self-Testing is Examined by Ngumbau, John-Stewart, and Colleagues

CSDE Affiliate Dr. Grace John-Stewart (Global Health, Epidemiology, Medicine, and Pediatrics) published research with co-authors in JAIDS, “Cofactors of partner HIV self-testing and Oral PrEP acceptance among pregnant women at high risk of HIV in Kenya“. The study was led by Dr. Nancy Ngumbau from Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya. Oral PrEP and male partner HIV self-testing (HIVST) is being scaled up within antenatal clinics (ANC). Few data are available on how co-distribution influences acceptance of both interventions. The authors utilized data from the PrIMA (NCT03070600) trial in Kenya. Their study found that among women accepting HIVST, partner HIV testing increased from 20% to 82% and awareness of partner HIV status increased from 4.7% to 82.0% between pregnancy and 9-months postpartum. The authors conclude that understanding factors associated with accepting HIVST and PrEP can valuably inform HIV prevention programs for pregnant women.

Opportunity for Graduate Fellowship: Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series (Due 12/15/23)

The Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series is a paid fellowship opportunity for  graduate students underrepresented in the field of open scholarship. The goal of this Fellowship is to lift up students as experts in this field and create opportunities for peer to peer learning by offering student-led workshops. Equity is a core value of the UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons, and this Fellowship, funded by the UW Diversity Council, aims to support the expertise and leadership of underrepresented students in the field of open scholarship.

Applicants should have a concrete idea for an open scholarship workshop, but will receive support on refining their idea and developing their workshop from mentors at UW Libraries’ Open Scholarship Commons and the eScience Institute. Fellows will be compensated at an hourly rate of $35/hour for up to 20 hours (for a maximum compensation of $700). Twenty hours is also meant to give a realistic sense of how much time Fellows will be expected to invest in this project. Fellows will be accepted Fall quarter, workshops will be developed during Winter quarter, and workshops will be held for the public (virtual, in-person, or hybrid) in Spring quarter. These final workshops will be recorded and made available on the Open Scholarship Commons website.

This Fellowship program is funded by a UW Diversity Council Diversity Seed Grant and co-administered by the Libraries Open Scholarship Commons and the eScience Institute. This fellowship is structured as a student employee position and requires that you provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States, and that you meet student employee enrollment criteria winter and spring quarter. International students on an F-1 or J-1 visa are encouraged to apply.

RFI by the NIH: Environmental Justice Research Gaps, Opportunities and Capacity Building (Due 12/15/23)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental Justice Working Group invites feedback on the approaches NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices can take to support research and capacity building efforts to advance environmental justice in the U.S. and globally. Additionally, Request for Information (RFI) responses will enable the NIH Environmental Justice Working Group to be responsive to Executive Order 14096 on Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All, and to synergize NIH efforts with other Federal Agencies in a whole-of-government approach to advance environmental justice.

CSDE Holiday Message

As we near that turn in the academic calendar (between 2023-2024), all of us at CSDE send all of you many best wishes in the New Year!  We hope you can find time for rest and recuperation with those most important to you. We also hope for a more peaceful and safer New Year, especially those less privileged!

In these times, it’s hard to know how to make a difference. This year, UNICEF is in particularly need and I am donating to them. Most of all, we are grateful for all that you do to make a difference in others’ lives and for your support of CSDE! If you are so inclined, CSDE always welcomes donations to support our graduate students or general operations fund.  You can click here and type into the search bar “Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology” to see the donation options.  Thank you again for being a wonderful community of population research scholars and practitioners.
See you in the New Year!

~ Sara Curran, CSDE Director

Workshop: Updating Your CV to Contextualize Your Contributions in Societally Engaged Work (12/12/23)

This workshop hosted by Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center will take place on Tues. Dec 12th from 10:00-11:30AM on Zoom (register here). Are you a researcher engaging with non-academic partners to develop science that meets real-world needs? If so, you may have noticed that the traditional format of scientific CVs, focused on comprehensive lists of publications and presentations, makes it challenging to convey the distinct skills, activities and products associated with your societally engaged research. So how do you develop a CV that accounts for these real-world contributions, yet still aligns with the traditional CV format expected in academia? Join our interactive workshop to find out! This work session is designed to support you in incorporating narrative elements into your CV that help contextualize your skills and experiences and better communicate your work.

We’ll draw from lessons learned in our previous webinar, Reworking Scientific CVs to Better Capture Societally Engaged Research and Move Towards Fairer Research Assessment. After setting the stage for why you might consider adding narrative elements into your CV, we’ll break into small groups and walk through prompts for how to incorporate narrative elements that highlight meaningful, contextual information about your contributions in societally engaged research. We’ll have a mix of quiet work time as well as time for discussion and questions.