The Carpentries is a non-profit volunteer organization whose members teach researchers how to use computing tools and tools for management, analysis and visualization of data. The eScience Institute is holding a Software Carpentry workshop on June 3rd–6th (9 AM – noon each day) entirely online over Zoom. The workshop focuses on software tools to make researchers more effective, allowing them to automate research tasks, automatically track their research over time, and use programming in either Python or R to accelerate their research and make it more reproducible. Read the full story to learn more!
Important: Please note that this time around, we are offering participants the choice to attend tutorials for either Python or R during the last two days of this workshop.
If you would like to take Python, please access registration from the following website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/902029062207/
If you would like to take R, please access registration from the following website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/902065952547/
For more details for our upcoming workshop, please refer to the following webpage:
https://uwescience.github.io/2024-06-03-uw-online/
Instructions for joining the Zoom sessions and for preparing for the workshop will be emailed to attendees prior to the event.
On Friday, May 17th, CSDE will join the CSSS 25th Anniversary Celebration, by hosting and featuring Emilio Zagheni. The event will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM at Intellectual House and on Zoom (register here). Dr. Zagheni’s talk is part of a larger set of events celebrating the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences’ 25th Anniversary from May 16-May 17.
Emilio Zagheni is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Demography (2010) and M.A. in Statistics (2008) from U.C. Berkeley. Zagheni is best known for his work on combining digital trace data and traditional sources to track and understand migrations and to advance population science. In 2016 he received the Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis from the European Association for Population Studies for his role in developing the field of Digital and Computational Demography. This event is co-sponsored by The Population Health Initiative.
CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) co-authored an article in Current Environmental Health Reports, entitled “The Environment and Headache: a Narrative Review“. In this narrative review, authors summarize the peer-reviewed literature published between 2017 and 2022 that evaluated ambient environmental risk factors for primary headache disorders, which affect more than half of the population globally. Primary headache disorders include migraine, tension-type headache (TTH), and trigeminal and autonomic cephalalgias (TAC).
CSDE invites you to a seminar with Patricia Homan on Friday, May 10th from 12:30-1:30 PM in 360 PAR and on Zoom (register here). This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. Patricia (Trish) Homan is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Public Health Program at Florida State University. She is also an associate of FSU’s Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and the Center for Demography and Population Health. Her research focuses on developing theory and measurement for structural sexism, structural racism, and other forms of structural oppression, and examining how these forces shape health in the United States. Dr. Homan will be available for 1×1 meetings throughout the day (sign up here).
Abstract: Emerging lines of research have begun to quantify various forms of structural oppression and examine their impacts on population health. In this talk, Dr. Homan will: 1) provide an overview of current conceptualization and measurement of structural sexism, structural racism, and other forms of structural oppression, 2) present new evidence on how structural sexism shapes life expectancy in the US (from analyses using hazard modeling and multistate lifetables), 3) illustrate how structural sexism and racism are associated with rates of inter-state migration, 4) discuss how demographers can build on this work in future research.
CSDE Affiliates Jane M. Simoni (Psychology) and Susan M. Graham (Medicine and Global Health) released research with colleagues in BMC Infectious Diseases, entitled “Key informant views on potential acceptability and feasibility of long-acting antiretroviral treatment for HIV in Kenya“. In 2020, 14% of diagnosed persons living with HIV (PLWH) in Kenya were not taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 19% of those on ART had unsuppressed viral loads. Long-acting antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) may increase viral suppression by promoting ART uptake and adherence. Authors conducted key informant (KI) interviews with HIV experts in Kenya to identify product and delivery attributes related to the acceptability and feasibility of providing LA-ART to PLWH in Kenya.