CSDE Affiliate Tracy Mroz and co-authors published, “Medical Assistants’ Telehealth Roles and Skills in Primary Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in Center for Health Workforce Studies. Their work identifies the skills and roles of MA’s that supported rapid increases in the use of telehealth, policies and practices supporting these roles and
skills, and longer-term needs to improve and maintain these skills and competencies.
Yu, Ševčíková, Raftery, and Curran Publish Research on Probabilistic County-Level Population Projections
CSDE Trainee Crystal Yu, Senior Research Scientist Hana Ševčíková, and CSDE Affiliates Adrian Raftery and Sara Curran published “Probabilistic County-Level Population Projections“ in the upcoming June issue of Demography. The study develops, implements, and validates a Bayesian method for producing subnational population projections, including migration, by extending an approach adopted by the United Nations. Small areal units or subnational units provide special challenges for classic demographic approaches, their application using the counties of Washington State and comparing the results with extant deterministic projections produced by Washington State demographers demonstrates the validity and reliability of the method.
New Content from the Journal of Population Economics
Check out the latest release from the Journal of Population Economics, Volume 36, Issue 3! You can find the new articles contained in the volume here!
Washington Sea Grant Fellowship
The Washington Sea Grant Keystone Fellowship offers a unique career development opportunity for recent graduates of masters or Ph.D programs in ocean, coastal and policy issues. In fall 2023, this one-year, paid fellowship will place a Keystone Fellow with the Seattle Aquarium with primary mentorship by Riley Pollom (Species Recovery Program Manager) and co-mentorship from Jasmine Williams (Connections Program Manager) and Erin Meyer (Vice President of Conservation Programs and Partnerships).
The Fellow will work primarily on science and/or policy projects with an additional emphasis on work related to the advancement of environmental justice, social justice, racial equity, and inclusion in these professional spaces and/or the programs they operate. Keystone Fellows receive mentorship both through their host office and through participation in professional development activities with Washington Sea Grant. The Fellowship offers first-hand experience working on projects that help us better understand, conserve and utilize Washington’s ocean and coastal resources while building pathways into marine-related careers for individuals who are historically underrepresented in those fields.
The program seeks to recruit students who are underrepresented in marine science and policy fields, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) as well as representatives of the LGBTQ+ community and allies.
Washington Sea Grant Fellowship (Due 6/21/23)
The Washington Sea Grant Keystone Fellowship offers a unique career development opportunity for recent graduates of masters or Ph.D programs in ocean, coastal and policy issues. In fall 2023, this one-year, paid fellowship will place a Keystone Fellow with the Seattle Aquarium with primary mentorship by Riley Pollom (Species Recovery Program Manager) and co-mentorship from Jasmine Williams (Connections Program Manager) and Erin Meyer (Vice President of Conservation Programs and Partnerships).
The Fellow will work primarily on science and/or policy projects with an additional emphasis on work related to the advancement of environmental justice, social justice, racial equity, and inclusion in these professional spaces and/or the programs they operate. Keystone Fellows receive mentorship both through their host office and through participation in professional development activities with Washington Sea Grant. The Fellowship offers first-hand experience working on projects that help us better understand, conserve and utilize Washington’s ocean and coastal resources while building pathways into marine-related careers for individuals who are historically underrepresented in those fields.
The program seeks to recruit students who are underrepresented in marine science and policy fields, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) as well as representatives of the LGBTQ+ community and allies.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Funding Opportunity (Due 6/5/23)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a new Grand Challenges (GC) request for proposals, “Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use”.
| Level: Up to $100,000 USD/project Duration: 3 months Application deadline: 5 June 2023, 11:30 AM Pacific Time |
You can find additional information about the call for proposals at this link.
Harnessing the potential of AI can improve the lives and wellbeing of vulnerable communities everywhere including those of women and children. As AI technology continues to swiftly evolve and advance, the global community must move with urgency to ensure low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are included in the co-creation process.
This request for proposals seeks innovative and safe approaches to the use of Large Language Models (ChatGPT-4, or other credible sources with equivalent capability). The foundation hopes to build an evidence base on this issue – informed by the communities we serve – to ensure this technology ultimately improves the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people. This initial call is an opportunity to identify, nurture, and catalyze the creativity, energy, and skills that researchers, implementers, governments, and technical partners have demonstrated in solving specific challenges in their countries and regions through Large Language Models. We are optimistic that this will lead to more investment from the Gates Foundation, GC partners, and other funders.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Funding Opportunity (Due 6/5/23)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a new Grand Challenges (GC) request for proposals, “Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use”.
| Level: Up to $100,000 USD/project Duration: 3 months Application deadline: 5 June 2023, 11:30 AM Pacific Time |
You can find additional information about the call for proposals at this link.
Harnessing the potential of AI can improve the lives and wellbeing of vulnerable communities everywhere including those of women and children. As AI technology continues to swiftly evolve and advance, the global community must move with urgency to ensure low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are included in the co-creation process.
This request for proposals seeks innovative and safe approaches to the use of Large Language Models (ChatGPT-4, or other credible sources with equivalent capability). The foundation hopes to build an evidence base on this issue – informed by the communities we serve – to ensure this technology ultimately improves the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people. This initial call is an opportunity to identify, nurture, and catalyze the creativity, energy, and skills that researchers, implementers, governments, and technical partners have demonstrated in solving specific challenges in their countries and regions through Large Language Models. We are optimistic that this will lead to more investment from the Gates Foundation, GC partners, and other funders.
CSDE’s CDWG Hosts Nur for 1st Python Workshop on Fertility Modeling
For this week’s Computational Demography Working Group (May 24 from 3-4pm), Aasli Nur, T32 CSDE Fellow and Sociology PhD student will join present her research project which uses an agent-based model, FPsim, to apply a more contextualized, women-centered approach to the study of family planning. Her research interests center on gender, fertility, and family planning, with a particular focus on women’s contraceptive autonomy. She will will introduce FPsim, an open-source tool written in Python and developed by the Institute for Disease Modeling at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is the first of two sessions about FPsim. The second session will be held on 5/31/23.
CSDE Funds Three New Population Planning Research Grants (PRPGs)
CSDE has awarded funds to three different affiliates working to develop their research trajectories in population science and/or population health. Khai Tram is an infectious disease fellow who studies mobility and infectious diseases, with a focus on HIV in Africa; he will be traveling to South Africa this summer to attend a training in epidemic modeling and to meet with collaborators and mentors to help develop a K award proposal. Jeanie Santaularia, Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, will be using her funds to hire a graduate student RA to work on an innovative project looking for increases in Google search data indicative of family violence after the rise of abortion restrictions. And Evans School Professor Heather Hill will be building on her existing funding from Washington State’s Employment Security Department to hire an RA to conduct interviews with persons using the state’s new paid family medical leave system. Congrats to all of you, and best wishes as you conduct this work and expand on it in the future.
More information about the PRPG program is at https://csde.washington.edu/research/prpg/.
Walter and Acolin Release New Commentary on Micro-Scale Approaches to Research
A new paper from CSDE affiliates Rebecca Walter and Arthur Acolin as well as co-authors draws on crime and prevention research to illustrate the benefits of micro-scale approaches to quantitative analyses in the field of urban planning. The paper entitled “Scaling Down from the Neighborhood in Urban Planning Research and Practice: The Potential Benefits of a Micro-Scale Focus” was recently published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. The neighborhood has been the dominant spatial unit in urban planning since the early 20th century. Criticisms of the neighborhood unit include disagreements about defining boundaries, methodological challenges in capturing neighborhood effects, and negative impacts on communities. With advancements in data management, and public data available at smaller units (street block or property), quantitative analyses are possible at the micro-scale.