The Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University is seeking a postdoctoral research associate, or more senior researcher to join a team of researchers working on an NIH funded project focused on developing new systems models to examine social and biological drivers of infection inequality. The overarching goal of this postdoctoral position is to advance the use of mathematical and statistical models of infectious disease transmission as tools for anticipating and addressing socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in infectious disease morbidity and mortality, with a particular focus on the impact of these factors on minoritized and marginalized groups (e.g. race/ethnic, sex/gender minority groups as well as others with stigmatized identities). This requires an individual who is methodologically and theoretically adventurous, committed to health justice, and who is excited to stake out new terrain at the intersection of social demography, infectious disease epidemiology and social epidemiology.

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth would like to invite you to a virtual event, “Getting on the GRID: Accessing and using statistics from the Global Repository of Income Dynamics,” on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT.

The webinar will delve into the data available at the Global Repository of Income Dynamics, a research project that assembles comparable cross-country statistics on income inequality and other income dynamics. Millions of estimates have already been released by the team, which is directed by Fatih Guvenen of the University of Minnesota, Luigi Pistaferri of Stanford University, and Gianluca Violante of Princeton University and currently composed of 51 economists working in 13 different countries.

The UW Data Collaborative (UWDC) is CSDE’s secure computing platform. The system allows us to host highly sensitive data in a highly secured Windows remote desktop environment. Users can access their data and perform processing on powerful servers using state of the art analytical software such as Stata, SAS, ArcGIS Desktop (ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap) and open-source applications including R, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and QGIS.

The UWDC security environment was recently approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, https://www.cms.gov/) for hosting CMS data sets. This means that researchers who require CMS data can use the UWDC without needing to develop their own data security plan—they will fall under the umbrella of the UWDC Data Management Plan Self-Attestation Questionnaire—so that they can focus on proposal study aims and data requirements in their requests for CMS data.

Additionally, we were recently notified that the University of Washington (along with other institutions of higher education) are exempt from Washington State OCIO (Office of the Chief Information Officer) Standard 141.10 (https://www.ocio.wa.gov/sites/default/files/public/policies/141.10_SecuringITAssets_201711_5.pdf) , which lays out requirements for maintaining system and network security, data integrity, and confidentiality as a precondition for obtaining and hosting certain data sets available from WA State administrative systems. This means that the UWDC can host certain data sets without requiring the extensive documentation detailed in OCIO 141.10. It should be noted that various WA State agencies are likely to require some documentation of security settings, and that this does not mean that data security is less of a concern; it simply means that there should be less red tape to deal with in requesting certain data sets from the WA State government.

The UWDC was featured in the CSDE seminar panel on March 3, 2023, “The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) an Introduction to Analysis of Innovative and Sensitive Information within a Secured Computing Environment.” Presenters included Robert Hummer (Professor of Sociology and Director of the Add Health Study), and Sydney Leigh Will (Data Dissemination & Contracts Manager for the Add Health Study), both at the University of North Carolina, Luciana Hebert (Assistant Research Professor at Washington State University), and Phil Hurvitz (UWDC Director). The panel recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcYlqLRx1-Q.

For more information on the UWDC, see https://dcollab.uw.edu/ or contact dcollab@uw.edu.

Duke University is once again hosting its one week summer workshop program on social networks and health. The workshop offers comprehensive training in network methods for health scholars.  The workshop will be live and in-person this year from May 15-19 on Duke’s campus in Durham NC.  Thanks to generous support from the NICHD, they are offering this training at significantly subsidized cost; registration is $125 for the week and covers lunch & coffee each day.

 

The Social Networks and Health (SN&H) workshop offers comprehensive training in network methods for health scholars.  We are thrilled to announce that SN&H ’23 is back live and in-person this year from May 15-19 on Duke’s campus in Durham NC.  Thanks to generous support from the NICHD, we offer this training at significantly subsidized cost;registration is $125 for the week and covers lunch & coffee each day.

 

***You can register here : https://events.duke.edu/SNH-2023  (limited to 35 people)***

 

This year’s offerings will focus on intermediate/advanced methods & applied network interventions.  The workshop will have a general overview & methods review on Monday, but the rest of the week assumes basic familiarity with social network analysis, its application to health and health policy, and network data manipulation in R. As part of our focus on Applied Health Research, we will end each day with a live “stump the chumps” style session working through the design and analysis tasks for participants’ research projects. If you have a networks & health project in the works and would like to get advice on how best to design and carry out your study, here’s your chance to ask the experts!

 

In addition to presentations led by the Duke Network Analysis Center Team, we are joined this year by jimi adams (Colorado), Carter Butts (UCI),Scott Duxbury (UNC), Yami Molina (UIC), Peter Mucha (Dartmouth), Brea Perry (IU), David Schaefer (UCI), Tom Valente (USC), Ashton Verdery (PSU) and Nina Yamanis (American U) (and likely others…stay tuned!).

 

For those interested in basics & guided tutorials, please check out our catalog of free training videos on the DNAC training site. Now in its 7^th year, the SN&H Workshop has built a significant library of training videos, presentation slides, and sample code all free and open to the public.

 

All presentations will be recorded and workshop materials made available at: https://sites.duke.edu/dnac/training/ after the workshop (we are also hoping to live-stream the workshop via zoom or similar, but can’t promise that yet.)

 

Duke University is once again hosting its one week summer workshop program on social networks and health. The workshop offers comprehensive training in network methods for health scholars.  The workshop will be live and in-person this year from May 15-19 on Duke’s campus in Durham NC.  Thanks to generous support from the NICHD, they are offering this training at significantly subsidized cost; registration is $125 for the week and covers lunch & coffee each day.

 

The Social Networks and Health (SN&H) workshop offers comprehensive training in network methods for health scholars.  We are thrilled to announce that SN&H ’23 is back live and in-person this year from May 15-19 on Duke’s campus in Durham NC.  Thanks to generous support from the NICHD, we offer this training at significantly subsidized cost;registration is $125 for the week and covers lunch & coffee each day.

 

***You can register here : https://events.duke.edu/SNH-2023  (limited to 35 people)***

 

This year’s offerings will focus on intermediate/advanced methods & applied network interventions.  The workshop will have a general overview & methods review on Monday, but the rest of the week assumes basic familiarity with social network analysis, its application to health and health policy, and network data manipulation in R. As part of our focus on Applied Health Research, we will end each day with a live “stump the chumps” style session working through the design and analysis tasks for participants’ research projects. If you have a networks & health project in the works and would like to get advice on how best to design and carry out your study, here’s your chance to ask the experts!

 

In addition to presentations led by the Duke Network Analysis Center Team, we are joined this year by jimi adams (Colorado), Carter Butts (UCI),Scott Duxbury (UNC), Yami Molina (UIC), Peter Mucha (Dartmouth), Brea Perry (IU), David Schaefer (UCI), Tom Valente (USC), Ashton Verdery (PSU) and Nina Yamanis (American U) (and likely others…stay tuned!).

 

For those interested in basics & guided tutorials, please check out our catalog of free training videos on the DNAC training site. Now in its 7^th year, the SN&H Workshop has built a significant library of training videos, presentation slides, and sample code all free and open to the public.

 

All presentations will be recorded and workshop materials made available at: https://sites.duke.edu/dnac/training/ after the workshop (we are also hoping to live-stream the workshop via zoom or similar, but can’t promise that yet.)

 

Check out the Seattle Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center’s 7th annual TB symposium on May 5th, 2023. This event will host D. Branch Moody, MD for a talk entitled “Molecular Discoveries in the M. tuberculosis Cell Envelope” from 8AM-4PM in Orin Smith Auditorium, South Lake Union Campus. Breakfast and Lunch are provided to all registered guest.