IPUMS Webinar: Linking Children, Adults, and Households in IPUMS MICS (04/15/26)
Register for an Webinar on Linking Children, Adults, and Households in IPUMS MICS on April 15, at 8 am – 9 am PT.
IPUMS MICS allows data users to create customized data extracts of IPUMS-harmonized versions of the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). Like UNICEF MICS, IPUMS MICS offers separate data files for different units of analysis (e.g., children, women, households). Combining data from the different units of analysis enriches the data, but requires additional data manipulation steps. This webinar will discuss how to link IPUMS MICS data extracts across units of analysis, including a hands-on demonstration of requesting and linking files from IPUMS MICS. Get a jump start on the webinar by reading our latest blog about linking across files with IPUMS MICS!
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG): Andrew Messamore (04/15/26)
CSSS Seminar: Charles C. Lanfear on “Reciprocal Relationships, Reverse Causality, and Temporal Ordering: Testing Theories with Cross-lagged Panel Models” (04/15/26)
IPUMS Webinar: Using the ATUS Time Diary and Eating and Health Module to Study Time Use and Health (04/17/26)
IPUMS is excited to partner with our colleagues at the University of Maryland to host a webinar on the ATUS Eating and Health Module (EHM), which was collected in 2006-2008, 2014-2016, and 2022-2023. The module contains information about primary and secondary eating patterns, consumption of fast food, which household member usually does food shopping and meal preparation, where food is purchased, and daily and weekly measures of eating, drinking, and exercise behaviors. This webinar will describe the IPUMS Time Use data access system, cover potential applications of EHM data for a variety of research topics, and provide a brief overview of how to link the ATUS EHM with Current Population Survey data.
9th Northwest Nature and Health Symposium (Register by 04/19/26)
APDU Webinar on Demystifying Data Privacy in the U.S. (04/15/26)
Join the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) on April 15 from 11- 12 PM PT for a webinar on “Demystifying Data Privacy in the US.“ APDU has created a set of resources to help policymakers, researchers, advocates, and the public better understand the mechanics of the Privacy Act of 1974 and how the federal government manages and discloses personal information. These materials can help you effectively assert your rights, close harmful loopholes, and hold the government accountable to treating everyone fairly. Join experts Maya Bernstein and Bethanne Barnes in a conversation with Amy O’Hara to mark the launch of these new resources.
Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards for Doctoral Scholarships and Postdoctoral Research (04/15/26)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Multiple Global Grand Challenges Grant Opportunities (04/28/26)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invites applications for the following Grand Challenges grant opportunities. Applications for all RFPs are due no later than April 28, 2026, at 11:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
- Innovations in Cost-Disruptive Tools for Diagnosis and Screening
- Novel Interventions Targeting Placental and Gut Inflammation to Improve Fetal Growth
- Addressing Physiological Barriers to Micronutrient Absorption from Fortified Foods
- Cost-Disrupting Innovations to Reduce the Cost of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food
- Breakthrough Innovations to Significantly Reduce the Cost of Severe Acute Malnutrition Treatment
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Accelerate Charitable Giving
The Foundation will host a dedicated webinar on each RFP to provide more details and answer your questions. Please check the challenge page of the RFP you are interested in for exact dates and times. The webinars will be recorded and available for viewing after the session.
- Innovations in Cost-Disruptive Tools for Diagnosis and Screening: This request for proposals (RFP) seeks cost-disruptive devices and diagnostics that cost less than US$1 per test or person, that can stand up to the real-world constraints of frontline public health, and that provide rapid, reliable results.
- Novel Interventions Targeting Placental and Gut Inflammation to Improve Fetal Growth: There are currently no scalable, effective therapies that directly prevent or reverse fetal growth restriction, which affects more than 20 million infants annually. This RFP is designed to accelerate the discovery and development of interventions targeting maternal gut–placenta inflammatory axes and oxidative stress to improve fetal growth outcomes.
- Addressing Physiological Barriers to Micronutrient Absorption from Fortified Foods: This RFP seeks innovative approaches to overcome the biological constraints that limit people’s ability to absorb micronutrients in fortified foods in high-burden settings, such as chronic inflammation and gut barrier dysfunction.
- Cost-Disrupting Innovations to Reduce the Cost of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food: With increasingly constrained resources to address Severe Acute Malnutrition, this RFP seeks innovative approaches that will reduce the cost of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by at least 30%.
- Breakthrough Innovations to Significantly Reduce the Cost of Severe Acute Malnutrition Treatment: This RFP seeks transformative, system-level innovations that can substantially increase the number of children treated per dollar spent by reducing the total cost per child treated—without changing the ex-factory price of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) or substituting RUTF with an alternative product.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Accelerate Charitable Giving: This RFP seeks ideas that use AI to connect potential donors (from everyday givers to established foundations) to the causes they care about and make it easier for them to contribute.