The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) will be offering an open course on Matrix Approaches to Modelling Kinship (3-12 May 2023) and encourages qualified candidates to apply. Instructors are Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Hal Caswell and Ivan Williams.
This two-part course presents the theory underlying new matrix approaches to the formal demography of kinship networks. The first part of the course introduces the matrix formulation of demographic analyses, while the second part focuses on matrix kinship models that describe the development of the network of kin around a focal individual as it ages from birth. The course includes instruction in the use of the DemoKin R package to address substantive questions in kinship demography. The instructors will encourage participants to develop and explore applications of the theory.
Please read the full announcement for details.
The Population Health Initiative is partnering with the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology for the fifth consecutive summer to offer the Population Health Applied Research Fellowship program. Applications for this summer’s cohort will be accepted until March 28, 2023 from undergraduate and graduate students across all UW schools and colleges on all three UW campuses.
This paid fellowship program will offer a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students training in data analysis techniques as well as in research and presentation skills while they develop a work product for an external partner.
The Summer 2023 Population Health Applied Research Fellowship team will work closely with the King County Demographer and an epidemiologist at the Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation Unit at Public Health – Seattle & King County to explore individual- and aggregate-level data and quantify the timing, volume and location of internal migration within the county. Students will dive into housing, household size, reasons for migration and displacement and quantifying uncertainty via probabilistic models to help for future prediction planning and management at King County.
Ultimately, the team plans to build on the work of previous fellows to explore housing supply changes, changes in population by demographic variables, and changes in the distribution of renter-occupied and owner-occupied households of different sizes over this period of unprecedented growth.
Three graduate students and two undergraduate students will compose the fellowship team. They will be supervised by faculty and staff from the Population Health Initiative and the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology.
Visit the program’s webpage for more information and details regarding the application process.
Please join us on March 10th for CSDE’s Winter 2023 Lightning Talk and Poster Session from 12:30 – 1:30 PST! The poster session and talk will take place in Green A – Research Commons in Allen Library South at the University of Washington. This event will provide light snacks and refreshments, please find more information on the event here!
Please join us on March 10th for CSDE’s Winter 2023 Lightning Talk and Poster Session from 12:30 – 1:30 PST! The poster session and talk will take place in Green A – Research Commons in Allen Library South at the University of Washington. This event will provide light snacks and refreshments, please find more information on the event here!
King County, WA is soliciting proposals from interested and qualified entities to provide an analysis of the healthcare services delivered by Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) healthcare centers. This analysis will help PHSKC to understand how to ensure access to important healthcare services for the most vulnerable King County residents. To submit a proposal, click here and enter sustain into the search box. The application portal closes on March 14, 2023.
The Social Policies for Health Equity Research (SPHERE) program seeks a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research on the effects of COVID-19 social and economic policies on health inequities. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted rapid and innovative policymaking around the world at the national, regional, and local levels. Researchers at SPHERE are creating a national database of local COVID-19-related public health and social policies. The U.S. COVID-19 County Policy (UCCP) Database aims to provide a reliable record of what local governments have done in response to the pandemic. The postdoctoral fellow will link the policy database with national health data sets that provide individual-level information on mental health and healthcare utilization to assess how these pandemic-era policies affected these outcomes, particularly health inequities.
To indicate interest in the position, submit a cover letter, CV, one manuscript (published or unpublished), and one sample of statistical code to Dr. Hamad at rita.hamad@ucsf.edu. Questions about the position can also be directed to Dr. Hamad. Screening of applicants will begin immediately and will continue as needed throughout the recruitment period. The earliest start date is September 2023, but we will consider later start dates for competitive candidates.
The jobholder will contribute to demography related projects and activities. Her/his main tasks will also include to take part in the development of the demographic modelling toolbox of the Unit and to conduct quantitative analyses of the environmental and socio-economic implications of demographic change at the EU and global level.
The Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin, in collaboration with faculty at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University, are looking for a research scientist for a pair of path breaking projects designed to understand how educational opportunities and experiences in adolescence shape health and cognitive aging across the life course.
Dr. Celina Balderas Guzmán (Dept. of Landscape Architecture) is hiring an undergraduate, graduate, or PhD student research assistant for spring quarter 2023 to execute a geospatial analysis project in Python.
Minimum Qualifications
- strong Python coding skills
- functional programming skills
- at least some experience with geospatial analysis in Python
Desirable Qualifications
- experience organizing projects as pipelines
- version control with Git
- collaborative coding in GitHub
The student will work on a geospatial data science project currently in development under the eScience Institute Winter Incubator program (see “Wetland Communities in the US”). In this project, we are quantifying how many people live near current and future wetland areas in the coastal US. Knowledge of environmental science related to the coast or patterns of urbanization is a bonus, but absolutely not a requirement.
How to apply: please send Dr. Celina Balderas Guzmán (celinabg@uw.edu) your resume and a short cover letter explaining your experience and qualifications. Please reach out if you have any questions.
The Population Research Institute at Penn State is delighted to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral position in its T32-funded program in Social Environments and Population Health. Please help us get the word out about this fabulous opportunity!
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in demography, sociology, family studies, anthropology, health policy and administration, or a related discipline by the starting date. A strong background in quantitative analysis of social science data is desirable. We seek applicants with an interest in deepening their substantive and methodological expertise in both demography and social environments and population health. Postdoctoral scholars devote most of their time to research collaborations with faculty mentors, independent research, and research grant proposal writing, but they may also audit selected courses to increase their disciplinary expertise. For more information and to submit an application, visit this link.