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*New* NIA Joins NIH P20 Call for Exploratory Grants for Climate Change and Health Research Center Development (Due 5/1/23)

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has joined the NIH call for P20 exploratory grants for climate change and health research. NIA is specifically interested in understanding the biological, behavioral, and socioecological processes related to climate change and extreme weather that affect the health and wellbeing of older individuals, including those living with Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias (AD/ADRD), as examined in human and/or other animals.

Small Planning Grants – Population Health Initiative

The Population Health Initiative will accept planning grant applications this spring from University of Washington researchers to support investigators in launching new interdisciplinary collaborations that address pressing climate-related challenges. Awards of up to $10,000 each will be available with a project period of no more than two months to take place during summer quarter 2023. Applications will be due by May 1, 2023.

Global Innovation Fund Award Open: Global Engagement Fellows (Due 5/5/2023)

Consider applying to this new opportunity!

The Office of Global Affairs (OGA) offers awards up to $3,000 to convene new cross-disciplinary groups of faculty and staff (referred to as “communities”) that share a common interest in:

  • a region or country
  • a research theme
  • good practice/innovation in inclusive globally engaged teaching, including study abroad
  • other topics relating to global engagement

Communities will meet during Fall 2023 – Spring 2024.

The purpose of the awards is to foster new connections among faculty and staff at the UW. OGA first developed these awards in Spring 2022 following the Global Engagement Task Force.

Global Innovation Fund Award Open: Global Engagement Fellows (Due 5/5/2023)

Consider applying to this new opportunity!

The Office of Global Affairs (OGA) offers awards up to $3,000 to convene new cross-disciplinary groups of faculty and staff (referred to as “communities”) that share a common interest in:

  • a region or country
  • a research theme
  • good practice/innovation in inclusive globally engaged teaching, including study abroad
  • other topics relating to global engagement

Communities will meet during Fall 2023 – Spring 2024.

The purpose of the awards is to foster new connections among faculty and staff at the UW. OGA first developed these awards in Spring 2022 following the Global Engagement Task Force.

Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Accelerating Behavioral and Social Science through Ontology Development and Use (Due 9/30/23)

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), with other NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs), intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to accelerate behavioral and social science through ontology development and use. Applications will be encouraged to develop new or expand existing ontologies for behavioral or social science research (BSSR). Applicants will be expected to form multi-disciplinary teams including subject matter experts in one or more BSSR fields, as well as experts in semantic knowledge structures. Proposals will be expected to focus on health-relevant terminology related to constructs, measures, and/or interventions. Funded projects and investigator teams will participate in a collaborative research network.

Please share your accomplishments with CSDE!

CSDE would love to celebrate your accomplishments. If you have a new grant, award, paper, book, editorial, or media coverage, please email csde@uw.edu. We can feature your achievements in our weekly newsletter, and share select items with the Center for Public Information on Population Research to broadcast to a larger audience. This publicity broadens awareness of your work and can facilitate collaborations and other synergies.

CSDE Seminar: The Effect of COVID Infection on Infant Health: Trends over the Course of the Pandemic (3/31/2023)

1-on-1 Meetings are available with Professor Torche: Signup Here

Join us for a talk by Dr. Florencia Torche (Stanford) about “The Effect of COVID Infection on Infant Health: Trends over the Course of the Pandemic.”  Please make special note that this talk is in Parrington Hall room 220. Dr. Torche is Dunlevie Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Her research and writing focus on social inequality and social mobility, educational disparities, and marriage and family dynamics. Her recent scholarship has extensively studied the influence of early-life exposures and circumstances –starting before birth– on individual health, development, and wellbeing using natural experiments and causal inference approaches

Computational Demography Work Group (CDWG) Meeting (3/29/23)

The Computational Demography Working Group will host their first meeting of the quarter on March 29th, 2023. The plan for the meeting will be to do introductions, catch up and discuss the quarter as well as recruit for the Response Driven Sampling (RDS) Point in Time (PIT) Count for 2023. This point in time estimate is used to estimate the total population of unsheltered people experiencing homelessness in King County in collaboration with the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. CSDE training core PI Zack Almquist will be leading this discussion and recruitment. For more information find the main RDS PIT page here.