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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship – Population Health Initiative

The Population Health Initiative, in partnership with the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, CoMotion, the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance and the School of Public Health, offers a Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Program in which students explore how best to deploy social enterprise models for innovations that are developed by University of Washington researchers.

The program supports graduate fellows from different disciplines to work on a range of different projects. Students from a range of disciplines are encouraged to apply, including business, engineering, social work, law, public policy and public health.

Each fellow will have primary responsibility for one of the projects, but fellows will work as a team, with each fellow contributing their disciplinary expertise to all four projects. Fellows will be guided through a structured workplan by program faculty and staff, and will also have access to mentors and subject matter experts.

The initiative is offering one virtual information session to learn more about the program:

  • Thursday, March 16th, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Pacific

Instructor – University of Washington College of Built Environments

The Runstad Department of Real Estate is seeking applicants for affiliate instructors to teach undergraduate (4XX numbers) and graduate (5XX numbers) level courses during the 2023-2024 academic years, with the potential for teaching them in future years as well.

Applicants must have an Undergraduate degree (for undergraduate courses) or Master’s degree (for graduate courses) in a relevant field. Work experience in the relevant field is required. Teaching experience is preferred although professional experience will be evaluated accordingly.

Submission material: Applications, including a letter of intent, resume, and two letters of recommendation, should be emailed to Prof. Sofia Dermisi at sdermisi@uw.edu by April 14th, 2023. If you are interested in the position, please reach out to Prof. Dermisi for the course syllabus and any other questions you might have.

The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as protected veterans, or status as qualified individuals with disabilities.

 

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New Study by Bekemeier Reveals Rural Health Data Challenges During Pandemic

CSDE Affiliate Betty Bekemeier’s latest article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP,  “Rural Public Health Data Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for Building Better Systems Ahead of a Public Health Crisis“, addresses the need for high-quality population data and the capacity to effectively use this data in the context of COVID-19. This paper explores Rural public health data challenges and provides recommendations for improving rural data access and capacity ahead of future crises by gathering qualitative data from rural public health personnel.

Health Care Analyst- San Francisco Department of Public Health

The 2119 Health Care Analyst works with clinical and non-clinical staff and personnel in evaluation studies; gathers, analyzes and documents data; plans remedial action; and supervises and reviews the work of technical and clerical assistants engaged in such activities.

Essential duties include:

1. Organizes and tabulates the data collected for evaluation studies; analyzes data and prepares narrative, statistical reports and presentations documenting the methodology and results of the health audit studies.

2. Initiates, coordinates and attends clinic and departmental evaluation meetings to insure an on-going evaluation process in each department or clinic; works with department and clinic chiefs, head nurses, dentists and other staff; designs audit and evaluation studies, including data collection instruments and sampling procedures.

3. Trains and supervises other staff in data retrieval and trains end users to access, use and understand reports.

4. Works with evaluation committees to develop remedial action plans based on study results; documents all remedial action planning and monitors all implementation.

5. Serves as staff to assigned committees; prepares agendas, minutes; reports developments, results and problems in the program; prepares written reports.

6. Reports orally and in writing to appropriate committees on completed evaluation studies including resulting problems which require action from those committees; attends audit related committees in the state and community and reports findings to appropriate stakeholders.

7. Reviews literature and consults with various evaluation committees on their evaluation activities.

Research Analyst – Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University

The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work focuses on poverty and social policy issues in the United States. The center is seeking a Research Analyst to provide research and analytical support to the Center on Poverty and Social Policy and the Columbia Population Research Center.

As the Poverty Tracker and Early Childhood Poverty Tracker studies have grown, there is an increased need to work with and analyze the data that has come in through the study. The Research Analyst will be responsible for producing reports and analyses using data from the Poverty Tracker and Early Childhood Poverty Tracker in order to meet the study’s goals. The Poverty Tracker, a joint project of Robin Hood and Columbia University, is a longitudinal study of the dynamics of poverty and disadvantage in New York City.

Lecturer – UC Berkeley (Demography)

The Department of Demography at the University of California at Berkeley is generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach a range of courses in the department should openings arise.

Please visit the Courses and Sample Syllabi link for more information about the department’s classes. They invite instructors to apply that can teach broadly accessible topics and introductions to formal demographic methods, social demography, fertility, mortality, migration, population and environment, family and gender, demography of race and ethnicity, history of population thought, demographic implications of climate change, international migration and refugees, political demography, economic demography, demography and development.

The position’s duties include undergraduate and graduate teaching. In addition to teaching responsibilities, general duties may include managing graders and/or graduate student instructors (teaching assistants), holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g., syllabus), maintaining a course website, and writing exams.

The Department is interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching and those who share our core values.

Department: https://www.demog.berkeley.edu/

Courses and Sample Syllabi: https://www.demog.berkeley.edu/courses/

New Research from Rao Develops a Mathematical Model for Years in the U.S. Congress

Recent work published in Genus by CSDE External Affiliate Arni Rao, entitled “Congressional Symmetry: Years Remaining Mirror Years Served in the US House and Senate”, seeks to test and identify applications for a mathematical model to explore the members remaining years in Congress. This project utilizes more than two centuries of historical Congressional data and a stationary population identity model to approximate remaining years.

Berridge Publishes Two New Articles!

CSDE Affiliate Clara Berridge published two first-authored articles recently that are of great interest for our community. Each piece examines how different technologies may help support vulnerable older adults. The first “Preliminary efficacy of Let’s Talk Tech: Technology use planning for dementia care dyads” was publsihed in Innovation in Aging, while the other “Companion robots to mitigate loneliness among older adults: Perceptions of benefit and possible deception” was released in Frontiers in Psychology. Make sure to check out each of these great articles and wish Clara a big congrats with us!