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To indicate interest in the position, submit a cover letter, CV, one manuscript (published or unpublished), and one sample of statistical code to Dr.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.
The Population Association of America’s annual meeting is the premier conference of demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad. Here demographers at all career stages are afforded the opportunity to present their research in oral and poster sessions, hear others’ findings, and network with their peers.
Since PAA’s first conference in 1932, much important research has been presented on topics ranging from migration to reproductive health to race and gender issues.
CSDE Affiliate Erin Casey recently published a new article in Violence Against Women entitled, “Patterns of Gender Equitable Attitudes and Behaviors Among Young Men: Relationships With Violence Perpetration and Masculinity Ideologies“. This paper utilizes latent profile analysis with data from 481 U.S. men to examine patterns of men’s attitudes toward gender equity and their engagement in gender-equitable (GE) behaviors. Five resulting profiles included groups with (a) high endorsement of both GE attitudes and behaviors, (b) low endorsement of both, (c) mid-range endorsement of both, (d) strong endorsement of GE attitudes, but low engagement in action, and (e) low endorsement of GE attitudes but high participation in GE behavior.
CSDE Affiliates Bradley Wagenaar and Kenneth Sherr collaborated with several researchers to publish “The Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach: specifying core components of an implementation strategy to optimize care cascades in public health” in Implementation Science Communications. This paper seeks to extend the growing body of research on the Systems Analysis Improvement Approach (SAIA) by defining the core elements of SAIA using established specification approaches and thus improve reproducibility, guide future adaptations, and lay the groundwork to define its mechanisms of action.
In their latest article, “Stress and Resilience among Sexual and Gender Diverse Caregivers“, CSDE Affiliate Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen examines perceived stress among a sample of 754 sexual and gender diverse caregivers using regressions on background and caregiving characteristics and risk and protective factors. Utilizing data from Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS) this project contributes to emergent research on caregiving in diverse populations and provides some very important findings!
CSDE Affiliates Steve Pfaff and Yuan Hsaio published a new article “Competing Social Influence in Contested Diffusion: Luther, Erasmus and the Spread of the Protestant Reformation” in Economic Science Institute. The authors study two influential intellectuals of hte 16th century, Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus and their influence of reform on Protestant Reformation. Using newly digitalized data on both leaders’ correspondence networks, their travels, the dispersion of their followers, and parallel processes of exchange among places through trade routes, they employ econometric tests and network simulations to test their theoretical model.