Please join the CDWG for a fascinating presentation on a novel method for sampling hard to reach populations. In April 2022 King County Regional Homelessness Authority (King County Continuum of Care) with CSDE Affiliate Zack Almquist ran a novel method known as Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) to estimate the total population of unsheltered people experiencing homelessness in King County at a single point-in-time. This is based on the HUD reporting mandate, where every Continuum of Care (CoC) attempt to count the total number of unhoused residents in a single night (see https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hdx/pit-hic/) every two years.
Because 2023 is skip year in the HUD requirement, a UW Team of researchers is going to run a second RDS PIT count for King County in the month of April. Beyond running an RDS similar to KCRHA’s RDS PIT count we will also run an over sample of the Puget Sound Data Survey for people experiencing homelessness and novel Cell phone based RDS pilot.
More information: https://sites.uw.edu/rds-pit2023/uw-rds-pit-2023-main-page/
CSDE Affiliate Tyler McCormick has just been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Tyler is recognized for the development of statistical models for inference and prediction in scientific settings where data are sparsely observed or measured with error. His recent projects include estimating features of social networks (e.g. the degree of clustering or how central an individual is) using data from standard surveys, inferring a likely cause of death (when deaths happen outside of hospitals) using reports from surviving caretakers, and quantifying & communicating uncertainty in predictive models for global health policymakers.
This summer, CSDE is offering its Grant Writing Summer Program (GWSP) to assist scholars in preparing applications to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CSDE aims to demystify the grant-writing process and create a supportive environment that produces grant proposals ready for submission to the NIH within the coming year. We have a strong track record of successful funding for participants.
Participants will meet in person every other week for 10 weeks over the summer. They will learn more about the details of NIH grant mechanisms, writing, and reviewing, while also engaging in intensive writing of their own proposals. Participants will be paired with a senior mentor who will review their proposals, and participants will also review each other’s work.
Applying to the GWSP is open to CSDE affiliates (UW and external) as well as to local post-docs writing K awards with one or more CSDE affiliates on their mentoring team. If accepted, the program is free for applicants in these groups. Other researchers in the Seattle area are also eligible to apply and may be accepted if space is available; the program fee is $7,500 for these applicants. Current graduate students are not eligible to apply.
Applications are due May 12, 2023.
For more information, and to apply, please see https://csde.washington.edu/research/csde-grant-writing-summer-program/. Still have questions? Email Steve Goodreau at goodreau@uw.edu.
CSDE Trainee and CSDE NIH T32 Fellow Delaney Glass was just awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant! Her award winning grant is titled “Rethinking Evolutionary and Proximate Drivers of Pubertal Timing among Jordanian Non-Refugee and Syrian Refugee Adolescents.”
This grant program funds doctoral or thesis research that advances anthropological knowledge. Their goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. Congratulations Delaney!
Beyond the Pill, a program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is recruiting for a Professional Researcher. Beyond the Pill partners with health care providers, researchers and educators to improve access and equity in contraceptive care and other reproductive health services. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians and educators who contribute to science, policy and clinical practice change in the US and globally.v
Beyond the Pill, a program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is recruiting for a Professional Researcher. Beyond the Pill partners with health care providers, researchers and educators to improve access and equity in contraceptive care and other reproductive health services. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians and educators who contribute to science, policy and clinical practice change in the US and globally.
Epistemix is looking for an individual contributor to be the voice of user experience from onboarding to becoming a proficient user of our platform. This role will oversee training, user engagement, community management, outreach to academic and research organizations, and work closely with customer success and marketing. In this role, you will be expected to work with technical users to gather feedback on the product and understand how it can be improved to better address their needs. You will collaborate with the Engineering, Design, and Product teams to ensure that the Product Roadmap is aligned with the needs of users. Another part of your role will be to develop a vibrant community of users that connects with the open source community of agent-based modelers. As a key contributor within an early stage startup, you will own the user experience and will serve as an evangelist for agent-based simulation across disciplines.
Epistemix is looking for an individual contributor to lead the development of synthetic populations and data marketplace for the Epistemix platform. This role will report to our Director of Data Science & Engineering and work closely with the engineering and customer success teams. In this role, you will be expected to develop synthetic populations and APIs for external users to add their own data to the synthetic populations we make available on the platform.
Join us for a talk by Maria-Elena Young (University of California, Merced) about “Immigrant Policy Exclusions and the Health of Latinx and Asian Immigrants in California.” This talk will present findings from the Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy (RIGHTS) Study which sought to assess the health impact of Latinx and Asian immigrants’ direct encounters with exclusionary immigrant policies. Through a novel, population-based survey and latent class analysis, Young shows the patterns of policy exclusions experienced across within sample of Latinx and Asian immigrants in California and how clusters of exclusionary experiences are associated with health care access and health status.
Professor Rebecca Tipton (The Swiss Graduate Institute) will speak about her research around ethical review in the social sciences. Since 1974, institutional ethical review of human subjects research has transformed from a peculiarly American practice to a global standard. However, worldwide, social scientists have found institutional ethical review ill-suited for addressing ethical concerns in their disciplines. Critiques of ethical review made by scholars of politics and IR have emphasized ethics in practice. Our intervention instead reframes ethical review as an institutional and organizational structure for knowledge production that is foundationally shaped by its biomedical origins. The article connects historical and sociological studies of institutional ethical review with IR theory on diffusion and localization to analyze novel data on national-level requirements for ethical review. It makes three contributions. First, it presents evidence on the status and trajectory of ethical review, for the first time taking a global approach that pays equal heed to the biomedical and social sciences. Second, it shows how drawing institutional structure, norms, and political economy into conversation can explain why the same system produces significantly different implications for knowledge production and human subjects protection in these two areas. And third, it frames ethical review as a structure that regulates knowledge production, setting clear stakes for scholars of politics and IR.