The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD), offers a four-week course in R. The course is divided into four modules -one per week- covering three major strengths of R: statistical and demographic analysis, data visualization and spatial analysis. Each module consists of 20 hours of teaching, combining theoretical lectures and practical exercises.
More information can be found here.
On April 11, EarthLab and The Population Health Initiative will cohost an Open Space-style event to help to support UW researchers in laying the groundwork for new, interdisciplinary partnerships that address key facets of climate change. Attendees of the event will set the agenda for discussion, offering to convene discussions on possible topics or projects where collaboration is sought. The formal program will be followed by a more informal networking lunch.
RSVP required via https://bit.ly/3ZNAmRS
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:
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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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.
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.
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.
Check out the 20th Annual Symposium from The Center for Family & Demographic Research on “The Rising Significance of Singlehood in the U.S.”. This symposium will feature three scholars who are on the cutting-edge of this emergent area of research. The symposium is free, but pre-registration is required and can be found here.
Check out the 20th Annual Symposium from The Center for Family & Demographic Research on “The Rising Significance of Singlehood in the U.S.”. This symposium will feature three scholars who are on the cutting-edge of this emergent area of research. The symposium is free, but pre-registration is required and can be found here.
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/