The University of Washington Office of Research is seeking to hire a Full Stack Engineer. The Full Stack Engineer will work collaboratively in an agile team environment and contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance phases.
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CSDE Affiliate Jake Grumbach recently spoke on “The Ezra Klein Show” where he addressed gridlock at the national level, and how this hasn’t stopped policy making from happening. A significant change in policy making power has occurred, according to Grumbach. Increasingly effective decisions are being made at the state level, such as the ability to receive a legal abortion or use recreational marijuana, that has not been seen since before the civil rights revolution of the mid-twentieth century!
On November 30, researchers from the departments of Sociology, Real Estate, Psychiatry, Global Health, and more, including several Spark Grant recipients, reported on recent projects related to homelessness.
Those in attendance discussed current research collaboration, including recent initiatives surrounding vehicle residency and strategies to combat misinformation around Housing First policies. Led by CSDE Affiliates Gregg Colburn and Rachel Fyall, the event was co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative and CSDE. For more information visit this description of the event.
There is a request for proposals for several grants through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Grand Challenges Initiative. The request for proposals include grants for Interventions to Enhance Epidemic Intelligence, Surveillance, and Outbreak Response; Strengthening Modeling and Analytics Capacity and Ecosystem for Women’s Health; Pathogen Genomic Surveillance and Immunology in Asian; African Agriculture Climate Adaptation Research System; Strengthening the Contraceptive Research and Development Ecosystem in Africa: Accelerating Innovations in Non- Hormonal Contraception for Women. More information on Global Grand Challenges can be found here, and a list of all of the grant opportunities here.
There is a request for proposals for several grants through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Grand Challenges Initiative. The request for proposals include grants for Interventions to Enhance Epidemic Intelligence, Surveillance, and Outbreak Response; Strengthening Modeling and Analytics Capacity and Ecosystem for Women’s Health; Pathogen Genomic Surveillance and Immunology in Asian; African Agriculture Climate Adaptation Research System; Strengthening the Contraceptive Research and Development Ecosystem in Africa: Accelerating Innovations in Non- Hormonal Contraception for Women. More information on Global Grand Challenges can be found here, and a list of all of the grant opportunities here.
CSDE Trainee Neal Marquez recently published an article in Health Affairs entitled “Racial And Ethnic Inequalities In COVID-19 Mortality Within Carceral Settings: An Analysis Of Texas Prisons.” The authors found evidence that COVID-19 mortality was 1.61 and 2.12 times higher for Black and Hispanic populations, respectively, when compared to White population in Texas prisons. These findings have helped inform a recently released op-ed advocating for the removal of medical co-pays in prison settings to help alleviate the COVID-19 burden faced in Texas prisons by Marquez and co-authors.
CSDE Research Scientist Phil Hurvitz presented at the 2022 Seoul Big Data Forum, November 28-29, 2022. The Forum’s theme was “Inclusive Smartcity Seoul with Big data and AI” with attendees and presenters including government officials, practitioners, and academic researchers mostly from South Korea but with several international speakers. Phil’s presentation was titled “Built Environment and Walkability: Data Driven Approaches for Measurement and Analysis.” He also presented to a group of students, staff, and faculty at the University of Seoul, hosted by UW alum and University of Seoul Assistant Professor Mingyu Kang. The presentation can be accessed at http://gismo.gis.washington.edu/phurvitz/presentations/2022/seoul_big_data_forum/hurvitz_seoul_big_data_forum_20221128_uos.pptx.
The Demographic Research Area houses a multi-disciplinary staff of social science researchers (e.g. demographers, economists, geographers, sociologists) responsible for researching, developing, coordinating and implementing innovative applications of administrative records to improve Census Bureau data collection operations and data products. It includes the Survey and Economic Research Group and the Demographic and Decennial Research Group.
The Survey and Economic Research Group focuses on novel applications of administrative records in Census Bureau household survey data collection efforts. The group is responsible for researching and testing innovative methods to improve all phases of the survey life cycle, including frame development, data collection, data processing (including edit and imputation), evaluation and dissemination.
The Demographic and Decennial Research Group works with internal and external stakeholders, sponsors, and data providers to improve decennial census collection efforts. Examples include: researching measurement error in common household survey items such as demographics, household rosters, and participation in public assistance programs; assessing coverage of administrative records in the decennial census and household surveys; and analyzing response changes across multiple censuses and surveys.
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 postdoctoral scholar with a PhD in economics, public policy, demography, social work, sociology, or a related discipline, to conduct analyses of policy proposals related to poverty, inequality, economic security, hardship, and mobility. The postdoc will work primarily with Jane Waldfogel and Christopher Wimer, as well as other faculty and staff to analyze data on trends and levels of poverty and related outcomes and to evaluate the impact of current and proposed social policies, with an emphasis on vulnerable population subgroups.
Cutting across the work is a focus on racial inequalities and structural racism, in particular the need to better understand the impact of anti-Black racism on poverty and social policy and how to develop and implement anti-racist social policy in the United States. The postdoctoral fellowship is for two years, with the option to renew for a third year contingent on performance and funding. Start date is flexible but ideally would be in Fall 2023.
The parasitic infectious disease group of Dr. Joana C Silva, Professor at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS, http://www.igs.umaryland.edu ) seeks applicants for one (possibly two) postdoctoral scholar positions. IGS at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine is an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental team of collaborative investigators with a broad research program related to the basic and translational sciences, genomics, epigenetics, and bioinformatics. The impact of the members of IGS on the genomics field has been substantial, with more than 2000 publications during the past 26 years, which have been cited more than 300,000 times, making IGS one of the most productive institutions in the region.
Qualified candidates will be enthusiastic, highly motivated and interested in studying the evolution of malaria parasites, with emphasis on Plasmodium falciparum, and/or host-parasite interactions. Available research topics for this position are varied and include 1) parasite genetic variation and its impact on vaccine escape; 2) evolutionary (distant past) or historical (recent past) P. falciparum demography; 3) host immune responses to parasite co-infection.
This interdisciplinary position benefits from our close interactions with colleagues from the Malaria Research Program ( https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/malaria/ ) and the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health ( https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/CVD/ ), with state-of-the-art programs and resources in malaria, immunology and vaccinology research. This position offers opportunities to address important questions in the malaria, with first access to large novel data sets from various genomic platforms. We have a strong preference for computational biologists/statistician with a deep appreciation of biological phenomena or equally, microbiologists/immunologists with a solid background in computational analysis of omics data. Projects will apply computational, statistical and bioinformatics approaches to integrate multi-omics’ datasets such as genome sequences, bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, cell surface marker information, T/B cell receptor sequences and HLA genotypes to characterize parasite evolution and host-parasite interactions.