Description:
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF)’s Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards provides up to $500,000 over five years to academic investigators developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others make. This would necessarily draw upon the talents of individuals trained in mathematics, computer science, applied physics, medicine, engineering, toxicology, epidemiology, biostatistics, systems pharmacology, and food safety and nutrition to name a few.
Eligibility:
BWF strongly encourages applications from persons who have been historically underrepresented in the research enterprise, including but not limited to: women of any ethnic or racial group; any person identifying as Black or African American, Latino/a or Hispanic American, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, indigenous to the Pacific Islands; persons with disabilities; persons from disadvantaged backgrounds (see NOT-OD-20-031 for examples); and individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+.
- Candidates must hold an M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M., D.D.S., D.O., D.Phil., Pharm.D., or M.D.-Ph.D. degree.
- Candidates must hold a faculty position, tenure-track or non-tenure track, or adjunct faculty position at an accredited, degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada; grants are made to the institutions on behalf of the award recipients.
- Candidates must be an investigator at the adjunct, assistant, associate, or full professor level.
- Citizens and non-citizen permanent and temporary residents of the U.S. and Canada who are legally qualified to work in the U.S. or Canada are eligible. See RFP for additional details.
Link to RFP
Please join us as CSDE hosts Dr. Liying Luo for a discussion on the “Gendered Effects of Intergenerational Mobility” based on evidence from the General Social Survey.
Sociologists have long been interested in understanding the implications of intergenerational social mobility for individuals’ behaviors and well-being. However, for empirical and historical reasons, most prior research either focused on one subpopulation or assumed a uniform effect of social mobility across demographic groups. Such focus/assumption is too limiting because experiences of and responses to social mobility likely differ depending on individuals’ social and demographic characteristics. Using a new mobility effect model to analyze divorce data from the General Social Survey, Dr. Luo found that the mobility effects were more pronounced for women than for men respondents. This presentation will discuss possible reasons for the gendered effects of intergenerational mobility.
Dr. Luo’s research focuses on (1) how aging, social change, and population processes interact with social institutions such as schools and family to produce inequality and disparities and (2) identifying trajectories and explaining trends in health, cognitive, and mortality outcomes. She has developed a novel model for determining age, time periods, and cohort patterns in various outcomes such as cognitive development, health status and behaviors, mortality, and substance use. She also studies quantitative methods for describing and explaining temporal trends in health behaviors and vital rates. She recently expands her research areas to investigating the heterogeneous effects of education between men and women on their health and social well-being. Her work has appeared in top journals including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Demography (lead article with four commentaries and a reply), and Sociological Methods & Research. She serves on the editorial board of Sociological Methods & Research and Sociological Methodology.
Sign ups for 1-0n-1 talks with Dr. Luo are here.
Register for the Zoom webinar here.
The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) will be having its meeting from 3pm-4pm on Wednesday Nov 30th. This meeting is available for anyone interested in or doing computational demographic research, for more information look here!
As the holiday season is upon us all, CSDE staff, faculty and staff want to take this opportunity to send all members of our community best wishes. There is much to be grateful for and we are especially grateful to the CSDE community for your support and your hard work towards advancing population research and to improve population health.
CSDE Trainee Callie Freitag and a distinguished team of co-authors, including CSDE Affiliates Clara Berridge and Scott W. Allard published “Meeting Older Adults’ Food Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons And Challenges from Washington State” in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy. This mixed methods study provides key organizational practices that should inform future emergency food assistance planning for older adults.
CSDE Affiliate Paula Nurius and co-authors have recently published an article entitled “I Just Wanted to Triple Check… They Were All Vaccinated: Supporting Risk Negotiation in the Context of COVID-19” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. This paper uses qualitative methods to explore how young adults plan in-person meetups over computer-mediated communication in the context of the pandemic. The authors identify strategies for risk negotiation, social complexities that impede risk negotiation, and emotional consequences of risk negotiation.
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University invites applications for an an open rank faculty position (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor) in Sociology beginning in September 1, 2023. The position is open to candidates specializing broadly in Health and Demography focusing on Population Health including social epidemiology, the study of socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral factors in the etiology of disease and mortality. Applicants must demonstrate a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to seek external funding for research and participate in departmental initiatives including collaborative research, teaching and learning projects. Applicants must produce high quality scholarly research, teach undergraduate and graduate courses of multiple modalities (online, hybrid and in person), and be committed to department, college and university service. You can find the application here.
The UW Behavioral Research Center for HIV will be hosting a webinar on December 1st, 2022 from 7am-8am PST.
Dr. Pamela Collins, Co-Director of BIRCH Integrated Care Core will serve as moderator as we host psychologists Jhanille Brooks and Belinda White alongside Gloira Gonese of Zim-TTECH, James Sale of United for Global Mental Health, and fellow BIRCH ICC Co-Director Dr. Lydia Chwastiak.
Zoom registration is required at the attached link!
Please read this important news regarding the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Census Bureau’s plans regarding the 2017-2021 ACS Five Year Estimates.
Pre-release webinar for ACS 5-year estimates: On Thursday, December 1, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET, the Census Bureau will host a pre-release webinar on the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) Five Year Estimates in anticipation of the ACS data becoming publicly available on December 8. The webinar will explain how to access data and online resources from the 2017-2021 ACS as well as provide tips for comparing ACS geographies and statistics over time.
Jing Xu and Ben Marwick are set to be co-teaching a graduate seminar on computational analysis of text, centered on the book “Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences. A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world”. If you have research that is using or expects to use social media posts, free-form survey responses, government documents or other text this may be a great opportunity for you!
More details about class time, location, available places are here: https://sdb.admin.uw.edu/timeschd/uwnetid/sln.asp?QTRYR=WIN+2023&SLN=22283