The University of Washington’s College of Environment is hiring for an Assistant or Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to join their team!

The College is seeking an action-oriented Assistant or Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to lead these efforts. In this role, you will work closely with the dean, senior staff, faculty, postdocs, students and other community members to integrate an equity and justice lens into our shared strategic vision. This position represents an opportunity to shape the future of the College of the Environment’s DEI work, and along with it, the future of some of the most critical environmental research on the planet.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched two requests for proposals through the Grand Challenges Global Call-to-Action initiative.

This new member of the Grand Challenges family of initiatives supports locally led research, exemplified by the five malaria projects funded through the request for proposals launched last year, Building Malaria Modeling Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, there are requests for proposals launched by Grand Challenges Africa, by Grand Challenges Senegal, and by Grand Challenges Canada. All are listed below and open for applications.

Please check the website at the links below for the application deadlines and more information.

• Strengthening Modeling and Analytics Capacity and Ecosystem for Women’s Health 
• Pathogen Genomic Surveillance and Immunology in Asia 
• African Agriculture Climate Adaptation Research System 
• Strengthening the Contraceptive Research and Development Ecosystem in Africa: Accelerating Innovations in Non-Hormonal Contraception for Women 
• Interventions to Enhance Epidemic Intelligence, Surveillance, and Outbreak Response 
• Health Impacts of Climate Change 

On November 4, you are invited to join demographers and students from all backgrounds for a conversation about about developing a public voice.  The Demographers of Color Collective is hosting the conversation will be 10am-11:30am (Pacific time) via a zoom panel of experts on how to engage in mass media and social media.  The zoom link is: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkc-msqzkpEtS3SXrCtrZLtMTwalriddET

This virtual panel discussion features PhD demographers of color and allies who know about engagement with media and journalists. Panelists will share about their career, life experiences, and advice. Join this event for a sincere discussion of pivots, resilience, and hope.

 

 

Panelists:

 

D’Vera Cohn (Pew Research Center, formerly The Washington Post) is a senior writer/editor at Pew Research Center who previously had a 21-year journalism career at The Washington Post. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census, and manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print, broadcast and online media. On behalf of the Poynter Institute, a journalism education organization, she also organized and taught workshops that trained hundreds of journalists to analyze and write about 2020 census data.

 

Dr. Malia Jones (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of infectious disease, social epidemiology, demography, and geography. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how the places we spend time affect our health, especially when it comes to infectious disease and vaccinations. She is also the co-founder of Dear Pandemic, a science communication platform offering practical, scientific health information on social media. Her current research program is funded by the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She received a MPH and a PhD in Public Health at UCLA, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Her work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, and Demography. She is a knitter, a mom to two boys, and has way too many pets.

On November 4, you are invited to join demographers and students from all backgrounds for a conversation about about developing a public voice.  The Demographers of Color Collective is hosting the conversation will be 10am-11:30am (Pacific time) via a zoom panel of experts on how to engage in mass media and social media.  The zoom link is: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkc-msqzkpEtS3SXrCtrZLtMTwalriddET

 

 

Panelists:

 

D’Vera Cohn (Pew Research Center, formerly The Washington Post) is a senior writer/editor at Pew Research Center who previously had a 21-year journalism career at The Washington Post. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census, and manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print, broadcast and online media. On behalf of the Poynter Institute, a journalism education organization, she also organized and taught workshops that trained hundreds of journalists to analyze and write about 2020 census data.

 

Dr. Malia Jones (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of infectious disease, social epidemiology, demography, and geography. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how the places we spend time affect our health, especially when it comes to infectious disease and vaccinations. She is also the co-founder of Dear Pandemic, a science communication platform offering practical, scientific health information on social media. Her current research program is funded by the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She received a MPH and a PhD in Public Health at UCLA, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Her work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, and Demography. She is a knitter, a mom to two boys, and has way too many pets.

The Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College seeks a scholar for a full-time tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor, to be appointed as early as July 1, 2023. QSS is an interdisciplinary program that integrates modern statistical, computational, and mathematical tools with social science. Potential fields for this position include applied mathematics, demography, economics, geography, political science, sociology, or related disciplines. Applicants should have a strong computational background and be able to conduct research using modern computational methods and teach these methods at the undergraduate level. The person appointed to this position will be expected to foster cross-disciplinary connections at Dartmouth around computational methods.

To learn more about Dartmouth College and QSS, visit http://qss.dartmouth.edu .

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.

The University of Washington, Tacoma is hiring a Visual Arts and Culture professor. They University has a specific interests in applicants with Indigenous and/or Asian and Pacific Islands perspectives, the Division of Culture, Arts, & Communication in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma invites applications for a full-time, tenure-eligible position as Assistant Professor in Visual Arts & Culture with an anticipated start date of September 2023. Tenure-track faculty have an annual service period of nine months (Sept 16-June 15).

Positive factors for consideration include, but are not limited to, applicants with Indigenous and/or Asian and Pacific Islands perspectives and/or expertise in Indigenous Arts & Traditions; Arts from Marginalized Groups; Arts and Culture of Asia and the Pacific; Global Visual Studies; Transnational Arts; or Resistance Art.

The successful candidate will be expected to uphold the Division’s commitment to supporting diverse student populations through inclusive teaching practices and through the integration of effective pedagogical techniques and technologies into teaching/learning. They will also be expected to support the Division’s commitment to institutional, professional, and community service.

The Department of Gerontology in the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites qualified persons to apply for a tenure-track assistant professor position to join our faculty beginning September 1, 2023. The Department seeks to increase the number of tenure-track faculty conducting research on aging among historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. The search committee is especially interested in candidates who seek to understand the determinants and effects of aging in under served and marginalized communities, including Black, Latinx, and Indigenous populations.

They seek to conduct research to mitigate pervasive disparities and to increase the diversity of workers in the aging research, policy and aging service delivery.  Research agendas should be in the aging and health arena, with topics that include but are not limited to cognitive aging and dementia, healthcare utilization, long-term services and supports, health behaviors, and behavioral health. All candidates should have an emerging or established program of research with evidence of potential for generating external funding. The research portfolio should be directly related to racial justice, disparities, and inequality. Candidates should be prepared to teach across our undergraduate, online masters, and doctoral programs. The person who fills this position will be a Fellow in the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston and may also have an affiliation with the Center for Social and Demographic Research in Aging and the LeadingAge LTSS Center, both located within the Gerontology Institute. Applicants must have an earned doctorate in one of the following fields: gerontology, nursing, epidemiology, sociology, psychology, demography, health economics, social work, public health or an interdisciplinary program. Applicants with terminal degrees in other fields will also be considered.

UMass Boston is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse campuses in the Northeastern US, is recognized by the US Department of Education as a Minority Serving Institution and has a strong commitment to social justice and inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from persons with diverse backgrounds and provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, military status, or genetic information.

Application instructions:

To apply, submit online, a letter of interest, research, teaching, and diversity statements, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information of at least three references. Review of applications will begin November 18, 2022 and continue until the position is filled.

Inquiries may be directed to Jeffrey.Burr@umb.edu.