The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to encourage independence early in the fellow’s career by supporting his or her research and training goals. The research and training plan of each fellowship must address important scientific questions within the scope of the SBE directorate and the specific guidelines in this solicitation. The SPRF program offers two tracks: (I) Fundamental Research in the SBE Sciences (SPRF-FR) and (II) Broadening Participation in the SBE Sciences (SPRF-BP).
More information can be found here.
You are invited to submit your ideas about scientific priorities for the NIH’s Office of Behavior and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) strategic planning. OBSSR’s mission is to enhance the impact of health related behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR); coordinate BSSR conducted or supported by the NIH and integrate these sciences within the larger NIH research enterprise; and communicate health related BSSR findings to interested parties within and outside the federal government. You can visit the Request for Information (RFI) here and complete their survey form. You can view the most recent strategic plan (2017-2021) here.
KCHA’s Senior Program Evaluation Analyst is central to our measurement, learning, and evaluation efforts, inclusive program design, and communicating impact. This is an exceptional opportunity to engage in meaningful, applied research on housing and social policy as part of a collaborative and dedicated team
KCHA’s Data Manager plays a critical role in advancing the quality and security of KCHA’s administrative data, initiating new data partnerships, and supporting data-driven decision making. This is an exceptional opportunity to engage in meaningful, applied research on housing and social policy as part of a collaborative and dedicated team.
Congratulations to CSDE Executive Committee Member David Takeuchi(Social Work) who has just been awarded the 2022 Carl Taube Lifetime Contributions to Mental Health Services from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
The Carl Taube Award was created in 1990 to honor Carl Taube for his major role in promoting mental health services and policy research and mental health economics and to recognize scholars who have made important lifetime contributions to public mental health. As Director of the Division of Biometry and Applied Sciences at the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Taube redesigned and expanded the national reporting program on mental health services and pioneered the use of these data to analyze major policy trends in deinstitutionalization and shifts in financing. He designed and implemented the national Inventory of Community Mental Health Centers which became the Inventory of Mental Health Organizations. Widely published throughout his career, Dr. Taube was Professor of Mental Hygiene at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, consultant to the World Health Organization, advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program for the Chronically Mentally Ill.
The Carl Taube Committee’s keen consensus was that Dr. David Takeuchi has been a pioneer in changing the field of mental health for Asian American populations. He has shown incredible dedication to the field of health services research and has made considerable scientific contributions to our fundamental knowledge base. Dr. Takeuchi’s work as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) highlighted critical disparities in mental health care for Asian Americans and propelled the field forward. His in-depth analyses of the immigrant paradox and his contributions to understanding the intergenerational changes that take place in immigrant groups have been groundbreaking and critical to advancing knowledge about migratory experiences.
The APHA Mental Health Section 2022 Carl Taube Award Committee offers Dr. Takeuchi their sincere congratulations on this well-deserved honor and an extraordinary career.
Join us in congratulating and honoring Dr. David Takeuchi!
The Journal of Population and Sustainability has issued a call for papers for a special issue entitled “Vulnerable populations: The role of population dynamics in climate change resilience and adaptation”.
The proposed special issue of The Journal of Population and Sustainability will focus on population growth as a factor in the resilience and adaptive capacity of communities in facing the impacts of climate change. They are interested in publishing papers examining both natural population growth and those considering local growth due to migration, including the effects of urbanisation upon the vulnerability of urban populations to climate change. In addition, papers considering the effects on resilience and adaptation resulting from migration from the Global South to the Global North are welcomed. Moreover, the journal is particularly interested in papers examining how climate change relates to the vulnerability of particular demographic groups, especially children and women in high fertility countries.
Deadine for full article submissions via the JP&S website: 12/31/2022
Further inquiries to the editor: editor@jpopsus.org.
Join us for a talk from Professor Andrés Villarreal titled “Earnings Assimilation within and across Immigrant Generations: Evidence from Administrative Records
The systematic study of immigrants’ economic assimilation requires an analysis of both intra- and intergenerational mobility, that is, of the progress made by each immigrant generation over the course of their own lives and relative to their parents. We examine both types of mobility using a unique dataset linking respondents of multiple waves of the Current Population Survey to their longitudinal tax records. This longitudinal information allows us follow individuals’ earnings trajectories and measure the extent to which second-generation men are able to reduce the earnings gap with later generations during their lifetimes. To overcome the limitations of previous studies examining intergenerational mobility, we match a sample of second- and later-generation children to their actual parents. Our matching strategy allows us to identify the exact third generation and to evaluate the contribution of ethnic attrition. We find large ethnoracial disparities in earnings mobility. Second-generation Hispanic men experience the same or greater intergenerational mobility than later-generation Whites after controlling for parental education. However, the earnings progress of second-generation Hispanics appears to stall or reverse during the course of the second generation even after controlling for education, suggesting that differential treatment in the labor market plays an important role.
Andrés Villarreal is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and faculty affiliate at the California Center for Population Research. His current research focuses on international migration, race and ethnicity, social stratification, and health in social context. In an ongoing research project he is examining the economic assimilation of immigrants and their descendants in the U.S. using administrative data.
Sign up for 1 on 1 meetings with Andrés here
Hot off the presses, Dr. Steven Ruggles was just announced as a MacArthur Genius Awardee [macfound.org] and a member of the class of 2022! Ruggles was recognized for his extraordinary genius – as the brain, creative vision, energizer, and indefatigable collaborator – behind the establishment of IPUMS [ipums.org], which now provides the largest spatially and temporally integrated census and social survey data infrastructure for the entire globe. Ruggles is a historical demographer at the University of Minnesota and a recent president of the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers. IPUMS and Ruggles vision is a model of open science and innovation! There is not a single demographer that has not benefitted from your remarkable generosity! From all of us at CSDE – CONGRATULATIONS STEVE!!!
CSDE Affiliate Mienah Sharif and CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley have recently published a paper entitled “Abortion Criminalization: A Public Health Crisis Rooted in White Supremacy” in the American Journal of Public Health. In their essay the authors highlight how antiabortion policies uphold White supremacy and offer concrete strategies for addressing abortion criminalization via redressing structural racism measures and public health research and practice since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
The National Poverty Fellows Program offers talented postdoctoral researchers an opportunity to participate in a federal government-university partnership. The goal of the program is both to build the capacity of researchers to conduct high-quality policy-relevant research on poverty and inequality in the United States and to contribute to the effective use of research and scientific knowledge in the formation of public policy. The fellowship is open to all postdoctoral scholars who are within six years of their degree. We are now accepting applications (due on November 30, 2022) with positions beginning summer or fall of 2023.
Fellows will be in residence in one of three federal offices within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Currently we expect the following in residence placements:
- Three fellows in the Office of Community Services (OCS)
- Two fellows at the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) – one in the Division of Economic Independence (DEI) and one in the Division of Data and Improvement (DDI)
- One fellow at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
Fellows will receive mentorship from IRP faculty and researchers as well as from an outside policy mentor, conference support, the opportunity to come to IRP in Madison, WI as visiting scholars, and will be allotted time to continue their own research.