UW Birch is hosting Dr. Linda Collins for a talk entitled “Achieving intervention EASE: The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST)”. Dr. Collins is a Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Global Public Health, New York University.
In this presentation, Dr. Collins will briefly introduce an expanded methodological framework for developing, optimizing, and evaluating behavioral and biobehavioral interventions. This framework, called the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), is a principled approach that integrates ideas from behavioral science, engineering, multivariate statistics, health economics, and decision science. MOST enables the investigator to balance intervention effectiveness, affordability, scalability, and efficiency to achieve intervention EASE. Using MOST, behavioral and biobehavioral interventions can be optimized to meet an objective chosen by the investigator. The objective may be any reasonable goal, such as an intervention that offers the best expected outcome achievable without exceeding a specified upper limit on implementation cost or time. MOST relies heavily on resource management by strategic choice of highly efficient experimental designs. Recent advances include an approach to identifying value-efficient interventions. Dr. Collins proposes that MOST offers several benefits, including more rapid long-run improvement of interventions, without requiring a dramatic increase in research resources.
You can register here.
On October 28 8am-1pm (UTC), the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) will be hosting a virtual seminar on “Migration in the Past: Patterns, Causes, Consequences, and Implications.”Interested attendees should email historical_demography@outlook.com to receive registration information.
Program details can be found here .
The Urban Affairs Association is seeking paper, poster, panel, and roundtable proposals for its annual conference, held from April 26-29, 2023 in Nashville, TN. The 2023 conference theme is “From Global to Local: Urban Communities in Flux.”Proposal submissions are due November 1, 2022.
The Urban Affairs Association is seeking paper, poster, panel, and roundtable proposals for its annual conference, held from April 26-29, 2023 in Nashville, TN. The 2023 conference theme is “From Global to Local: Urban Communities in Flux.”Proposal submissions are due November 1, 2022.
RSF: The Russell Sage Journal for the Social Sciences has a Request for Articles for a volume entitled, “US Census 2020: Continuity and Change.” Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract (up to two pages in length, single or double spaced) of their study along with up to two pages of supporting material (e.g., tables, figures, pictures, references that don’t fit on the proposal pages, etc.) no later than 5 PM EST on November 16, 2022.
RSF: The Russell Sage Journal for the Social Sciences has a Request for Articles for a volume entitled, “US Census 2020: Continuity and Change.” Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract (up to two pages in length, single or double spaced) of their study along with up to two pages of supporting material (e.g., tables, figures, pictures, references that don’t fit on the proposal pages, etc.) no later than 5 PM EST on November 16, 2022.
CSDE Affiliate Ann Bostrom was part of a team that published, “Development of a companion questionnaire for ‘Did You Feel It?’: Assessing response in earthquakes where an earthquake early warning may have been received” in Earthquake Spectra. The goal of study is to develop a brief questionnaire, consistent with those already developed, as a supplement to the United States Geological Survey’s “Did You Feel It?” questionnaire that has provided earthquake intensities and information on behavioral response in earthquakes, both domestic and international, since 2004. Having the intensity level at each respondent’s location is essential for relating their perspectives and actions to the shaking they experienced. Understanding the intensity level of how earthquakes are felt by respondents is essential to relating their perspectives with actions to the shaking they experience. Congrats to Ann and colleagues on this paper and we highly recommend it for everyone’s reading list!
CSDE Affiliate Karin Martin co-authored a recent article, “Implicit Racial and Gender Bias About Handguns: A New Implicit Association Test” in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Utilizing a nationally representative survey sample, the researchers measured implicit and explicit racial bias about women and handguns. The study addresses important perceptions and stereotypes about gun competence and victimization that vary based by race and gender.
CSDE External Affiliate Jennifer Laird and co-author Diana Hernandez have recently published a paper entitled “Surviving a Shut Off: U.S. Householders at Great Risk of Utility Disconnection and How They Cope” in American Behavioral Scientist. This article is the first known study to estimate household characteristics and coping behaviors associated with utility disconnections in the United States. Utilizing the Residential Energy Consumption Survey, the authors analyze the prevalence of disconnection notices, disconnection services, and related coping strategies, including forgoing necessities, maintaining an unhealthy home temperature, and receiving energy assistance. They show that nearly 15% of American households received disconnection notices and 3% experience service disconnections in a 2015 panel. The authors discuss implications for future research on material hardships, survival strategies, and the health impacts of poverty.
The next meeting of the Formal Demography Working Group will be next Tuesday, October 18, at 3pm Central European Summer time (Denmark, Vienna, Rostock) (9am Toronto time).
Ariel Karlinksy will talk about the World Mortality Dataset, which has been widely used to track excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zoom details:
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85429821749 [utoronto.zoom.us]
Meeting ID: 854 2982 1749
Passcode: eulerlotka
Links:
– Here is the website.
– Meetings are recorded for those who are unable to join us. Previous recordings can be found here .
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