Stanford University invites applications for one or more faculty appointments at the assistant, associate, or full professor level in the broad area of environmental behavioral sciences. The search is looking for candidates involved in the study of human behavior, human ecology, or human institutions as they pertain to sustainability, climate change, adaptation, or resilience. This search is part of a broader effort to build an environmental behavior sciences department in the new Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS). Appointments from this search will be made in SDSS. Candidates must have a PhD, JD, or terminal degree in a field relevant to the search, an excellent record of scholarly work, a dedication to teaching, and a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

They seek interdisciplinary scholars from the broad set of social and behavioral sciences. Purely by way of example, this includes scholars from psychology, cognitive or decision science, geography, demography and population science, political science, anthropology, sociology, socioecological systems, law, and other related fields. They are also interested in scholars working on a broad set of topics. These topics include, but are not limited to, decision making in environmental contexts, political ecology, political economy, global institutions, adaptation, management of common-pool resources and cooperation, resilience, behavior change and cultural evolution, spatial and data science, and environmental justice. We are also interested in scholars studying environmental ethics, the connections between human health and the environment, and the use of computational social science to understand environmental sustainability.

Application packages should be submitted online at this link: https://facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job/493531/search-in-environmental-behavioral-sciences. Packages must include: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a research statement and statement of teaching interests (no more than 3 pages total for both); (3) a statement that demonstrates your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in your scholarship, teaching, and/or service, including how this commitment would continue in a career at Stanford (1 page); (4) name and contact information for three references; and (5) a cover letter.

The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) will be hosting it’s Fall conference on “Gender, Sexuality, and Health Across the Life Course: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health and Health Equity”. Groups of individuals are invited to submit panels that will present original research or engage in innovative discussions that push the boundaries of population health science, practice, theory, methods, student training, or technological innovations (or a combination of these) around a significant issue related to population health. Note that work presented in these panels should not yet be published. All proposed panels should include the session organizer, and 3-4 panelists. To sign up click here. 

The University of California, Irvine’s Center for Population, Inequality and Policy invites submissions to present at the inaugural All-UC Demography Conference. This meeting will highlight current demographic research and provide a venue for making connections across UC campuses, with a keynote talk by Ronald Lee. The conference will be held May 4th and May 5th in person at University of California, Irvine. The plan is to hold faculty paper sessions with discussants, as well as an additional graduate student poster competition, with awards and a reception. The submission deadline for both papers and posters is Monday, February 6th, 2023, 11:59pm. Presenters will be notified by early March. Limited travel award support will be available for graduate students with accepted posters. For more information, please visit the conference website here.

Join us for a Panel on Reproductive Justice this week featuring Bettina Judd, Monica McLemore, and Megan Eagen-Torkko. CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley will moderate the presentation and discussion with the expert panelists. Taylor is also an expert and this should be an important discussion about how to think about reproductive health and reproductive justice. We are grateful to CSDE Executive Committee member Dr. Anjum Hajat for organizing this panel.

Biographies

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Bettina Judd, PhD

Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women’s creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 2022) argues that Black women’s creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

Her poems and essays have appeared in Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of poems titled patient. which tackles the history of medical experimentation on and display of Black women won the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize and was released in November of 2014. As a performer she has been invited to perform for audiences within the United States and internationally.

Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN

Dr. Monica R. McLemore is a tenured professor in the Child, Family, and Population Health Department and the Interim Director for the Center for Anti-Racism in Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Prior to her arrival at UW, she was a tenured associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco and was named the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in 2021. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career in 2019, however, continues to provide flu and COVID-19 vaccines.

Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 96 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, five amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and three National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American.

Her work has also appeared in publications such as Dame Magazine, Politico, ProPublica/NPR and she made a voice appearance in Terrance Nance’s HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. She is the recipient of numerous awards and was past-chair for Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019 and resigned in 2022 due to inaction specific to the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade. She became the Editor in Chief of Health Equity Journal in 2022.

Meghan Eagen-Torkko, PhD, CNM, ARNP

Meghan Eagen-Torkko held a faculty appointment in the College of Nursing at Seattle University prior to joining the faculty at the UWB School of Nursing and Health Studies in 2015. She completed her Ph.D. in nursing with a specialization in women’s health at the University of Michigan in 2015, where she was a Rackham Merit Fellow. She has worked as a certified nurse midwife since 2009 and continues to practice with Public Health Seattle-King County, where her practice specializes in family planning and women’s health.

Moderator: Taylor Riley, MPH (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology and a CSDE trainee. Her research focuses on social and structural determinants of sexual and reproductive health inequities, with a specific focus on abortion and perinatal care and outcomes. Prior to her doctoral training, Taylor was a Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute conducting research on unintended pregnancy, abortion, and contraception.

Population dynamics, such as fertility and mortality, operate at the intersection of social and biological processes. Methodological training, however, is often siloed by disciplinary boundaries. With growing interest in understanding how social and environmental factors might “get under the skin” to impact physiology, biomarker literacy is increasingly a valuable asset. In this workshop, we will explore how biomarkers can augment social science research, highlight some common biomarkers of interest to current CSDE affiliates, discuss some of the logistical and ethical considerations of specimen and data collection, and learn about the services and resources available through the CSDE Biodemography Lab.

Join us if you are interested in learning more about how biomarkers can augment your demographic or social science research.

REDCap is a secure, web-based application that offers a streamlined process for rapidly developing databases that support data capture for research projects.  It provides an intuitive interface for data entry, including data validation and audit trails. REDCap’s survey functionality offers advanced data collection features such as branching logic, calculated fields, and repeating instruments. REDCap also provides automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to common statistical packages. Finally, REDCap provides a robust framework for managing the logistics of running a research project, including tools such as automated email alerts to study participants or study staff and completely customizable user privilege’s for any sized research team.

Come join us to learn how you can use REDCap to support your next data collection activity, from sending out a single survey to a few participants to administering a large longitudinal research study.