The CEPH-accredited School of Public Health at Texas A&M University seeking qualified candidates for three Instructional Track Professor (APT) positions in the Department of Health Behavior. Our program continues to grow, and we are seeking three outstanding emerging or established teaching scholars. We are accepting applications with the intention to hire for Fall 2023 and will begin reviews of applications on November 15, 2022. Link to announcement: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apply.interfolio.com/110265__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lqh1YWpMOpdxHDgmnzE_bWy-t5GXHWPOiewEjB9IZoNnx6OJ4TVqdHMqULEf4aa3-Esbn4JEvPlx7eqS$
Jackson School shares Calendar of Events
The Jackson School has shared a series of events! Check out this weeks events such as “Waging Peacce in View Nam | US Soldiers & Veterans Who Opposed The War: exhibit and student essay contest” in the Suzzalo Library!
Tenure Track Faculty Position, Health and Illness
Department of Sociology at Rowan University seeks Tenure Track Faculty position specializing in Health and Illness
Assistant Professor in Rural Sociology
Position available at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Data Science Career Fair
The Data Science Career Fair will be held Thursday, October 20th in the Husky Union Building (HUB) Ballroom to connect UW graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates working in data science with companies seeking new talent.
College of Environment to Host Doug Walker On Climate Crisis
Join the University of Washington College of the Environment’s 2022 Doug Walker Lecture as they explore these topics aon relationship building, community, and the power we share when we act together to address the environmental crisis with environmental advocate and educator Jamie Stroble ’10. This live discussion will be moderated by Maya Tolstoy, Maggie Walker Dean of the UW College of the Environment.
CBE Research Restart Funding
The application for the second cycle of research funding for the CBE Research Restart Fund is available on October 1st,2022. This funding opportunity is created to help rebuild research momentum that has been disrupted during COVID-19. Proposals may request awards between $1,000-$5,000. Interested parties should apply soon for this great opportunity!
CSDE Seminar (Panel: Climate and Health, Washington 2022 Report)
When: October 7, 2022
12:30-1:30pm
Where: In-Person in 101 Hans Rosling Building
Virtually via zoom, register here
Join the editors of the Climate and Health/Washington 2022: A Special Report on Impacts and Solutions, Drs. Howard Frumkin, and Mark Vossler (Eds) and published by the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility for a discussion with Professor Jeremy Hess and moderated by Ann Bostrom and Peter Catron.
Panel Bios
Howard Frumkin is Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he served as Dean from 2010-2016. He is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist, who has worked in academia and public service. From 2005 to 2010 he held leadership roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, first as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and later as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. During his tenure NCEH/ATSDR created programs in Climate Change and in Healthy Community Design and launched training programs for college students, doctoral students, and post-docs, among other achievements. Dr. Frumkin co-edited the report the panel is discussing today.
Dr. Jeremy Hess is an emergency physician and director of the UW Center for Health and the Global Environment, or CHanGE. He is a professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and Global Health and an affiliate of CSDE. He practices clinically at Harborview and Montlake and his public health work focuses in particular on climate adaptation in the health sector
Dr. Mark Vossler is a cardiologist practicing at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland, President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, and co-editor of the report. After Medical School at University of Rochester and Internal Medicine Residency at University of Vermont, he was a cardiology fellow and then on faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University in the heart transplant program. The recipient of a clinical investigator award from the National Institutes of Health for his work on the molecular biology of muscle cell differentiation, Dr. Vossler left OHSU to help Evergreen develop its heart failure treatment program and now serves as the chairman of the cardiology section there. He joined PSR in 1986 after completing a student research fellowship at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan and witnessing first hand the devastating effects of nuclear weapons. He and his wife Susan have been lifelong advocates for environmental and public health causes, and Mark makes an annual pilgrimage to Washington DC to plead with congress to take action on climate change.
CSDE Workshop- Introduction to R
- Date & Time: Thursday, Oct. 6 @ 12:00PM–2:00PM
- Location: SAV 117
- Instructor: Jessica Godwin
Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Autumn 2022 Schedule
The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) at the University of Washington meets weekly to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions of digital and computational approaches to demographic research. The workshop features a range of paper presentations, methods demonstrations, software tutorials and professional development. The CDWG is sponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE), the eScience Institute and OBSSR T32 Grant #1T32HD101442-01. We welcome anyone with interest in computational demography (broadly defined).This Fall we will split CDWG between Brown Bag (sign up link above) with open sign up/proposal for research presentation, discussion topic or workshop and invited talks.
The CDWG is coordinated by Zack Almquist, Associate Professor of Sociology and CSDE Training Core PI. If you’d like to reach out or participate please utilize the links below!
Date/Time: 3:00-4:00PM Wednesdays
Location: Hybrid (Zoom) and Raitt 223 (Demography Lab)
Listserv: https://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/computational-demog
G-Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC1kZW1vZ3JAdXcuZWR1 [calendar.google.com]
Brown Bag Signup: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nWwI54NgpHqTxrhz9bTL_oHAJi4vFJLt4SPR1UdLO_c/edit?usp=sharing [docs.google.com]
Website: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group/