The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position funded as part of its NICHD-funded T32 population science training program. The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of future leaders in social science and public health disciplines with the subject matter expertise, interdisciplinary orientation, population perspective, and data skills to address and have an impact on pressing issues in demography, population health, and reproductive health.  For details visit the application page.

If you have any interest in data from NASA, join on Tuesday, November 1st at 4:30 PM to hear Planet’s Director of Strategic Science Initiatives Dr. Tanya Harrison who will be presenting at the UW Data Science Seminar. Dr. Harrison’s talk entitled ” Introduction to Planet and Data Access through the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program” is sure to be one you don’t want to miss!

 

Biography: Dr. Tanya Harrison is the Director of Strategic Science Initiatives at Planet. Prior to this, she spent over a decade working in science and mission operations for multiple NASA Mars missions, including the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. She holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario, a Masters in Earth and Environmental Science from Wesleyan University, and a B.Sc. in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Washington. You can find her tweeting prolifically about all things space as @tanyaofmars on Twitter.

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.