Winter is over and we’re excited to share the SPRING 2022 SEMINAR SERIES line-up of speakers and topics! We’ll be starting the quarter off hearing from Siri Suh of Brandeis University about her research on post-abortion care and reproductive health politics in Senegal. Other speakers will cover topics of poverty among rural children, issues of migration, deportation, health outcomes for minority populations during the pandemic, and much more.
We are offering the seminar in a hybrid model for the spring. In-person attendees: we look forward to seeing you at the Rosling Center (Room 101). Virtual attendees: please register via the Zoom links for each week as listed on our website.
As Winter quarter comes to a close, we want to send out an extra word of thanks to all the winter quarter presenters and participants. Attendees, thanks for your continued virtual presence and consistently high-caliber questions. As always, special thanks to our fearless faculty organizer, Peter Catron!
If you missed any of the seminars from this past quarter or want to re-experience the brilliance of this quarter’s speakers over spring break, the recordings are available on our YouTube channel!
Congratulations to all our poster presenters for their very good work! Extra kudos to CSDE Trainee Maria Vignau Loria & CSDE Fellow Aasli Nur (joint presentation – Sociology) for winning the best poster award during CSDE’s Winter 2022 Lightning Talks & Poster Session. Vignau Loria & Nur’s presentation, titled “The diffusion of scientific knowledge on family planning behavior: when, where, and by whom is research being done?,” included analysis of publication authorship, descriptively breaking down the geographic dispersion of research activity and the demographics of authors. Many thanks to our other speakers, Nicholas Irons (Statistics), Ihsan Kahveci (Sociology), Zoe Pleasure (Health Systems & Population Health), and Maitreyi Sahu (Health Metrics Sciences), our Interim Training Director Jessica Godwin, and our student coordinator Courtney Allen, for another great CSDE Lightning Talks & Poster Session. Finally, we want to thank everyone who attended and, especially, our wonderful CSDE Faculty Affiliates Panel of poster judges: Bettina Shell-Duncan, Julie Brines, Jessica Jones-Smith, and Darryl Holman.
CSDE Affiliates Ruanne Barnabas and Alison Drake have a forthcoming publication with a number of co-authors now available in pre-print on medRxiv. The authors use the Spectrum AIDS Impact Model to simulate the HIV epidemic in key populations in Viet Nam and evaluated five testing scenarios. Their findings suggest annual or biannual HIV and syphilis testing using dual RDTs among key populations can be cost-effective and support countries in reaching global reduction goals for HIV and syphilis.
CSDE Training Core PI & Executive Committee Member Zack Almquist has new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) with a number of co-authors. The uneven spread of COVID-19 has resulted in disparate experiences for marginalized populations in urban centers. Using computational models, the authors examine the effects of local cohesion on COVID-19 spread in social contact networks for the city of San Francisco, finding that more early COVID-19 infections occur in areas with strong local cohesion.
CSDE External Affiliate and Washington State University Faculty Anna Zamora-Kapoor, along with several co-authors, has a new article accepted for publication in The Journal of Nutrition. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the article aims to assess the longitudinal relationship between risk of food insecurity in young adulthood and changes in diet-sensitive cardiometabolic health outcomes across ten years among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Hispanic adults.
Zamora-Kapoor (Principal Investigator) has also been awarded a three-year grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to study the association between obstructive sleep apnea, a common consequence of obesity, and cognitive performance in American Indians. Congratulations Anna!
In a new article in Health Services Research, CSDE Affiliate Betty Bekemeier with several colleagues conduct a descriptive case study to explore the feasibility and potential value of a community codesigned approach to establish community priorities for health equity policy. The authors find that a combination of information integration and community ranking activities can be used to achieve community-engaged policy prioritization of options in a fairly rapid period of time.
CSDE Affiliate & UW Associate Professor of Biostatistics Marco Carone has new research on statical methodology with several co-authors, available on arXiv HERE. In this article, the authors propose a general framework for testing a multivariate point null hypothesis in which the test statistic is adaptively selected to provide increased power. In simulation studies, they show that tests created using their framework can perform as well as tailor-made methods when the latter are available, and illustrate how their procedure can be used to create tests in two settings in which tailor-made methods are not currently available.
Next week there are two listening sessions hosted by NICHD to hear from about your perspectives on how to improve the diversity of investigators and trainees who conduct NICH-supported research. They need your insights, expertise, and ideas! The first listening session is for prospective, current, and past trainees and early stage investigators and will be held on March 22 1-3pm EST. The second listening session is for established research investigators and program directors, leaders from professional organizations and academic organizations and will be held on March 24 from 1-3pm ET.
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The Scientific Workforce Diversity (SWD) Committee, part of NICHD’s STrategies to enRich Inclusion and achieVe Equity (STRIVE) Initiative, is hosting a series of listening sessions with external stakeholders who are committed to the recruitment and retention of diverse individuals as trainees or investigators in medicine or biomedical research. We need your insights, expertise, and ideas!
- Our aim is to better understand how we can improve the diversity of the investigators and trainees who conduct NICHD-supported research.
- Each session will be an interactive exchange focused on how NICHD can support the career development and trajectory of individuals who are underrepresented in the biomedical and public health research workforce.
- During the sessions, participants will have the ability to discuss issues and challenges facing institutions, researchers, and trainees in creating a diverse scientific workforce and enhancing inclusion in the research community.
The sessions will inform an upcoming workshop hosted by the STRIVE SWD Committee, “A Pathway to Enhancing Workforce Diversity,” to be held later this Spring. Additional details for this workshop will be sent in the coming weeks.
Please find the schedule of listening sessions below. All NICHD staff and trainees are welcome to attend, and we encourage you to pass the invitation along to your community and external partners.
- Listening Session 1 – Trainees (Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Postdocs) and Early-Stage Investigators
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 1pm–3pm ET
- Listening Session 2 – Established Research Investigators and Program Directors, Academic and Research Program Leaders, Professional and Scientific Organizations
Thursday, March 24, 2022, 1pm–3pm ET
The Team Science Workshop is a free, interactive training intended for interdisciplinary research teams working on a translational research project/study or within a research center. This workshop is hosted by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences. Teams will learn the theory and practice of team science. This workshop will be offered virtually 2 hours per day over a 5-day period.
The workshop will take place every day from 11:30-1:30 pm (PDT) Monday, June 13 through Friday, June 17. Each day, we will focus the first 90 minutes on team science education and training, and the final 30 minutes on team working sessions.
Registration opens April 22nd!