CSDE Affiliate Ruanne Barnabas and a number of co-authors have a new article recently accepted in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The study presented is a longitudinal survey of contacts of COVID-19 patients, capturing daily nasal swabs and symptom diaries. The authors find that while adding symptom severity to COVID-19 self-assessments increases the specificity of symptom definitions, predictive power of these measures to shedding is low, highlighting the limitations of symptom self-assessment.

A new article in pre-print from CSDE Development Core Director Steven Goodreau and co-authors systematically compares the performance of two measurements for mean active degree, which serves to proxy network connectivity in HIV/STI epidemiology. The study compares measure performance for men who have sex with men, for whom these measures have not been comparatively evaluated.

In the last decade, there has been an increase in research that aims to parse heterogeneity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A recent study from CSDE Affiliate Brian Flaherty and co-authors tests heritability of latent class neuropsychological subtypes. The authors use a sample of school-age twins to explore these subtypes of ADHD symptoms. The authors find that these distinct neuropsychological profiles are associated with unique neurocognitive presentations, but are not strong candidate endophenotypes for ADHD diagnosis.

The Center for Demographic Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona is currently accepting applications for a four-module Summer School of Demography to deliver R training for demographic researchers, including coverage of data visualizations and spatial analysis. The program runs from July 4 through July 29, 2022 in Spain, and participants have the option to selectively attend modules. Applications are due 3/31/3022.

The NIH is hosting an informational webinar for those interested in applying to their Request For Applications related to COVID-19 housing & health outcomes research. The webinar will provide an overview of the FOA and address questions submitted in advance of the webinar. NIH staff will discuss the purpose and scope of this funding opportunity; go over the scientific review process and review criteria; and share the specific research interests of each of the participating NIH Institutes and Office. Participants are also asked to submit their questions in advance of the webinar to ninrfoafaqs@mail.nih.gov. Participation in the webinar is recommended but not required in order to submit an application in response to this funding announcement.

The webinar will be hosted via videocast on the following website: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44675