Better Understanding Diet & Cardio-Metabolic Health in American Indians
At the CSDE seminar on April 16th, CSDE Affiliate Dr. Amanda Fretts will present “Better Understanding Diet & Cardio-Metabolic Health in American Indians”. CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat will moderate the discussion. Dr. Fretts will discuss major findings from the Strong Heart Study—the largest and longest on-going cohort study of cardiovascular health among American Indians in the United States. She will also describe an on-going clinical trial designed to test the effect of a cooking and nutrition intervention on diet quality and glycemic control in American Indian adults with Type 2 diabetes who reside in a rural reservation community. Dr. Fretts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Her research interests include nutrition, physical activity, fatty acids, diabetes, and American Indian health.
Register for Dr. Fretts’ Zoom seminar here. This quarter, CSDE is recording the seminar series and posting the links on its website. Visit our site here.
*New* Apply for CSDE’s Summer Grant Writing Program! (due 04/30/2021)
CSDE is inviting applications for its 4th annual Summer Grant Writing Program – a chance for you to learn more about NIH grant-writing and to workshop your proposal with other participants and with experienced senior faculty. Writing a grant in isolation can be mystifying—instead, we aim to create a group experience that is still hard work, but which will be supportive, fun, productive, and ultimately rewarding. All CSDE affiliates (local or regional) are eligible to apply. UW post-docs are eligible to apply only if they plan a training grant centered at UW. Applications from collaborative teams, anticipating a multiple PI arrangement, are also encouraged. Applications are due Friday, April 30 at 6 pm PDT. For more information and to apply, visit this link. Please email CSDE Development Core Director Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu) with any questions!
In brief, participants will develop proposals over the course of the summer, with support and reviews from senior mentors, other participants, and the program coordinator Steve Goodreau. All applicants must include a letter from a relevant unit head (department/school/center/college/etc.) indicating that they support the application, and that the applicant holds a position that makes them eligible to receive external funding. Letters are also encouraged (but not required) to indicate some form of matching support (e.g. some summer salary, research expenses, or RA support, all paid directly from the unit to the participant).
Call for Applications for Summer ’21 PHI-CSDE Applied Research Fellowships (due 04/22/2021)
With support from the Population Health Initiative, CSDE is hosting a third summer applied research program for a team of undergraduate and graduate fellows to address critical demographic analyses of race, age, and households for King County and Public Health Seattle King County. This summer’s program will build upon last summer’s development of tract level forecasts and add new data and new analyses of historic and contemporary demographic trends across neighborhoods, cities, and places in King County. With new data, the team will see how different kinds of ‘shocks’ to the county differentially influence population distributions. These analyses will provide valuable tools for local policymakers and stakeholders to better anticipate the needs of their citizens. To learn more about this opportunity, read here. CSDE affiliates please share this call widely with the undergraduate and graduate students who might be interested.
*New* UW Student Technology Fee Project Proposal Application is open (due 04/16/2021)
The UW-Seattle Student Technology Fee is now requesting proposal submissions for student projects. Students and campus organizations can submit proposals through the STF website. The final deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, April 16th. For further details, see the RFP Document. STF will conduct proposal workshops via Zoom on April 6 and April 7. To register, click here.
Snedker and Lanfear Research on Tent Cities Featured in Seattle Times
Computational Demography Working Group: Talk by Ott Toomet from UW’s i-School (04/12/2021)
On April 12, 2021 at 3 pm, Dr. Ott Toomet will be speaking about Maximum Likelihood Estimation techniques. The Zoom link for the talk can be found here. More information about the Computational Demography Working Group can be found here.
NIH Diversity Supplement Workshop for Students and Postdocs
*New* DEI Resource Page for UW Researchers
The UW Office of Research has created a new DEI webpage with funding resources for faculty and graduate students. You may find the resources useful for yourselves, colleagues, and graduate students. Office of Research’s DEI webpage.
Looking for Information About NIH Diversity Supplements? SPH Hosts Great Site!
The School of Public Health hosts an excellent landing page for those interested in exploring NIH Diversity Supplements in relation to their funded research grants. There you can learn from several webinars and see links for preparing supplements.