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CSDE Affiliates, Trainees & Alumni – Send Us Your Research News!

At CSDE we like to highlight your research and training accomplishments via e-news. We do so to acknowledge the results of your hard work, build collegial recognition, and maybe identify a future collaborator. When you send us mentions of your work in the news, it’s a great way for CSDE to keep up with the impact of your work.  Finally, for our grant administration team supporting your funding applications, our development team supporting your proposals and project developments, or our scientific consulting, we like to know that those efforts made a difference in your productivity!  So, send your items to us, as soon as you can!  You may send updates to csde@uw.edu

*New* Request for Proposals: RWJF Research to Advance Racial Equity & Racial Justice

Applications are open for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Policies for Action: Research to Advance Racial Equity and Racial Justice grant. Typically, Policies for Action grants are funded at $250,000 each. Approximately $2 million will be awarded through this CFP. The deadline is 11/24/2020 for the LOI and 4/7/2021 for receipt of the full proposal. If you’re considering this funding opportunity, please consider filling out a proposal planning form and you will receive high quality and timely pre-award support for your application from our team!

  • Award amount: Typically, Policies for Action grants are funded at $250,000 each. There is not an explicit range for allowable budget requests. You should request the amount of funding you will need to complete your proposed research project and to translate and disseminate the results.
  • Deadline: 11/24/2020 for the LOI. 4/7/2021 for receipt of full proposal.
  • Description: Achieving racial equity and justice in the United States requires a sustained, multipronged intersectional policy approach that addresses both the immediate social conditions leading to poor health outcomes, but also the long-standing structures fostering such conditions. The goal of the Policies for Action call for proposals is to build the evidence base about how national, state, and local policies can improve racial equity in health and well-being in the United States.
  • Eligibility: Preference will be given to applicants that are tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories. Applications are welcome from all investigators. The following are especially encouraged to apply:
    • interdisciplinary research teams;
    • community-partnered research teams;
    • investigators from diverse backgrounds or with diverse life experiences (e.g., race, gender, class origin/first generation college, LGBTQI, disability, ethnicity, national origin);
    • investigators from a wide range of disciplines;
    • first-time applicants for an RWJF grant.
  • Link to complete RFP

 

Grants Management for Investigators (GMI) Course for UW PIs

UW Office of Research has recently updated the Grants Management for Investigators course, now available for all PI’s who apply for externally funded grants and contracts. Required for all PI’s to recertify every four years, it is a great way for new PI’s to better understand the process of applying for external funding. Training is available via Zoom on Wednesday, October 21st from 1-3 p.m., register at this link:  https://hr.uw.edu/pod/courses-and-workshops/faculty-grants-management/

If you’re thinking of submitting a grant through CSDE, let us know as soon as you start to think about it. We’re here to help you with any aspect – editing, scientific rigor, framing and strategizing, mentoring, finding collaborators, grant budgets and ancillary materials, and the actual submission. You can send a note via our grant planning proposal formEven if you’re not planning to submit through CSDE, CSDE is here to help you with your science, any mentoring or editing, or finding collaborators, etc.  Please send an email to scurran@uw.edu.

Assistant Professor of Public Health (Tenure Track), Santa Clara University

The Public Health Program at Santa Clara University (SCU), a Jesuit, Catholic university, is seeking applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position. We seek a colleague with research and teaching interests in evidence-based health policy, program design/evaluation, and quantitative methods courses.  Candidates must have a strong commitment to both teaching and research, and be able to establish an active research program involving undergraduate students.

Located in the heart of northern California’s Silicon Valley, SCU is a private, Catholic Jesuit liberal arts university committed to promoting social justice in a comprehensive educational setting. It is an AA/EOE employer. Faculty are teaching-scholars who balance a commitment to quality teaching with active programs of research. We assess candidates based on scholarly and teaching potential; contribution to University, College, and Department priorities; and potential to meet the criteria for promotion and tenure. This position is 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service. A full-time teaching load is 7 courses per year on a quarter system, with a 1-course reduction for research (typically 2/2/2). Administrative assignments may entail a further reduction in teaching load. Housing
assistance is available. This position is contingent upon the availability of funding.

Basic Qualifications:
– Doctoral degree in Public Health (PhD or DrPH) or a closely related
field
– prior undergraduate teaching experience
– record of active research.

Preferred Qualifications:
– community-involved research addressing structural/racial determinants
of health and racial health equity
– inclusive pedagogy geared toward undergraduate education
– external support of research activities (or the potential)

Responsibilities:
In addition to research and teaching, responsibilities include:
participation in departmental, college, and university-wide committees;
mentoring and advising undergraduate students; holding regular office
hours; curriculum development and improvement; and remaining current in
both subject area and teaching methodologies.

Required Documents:
– current CV
– personal statement(s) covering teaching philosophy experience working
with people of diverse cultures and identities
– statement describing research interests, including how they could be
implemented at an undergraduate institution and foster
intradepartmental/interdepartmental connections
– teaching evaluations for at least one course
– sample syllabi for at least once course
– two examples of scholarly work
– graduate transcripts (unofficial transcripts are acceptable at this
stage)
– *contact information* for three references

Additional Information:

Public Health Search Committee
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053

Inquiries or letters of reference may be sent by email to phsc@scu.edu.

All applications must go through the Workday portal found at
scu.edu/hr/careers, or this direct link:
https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiting/scu/scu/job/Santa-Clara-CA/Assistant-Professor-of-Public-Health–Tenure-Track-_R872
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*Applications must be received by 10/16/2020.*

David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS)

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of the David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The deadline to apply is *Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at noon Eastern Time (U.S.)*.

The Bell Fellowship is an interdisciplinary, postdoctoral training program designed for researchers and practitioners in the fields of population sciences and/or population health. Through self-directed research, selected candidates examine a broad range of critical issues, most from within the
HCPDS’s focal areas: 1) social and environmental determinants of population health; 2) aging societies; 3) workplace & well-being; and 4) social/family demography. In addition to research and writing, fellows participate in weekly seminars, professional development and other skill building seminars, and communications & media skills training.

The salary is $65K/yr plus benefits and a generous research, travel, and relocation fund. The program is open to U.S. and international candidates.

For detailed information, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/cpds or contact Lesley Harkins at popcenter@hsph.harvard.edu