On September 1st, CSDE will conduct a virtual workshop about writing extended abstracts for PAA, led by CSDE Training Director Christine Leibbrand. Attendees will have the opportunity to have their extended abstract reviewed by a peer and a faculty member, as well as to review one of their peers’ manuscripts. In this workshop, we will be discussing the Population Association of American (PAA) annual conference, how sessions are organized, and what qualities reviewers are looking for when assessing submissions, particularly extended abstracts. We will then discuss some tips for writing a good submission and choosing an appropriate session to submit to.
Requirements for participation: Participants will send their extended abstracts to their peer review partners on September 8th and they must review their partner’s extended abstract by September 15th. Please only sign up if you anticipate that you will be able to meet these deadlines. If you do not anticipate you will be able to do so but would like to watch the workshop, a Zoom link will be made available for those unable to attend.
To participate, please fill out the sign up form by Tuesday August 25th (Sign Up Form). Registration is limited to 15 participants.If you have questions please contact Christine Leibbrand at cleibb@uw.edu.
PAA Extended Abstract Workshop
When: Sept. 1 (Tuesday) from 1-2:30pm
Where: Zoom (link sent to registrants)
Link to sign up: https://redcap.csde.washington.edu/surveys/?s=4JHHW3MEF7
On August 17, the University of Washington received an invitation from the Mellon Foundation to submit proposals to a newly launched Just Futures Initiative. According to Mellon, this opportunity seeks to support multi-disciplinary teams that include scholars from the humanities, arts, and humanities-inflected social sciences with grants of up to $5 million with a 2-3 year duration to unfold visionary, unconventional, experimental, and groundbreaking projects in order to address the long-existing fault lines of racism, inequality, and injustice that tear at the fabric of democracy and civil society. This call for proposals seeks to support teams whose work focuses specifically on and addresses racial inequality and its many manifestations. Proposals will be prioritized that have a clearly defined workplan for collaboration, and that describe the ways they plan to enact that work. They must also include a description of proposed products from the work. These may (as in the case of some artworks) be ephemeral but they must in all cases be durably documented, discoverable, and accessible.
Turnaround for this opportunity is very tight with the deadline of Wednesday, September 23 at 9:00am. Please review all of the requirements, guidelines for team structures and possible use of funds found here: https://awmf.app.box.com/s/k4him3dmwwte3futfczr4krfalrkfa7q. Faculty members who are PIs on or are otherwise involved in current Mellon grants are welcome to apply for this new opportunity.
To support faculty in navigating Mellon’s complex online proposal submission system and encourage
The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) and the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) are pleased to announce that the 2020 FCSM Fall Conference is now open for registration! This year’s policy sessions will focus on the Evidence Act and using statistical data for evaluation purposes. The research sessions will highlight the work being done on nonresponse bias, administrative data and several other topics. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. John Friedman, Brown University. Dr. Friedman will be addressing the question: “Using Federal Data to Evaluate and Inform: A Case Study on Increasing Upward Mobility in the U.S.” Dr. Friedman is a professor of economics, international affairs and public policy.
www.FCSM2020.org.
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For more information,visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/social_network_interventions.
The goal of the program is to conduct original research and evaluate the extent to which health system models of care are advancing health equity for the Medicaid-eligible populations they serve. Projects may be generated from health systems—defined as facility-based provider organizations, or other provider organizations (e.g., public or essential hospitals; federally qualified health centers; integrated delivery systems; community-based organizations)—which primarily serve a high percentage of Medicaid-eligible individuals. Researchers, as well as practitioners and public and private partners working with researchers, are eligible to submit proposals through their organizations. Researchers do not have to be affiliated with a health system but are expected to partner with a health system for the purposes of this project. Learn more HERE.
Application Deadline: Wed, 2 Sep 2020.
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