On August 6 (4.00pm to 5.30pm (SGT)), the Asian Population Association and NUS Center for Family and Population Research are hosting a webinar. The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted unprecedented pressure on many institutions including the health care systems, schools, government, markets, and law. Family, as the basic socioeconomic unit of the society, bears the brunt of the multiple stressors caused by the disruptions to these institutions. The webinar will explore the impact of COVID-19 on families in Asia-Pacific region focusing on the vulnerabilities of women, children, and older adults as they experience morbidity, mortality, migration, economic recession, and school closure.
Chan Co-authors Book Examining Migration in China
CSDE Affiliate Kam Wing Chan and co-author Yuan Ren recently published Children of Migrants in China (Routledge 2020). The book illustrates how unprecedented urbanization and internal migration have resulted in large-scale family separation in China. The authors reveal that more than 100 million children grow up in unstable families, a majority of whom suffer from prolonged separation from their parents owing to migratory upheaval. The analyses explains the impact of China’s internal migration on children and recommends policies to address problems from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Data for Policy Conference, Networking Volunteer Opportunities
Check out these networking volunteer opportunities for the September Data for Policy conference.We are recruiting a team of volunteers to assist with the running of the 5th Data for Policy International Conference, which is taking place virtually between 15th and 17th September 2020. This is an opportunity to use your skills to help us deliver an interdisciplinary conference, happening online for the first time, and to network with some key people and organisations working at the interface of data science and policy.
Event Assistants: https://dataforpolicy.org/apply-to-be-an-event-assistant-volunteer-at-data-for-policy-5th-international-conference/
Social Media and Blog Assistants: https://dataforpolicy.org/looking-for-social-media-and-blog-volunteers-at-data-for-policy-5th-international-conference/
Ambassador Scholarships: https://dataforpolicy.org/apply-for-data-for-policy-2020-fifth-international-conference-ambassador-scholarships/
*NEW* Population Health Initiative COVID-19 Call for Proposals
The Population Health Initiative has launched its third call for rapid response COVID 19 pilot grants due to PHI by July 31. These pilot grants are targeted towards health equity research and partnerships with communities of color. CSDE is happy to support these initiatives with in-kind resources for research consultations and time, logistics, lab help, survey development, or access to computing resources. We can provide a letter of support that values that support for you, as part of a match. In some cases, we may be able to provide dollar support, up to $5,000, if the grant also aligns with our center grant mission. Several of the PHI goals also coincide with our research mission, including expanding reporting of racial and demographic data, improving understanding of the variation in infection by race and ethnicity, improving understanding in death and excess mortality by race and ethnicity, understanding the impact of the pandemic’s impact on housing, improving our understanding of the pandemic’s economic impact, etc. Please submit your requests to our seed grant portal. You may also contact Sara Curran or Steve Goodreau with your requests.
The Population Health Initiative has launched its third call for rapid response COVID 19 pilot grants due to PHI by July 31. These pilot grants are targeted towards health equity research and partnerships with communities of color. CSDE is happy to support these initiatives with in-kind resources for research consultations and time, logistics, lab help, survey development, or access to computing resources. We can provide a letter of support that values that support for you, as part of a match. In some cases, we may be able to provide dollar support, up to $5,000, if the grant also aligns with our center grant mission. Several of the PHI goals also coincide with our research mission, including expanding reporting of racial and demographic data, improving understanding of the variation in infection by race and ethnicity, improving understanding in death and excess mortality by race and ethnicity, understanding the impact of the pandemic’s impact on housing, improving our understanding of the pandemic’s economic impact, etc. Please submit your requests to our seed grant portal. You may also contact Sara Curran or Steve Goodreau with your requests.
The purpose of this funding call is to rapidly accelerate, or jumpstart, novel research designed to better understand, mitigate, or reverse the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color to improve population health equity. The call is broad in scope, and applications can propose research projects and interventions in areas including, some of the areas identified by PHI also align with CSDE’s research mission to advance population science, which we list below:
- Expanding reporting of racial demographic data for morbidity, mortality, and other areas of disparity
- Improving understanding of the variation in infection by race and ethnicity
- Improving the understanding of the variation in death and excess mortality by race and ethnicity
- Bolstering access to, and communication of, culturally appropriate, evidence-based information
- Understanding the pandemic’s impact on housing and rental markets
- Improving the accessibility of testing for communities of color
- Improving the understanding of the variation in economic impact – such as unemployment, earnings, and so forth – by race and ethnicity
- Understanding the impact of the pandemic on youth employment
Project ideas can be proposed that will either (1) quickly bring to bear new knowledge, or (2) that will allow work on a larger, longer-term project to begin immediately as the project team continues to seek the necessary external funding for the bigger component. Applicants are required to propose projects that (1) address community-identified needs and (2) that were developed in partnership with a domestic or international community-based organization as the initiative views such partnerships as being critical to improving health and well-being. Specifically, we are seeking projects that work WITH a community partner to identify needs and design the project rather than projects that are developed by researchers and then “pitched” to potential partners.