The Doorway Project is looking to hire a self-motivated, UW graduate student for the 2020-2021 academic year to work within a community-academic partnership (doorwayproject.org). The Doorway project is a UW and YouthCare led initiative focusing on addressing youth and young adult homelessness in the University District through continuous community-engaged collaboration.
The aim of the project is to center the voices of youth and young adults with lived experience of homelessness in order to co-develop and evaluate a comprehensive and effective service model that promotes healing, well being, and improved quality of life for affected individuals and the broader community.
People with lived experience of homelessness, people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Minnesota Population Center is hiring a postdoctoral associate to support the use of Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) data in the newly developed PMA Data Hub housed within the Minnesota Population Center (MPC). In this position, you will expand your critical thinking skills as they relate to health and development. You will also explore new research approaches and methodologies across a wide range of disciplines. Interests in quantitative analysis and in demographic methods with a focus on
fertility/reproductive health, migration and/or population-environment interactions are central to this project. The position is focused on producing outcomes (publications and online white papers) using and applying PMA data for science and policy. Most of the research will employ data from countries in sub-Saharan Africa, so field experience, familiarity, or interest in Africa is required.
See https://isrdi.umn.edu/sites/isrdi.umn.edu/files/336535_jobadpostdocgates_final.pdf
for details and application instructions. Questions concerning the application
process may be addressed to Mia Riza, HR & Operations Manager, at isrdi-jobs@umn.edu.
Professor Sarah Walker, Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director, SAJE Center, is recruiting an evidence synthesis coordinator for the Evidence Based Practice Institute within the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. A master’s degree is required. They are looking to hire someone who can be in the position for several years. More detail is provided at: https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=179766&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1
Postdoctoral Position: The University of Texas Medical Branch has an opening for a postdoctoral type research management position as a Project Director for the Hispanic Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (Hispanic EPESE) and Coordinator for the Texas Resource Center For Minority Aging
Research (RCMAR). Preference for persons with recent PhD’s in the social/behavioral sciences or public health. Experience/interest in Hispanic/Minority aging and strong quantitative skills desired. Contact Dr.Kyriakos Markides *kmarkide@UTMB.EDU* for more information. Apply at https://utmb.jobs/jobs/71127/utmbrms/galveston-tx/academic-research/research-project-manager-preventive-medicine-community-health-71127/*
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is encouraging research to test the implementation of COVID-19 diagnostic testing in underserved or vulnerable communities through the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative.
NIH will hold a pre-application webinar covering the four RADx-UP funding opportunities: NOT-OD-20-119, NOT-OD-20-120, NOT-OD-20-121, and RFA-OD-20-013.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020, from 3:00pm – 5:00pm EDT
This webinar will focus on questions for applications for the RADx-UP Coordinating and Data Collection Center in response to RFA-OD-20-013. Questions related to the other three FOAs will also be addressed.
Register and learn more about these webinars at https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/radx/events
The IAPHS Student Committee will organize a new three-part training series “Launching a Career as an Interdisciplinary Scholar: A Training Series.” The content of this event will focus on highlighting careers across all sectors, including government, industry, non-profits, and academia. Panelists will reflect on the highlights and difficulties of their training, career, and advice to young population health scientists.
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 12th from 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT – “Understanding Interdisciplinary Career Paths in Population Health”
Click here to learn more and to register for the event.
The UW Biostatistics Summer Institutes provides an opportunity to fortify your skills and knowledge in the latest in statistical methods, techniques, and analyses check out. Summer Institutes are offered in Statistics for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, Statistical Genetics, Statistics for Big Data, and Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases. The Summer Institutes prioritizes strengthening the statistical and genetic proficiency and career preparation of scholars from all backgrounds, especially those from groups historically underrepresented in STEM such as racial and ethnic minority groups, low income, first-generation college students, veterans, and differently-abled and 2SLGBTQ groups. Attendees range from graduate students/postdocs to senior level scientists, and represent genetics, biomedical research, biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trials, data science, and many other fields.
Find links to the specific modules and other information at https://si.biostat.washington.edu/.
CSDE Affiliate Nathalie Williams and co-authors Barbara Entwisle and Ashton Verdery recently published an article in the American Journal of Sociology examining the dynamic relationship between migration and climate change. Employing an agent based modeling (ABM) approach they assess how floods and drought variably impact out migration and return migration from a rural, agricultural setting in Northeastern Thailand. They conclude that popular accounts about climate refugees are too simple. Instead, they find that climate change operates on already established migration processes that are part and parcel of life course, embedded in dynamic social networks, and incorporated in larger interactive systems where out-migration and return migration are integrally connected. To read the article click here.
The UW Population Health Initiative recently awarded approximately $333,000 in COVID-19 Economic Recovery Research Grants to 18 different faculty-led teams, nine of whom include CSDE Affiliates.
Brandon Born (Urban Design and Planning) and CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Otten (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) will examine local and sectoral economic impacts of COVID-19 on small cities in rural areas, communities of color threatened by gentrification and displacement, and agricultural producers in the Puget Sound region. Clara Berridge (School of Social Work) and Scott Allard (Evans School of Public Policy & Governance) with CSDE Trainee Callie Freitag (Evans School of Public Policy & Governance) and fellow UW researchers will analyze the economic impact of COVID-19 on the aging services sectors in Washington State.
As part of a multi-city study, CSDE Director Sara Curran, CSDE Affiliates Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology) and Soojin Park (Education), CSDE Research Scientist Christine Leibbrand, in conjunction with Holly Schindler (Education) and Liliana Lengua (Psychology), will document the economic insecurity and well-being of children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. And, David Takeuchi (Social Work) along with fellow UW and Seattle & King County researchers will investigate patterns of economic vulnerability for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) population in King County.
Gundula Proksch (Architecture) and UW co-investigators will study how technology and spatial transformation mediate economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic for essential businesses in the food retail industry and associated communities. Also, Gregg Colburn (Real Estate), along with fellow UW researchers, will evaluate the efficacy of King County’s novel response to homelessness in face of the COVID-19 outbreak.
CSDE Affiliates Melissa Knox (Economics), Jessica Jones-Smith (Department of Health Services) and Vanessa M. Oddo (Department of Health Services) will examine the causal pathways from recession-induced declines in work quality to changes in health behavior to poor health outcomes, using a novel survey population recruited from the health app Smart BP. Bo Zhao (Geography) and Kim England (Geography) will work with a fellow UW co-investigator to construct a smart dashboard that brings together a range of spatially sensitive worker, economic, and occupational data for Washington State. And, Ann Bostrom, along with co-investigators will assess the safety and health of transit workers, and identify needs to improve their health and safety outcomes.