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/*
NIH RADx-UP Initiative Pre-Application Webinars
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
IAPHS Training Series: Launching a Career as an Interdisciplinary Scholar
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.
Summer Institutes in Statistics
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/.
Williams co-authors Study Examining Migration and Climate Change
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.
15 CSDE Affiliates Part of 9 Teams Receiving UW Population Health Initiative Awards
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.
Eleanor Brindle Quoted in Reuters Article on Covid Immunity Research
In a recent Reuters article, CSDE Research Scientist and Biodemography Lab Director Eleanor Brindle provides insights on the difficulties of obtaining resources, including both funding and supplies, for research using anti-coronavirus antibody tests to understand the spread of COVID-19 in the US. The article explains that the challenges in developing laboratory methods can slow progress on understanding how risk of transmission varies between population subgroups, and highlights the need for funding for these efforts.
Swanson Receives Emeritus Professor Award and Continues Applied Demography Research Agenda
CSDE Affiliate David Swanson recently received the Edward A. Dickson award from the University of California at Riverside, where he will hold the title “Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor” from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Swanson remains research active. Recently, Swanson and colleagues continue to analyze county-level COVID-19 data for Washington State. In a recent NW Citizen article, they show how political leanings at the county level are associated with per capita case rates.
*NEW* COVID-19 Population Health Equity Research Grants
Applications are open for the Population Health Initiative’s COVID-19 Population Health Equity Research Grants. The program aims at supporting University of Washington researchers to build partnerships with communities of color and develop COVID-19 research projects that address community-identified needs. Awards of a maximum of $20,000 each are available. More information about the award can be found at this link.
*NEW* Funding Opportunities for COVID-19 and the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a list of NOSIs for Urgent Competitive Revisions and Administrative Supplements for COVID-19 behavioral and social sciences research. There are many on the list that speak to the research programs of CSDE affiliates and trainees.