Survey Statistician: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
The New York City Health Department works every day to protect and promote the health of more than 8.5 million diverse New Yorkers. This includes making health equity and racial justice a priority. To support this mission, the Bureau of Epidemiology Services (BES) conducts systematic data collection and monitoring, rigorous analysis, and effective data communication. BES seeks to provide accurate and timely public health data to inform decision-making, to optimize data use, and to ensure accurate analysis of health data. The Bureau is responsible for developing, collecting and facilitating the use of population-based survey data and other data sources; and providing support to DOHMH in study design, questionnaire development, and survey weighting.
Pandemic Urbanism Symposium (5/29/2020)
A virtual symposium on COVID-19 and cities | May 29, 2020
What does COVID-19 mean for city life? What are the implications of this pandemic for urban mobility, sociability, politics, and density?
Featuring an opening plenary with:
ANN FORSYTH
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
ERIC KLINENBERG
New York University Dept. of Sociology
RÍO OXAS
Co-founder, RAHOK
Join the conversation on our emerging state of pandemic urbanism in this virtual symposium.
The novel coronavirus pandemic has transformed cities around the world virtually overnight. Much of the cultural vibrance, economic strength, and social innovation that characterizes cities can be credited to their concentration of people and activity. Put simply, cities bring people together, and togetherness allows for complex and fruitful exchange, resilient social structures, efficient use of pooled resources, and so on. But togetherness also brings risks, notably from infectious disease. A pandemic feeds on propinquity. “Social distance,” while a short-term public health imperative, is antithetical to the very idea of the urban. Long-term responses have also, historically, tended to be anti-urban, in that the risk of infection has been used as justification for slum clearance and suburban sprawl. At the same time, the current pandemic is revealing the resilience of cities, and provoking radical reimaginings of what the city could be.
This one-day event creates a forum for a wide range of voices to share early thoughts on COVID-19 and cities.
Organized by current and recent University of Washington doctoral students, with support from the College of Built Environments, the PhD Program in the Built Environment and the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning.
Full schedule to be announced soon.
EarthLab Salon: Equity and Justice-Centered Action for Climate Empowerment (5/14/2020)
How can we accelerate equitable and just climate action? In this talk we explore this question, considering what kind of system changes are needed to ensure that everyone knows how to rapidly contribute from their sphere of influence to improve our shared future with respect to climate change and intersections issues. We will share about the nature of climate science as a field, the ways in which learning can be organized, and new transformative opportunities in practice that are emerging in the field of climate justice.
- When: Thursday, May 14, 10:30 am
- Presented by: Deb Morrison, Learning Scientist for UW Institute of Science and Math Education and Frank Niepold, Climate Education Coordinator for NOAA
- Learn more and RSVP
UW Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) Graduate Certificate Program
Applications are open for the 2020-21 cohort of the University of Washington’s Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) graduate certificate program. STSS is an 18 credit interdisciplinary certificate for UW graduate students who have an interest in the relationship between science/technology and society. Students in the program investigate how natural and social knowledge of the world is produced and authorized, how it evolves and is inflected by the contexts of its production and use, and what its normative implications are.
- Deadline: May 29
- Learn more and apply
UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity Graduate Research Student Assistant
The UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) is hiring a Graduate Research Assistant for Summer Quarter 2020 (with the possibility of extension through the 2020-21 school year). The job requires a diversity, equity, and inclusion orientation and strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.
Part-time Faculty, American Indian Studies
The American Indian Studies department at Palomar College in California is seeking qualified part-time instructors to teach American Indian studies. Teaching assignment(s) may include any of the curriculum approved courses within the discipline of American Indian studies.
The U.S. Census Bureau International Programs, Statistician/Demographer
This vacancy is for a Statistician (Demography), GS-1530-13, positions in the Population Division located at the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland. The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line – Suitland Station.
This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Statistician (Demography), GS-1530-13, FPL-13 positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.
CSSS Seminar: Empirical Bayes for A/B testing and meta-analysis: a spectral approach (5/6/2020)
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 – 12:30 pm
Large-scale A/B testing is increasingly prevalent in many industries. We propose an empirical Bayes approach, which assumes that the treatment effects are realized from a “true prior”. This requires inferring the prior from previous experiments. Following Robbins, we estimate a family of marginal densities of empirical effects, indexed by the noise scale. We show that this family is characterized by the heat equation. We develop a spectral MLE based on Fourier series, which can be efficiently computed via convex optimization. We select hyperparameters and compare models using two model selection criteria. Our method is demonstrated on experimentation data from Amazon.com. The same method can also be applied to meta-analysis.
Note: This is joint work with James McQueen (Amazon.com) and Thomas Richardson (UW and Amazon.com).
Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02564
Virtual Internship Programme (VIP)
The Aga Khan University is thrilled to introduce a new Virtual Internship Programme (VIP) starting in May 2020.
Job roles are changing to reflect how the world is becoming more ‘global,’ and virtual internships are the perfect way to develop a global mind-set and required skills at this time. This innovative new model of internships will connect students around the world, thus helping them to achieve their educational potential through collaborative learning.