Description: This class will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The course will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.
Instructor: Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121 Register here.
Evidence for Action (E4A), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, awards grants to support innovative, rigorous research on how systems, programs, and policies influence population health and health inequalities. The E4A National Program Office reviews research proposals and recommends the most rigorous and high-impact proposals for funding.
Numerous methodological challenges arise in efforts to field rigorous, cost-effective, and convincing research in E4A’s priority areas. In 2018, the National Program Office (NPO) launched an internal initiative with the goals of identifying these methods issues, providing relevant evidence and tools to overcome these challenges, and sparking attention to these challenges from the broader community of quantitative researchers. We seek to hire a post-doctoral fellow to play a key role in this initiative.
Competitive candidates should have training and interest in both quantitative research methods (e.g., epidemiology, sociology, economics) and multilevel influences on health and health inequities, including social, behavioral, and systems-level risk factors. Specific projects will be prioritized on an ongoing basis by the NPO and National Advisory Committee but may include: (1) writing manuscripts or developing teaching tools to bridge disciplinary differences in approach to causal inference; (2) conducting empirical research on major sources of bias or uncertainty in common approaches to evaluating determinants of population health and health inequities; (3) running simulation studies to evaluate the performance of recently proposed methodological advances when applied to E4A’s priority research areas in population health or health inequities; (4) contributing to E4A’s Methods Blog. Previous projects have included manuscripts and teaching tools that
crosswalk different disciplinary approaches to causal inference and that discuss considerations for selecting plausible and actionable effect sizes as inputs to power and sample size calculations for studies of social interventions.
The E4A NPO is housed in the Center for Health and Community at the University of California, San Francisco. The post-doctoral fellow will work with NPO leadership team and most closely with Maria Glymour, Associate Director for the NPO, and Ellicott Matthay, the E4A Methods Lab’s inaugural postdoctoral scholar.
Required:
– PhD or equivalent training in epidemiology, sociology, or a related
discipline.
– Experience with quantitative research, including expertise in
statistical software (SAS, Stata, or R)
– Familiarity with quasi-experimental methods, such as
difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, or instrumental
variables
– Strong writing skills, ideally for technical, applied, or
non-research audiences.
– Commitment to methodologically strong research that advances health
equity
Applicants may apply to Maria Glymour at evidenceforaction@ucsf.edu or reach out to Maria or Ellicott for more information about the position.
Heather D. Evans is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Disability Studies Program and Law, Societies & Justice Department. She has conducted both statistical analyses and ethnographic fieldwork. Heather’s current work examines “invisible disability”, focusing on disclosure and identity management among people with physical, mental, and sensory differences that are not readily apparent. She is also committed to community based research and does consulting work for local organizations, primarily focusing on disparities within the criminal justice system. Broadly, she is interested in processes of social marginalization and identifying ways to expand access to opportunity structures through institutional change.
The overarching goal of this pilot program is to enhance the retention of investigators facing critical life events who are transitioning to the first renewal of their first independent research project grant award or to a second new NIH research project grant award. Retention at the first renewal or continuous NIH research project grant support is crucial for sustaining both the ongoing research NIH has made an investment in and for retaining diversity in the biomedical research workforce. This program supports “at-risk” investigators as identified in the NIH Next Generation Researchers Initiative (see https://grants.nih.gov/ngri.htm).
This retention program seeks to maintain the productivity of current first-time recipients of eligible independent NIH research project grant awards who are dealing with a critical life event(s), such that they can remain competitive for the first renewal of their award or for a second research project grant award. For retention supplements to support the transition from K award to independence, see the companion NOSI.
The call for proposals is now open for the sixth offering of the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good summer program, to be held during the summer of 2020. We invite short proposals for 10-week data-intensive research projects requiring collaboration in data science approaches, such as scalable data management, statistical analysis, machine learning, open source software development, cloud and cluster computing, and/or data visualization.
We seek proposals that are methodologically rigorous and designed to address societal challenges in areas such as human services, public policy, health and safety, environmental impacts, transportation, accessibility, social justice, and urban informatics. We welcome proposals submitted by academic researchers, public agencies, non-profit entities, and industry.
Accepted proposals will need to designate a Project Lead (usually the author(s) of the proposal) who will closely collaborate with one or more Data Scientists from the eScience Institute and an interdisciplinary team of 4-5 student fellows supported by eScience (see Project Team Composition and Time Commitment below). In reviewing the proposals, we will be looking for projects with well-defined deliverables that clearly articulate how the DSSG program can help advance your project. Projects from our previous DSSG programs may serve as useful inspiration.
This program, which has been running since the summer of 2015, is sponsored in part by an award from the Micron Foundation and was inspired by similar endeavors such as the Data Science for Social Good program originally at the University of Chicago (now at CMU).
The Computational Sociology conference will be held on August 7th, 2020, at Stanford University, a day before the ASA Annual Meeting convenes in San Francisco. The conference will showcase work that applies computational methods to important sociological problems. We welcome submissions that use data creatively, whether applying machine learning methods, analyzing text, images, or network structures, or any other form of computational analysis.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
We have one opening for a post-doctoral research associate to undertake research contributing to the Delaware Contraceptive Access Now (DelCAN) Evaluation https://popcenter.umd.edu/delcaneval. This evaluation is being conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Delaware, Newark to a project timetable from June 2016 through May 2022. Work on the evaluation is expected to lead primarily to papers submitted to peer-reviewed journals and scholarly research conferences. The contributions of the postdoctoral research associate to the project will include analysis of survey data collected specifically on Delaware in multiple rounds of representative samples respectively of all reproductive age women and of women attending Title X clinics. Other contributions may include analyses combining state and national data sources, and estimation and simulation of reproductive, infant health, and public-expenditure outcomes. The successful applicant will be provided with office space and research infrastructure through the Maryland Population Research Center, and will report to the DelCAN Evaluation Project Director, Dr. Michael Rendall. Additional mentoring and collaboration opportunities with DelCAN Evaluation faculty at UMD include with Drs. Michel Boudreaux, Amy Lewin, Dylan Roby, and Julia Steinberg (School of Public Health), and Mónica Caudillo (Sociology). Annual salary is expected to be in the range, $70,362 to $72,473. The position is not restricted to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
IAPHS has 6 award opportunities for members of the organization. To be eligible, individuals are required to be current members of the organization. Self nominations are acceptable. Award winners are recognized at the annual meeting.
Nominations Due: March 23, 2020
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J. Michael McGinnis Leadership Excellence Award
Honors a leader whose outstanding accomplishments, commitment, values and contributions best reflect the mission of IAPHS to advance population health science through science, translational activities and mentoring.
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IAPHS Mentoring Award
Recognizes an outstanding Mentor for their dedication and significant positive impact on the intellectual and professional development of emerging scholars.
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The Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health
Recognizes significant contributions to population health science by an individual who has received the Ph.D., MD or a comparable graduate degree no more than ten years before the year of the award.
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IAPHS Student Award
Recognize work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field completed by a trainee in the population health sciences.
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IAPHS Postdoctoral Award
Recognize work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field completed by a trainee in the population health sciences.
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Community Research Partnership Award
To recognize excellence in collaboration between community groups or individuals and population health researchers.
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Submit a nomination! Please contact Sue Bevan, IAPHS Executive Director, with any questions (sbevan@iaphs.org)
The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is pleased to announce the availability of funding for University of Washington faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students to develop courses or conduct research relevant to the interdisciplinary field of Labor Studies.
Funding is available in several forms with varying levels of eligibility, size and obligation. Programs include:
For more information and application instructions, please visit the website of each specific program linked to above. The deadline to apply for all programs for the 2020-2021 academic year is Monday, February 10, 2020.
Questions? Contact the Bridges Center at (206) 543-7946, or e-mail hbcls@uw.edu .
The Department of Health Services at the University of Washington (UW) seeks to fill one full-time faculty position with a focus on Anti-Racism as a Full Professor (tenure-track) on a 12-month service period, with an anticipated start date as early as fall 2020.
The position would serve as the Director for the Center for the Study of Anti-Racism and Health (ARCH). The purpose of ARCH to provide a community of scholarship and activism – in the School of Public Health, across the University, and within the broader community – concerning interventions that can break down the societal and institutional structures of racism and, thus, to reduce future inequalities in health.
We seek candidates with demonstrated experience in research, teaching, mentorship, and administration related to structural racism, its impact on health, and approaches to disrupt it. The Director is expected to engage in both university and community service at the local, regional, national, and international levels and encouraged to establish their own research agenda, including how racism intersects with other social inequities.