Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

CSDE Trainee Spotlight: Sarah Stansfield

CSDE Trainee Sarah Stansfield studies a unique facet of anthropology and epidemiology: epidemic modeling and how modeling HIV virulence evolution within networks of people provides critical insights to how HIV evolves in the real world. Not only has she published recent articles on HIV with her CSDE mentor and dissertation advisor CSDE affiliate Steven Goodreau, she also just received a PhD in Biocultural Anthropology and an MPH in Epidemiology this past Fall quarter.

During her time as a student, Sarah has been a member of the Network Modeling Group at UW and an undergraduate mentor with the UW High Performance Computing Club. Her MPH thesis is “Worldwide HIV Virulence Evolution in Response to Changes in Prevalence and Treatment Coverage” and her dissertation title is “The Impacts of Sexual Role, HIV Treatment, and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Use on HIV Set Point Viral Load: A Network Modeling Study.”

Now upon graduating, Sarah will be a Postdoctoral Scholar-Fellow in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) training program in the UW Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education.

Here is a link to Sarah’s first peer reviewed article with Steven Goodreau published in Epidemics Volume 26: “Sexual role and HIV-1 set point viral load among men who have sex with men”

CSDE congratulates Sarah on her accomplishments!

Keeping You in the News!

Please tell us about your publications and grants! Our NIH program officers want to hear about your publications, grants, awards, recognitions, publicity and news coverage. Our program officers really prefer to have pre-publication notice, if possible. As soon as you know that your research is forthcoming, please let us know! We want to get the word out about your population science research findings that resulted from UW and CSDE support.

We always like to know how CSDE helped you succeed, because that helps us ‘make the case’ to all of our institutional investors. If you can include a specific note about how CSDE helped, along with your news update, that would be a bonus. And, we always like to remind trainees and affiliates to acknowledge CSDE (acknowledgement text can be found here).

Help CSDE by Citing Us in Your Publications

Are you preparing a journal publication which resulted, in some part, from CSDE’s support? Please acknowledge us in your publication! Your citations are included in reports to the institution and sponsors like NIH. By citing CSDE you help us continue providing support to your research. More information on including a CSDE Citation in PubMed can be found at our publication acknowledgements page.

Funding Opportunity: UW-UBC Collaborative Research Awards

Are you or a colleague collaborating with faculty at the University of British Columbia, or would you like to? UW-University of British Columbia Collaborative Research Awards program has been established to provide a pilot fund that facilitates research collaborations between the two universities. The objectives of this Inter-institutional Collaborative Research Award are to:

initiate new and strengthen existing research collaborations;
enable access to unique infrastructure and core facilities; and
provide collaborative training opportunities.

CSDE is happy to partner with you on such an initiative, if it makes sense.

This pilot fund will support activities that establish or enrich research partnerships between faculty at the two institutions. Activities might include project coordination and grant writing, joint workshops, student exchanges and research meetings. The expectation is that activities could lead to leveraged funding, joint- scholarly/research outputs and enhanced collaborative training.

The maximum value of each grant will be $20,000 CAD, or $15,000 USD. The total funding available for this competition is $100,000 CAD from UBC and $75,000 USD from UW.

Researchers are invited to submit a proposal up to 3 pages (free-form), plus the Budget/ justification template, and 2-page abbreviated CV from the lead PI at each institution. Proposals must be submitted by 5:00 pm February 10, 2020. For further details of the program please see: https://www.washington.edu/research/resources/funding-opportunities/collaborative-research-mobility-award/

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology and Social Demography

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology and Social demography. The post is available initially for a fixed-term duration until 30 June 2021 (with the possibility of further extension).

This project FAMSIZEMATTERS seeks to understand the implications of (changing) family size for the (re)production of inequalities. We study a range of elated questions on the consequences of low fertility for inequalities in (1) children, (2) adults and (3) societies. With regard to children, we investigate multigenerational processes, the changing role of sibling size and the role of only-children in (re)producing inequalities. For parents with adult children, we study when and where the ‘quality’ of children becomes increasingly important and we examine the role of childless adults in the (re)production of inequalities. Questions about gender inequality run through all these issues. The project takes a quantitative comparative approach over time and across societies in Europe and East-Asia.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will engage in advanced independent research within the remit of the project. More specifically, they will shape and carry out research in the larger project focussing on one or more of the following sub-themes of the larger project with particular attention to: only-children, multi-generational effects, sibling size, childlessness, high-fertility sub-populations in low fertility societies, life-course research, gender inequalities, or simulation modelling.

Other main duties will include publishing research, supporting and collaborating with data preparation, analysis and other aspects of work related to the project, provide guidance to junior members of the research group and act as source of information to other research group members, develop ideas for research grants and assist in preparation of proposals and to represent the research group at internal and external events and present papers. The postholder will have the opportunity to teach.

Applicants should hold a PhD, or be close to completion, in sociology, demography, economics, statistics or another relevant discipline. Previous experience of independently managing a discrete area of a research project, actively collaborating in the development of research articles for publication, or experience with cross-national comparative research will be an advantage.

Please direct enquiries about the role to Christiaan Monden (christiaan.monden sociology.ox.ac.uk).

You will be required to upload a statement of research interests, CV and details of three referees as part of your online application.

Only applications received before 12.00 midday on 8 January 2020 can be considered.

https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=144102

Closing Date: 08-JAN-2020 12:00

Webinar: The power of linking Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity management systems: what we have learned from case studies around the world

Thursday, December 12th at 13:30-15:00 GMT (8:30-10am EST/ 4:30-6pm EAT).

The Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data would like to warmly invite you to their webinar in their series on population data: ‘The Power of Population data: data of the people, by the people, for the people to achieve agenda 2030’. This webinar series intends to spark interest and share knowledge on the importance of population data.

This webinar “The power of linking Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity management systems: what we have learned from case studies around the world” will take place on Thursday, December 12th at 8:30-10am EST/ 4:30-6pm EAT. The webinar will be an opportunity to share the findings of the Compendium of good practice in linking CRVS and Identity management systems; it will also be an opportunity to hear from 2 of these countries (Netherlands and Namibia). Please REGISTER for the webinar here

Early next year, this same country study “deep dive” webinar will be run in Spanish and French, bringing in some of the other countries in the compendium. Stay tuned on the webinar event page for more information.

In case you did not have the opportunity to catch the previous webinar on Wednesday, December 4, on “Civil registration, vital statistics & identity management systems: what are they, why are they important? ” – please see the link to that webinar recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91biYEbxF8I

Letter from the Director

As we move towards the end of another calendar year, I want to wish the entire CSDE community the very best during the winter break. Thank you everyone for your contributions to CSDE in this past year.

CSDE celebrated the end of the quarter with its Biannual Trainees’ Lightning Talks and Poster Session. I am deeply grateful to Emily Pollock for organizing the session, Jon Wakefield and Aimee Dechter for their work recruiting posters and managing the voting system, and Sehej Singh and David Fernandes for logistics, food, and publicity. The poster award winner is CSDE Trainee Claire Rothschild for her research titled Utility of Remotely Enrolling Women into Mobile Messaging Platform for Contraceptive Research. Her attractive poster, elegant study design, clear articulation of the research project, and important findings offer a cautionary tale about the possibilities of mobile messaging platforms for research in settings where access is far more complex than typically assumed.

CSDE is looking forward to welcoming the New Year! We have an excellent array of speakers and topics for the CSDE seminar series during the winter. Topics covered include every dimension of demographic research. On January 10, Professor Robert Pollak (Washington University) will kick off the seminar series with a talk about the impact of fathers’ multiple-partner fertility on children’s education. UW Atmospheric Sciences Professor, Stephen Warren, will offer his perspective on population dynamics on January 17. As part of our focus on highlighting the value of the Census and in honor of the upcoming Census2020, CSDE will welcome alum Dr. Brad Foster (U.S. Census Bureau) on January 24. Dr. Foster will evaluate the gender wage gap using linked census and administrative records. On January 31, CSDE Affiliate and Executive Committee Member, India Ornelas will present her research on the health of undocumented Latinx immigrants. Penn State Professor Jennifer Van Hook will join CSDE on February 7 to present research findings on intergenerational education mobility among Mexican Americans. Professor Van Hook is here at the invitation of CSDE Fellow Neal Marquez (Sociology). On February 14, CSDE continues its research series on the social demography of homelessness. CSDE Regional Affiliate Janelle Taylor returns to UW from the University of Toronto to present her research on elder orphans on February 21. UPenn Professor Irma Elo will join us on February 28 to present her research on trends in U.S. Mortality. Professor Elo is here at the invitation of CSDE Fellow Jessica Godwin (Statistics) who will host her visit. And, on March 6, CSDE welcomes incoming PAA President, Professor Eileen Crimmins (USC), who share with us a preview of her presidential address. We celebrate the end of the quarter with our Biannual Trainees’ Lightning Talks and Poster Session. You can download a flier for the seminar series here or sign up for calendar reminders via trumba.

Here’s to plenty of rest and rejuvenation for you, your family, and your friends.

Sara Curran, CSDE Director

Christine Leibbrand, Erin Carll, Hedwig Lee, and Angela Bruns Examine How Paternal Incarceration Influences Families’ Mobility Decisions and Neighborhood Outcomes

It is often assumed that families rationally choose where to live and migrate. However, increasingly such decisions are constrained by societal factors outside of a family’s control. Therefore, Acting Assistant Professor of Sociology Christine Leibbrand (CSDE alum), CSDE Trainee Erin Carll, CSDE Regional Affiliate Hedwig Lee, and University of Michigan Postdoctoral Fellow Angela Bruns (CSDE alum) examine how paternal incarceration is one such societal factor that can constrain residential mobility decisions and influence families’ neighborhood contexts. The authors published their findings in an article for Social Science Research, Volume 84.

Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS)—a longitudinal study following 5,000 individuals born between 1998 and 2000—the authors examine whether children with currently or formerly incarcerated fathers experience more residential instability and live in neighborhoods that are more socioeconomically disadvantaged.

They find that children under 18 years old with incarcerated fathers live in neighborhoods that are more socioeconomically disadvantaged and that paternal incarceration is associated with moving more frequently than children without incarcerated fathers. These results demonstrate that families of incarcerated fathers experience more residential instability negatively impacting the wellbeing of such families and children. The results also show the importance of considering incarceration as a societal factor influencing residential decisions and ability to live in socioeconomically advantaged neighborhoods—not only for those incarcerated, but also for their families.

UW News also featured the study, click this link to check it out.

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Children’s Mental Health Treatment

The Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), part of the Woodrow Wilson School, invites outstanding researchers to apply for an appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for a 12-month position starting July 1, 2020. The position would involve working on a CHW project headed by Janet Currie entitled: “Harnessing Big Data to Improve Children’s Mental Health Treatment.”

Postdoctoral Research Associates participate in activities of CHW, including faculty-graduate seminars, workshops, and public lectures, and enjoy access to a wide range of other activities throughout the University. Postdoctoral Research Associates devote the major portion of their time to research and writing on issues related to health and wellbeing. Some Postdoctoral Research Associates may be invited to teach in one of Princeton’s undergraduate programs. Any teaching is contingent on sufficient enrollments and must be approved by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Applicants are evaluated on the basis of (1) the quality of their achievements in their field of specialization and their ability to benefit from the activities of CHW; (2) the fit between their interests and the project; and (3) the contribution they are likely to make to research in the future.

For full consideration, please apply online at https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/14161 by December 15, 2019, however, applications will continue to be reviewed until all available positions are filled. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their applications in March 2020.

Please submit online a cover letter, a CV, a research paper, book chapter, or a dissertation chapter; a statement of no more than 1,500 words describing how you plan to use your time at Princeton; and contact information for a thesis advisor or other individual who is qualified to assess your work.

Equity & Outreach Coordinator

Under the direction of management, this position performs intake and referral duties for PCC constituents seeking consultation with the Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI). Works collaboratively with the individuals, OEI Staff and other PCC departments to ensure appropriate communication and resolution of issues. Completes and maintains documentation as required. Develops and implements an outreach program to PCC faculty and staff to educate and inform on resources, and PCC processes.

For best consideration, apply by January 6, 2020; applications received after this date are not guaranteed a review.