Please forward to all interested UW students and medical residents:
The Department of Global Health Funding for Fieldwork application is now available. These funding opportunities are available to full-time UW graduate students, professional students and some opportunities for medical residents, and Global Health Minor undergraduate students to help support short term fieldwork experiences in global health. Please be sure to read the application requirements thoroughly for each fellowship program and identify those programs for which you qualify.
The following fellowships in the DGH Funding for Fieldwork application are
* Warren George Povey Endowed Fund for Global Health Students Fellowship
* Global Opportunities in Health (GO Health) Fellowship
* Global Opportunities in Health (GO Health)-Kenya
* Global Mental Health Fellowship
* Stergachis Endowed Fellowship in International Exchange
* Thomas Francis Jr., Global Health Fellowship
Details for these programs and list of past participants can be found on the Funding for Fieldwork page, https://globalhealth.washington.edu/education-training/funding-fieldwork. This year the SCOPE fellowship conducted an early round of applications Therefore, the SCOPE fellowship is not included in this cycle’s DGH Funding for Fieldwork Application.
Submit all materials to Google Form by 12 p.m., March 16, 2020 Link: https://forms.gle/3BM7k5AVBPuWuG8z8
For questions regarding the application or other details, please contact Daren Wade at dwade@uw.edu.
COVID-19 appears to be more contagious than the flu, but big uncertainties about it remain. Early misinformation and diagnostic testing deficits may have protracted these uncertainties. Therefore, policy makers and publics are vulnerable to misperceptions of and faulty solutions to the outbreak. This is why CSDE Affiliates Ann Bostrom and Nicole Errett co-authored an opinion piece for The Guardian on COVID-19 perceptions and their consequences. In their piece, Bostrom and Errett explain how the uncertainties can amplify misperceptions—people may accept established policies and familiar remedies for illusory certainty, unwittingly helping the virus spread. Thus, the authors emphasize that “clear messaging from trusted sources, and guidance on what to do and how to do it, is essential during a pandemic.”
A recent article in The Stranger claims that 37 of Washington’s 39 counties are short on dental health care professionals—this shortage especially affects the well-being of low-income and rural populations of Washington. This article highlights CSDE Affiliate Donald Chi’s research to describe a solution for the shortage: dental therapy. According Chi’s 2018 study on dental therapy, featured in the article and co-authored by CSDE Science Lead Matt Dunbar, increases in dental therapists within Alaska Native communities have led to improved preventative care practices and fewer extractions. The article also features Chi’s testimony for HB 1317 in which Chi states that about 15,000 fewer children would no longer need front tooth extractions with dental therapists in Washington.
The article quotes Chi, “Ask any dentist, myself included, and they’ll agree that these extractions are the hardest thing to do emotionally. When you think about the impact on young children and families—the ability to bite into an apple, and to smile with a full set of teeth—it’s huge…Dental therapists can make a difference.”
Calling all demography students! In Spring 2020, CSDE Affiliate and Training Core Director Jon Wakefield, Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, and Bobby Reiner, Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, are offering Advanced Spatial Statistics for Public and Global Health (BIOST/STAT 578 A). Wakefield and Reiner will cover Gaussian process (GP) models and Model-Based Geostatistics, methods for point process data, and space-time-age models among many other topics of spatial statistics. Preerequisites for this course include STAT 554 or BIOST 555, or permission from the instructors. CSDE encourages demography students to take advantage of this opportunity!
This Friday, Eileen Crimmins, president of the Population Association of America (PAA), will present “Life Expectancy and Health in the 21st Century: the Inconceivable, the Unthinkable, and the Unknowable,” a dress rehearsal for the PAA Presidential Address she will deliver in April. This seminar will touch on contemporary problems in the United States and how to deal with uncertainty.
Click here to schedule a meeting with Eileen Crimmins!
Mark your calendars! The Second Annual UW Multidisciplinary Family Planning Symposium titled “Global Family Planning, Fertility, and Abortion: Innovations in Research, Programs, and Policy” is coming up on Friday, May 19, 8:30-3:30PM in HUB Room 145. This symposium is a multidisciplinary opportunity for the exchange of ideas and innovations in global family planning to generate connections between research, program, and policy work internal and external to the University. It is co-sponsored by the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Global Health, Medicine, and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology.
Drs. Sara Curran and Elizabeth Harrington are the Planning Committee co-chairs. More details and registration information to follow soon.
This interdisciplinary course seeks to engage in dialogic and reflexive skill-building practices to deepen understanding and abilities to interrupt and address microaggressions and to enhance the experience and practice of mentorship.
Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Learn about The Nature Conservancy’s exciting and innovative scientific research, and how science informs policy and practice around the world. The Nature Conservancy is one of the largest conservation organizations in the world, working in 79 countries and territories to conserve the lands and water on which all life depends..
Application deadline: March 23, 2020
The positions will be established at the Centre for Fertility and Health, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway and hosted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The scientific goal of the Centre for Fertility and Health is to greatly advance the understanding how changes in patterns of fertility and family structure influence child and adult health through social and biological pathways. As a doctoral research fellow at the centre, you will be part of an interdisciplinary and international team. The centre has a strong academic and social environment and has recently hired several postdoctoral and doctoral fellows.
Project: As part of its research program on twins, the French Museum of Natural History (MNHN) is conducting a project on the increase in twinning rates in high‐income countries over recent decades. The project receives financial support from the French Research Agency and is a partnership between the Eco‐anthropology Unit of the MNHN and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). The principal investigator is Gilles PISON, professor at the MNHN and associate researcher at INED.