*Review Date Extended*
The Program in African & African American Studies (AAAS) at Stanford University invites applications for its Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows Program.
This is a one-year fixed term position for the 2019-2020 academic year. Fellows are welcome to reapply for a second year, given satisfactory performance and available funding.
As an interdisciplinary academic program, AAAS welcomes applications from scholars who have demonstrated excellence in research and teaching within the broad, multi-disciplinary fields of African-American, African, Caribbean, or Diaspora Studies. The goal of the postdoctoral program is to augment current curricular offerings and to continue building a robust intellectual community while supporting the research and growth of emerging scholars. We are especially interested in applicants whose work aligns with the main thematic emphases and scholarly pathways of our undergraduate major. These thematic emphases include:
- Art and Cultural Expression (including inquiry and practice that engages language, literature, performance studies, art and visual culture, philosophy, religious studies, ethnomusicology, etc.)
- Historical Inquiry Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Media, Science, and Technology (including journalism and communications, digital studies, science, technology, and society, environmental studies, etc.)
- Social Science Inquiry (including education and education policy, linguistics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.
- Politics and the Law (including public policy, government, international relations, etc.)
- Race, Health, and Medicine (including biotechnology, medical sociology/anthropology, etc.)
- Social Impact and Entrepreneurship (including social movements, community-based research, etc.)
Sustainable Development Goal 8 calls for economic growth to be “a positive force for the whole planet.” Target 8.7 within this goal calls for “immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor, end modern slavery and human trafficking … and by 2025 end child labor in all its forms.” The global community has its work cut out for it. In 2017, the International Labour Organization released research finding that more than 40 million people remain trapped in modern slavery. Additionally, the ILO estimated that 152 million children, between the ages of 5 and 17, were involved in some form of forced labor. Join GlobalWA, its partners and members for an in-depth look at how to we start to bring an end to human trafficking and modern slavery.
SPEAKERS
Shanen Boettcher
Advisor
FRDM.co
Lisa Shannon
Cofounder and CEO
Everywoman Treaty
Who:
Everyone
Where:
Global Washington
1601 Fifth Ave, Suite 1900
Seattle, WA 98101
When:
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Registration: 2:30pm – 3:00pm
Program: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Cost:
Members: $25
Non-Members: $35
Students: free
Email pratima@globalwa.org for member code and free student code.
More speaker information coming soon.
“LGBTQ elders have largely been invisible and people really haven’t thought about their needs, both in health, in housing and other areas,” CSDE Affiliate Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, Professor of Social Work, recently commented for a CNN story about New York’s first LGBT-friendly housing.
According to Fredriksen-Goldsen, director of the UW Healthy Generations Center, the Pride generation was the first to unite to demand civil rights and social acceptance, but the discrimination they experienced throughout their lives has left them with smaller savings and in worse health than their non-LGBT peers, as they have aged. But the Pride generation is resilient, she added, and the tide is turning as more cities embrace LGBT-friendly housing.
The story featured Fredriksen-Goldsen’s survey of LGBT elders, in which 22% of respondents had difficulty paying bills and 21% had to cut back on other expenses to make ends meet. It also highlighted the first federally funded longitudinal study of LGBT elders, led by Fredriksen-Goldsen, which found that 51% of those who lived in private residences and 72% living in senior housing experienced social isolation.
Fredriksen-Goldsen was also recently featured in a The Whole U faculty spotlight, where she comments on LGBTQ Pride, public health, and her landmark study Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study.
Taxes on sugary beverages are an emerging strategy to improve health, but perceptions about unintended consequences may affect attitudes towards the policy. Supported by CSDE’s NICHD P2C infrastructure grant, CSDE Affiliates Melissa Knox, Economics Lecturer, Jessica Jones-Smith, Professor of Health Services & Epidemiology, and Vanessa Oddo, Acting Assistant Professor of Health Services, analyzed perceptions of the effects of Seattle’s sugary beverage tax in a upcoming BMC Public Health paper.
The authors conducted a survey on 851 adults and examined perceptions of the health and economic effects of the 2017 Seattle soda tax, and the differences in perceptions across income levels and racial/ethnic categories. Knox, Jonse-Smith, and Oddo found that most respondents supported the tax, believed that it would improve public health, and that it would not negatively affect small businesses, result in job loss, or impact their own finances. However, fewer lower-income participants perceived that the tax would improve public health, would not result in job loss, and would not negatively affect their finances. Compared to white participants, a smaller proportion of participants of color (non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics) perceived that the tax would have negative consequences for their own family finances.
CSDE Affiliate David Swanson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UC-Riverside, was selected by Population Review as a featured author for his recently co-authored article, “Estimating the underlying infant mortality rates for small populations, including those reporting zero infant deaths: A case study of counties in California.” The article as well as authors’ bios are available on the Population Review front page below.
The National Science Foundation is awarding an additional $4 million for Regional Big Data Innovation Hubs to address scientific and societal challenges by building and strengthening data science partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits, and government. UW will continue to coordinate the West Big Data Innovation Hub in collaboration with UC-Berkeley and UC-San Diego. CSDE Affiliate Sarah Stone is the West Hub Deputy Director, Co-Principal Investigator, and Executive Director of the eScience Institute.
Among projects supported by the West Hub is the UW Evictions Project, led by CSDE Afilliate Tim Thomas, which extracted information from thousands of evictions case reports and uncovered extreme racial disparity, leading directly to a policy change that increased the response time allowed to tenants.
We invite applications from ambitious postdoctoral epidemiologists, biostatisticians, health economists or geographers to join Professor Tanser’s research group at Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Durban, South Africa. Training involves research in a mentored environment in the areas of population health, epidemiology, and behavioural science for cutting-edge HIV research in South Africa.
The successful candidates will have access to one of the largest ongoing population-based HIV cohorts in the world – the Africa Health Research Institute’s population cohort in rural KwaZulu-Natal, which includes over 90,000 individuals, with individual-level sociodemographic, biological, and clinical record data as well as comprehensive genomics data.
The projects will leverage the institute’s existing big data infrastructure, next generation viral gene sequencing platform, comprehensive geographical information system as well as the recently established research platform for tracking individual mobility patterns via smartphones and other on-going projects.
The Department of Medicine and the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination at The University of Chicago announce a post-doctoral scholar position for a computational scientist focusing on public health research. The position is under the direct supervision of CSDE alum Aditya Khanna, Ph.D. and John Schneider MD, MPH.
The UW Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has gathered password tips to keep your information and work safe. In brief, be sure to avoid clicking links in e-mails, don’t reuse passwords across accounts, be cautious on wireless networks and public computers, create unique passwords and passphrases, and use secure services for secure connections! You can find the full list and video here.
We are now accepting applications for the 2019-2020 Science Teaching for Postdocs (STEP) program. Applications are due September 6, 2019 at 5pm.
STEP Description
Our mission is to engage a diverse pool of postdoctoral fellows at the University of Washington and affiliate institutions in a closely mentored apprenticeship to learn how to teach scientifically with inclusive, demonstrably effec tive, student-centered pedagogies.
This apprenticeship provides teaching experiences for postdocs who have 100% research appointments. Postdocs attend short training sessions that efficiently introduce state-of-the-art teaching strategies that are effective for students and time-saving for instructors. The postdocs work in teams of three to co-design and co-teach their courses. Each team delivers a 10-week, special topics seminar course. The program directors observe class meetings and meet regularly with the postdocs to discuss the strengths of their teaching and to brainstorm on strategies to addressing areas that need improvement. Some of the seminars target biology majors, and are held at either UW Bothell or UW Seattle; other seminars are for nonmajors at UW Bothell. All of the postdocs come together at the end of the academic year to share experiences and improve their teaching philosophies and dossiers. These program features allow the postdocs to set and meet reasonable training and teaching goals without disrupting their research progress.
More information about the program is attached; please share these flyers!