Please join the Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science on March 7^th from 10:00-10:50am in K069 for our monthly seminar. This seminar is titled “Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program: Overview and Lessons Learned from 7 Years on the Ground” with Seema Clifasefi, Kris Nyrop, Leandra Craft, and partners from Evergreen Treatment Services and the Seattle Police Department. Webinar information, as well as an archive of past seminars, can be found here: https://depts.washington.edu/uwchips/monthly-seminar.

See you then! Any questions can be sent over to uwchips@uw.edu.

Please note date/time and venue change; new date/time and venue shown here.

In her new book Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018), Professor Lan uses parenting as an empirical lens to examine cultural transformation and persisting inequality in the contexts of globalization and immigration. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global parenting” among Taiwanese families across the socioeconomic spectrum. Professional middle-class parents employ divergent educational strategies to pursue cosmopolitan parenting: some arrange international school and bilingual programs to prepare their children for the imminent future of global competition, while some others choose Western-influenced alternative curriculums to escape the tradition of rote learning and academic pressure. Globalization touches the lives of working-class families in very different ways. Taiwanese men, who suffer from rising economic insecurity due to capital outflow and labor inflow, seek wives from China and Southeast Asia. These immigrant mothers’ cultural heritage and transnational connections are hardly recognized as valuable assets until the government encourages investment to Southeast Asia in the recent “New Southbound Policy.”

Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Director of Global Asia Research Center, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, a Fulbright scholar at New York University, and a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006, ASA Sex and Gender Book Award and ICAS Book Prize) and Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018).

For decades, scholars and policy makers have expected indigenous ethnicity in Mexico to gradually fade away due to cultural assimilation. Nevertheless, in 2010, the percentage of Mexicans who identified as indigenous in the Census more than doubled going from 6% to 15% between 2000 and 2010, a net gain of more than 11 million new indigenous people. This rise in indigenous identification seemingly challenges long-held views that indigenous ethnicity in Mexico was destined to fade away. Though the reasons behind this unexpected demographic phenomenon have been widely debated, no satisfactory explanation has been produced. We conduct the first systematic analysis to help explain it. We rely on census data and two original nationally representative survey experiments. We identify three processes that could explain this unexpected “ethnic explosion.” We find that natural demographic processes are insufficient to explain it. Instead, changes in the phrasing of the identity question used by the Mexican Census in 2010 were largely responsible for such dramatic increase. These wording changes redefined indigenous identity in a more symbolic way, which made it more appealing to more Mexicans. This involved two mechanisms: (1) avoidance of essentialist language (essentialism) and (2) not treating indigeneity as a collective condition (groupness).

Network Modeling for Epidemics
Summer short course at the University of Washington
12-16 August, 2019

Network Modeling for Epidemics (NME) is a 5-day short course at the University of Washington that provides an introduction to stochastic network models for infectious disease transmission dynamics, with a focus on empirically based modeling of HIV transmission. It is a ”hands-on” course, using the EpiModel software package in R (www.epimodel.org). EpiModel provides a unified framework for statistically based modeling of dynamic networks from empirical data, and simulation of epidemic dynamics on these networks. It has a flexible open-source platform for learning and building several types of epidemic models: deterministic compartmental, stochastic individual-based, and stochastic network models. Resources include simple models that run in a browser window, built-in generic models that provide basic control over population contact patterns, pathogen properties and demographics, and templates for user-programmed modules that allow EpiModel to be extended to the full range of pathogens, hosts, and disease dynamics for advanced research. This course will touch on the deterministic and individual-based models, but its primary focus is on the theory, methods and application of network models.

The course uses a mix of lectures, tutorials, and labs with students working in small groups. On the final day, students work to develop an EpiModel prototype model (either individually or in groups based on shared research interests), with input from the instructors, including the lead EpiModel software developer, Dr. Samuel Jenness.

Returning students: We encourage previous attendees with active modeling projects to apply to return for a refresher course. The EpiModel package has been significantly enhanced over the last few years. Returning students with active projects will have the opportunity to work with course instructors to address key challenges in the design of their network model code.

Dates and location:

The course will be taught from Monday, August 12 to Friday, August 16 on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

Costs:

Course fee is $750. Travel and accommodation costs are the responsibility of the participant, although discounted hotel rates are available. We offer a limited number of fee waivers for pre-doctoral students or for attendees from low income countries.  These cover waiver of the registration fee only; travel and accommodation are still the responsibility of the fee waiver recipient.

Application dates and decision dates:

*    Apr 1: Fee-waiver application deadline. Decisions will be made by Apr 15, and response required by May 1.

*    May 1:  General application deadline. Decisions will be made by May 15 and a response required by June 1. A waitlist will be established with rolling admission through June 30.

Application:

Apply online at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/goodreau/367818 (Note: it is essential that you follow the application through to the end and click on “submit responses”; otherwise, we will not receive your application.)

Course website and more information: http://statnet.github.io/nme

ABSTRACT: This paper situates the recruitment of Filipinos to work in the cane fields of Hawai‘i in the early twentieth century within a broader transpacific anti-Japanese movement. The 1909 strike on Oahu’s sugar plantations was a catalyst for Filipino labor recruitment, but Japanese worker resistance extended to the western United States, where Japanese labor had been integral to the expansion of California’s agricultural industry. In their challenges to the distinct yet interrelated labor regimes of haole planter society and West Coast agriculture, Japanese workers disrupted U.S. imperial expansion, exposing the contradictions of ongoing colonial development dependent on migrant labor.

Roneva Keel is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Washington. Her dissertation, “Mobilizing Empire: Race Sugar and U.S. Colonialism across the Pacific, 1898-1934,” brings together the histories of colonization in California, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines to explore the historical development of race and capitalism in the formation of the U.S. empire. Her research focuses on race, labor, and colonialism in the formation of the modern U.S. state, with an emphasis on the mobilization of workers across borders and oceans.

Thanks to CSDE for sponsoring the upcoming panel discussion and reception at PAA on community-engaged research. Please feel free to distribute information about the event (below), as well as the attached flyer, to CSDE affiliates!

Panel Discussion and Reception at PAA on Community-Engaged Research

“Population Health Reception: The Perils and Promise of Community Engaged Research”

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

6:00-7:30 PM

JW Marriott, Brazos 206

If you are interested in hearing about population health research, please plan to attend this panel discussion and reception at the PAA Annual Meetings in Austin, TX. Organized by Chris Bachrach and Dawn Upchurch, it will feature comments by Mark Hayward, Professor of Sociology and Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Lourdes Rodriguez, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Place-Based Initiatives, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, David Vlahov, Associate Dean of Research, Yale School of Nursing, and Rachel Kimbro, Professor of Sociology, Rice University. There will be plenty of time for networking, refreshments, and a lively audience discussion.

NIA has just posted the concepts for future Funding Opportunity Announcements that were approved at the recent meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aging.   Please share these with anyone who might be interested.

 https://www.nia.nih.gov/approved-concepts

For those of you who advise, or who are, doctoral students, I would particularly call attention to a planned new type of award called “Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students”

 https://www.nia.nih.gov/approved-concepts#transition

Others in which you may be interested include:

• Aging, Driving and Early Detection of Dementia
• Dementia Care: Home and Community-Based Services
• Increasing Research Capacity in Behavioral and Social Science Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and AD-related Dementias
• Innovations to Foster Healthy Longevity in Low-Income Settings
• Interpersonal Processes in AD/ADRD Clinical Settings
• Tailoring Interventions to Improve Preventive Health Service Use

PLEASE NOTE THE A&S DEAN’S DEADLINE FOR REVIEW IS 3 DAYS PRIOR TO OR’S DEADLINE: Thursday, February 28, by 5:00PM. 

This is to announce the Spring 2019 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. The RRF proposal submission and review process is electronic – all proposals are submitted using SAGE (System to Administer Grants Electronically). Proposals are due Monday, March 4, by 5:00 PM.  Awards will be announced by June 15, 2019.

Unlike agency-funded grants, RRF grants are not awarded to supplement or continue existing successful research programs.  The purpose of the RRF is to advance new directions in research, particularly:

1. in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or
2. for faculty who are junior in rank, and/or
3. in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding.

Proposals must demonstrate a high probability of generating important new creative activities or scholarly understandings, new scholarly materials or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation resources that are likely to significantly advance the reputation of the university, lead to external funding, or lead to developing a new technology. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome, with well-justified budgets up to $40,000.

All proposals will be peer reviewed through one of the three RRF Review Committees. The evaluators are faculty colleagues and therefore will not necessarily be specialists in the applicant’s subfield. Thought should be given, therefore, to crafting the proposal so that a wider audience may understand it. Although technical field-specific information will be expected, the major features of the proposal must also be accessible to non-specialists.

The RRF application instructions, including specific directions for completing the eGC1, are currently available at the Office of Research web site located at: http://www.washington.edu/research/or/royalty-research-fund-rrf/

As a reminder, Deans, Directors, and Chairs should only approve RRF applications for faculty and professional staff with PI status who are eligible for the program. Faculty with acting, affiliate, temporary, or visiting appointments are not eligible. In addition, if a UW faculty member holds an eligible rank but is based at another institution (e.g. Seattle Children’s or Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), all of his/her extramural grants must be run through the UW in order to be eligible for an RRF award.

Should you elect to apply, please note the following additional details:

1. Carefully read and follow all instructions. Applications that do not adhere to program rules will be returned for immediate correction and resubmission if time permits; otherwise they will not be considered for funding.
2. Find out how much lead time is required by each unit that needs to approve your proposal and monitor it throughout the approval process. (For example, the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s office requires that proposals reach them via SAGE by 5:00 pm on the Thursday prior to the RRF deadline.) Applications not fully approved by the deadline will not be accepted – NO EXCEPTIONS.
3. On the Details page of the eGC1, make sure that you choose the Research Area that is most appropriate for your specific project. This will not necessarily match your official departmental affiliation, so you should review the membership of the three RRF committees (each of which covers two Research Areas) to confirm that you are making the best choice. Your proposal has a better chance of being successful if it is appropriately aligned with the expertise of the committee.
4. Use the sample budget template on our website as a guide when preparing your proposal budget, making sure that a) you round all figures to whole dollars, b) you group items by object code, and c) you provide a subtotal for each object code.

Don’t hesitate to contact the RRF administrative staff if you have questions about the program; new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@uw.edu, (685-9316) and existing awardees should contact Barbara Thompson, bthompso@uw.edu, (616-9089). Questions about SAGE and the eGC1 should be directed to oris@uw.edu, (685-8335).

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting grant proposals for the following Grand Challenges initiatives:

Grand Challenges Explorations:

• Emerging Technologies for New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
• Environmental niches of Salmonella Typhi
• Increasing Demand for Vaccination Services

Applications will be accepted until Wednesday, April 10, 2019 11:30 am PDT. Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grants have already been awarded to over 1420 researchers in more than 65 countries. Initial grants are for USD $100,000 and successful projects are eligible to receive follow-on funding of up to USD $1 million. Proposals are solicited twice a year for an expanding set of global health and development challenges. Applications are only two pages, and no preliminary data is required. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any type of organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.

Grand Challenges: Neglected Tropical Diseases Data Innovation Incubator seeks innovative ideas for how to improve the quality, completeness, and timeliness of routine neglected tropical disease data to help target interventions to all at-risk populations and achieve high intervention coverage and maximal impact on infection and morbidity. Application deadline is March 25, 2019 11:30 am PDT.

In addition, the following funding opportunity is currently open:

WHO TDR (Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases): TDR Clinical and Research Development Fellowship is for mid-career scientists and clinicians in low- and middle-income countries to learn about infectious diseases clinical research. Selected fellows have an opportunity to spend one year working in a pharmaceutical company or product development partnership in a high-income country. Application deadline is March 7, 2019 16:00 GMT.

We invite you to read summaries of the GCE grants funded to date and to explore an interactive world map of projects across the global Grand Challenges funding partner network. We look forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world. If you have a great idea, please apply. If you know someone else who has a great idea, please forward this message.

Scholarship applications are now being accepted for the 2019 UW Biostatistics Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (see below). Also, general registration is open for the Summer Institutes in Big Data, Clinical & Epidemiological Research, and Modeling in Infectious Diseases.

Last year, 700 plus participants representing 63 universities and 91 companies/organizations attended the 2018 UW Biostatistics Summer Institutes, including 57 students from UW.

Please forward this information to any student or colleague who might be interested in attending and contact uwbiost@uw.edu if you have questions.