The Population Health Initiative is now accepting applications for graduate student conference travel awards.
Awards of up to $1,500 each are available to further students’ academic, research or professional goals as they strive to become the next generation of leaders in population health.
Applications are due on April 26, 2019.
We seek to train scientists to understand complex health problems and health disparities as resulting from multiple interacting layers of influence that unfold over chronological, biological, and historical time. This exciting new program at the University of Minnesota, housed in the Minnesota Population Center, features cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease, as well as in the social sciences. The program includes engagement in independent and collaborative population health research supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty, and intensive professional socialization designed to integrate trainees from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and prepare them to have outstanding careers as population health scientists.
Interested candidates can read more about our program online (https://pop.umn.edu/training/postdoctoral) and can download an application in the “How to Apply” section. We are accepting applications now.
Please direct all questions to Lindsey Fabian (fabian@umn.edu).
At the upcoming 2019 PAA meeting, 4 CSDE Fellows, 9 CSDE Trainees, and 28 CSDE Affiliates are scheduled to participate as presenters, chairs, coauthors, and discussants. Our scholars tackle a wide range of demographic issues, represented in the varied presentations listed here.
CSDE will also sponsor an IAPHS panel discussion and reception on community-engaged research titled “Population Health Reception: The Perils and Promise of Community Engaged Research” (Wednesday, 4/10/2019, 6:00-7:30 PM, JW Marriott, Brazos 206). Organized by Chris Bachrach and Dawn Upchurch, this panel will feature comments by Mark Hayward, University of Texas-Austin, Lourdes Rodriguez, University of Texas-Austin, David Vlahov, Yale School of Nursing, and Rachel Kimbro, Rice University. There will be plenty of time for networking, refreshments, and a lively audience discussion.
CSDE has supported Trainees and Fellows by awarding PAA travel grants to Ian Kennedy, Christine Leibbrand, Connor Gilroy, and Hilary Wething. CSDE Trainees also participated in a PAA workshop led by Matt Hall last Fall, where they received feedback from CSDE Affiliates on drafts of their submissions.
CRAFTING EFFECTIVE DIVERSITY STATEMENTS & COVER LETTERS
A panel and workshop for postdocs and graduate students.
Thursday, Apr 4th, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, Unity Suite
What is a diversity statement? Why is it important? How do I describe my potential to contribute to diversity, inclusion and equity in academia and industry?
Panelists:
Hear panelists talk about what they look for in a diversity statement when they are hiring; discuss expectations for a diversity statement in your job application; and begin writing one as part of the workshop.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/diversityStatement
In celebration of 2019 Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, this event is generously co-hosted by:
Interested in applying to the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE) 2019? The call for participation is now out!
The Doctoral Consortium is designed to support the development of graduate students who are in the early stages of working on their dissertations. Doctoral students will meet and discuss their work with peers and mentors from the field of Quantitative Ethnography. Graduate students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium will receive free conference registration, hotel accommodations, and travel stipends.
Interested? Check out the ICQE schedule and the call for participation below for more information about this chance to present and get feedback on your research and to learn more about new research and developments in Quantitative Ethnography!
CSDE is happy to share the exciting 2019 Spring Seminar Schedule, starting with the PAA Practice Presentations this Friday and closing with the CSDE community end-of-year reception, in June. The impressive lineup of speakers includes Jenna Nobles (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mary Pattillo (Northwestern), Daniel Belsky (Columbia), Anna Gassman-Pines (Duke), Alan Griffith (UW) and Fabian Pfeffer (University of Michigan). A big highlight is the UW Data Collective launch party on April 19, 2019. You can find all of the details in the Seminar Series page or by downloading and printing the poster. Feel free to put it up in your office and department!
CSDE is hosting a practice presentation session to help prepare for PAA and improve presentation skills. The format is informal and is a great opportunity to hone your presentation and get feedback from friends and colleagues. Presenters include Hilary Wething, Public Policy, Christine Leibbrand, Sociology, Ian Kennedy, Sociology, Lauren Wyszynski, IHME, Yuan Hsiao, Sociology & Statistics, and Neal Marquez, Sociology. Everyone is invited to discuss or observe! Lunch will be served.
CSDE Affiliate Amelia Gavin, Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, was recently featured in a UW News story about a Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice paper in which she connects racial discrimination to PTSD, and thus to preterm birth.
According to Gavin, “Pregnancy is a stress test for the body. If you’ve been stressed during your life through discrimination, poverty and residential segregation, then the likelihood of having a healthy birth outcome has been compromised.”
Gavin’s article finds that African-American women are nearly twice as likely to give birth prematurely as white women. Such births often coincide with low birth weight, and together are linked to other developmental delays and health effects believed responsible for almost one-fifth of infant deaths nationwide. The trend holds up regardless of socioeconomic factors.
Lee Fiorio, Geography doctoral student, and Connor Gilroy, Sociology doctoral student, are CSDE Trainees, former Funded Fellows, and leaders of the Computational Demography Working Group. The UW College of Arts & Sciences has recently published a story featuring their incredible research at the leading edge of data science and social science.
Both Fiorio, who focuses on migration across the US and the globe, and Gilroy, who looks at our willingness to share information about our sexual identity, use traditional sources like the US Census, but they find that the massive quantities of data generated through social media or cell phone use — digital trace data — provide a particularly rich snapshot of society. “The data are generated in real time, they are generated very quickly, and that’s very different from a traditional demographic data source like the US Census, which comes out once every ten years,” says Gilroy. According to Fiorio, “the research is about methodology — seeing what digital trace data can tell us that might be missing when we go about estimating migration in the standard, traditional way.”
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) invites Early Stage Investigators (ESI, within 10 years of their terminal degree) to participate in the NIH Matilda White Riley Honors Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Paper Competition. Initiated as an annual distinguished scholar lecture, OBSSR expanded the Matilda White Riley Honors event in 2016 to recognize emerging scientists with a competition for peer-reviewed articles by ESIs. OBSSR will pay the travel expenses for up to four ESI honorees to present the findings from their accepted paper and participate in a moderated discussion of future behavioral and social sciences research possibilities during the 12th annual meeting, to be held on Thursday, June 6.
ESIs can submit one research article meeting the following criteria:
– The first author of the paper is an Early Stage Investigator (as of the deadline for this paper competition submission), defined by the NIH as someone who has completed their terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award.
– The article was published or accepted and in-press between 01/01/18 and 12/31/18.
– The article involves original research published in a peer-review journal. (Note: conceptual, review, or meta-analysis papers are not eligible for this competition).
The submission deadline is Sunday, March 31, 2019. Submission link: https://mwr.obssr.od.nih.gov/Contestant
The 12th NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors will be held on Thursday, June 6, 2019, from 8:00 am to 12 noon on NIH’s Main Campus – Wilson Hall, Building 1. https://www.scgcorp.com/obssr12thmatilda/
If you have any questions, please contact NIHMWRHonors@nih.gov.
For more information about past NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors, visit the OBSSR website: https://obssr.od.nih.gov