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From Basic Behavioral Science to Interventions for Addictive Behaviors (Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Director’s Webinar, 2/27/18)

Presenters

Warren K. Bickel, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech Carilion Inaugural Professor of Behavioral Health Research
Director, Addiction Recovery Research Center
Co-Director, Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

Samuel McClure, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Arizona State University

Presentation Description

The speakers will describe a translational research program that explores the application of basic behavioral findings on delay discounting, decision science, and the neural underpinnings of these processes to the development of interventions for alcohol & drug abuse, obesity and other behavioral risk factors.

 

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NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices

NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
February 9, 2018

Notices
Requests for Applications
Program Announcements
  • Integration of Imaging and Fluid-Based Tumor Monitoring in Cancer Therapy (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PA-18-629)
    National Cancer Institute
    Application Receipt Date(s): Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.
  • NIBIB Exploratory Clinical Trials for Small Business (R44 Clinical Trial Required)
    (PA-18-631)
    National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
    Application Receipt Date(s): Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
  • NIDA Small Research Grant Program (R03 Clinical Trial Required)
    (PA-18-634)
    National Institute on Drug Abuse
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  • NEI Academic Research Enhancement Award for Mechanistic and Minimal Risk Human Subjects’ Research (R15 Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PA-18-635)
    National Eye Institute
    Application Receipt Date(s): Standard dates apply , by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. The first standard application due date for this FOA is June 25, 2018.
  • NIMH Administrative Supplement Program to Enable Continuity of Research Experiences of MD/PhDs during Clinical Training (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PA-18-642)
    National Institute of Mental Health
    Application Receipt Date(s): NIMH accepts and reviews applications on a continuous basis until April 1 of each fiscal year. Applications received after April 1 will be considered for funding in the next fiscal year. Earlier submission is strongly encouraged. Applications for FY 18 funds should be submitted no later than April 1, 2018. Applications for FY 19 funds should be submitted no later than April 1, 2019. Applications for FY 20 funds should be submitted no later than April 1, 2020 Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
  • Supplements to Advance Research (STAR) from Projects to Programs (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PA-18-647)
    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    Application Receipt Date(s): July 1, 2018; March 1, 2019, July 1, 2019, March 1 2020, July 1, 2020, March 1, 2021 by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
  • NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    (PA-18-648)
    National Institutes of Health
    National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
    National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
    National Cancer Institute
    National Eye Institute
    National Human Genome Research Institute
    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    National Institute on Aging
    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    National Institute on Drug Abuse
    National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
    National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    National Institute of General Medical Sciences
    National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
    National Library of Medicine
    Office of the Director, NIH
    Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research Infrastructure Programs
    Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund)
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  • NeuroNEXT Small Business Innovation in Clinical Trials (U44 Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-628)
    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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  • Investigator Initiated Extended Clinical Trial (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
    (PAR-18-630)
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    National Institute on Aging
    National Institute of General Medical Sciences
    Application Receipt Date(s): April 10, 2018; December 7, 2018; March 7, 2019; December 7, 2019 , by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.
  • NIAID SBIR Phase II Clinical Trial Implementation Cooperative Agreement (U44 Clinical Trial Required)
    (PAR-18-632)
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    Application Receipt Date(s): May 14, 2018; September 13, 2018; January 14, 2019; May 13, 2019; September 13, 2019; January 13, 2020; May 13, 2020; September 14, 2020; January 13, 2021, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
  • NIAID Clinical Trial Implementation Cooperative Agreement (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
    (PAR-18-633)
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    Application Receipt Date(s): May 14, 2018; September 13, 2018; January 14, 2019; May 13, 2019; September 13, 2019; January 13, 2020; May 13, 2020; September 14, 2020; January 13, 2021), by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.
  • Innovative Approaches to Studying Cancer Communication in the New Media Environment (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-638)
    National Cancer Institute
    Application Receipt Date(s): June 13, 2018; October 11, 2018, June 13, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
  • Innovative Approaches to Studying Cancer Communication in the New Media Environment (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-639)
    National Cancer Institute
    Application Receipt Date(s): June 13, 2018; October 11, 2018, June 13, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
  • Perception and Cognition Research to Inform Cancer Image Interpretation (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-640)
    National Cancer Institute
    National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
    Application Receipt Date(s): May 30, 2018; September 26, 2018; May 30, 2019; September 26, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
  • Perception and Cognition Research to Inform Cancer Image Interpretation (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-641)
    National Cancer Institute
    National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
    Application Receipt Date(s): May 30, 2018; September 26, 2018; May 30, 2019; September 26, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
  • NHLBI Clinical Ancillary Studies (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-643)
    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    Application Receipt Date(s): April 30, 2018, August 24, 2018, December 18, 2018, April 30, 2019, August 24, 2019, December 18, 2019, April 30, 2020, August 24, 2020, and December 18, 2020, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.
  • Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-644)
    National Institute on Aging
    National Cancer Institute
    Application Receipt Date(s): Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. The first standard due date for resubmission and revision applications is March 16, 2018. The first standard due date for new applications is June 16, 2018.
  • Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R21/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-645)
    National Institute on Aging
    National Cancer Institute
    Application Receipt Date(s): Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. The first standard due date for resubmission and revision applications is March 16, 2018. The first standard due date for new applications is June 16, 2018.
  • Opportunities for Collaborative Research at the NIH Clinical Center (U01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-646)
    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
    National Cancer Institute
    National Eye Institute
    National Human Genome Research Institute
    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
    National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
    National Institute on Drug Abuse
    National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
    National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
    National Institute of Mental Health
    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
    Office of Dietary Supplements
    Office of Research on Women’s Health
    Application Receipt Date(s): April 11, 2018, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on this date.
  • Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Research (R03 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-649)
    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    Application Receipt Date(s): March 30, 2018, March 30, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.
  • Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Research (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
    (PAR-18-650)
    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    Application Receipt Date(s): March 30, 2018, March 30, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. 

 

 

Expanding Participation in Municipal Campaigns: Evaluating the Impact of Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program

Co-sponsor: West Coast Poverty Center

Brian McCabe, Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University

This week, Brian McCabe discusses the impact of Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program for residents and local elections. The Democracy Voucher program in Seattle was designed to broaden representation in the campaign finance system and expand participation from marginalized communities.

Call for Applications: Summer Course at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research – Life Table and Decomposition Analysis for Population Health Research (using R)

Start: June 11, 2018
End: June 20, 2018

Location: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany

Instructors:
Dr. Alyson van Raalte
Dr. Marília Nepomuceno

Course description

The course will present essential demographic methods for health and mortality research.  Participants will develop their skills in applying these methods in R.  First, we will introduce the standard life table construction, including additional life table quantities such as the median and modal ages at death, and measures of age-at-death variation. Second, we will present some decomposition methods that will allow us to investigate differences between mortality measures by age, sex, and cause of death.

Organization

09:00-10:00: Orientation Meeting (Only on  June 11th )
10:00-12:00: Lecture+ Practical
12:00-13:30: Lunch break
13:30-15:30: Lecture + Practical
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-17:00: Work on Individual Projects to be presented on June 20th

The course will run over an 8-day period, with computer lab sessions scheduled every day. Students should prepare to work full time (40 hours per week) for the duration of the course.

Schedule (provisional)

Day 1

  • Building the life table according to HMD protocol
  • Implementing Kannisto function for older ages
  • Calculating confidence intervals for life expectancy

Day 2

  • Other longevity measures
  • Modal age at death
  • Quantiles in ages at death
  • Measures of age-at-death variation (i.e. standard deviation, life disparity, variance, IQR)

Day 3

  • Prevalence-based measure of healthy life expectancy (Sullivan)
  • Multiple decrement life tables
  • Cause-deleted life tables

Day 4

  • Decomposition 1 (Direct vs. compositional)
  • Kitagawa CDR
  • Das Gupta
  • Vaupel and Canudas Romo (2003)

Day 5

  • Decomposition 2 (Life expectancy by age)
  • Arriaga/Andreev/Pressat (discrete)
  • Pollard (continuous)
  • Adding causes of death

Day 6

  • Decomposition 3 (General frameworks)
  • Stepwise decomposition
  • Continuous change (PWH and Caswell)
  • Decomposition 4 (Contour decomposition)

Day 7

  • Decomposition 5 (Variance decomposition)
  • Between- and Within-group decomposition
  • Spread, allocation and timing decomposition (Nau/Firebaugh)

Day 8

  • Project presentation

Course prerequisites

Students should be familiar with basic life table construction. Ideally, students should also have a basic understanding of decomposition methods. It is recommended that students read Preston et al. (2001) Chapters 2-4 prior to the commencement of the course (or an equivalent textbook covering life tables and decomposition). A basic command of R, including data handling, for-loops, and writing basic functions, is a prerequisite. If you have never used R in your research work, please make sure you have sufficient knowledge before the course starts, e.g. by attending a free online course such as https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog. Alternatively or additionally you can also use the tutorial website from UCLA (http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/) or any other R-tutorial which goes into sufficient detail.

Examination

Students are expected to submit a mini-project upon completion of the course. For the project students can either analyze data related to their own research or they can submit a project based on datasets that are provided by the course instructor. The projects and preliminary results will be presented on the last day of class.

Suggested reading

  • Preston S., Heuveline P. and Guillot M. 2001. “Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes”. Wiley-Blackwell.

Further readings with demographic examples and applications will also be provided.

Financial support

There is no tuition fee for this course.  Students are expected to pay their own transportation and living costs.  However, a limited number of scholarships are available on a competitive basis for outstanding candidates and for those applicants who might otherwise not be able to come, supported by ERC grant # 716323 (PI: van Raalte).

Recruitment of students

  • Applicants should either be enrolled in a PhD program or have received their PhD.
  • A maximum of 20 students will be admitted.
  • The selection will be made by the MPIDR based on the applicants’ scientific qualifications.

How to apply

  • Applications should be sent by email to the MPIDR (address below).  Please begin your email message with a statement saying that you apply for course IDEM 182 – Life Table and Decomposition Analysis for Population Health Research. You also need to attach the following items integrated in *a single pdf file*:  (1) A two-page curriculum vitae, including a list of your scholarly publications.  (2) A one-page letter from your supervisor at your home institution supporting your application.  (3) A two-page statement of your research and how it relates to the course.  Please include a short description of your knowledge of basic life table construction, decomposition methods , and of your fluency in R.  At the very end of your research statement, in a separate paragraph, please indicate (a) whether you would like to be considered for financial support and (b) if you would be able to come without financial aid from our side.
  • Send your email to Heiner Maier (idem@demogr.mpg.de).
  • Application deadline is April 10, 2018.
  • Applicants will be informed of their acceptance by 30 April 2018.
  • Applications submitted after the deadline will be considered only if space is available.

How Do We Move Forward Together? (Washington Climate Policy Panel, 2/13/18)

Climate change is not just an environmental issue — it is an economic, social and moral issue. Adapting to wildfires, flooding, and rising temperatures underscores an urgent need for policies that center communities at the forefront of climate impacts.

Washington has an opportunity to lead on state climate policy. We hope you’ll join us for a robust panel discussion featuring important perspectives from civic leaders as we discuss how we can best address this multi-faceted problem.

Panelists include:
-Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington Chapter of AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the United States
-Rosalinda Guillen, Executive Director of Community to Community Development, the Pacific Northwest’s leader in food justice, immigration reform and farmworker rights
-Daniel Malarkey, Board Member on Washington CleanTech Alliance and previous Deputy Director of Washington’s Department of Commerce
-Nives Dolsak PhD, Associate Director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, with a research focus on governing common pool resources, and member of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Science Panel
-Heidi Roop PhD, Communications Director for the Climate Impacts Group

Moderated by:
Dr. Sarah Myhre, UW Oceanography Researcher, Climate Justice Activist and member of the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.

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Organizations involved include UAW4121, GreenEvans, GPSS Science & Policy Committee, and Program on Values and Society

Objects of a Just War – Expendable Life in Duterte’s Phillipines (Neferti X. M. Tadiar presents in John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, 2/21/18)

Neferti Tadiar speaks on race and capitalism as part of “Capitalism and Comparative Racialization,” a 2017-2018 John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her work examines the role of cultural practice and social imagination in the production of wealth, power, marginality, and liberatory movements in the context of global relations. Her research focuses on contemporary Philippine and Filipino cultures and their relation to political and economic change, while addressing broader issues of gender, race, and sexuality in the discourses and material practices of nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization.

She is working on two book projects: Present Senses: Aesthetic Politics and Asia in the Global (with Jonathan L. Beller) and Remaindered Life: Becoming Human in a Time of War. She is the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009) and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004), which was awarded the Philippine National Book Award in Cultural Criticism.

UW Labor Studies Social (Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Annual Meet and Greet, 2/13/18)

Join the Harry Bridges Center for our annual meet-and-greet dedicated to networking Labor Studies faculty and students at the University of Washington.

  • Meet other faculty and students interesting in Labor Studies from departments across campus
  • Learn more about scholarships and research grants opportunities
  • Learn about internship opportunities with local labor organizations
  • Meet Seattle area labor leaders
  • Enjoy drinks and refreshments!

Founded in 1992, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies supports research, teaching and community outreach at the University of Washington in order to promote the study of labor in all of its facets – locally, nationally, and worldwide.

RSVP: RSVPs are not required, but are requested. To RSVP, contact the Bridges Center at 206-543-7946, or e-mail hbcls@uw.edu .

Lessons from DesInventar – A Critical Look at the Performance of Disaster Databases (Population Dynamics and Environmental Change Seminar Series, 2/23/18)

Pop Dynamics and Environmental Change

A monthly seminar series exploring the links between people and their environments, in our fast changing global landscape. Co-sponsored by the Population Council, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR), and the UN Population Division. This seminar series will feature key experts from the fields of demography, climate and public health sharing insights on their interdisciplinary work to measure and solve climate related challenges.

Join us for our first seminar on Friday February 23, 1:00–2:30 pm

Title: “Lessons from DesInventar: A Critical Look at the Performance of Disaster Databases”
Authors/Presenters: Mark R. Montgomery and Samir Souidi

The need for systematic data for understanding and measuring the social and economic consequences of disasters is a  central theme in the Sustainable Development Goals. Since the 1990s, the DesInventar initiative has offered a unique database built primarily on media reports that make it possible to pinpoint exactly when and where disasters occur. Using DesInventar databases from Mexico, Peru,  Madagascar, Mozambique, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the seminar will take a critical look at the performance of media reports as indicators of four types of local disasters: floods, landslides, drought, and earthquakes.

Population Council
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Floor 3
New York, NY 10017

RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/wMIv3qCKaeDWUkaL2

Call for Papers: Spaces & Flows – Ninth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Spaces & Flows: Ninth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, held 25–26 October 2018 at Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany.

We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2018 Special Focus: “Mobilities in the Global North and South – Critical Urban and Global Visions.”

Visit  the link below to learn more and submit a proposal. Proposals due by March 19, 2018.

Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials

OBSSR in collaboration with NHLBI will hold the Eighteenth Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials on July 8-19, 2018, in Warrenton, Virginia. The purpose of the multi-day training is to provide a thorough grounding in the conduct of randomized clinical trials to researchers interested in developing competence in the planning, design, and execution of randomized clinical trials involving behavioral interventions. There is no fee to apply.

The deadline for submitting a completed application is February 23, 2018.