The UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health invites applications for a full-time, state-funded tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor of Mental Health Epidemiology.

The ideal candidate will have a strong, emerging record of an innovative and productive research program in mental health epidemiology, including mental health, substance use, and/or psychiatric disorders, and a history of successful external funding, consistent with career stage. The successful candidate should also have a strong track record and dedication to teaching foundational and advanced epidemiology courses (e.g., introductory epidemiology, population health, measurement, research methods, and/or study design), as well as courses in the candidate’s specialty area.

Since its inception, the UCLA Department of Epidemiology has established itself as a leader in epidemiologic theory and methods, applied epidemiology, and public health. We are looking for a candidate with excellence in research and dedication to teaching and training the next generation of epidemiologists in areas such as, but not limited to, epidemiologic studies of mental health and substance use, randomized clinical trials for psychiatric disorders, psychiatric genetics, psychopharmacology, mental health comorbidities with infectious or other chronic diseases, and/or mental health-related studies using “big data” (e.g., omics, electronic health records, administrative databases, internet-based data).

The Fielding School of Public Health is located on the main UCLA campus in direct proximity to the other health sciences schools (Medicine, Dentistry, and Nursing), several professional schools, the Semel Institute, and the College of Letters and Science. The UCLA community has a rich history of and commitment to interdisciplinary research and collaboration, including partnerships with the VA. The Department also has strong research and training relations with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and national and international institutions.

Successful candidates must have (or be on track to conclude before July 1, 2019) a doctoral degree (PhD, ScD, MD, DrPH or equivalent) in Epidemiology or related field, demonstrable expertise and interest in epidemiologic research, evidence of excellence in teaching and training of pre- and/or post-doctoral students, peer-reviewed publications, and a demonstrated commitment to public health. Faculty appointment level and salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The deadline for applications to be submitted is November 1, 2018 but the search remains open until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2019. Informal inquiries may be submitted to episearch@ph.ucla.edu.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy.

Cropper GIS is a consulting firm based out of central Ohio, and we primarily work in the K-12 school planning industry. The services we provide to clients include enrollment forecasting, school facility planning, redistricting, and online map hosting. Our company is small, but we do big things and are growing. Our staff works from home offices, but this candidate will be expected to travel to client sites (estimated 5-6 nights per month during Fall/Winter). Our work environment is laid back and we have fun, but the work can be rigorous at times. Fall/Winter is crunch time, but we enjoy a slower period during late Spring and Summer.

We are looking to add 1-2 staff members to our team. It would be preferred if the candidate lived in the Midwest or East Coast. Depending on the resumes received, the qualifications listed below may necessitate hiring 2 persons. The required/desired qualifications of this candidate/s includes:

Required:
– GIS experience (geocoding, polygon editing, cartographic skills)
– Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint)
– Ability to work from home
– Ability/Confidence to present to audiences (committees, school boards). We know it’s rare, but someone who is good at tech while also a ‘people person’ would be perfect!
– Ability/Willingness to travel during the week (no weekend travel)

Desired:
– Experience in demography, developing enrollment projections and/or population forecasting
– HTML5 and experience developing online map solutions (ArcGIS online and/or custom mapping applications)

The candidate will eventually be expected to manage projects and work directly with clients, once they are ready.

Depending on the required and desired skill sets of the candidate, the annual salary for this position can range from $40,000 to $75,000, also with potential for performance bonuses.

If you are interested, please send your resume to croppergis@gmail.com

The American Association of Geographers 2019 Annual Meeting is welcoming papers that examine: environmental impacts on migration; environmental implications of migration; role of vulnerability and adaptive capacity (e.g. gender, socioeconomic status) in shaping environmental migration; trapped populations of potential environmental migrants; and related topics.

Scholarship on environmental migration has moved well beyond simple case studies and normative debates over terminology. Today, it features substantive theory and empirical approaches that draw upon a range of natural and social science disciplines. Geographers have been important leaders in environmental migration research over the last two decades, and continue to make cutting-edge contributions to the field. As countries and communities struggle to cope with climate change, migration will become an increasingly important feature of the adaptation landscape. This session will feature emerging and established scholars presenting their latest empirical and theoretical research on the topic, and seeks to generate active discussion of key emergent issues in the field.

Organizers: Maia Call (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center) and Robert McLeman (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Sponsored by: Population Specialty Group and Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group

Interested applicants should send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Maia Call at mcall@sesync.org and Robert McLeman at rmcleman@wlu.ca by Monday, October 22nd. Accepted applicants will be notified by Wednesday, October 25th.

The National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism has announced the Call for Papers for the Ninth International Conference on Food Studies, held 24–25 October 2019 at the National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

They 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 2019 Special Focus: “Culinary Science: A New Foodway?”

Theme 1: Food Production and Sustainability
Theme 2: Food, Nutrition, and Health
Theme 3: Food Politics, Policies, and Cultures

To submit a proposal, follow this link. 

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, “Transients in Biological Systems,” to be held May 29-31, 2019, at NIMBioS.

Objectives: Transients, or non-asymptotic dynamics, cover a wide range of possibilities, from biology to ecology and beyond. A full understanding of transients and their implications for biology requires mathematical and statistical developments as well as attention to biological detail. Transient dynamics have also played a central role in both empirical observations and in models in neuroscience. Yet interaction between ecologists and neuroscientists on this topic has been limited. Although epidemiology could be considered part of population biology, there is also less cross-talk between epidemiology and other areas of population biology than desirable. Transients clearly play a role in disease dynamics. Areas such as immune response require attention to transients as well.

Goals for the workshop:

• To spur further research into transients, both from a mathematical standpoint and as a way to understand and analyze biological systems
• To develop appropriate statistical questions related to the analysis of biological systems using ideas from transient dynamics
• To prepare one or more synthetic documents on the role of transients across biological systems.

Co-Organizers: Alan Hastings, Environmental Science and Policy, Univ. of California, Davis; Carl Boettiger, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Kim Cuddington, Biology, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada; Andrew Morozov, Mathematics, Univ. of Leicester, UK; and Sergei Petrovskii, Mathematics, Univ. of Leicester, UK

Participation in NIMBioS workshops is by application only. Individuals with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and successful applicants will be notified within two weeks after the application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals, and lodging is available for workshop attendees.

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life sciences. NIMBioS is supported by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, “Mathematics of Gun Violence,” to be held May 1-3, 2019, at NIMBioS.

Objectives: Gun violence is a central public concern in the United States, annually leading to the deaths of 31,000 individuals and the non-fatal injuries of 78,000 others. It has been called an epidemic and a public health crisis. For infectious disease epidemics and associated public health planning (including recent Zika and Ebola outbreaks), officials relied on mathematical models to evaluate immediate responses and develop preventative policies. The construction of policies to curb the spread of gun violence could benefit from the development of mathematical models linked with available data. This workshop will bring together researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to (i) review the existing approaches on the mathematics and modeling of gun violence, (ii) identify and prioritize areas in the field that require further research, (iii) develop cross-disciplinary collaborations to gain new perspectives, and (iv) suggest research and data-collection that could assist evidence-based policy recommendations. A direct outcome from this workshop will be a comprehensive review of existing models on this topic with suggestions for further effort. It is expected that collaborations arising from the workshop will result in novel efforts to enhance the quantitative underpinnings of the science of gun violence.

The workshop will incorporate discussions and critiques of the existing approaches to gun violence modeling and how these relate to the objectives for which models could be developed. Comparisons of various modeling approaches (including dynamical systems, agent-based, spatial, and statistical) and the parameterization of these models will be considered. Through discussions of existing and future models, we will also assess the available data and suggest new data collection.. The workshop will consider the variety of scales at which models of this system can be developed and the associated implications at these different scales. The relationship to models for human behavior, including those from social psychology and game theory, will be evaluated.

Effective approaches to building a theory of gun violence, which will then inform a science of gun violence, will require perspectives from multiple disciplines. The workshop will consider a systems approach that bring together interacting factors and components operating on multiple scales of time and space. Attendees will incorporate ideas from various quantitative fields (including mathematics, computer science, statistics, and informatics), social science areas (including geography, psychology, and criminology), and biological disciplines (including behavior, medicine, and ecology). The necessary research will be informed by practitioners involved in policy and law enforcement and will account for ethical issues of social justice and privacy. An objective is to consider how models might inform potential interventions, communication formats, educational initiatives, and control methods.

The workshop will include presentations from participants, a poster session to indicate the diversity of methods currently being used in the field, and breakout groups on topics chosen with input from participants. Participants will be expected to contribute to a review outlining the current approaches identifying gaps in the literature, and presenting potential future directions.

Co-Organizers: Andrea L. Bertozzi, Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA; Louis J. Gross, Mathematics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, NIMBioS, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Andrew V. Papachristos, Sociology, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern Univ.; Shelby M. Scott, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Martin B. Short, Mathematics, Georgia Tech

Participation in NIMBioS workshops is by application only. Individuals with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and successful applicants will be notified within two weeks after the application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals, and lodging is available for workshop attendees.

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) brings together researchers from around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life sciences. NIMBioS is supported by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), in partnership with the IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes, is organizing and hosting the first Symposium on Digital Demography (Rostock, October 17-18, 2018).

This event brings together prominent scholars in Demography, Sociology, and Computational Social Sciences. It serves as a forum for discussion of the direction and latest advances in the field, as well as an opportunity to develop collaborative initiatives in research and training.

Digital Demography is an emerging field that focuses on 1) using our digital breadcrumbs and new forms of data collection made possible by digital technologies in order to measure and predict demographic change; 2) evaluating the implications of the digital revolution for demographic behavior and the well-being of people.

The symposium marks the launch of the new MPIDR Lab on Digital and Computational Demography, headed by MPIDR director and CSDE regional affiliate Emilio Zagheni. CSDE Science Core Director Matt Hall is a featured speaker.

If you would like to attend the symposium, please register by October 12 at the latest by sending an e-mail to Annett Döpke (sekzagheni@demogr.mpg.de).