NICHD is planning to continue to accept and fund R21 applications. An NICHD-specific R21 funding announcement will be issued shortly. NICHD had planned to have the new R21 FOA and the Notice of NICHD’s withdrawal from the Parent R21 funding announcement issued as approximately the same time, but the issuance of the NICHD R21 announcement was delayed.
Bottom line: Do not worry.
This cross-disciplinary symposium brings together students, faculty, researchers and members of the public to discuss racial disparities in population health and health care, and the broader social, political, economic and historical structures in which they occur.
Submissions are open for Improving Population Health: Now, Across People’s Lives and Across Generations to Come meeting October 2 – 4, 2017. The 3rd annual interdisciplinary population health research conference will bring scholars and practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds together to share and discuss the science, practice and policy of population health. This meeting is also the first membership meeting of The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS).
The conference is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is organized by the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, the Population Research Institute at Penn State University,The Population Research Center at the University of Texas, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University and the Institute for Policy and Social Research at the University of Kansas.
The submission deadline is April 7, 2017.
Please click below to learn how to submit an abstract.
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand junior researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take such risks, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as an emphasis on community and collaboration.
Pre-proposal instructions
Please submit:
to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, May 4, 2017. Full proposals are due to the sponsor 7/6/17, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/28/17 for processing if given the go ahead by the Proposal Review Committee. Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the internal proposal review committee review and selection process outline, are here. Please feel free to email us at research@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page.
The Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University will hold the research course “Adding the Geographic Context to Demographic Analysis” on September 11-15, 2017. The course will cover methods and theories in historical demography and GIS and will be fully hands-on. Click below for more information.
Speaker: Jessica Hardin, Department of Anthropology, Pacific University
Fellow Host: Brianna Mills
The Samoan islands face unpredicted rates of cardiometabolic disorders, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and hypertension. The Pacific Islands more generally have become the focus of sophisticated and historically significant research about what scholars have called the nutrition or epidemiological transition. Research on these disorders in the islands, tend to focus on three main factors that influence health behaviors: wealth increases in the region; fat positivity; and changes in labor patterns leading to decreased physical activity. Indeed, macro-level changes related to urbanization, migration and a changing food environment have all contributed to population-wide rates of cardiometabolic disorders. However, these trends don’t explain the daily struggles that people face when the materials that once indexed wellness, like food and fat, can now also index sickness. Instead of straightforward valorizations of food and fat, as literature on the epidemiological transition might suggest, I saw ambivalence and anxiety about reciprocity and hierarchy communicated through discussions of these materials. Ambiguity around the meaning of health is often left out of the discussion of the emergence of cardiometabolic disorders worldwide but is essential to understanding the rise of these disorders and effective methods for preventing them. In this talk, I parse out three enduring contradictions that show that discerning cardiometabolic risk a social process of interpreting bodies and relationships: to be wealthy and poor places you are risk; foods that have historically created well-being, now place individuals at risk for developing cardiometabolic disorders; and fat can mean both power, generosity, and generativity and potentially laziness, sickness, and moral corruption.
Jessica Hardin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pacific University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist who is interested in how the intersection of medicine and religion shapes lived experiences of chronic illness. As an ethnographer, her work focuses on metabolic disorders to bridge critical medical anthropology (on nutrition, fat, metabolic disorders) and the anthropology of Christianity (on the body, healing, denomination).
The Fellow Host, Brianna Mills, is a PhD candidate in Epidemiology. Her work is focused on identifying risk markers for firearm injury using probabilistic linkage of medical and criminal records, and neighborhood characteristics. Brianna and Dr. Hardin are alumni of Brandeis University’s Anthropology department, with shared interests in how people’s lived experiences are captured by institutional data systems and mixed methods approaches to social determinants of health.
CSDE is offering a two-hour workshop on using the basic graphics package in R (https://www.r-project.org/). It assumes prior experience with R. Come out and sharpen your statistical skills!
CSDE is co-sponsoring an event at the Population Association of America’s 2017 meeting. The panel, Opportunities for Population Health Science in a Changing Context, aims to examine how a shifting political landscape could impact population health research initiatives and plans. It has been organized by the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) and the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
You can learn more about the panel below. For additional information about PAA presentations, consult their website.
The Graduate Training Program of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) is accepting applications from students looking to train in demography and qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods. The certificate program is the academic pathway to advanced interdisciplinary training in population science, in addition to discipline-based courses of study.
Recognized and supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the completion of the Certificate Program provides graduate students with credentials as a skilled demographer to position them in academic and applied job markets, and to succeed in research funding competitions. The Program is designed to enhance training beyond the requirements of a graduate degree. It provides a coherent body of study in demography, enhanced mentored research experiences, and the following benefits:
The program can be completed in 2 years while concurrently pursuing a graduate degree in any department. Graduate certificates are recorded on your official transcript, and acknowledged with a plaque.
The Certificate Program curriculum consists of five elements:
Visit the CSDE Training webpage for more details on the Demographic Methods Graduate Certificate Program.
Questions? Email the Assistant Director of Training, Aimée Dechter.
Adrian Raftery, CSDE Affiliate and Blumstein-Jordan Professor of Statistics and Sociology at UW, recently received the St. Patrick’s Day Medal from Science Foundation Ireland for his abundant contributions to statistics. Raftery, born in Dublin, has devoted his extensive academic career to developing new statistical methodology, paying particular attention to the social and biological sciences. According to a statement from the foundation, recipients like Raftery “have demonstrated how academic and industry based scientific research can create jobs, tackle global problems and impact positively on people and society” and “are driving globally significant innovation in the areas of agriculture, food production, health, and population and weather forecasting.”
Congratulations, Adrian, on this well-deserved honor!