This is an immediate opening for a population projection and estimate analyst with applied experience in state and local demography. The ideal candidate will have experience using advanced demographic techniques to develop databases and models and in independently conducting research to support statutorily required estimates and forecasts. The Population Unit operation focuses on team work and cross training. This position will be part of certain team(s) that produces a variety of estimates and forecasts with the emphasis on OFM’s official population estimates, state and county total population and characteristics forecasts, and small area population and demographic estimates. The ideal candidate will have SAS and/or GIS skills and be able to lead and participate in coding complex demographic models. The following duties also may be considered for this position with internal adjustment of responsibilities: guide efforts to help the public and state and local governments to properly use federal census and survey data; conduct senior-level demographic research needed by the OFM Director, Governor and Legislature to support budget and policy development; and work closely with the Senior Forecast Manager in the development of population estimates and forecasts by race and ethnicity. This position has certain lead responsibilities within OFM, as well as with other local, state and federal agencies, in coordinating data acquisition, method development and evaluation in population programs.

Each day of the conference will offer papers on a wide range of topics including:

• Travel-Related Cases
• Elimination of Breeding Site
• Culturally Diverse Populations
• Preparing Community Strategies
• Local Partnership and Participation
• Current Outbreak of Zika Virus Infection
• Prevention Education Efforts and Risk Communication
• Traveling to a Region with Ongoing Zika Virus Transmission
• Emergency Response and Hospital/Healthcare Coordination
• Recommended Surveillance and Response Actions for Local Agencies Including Vector Control Agencies and Health Departments

Panel Discussions include:

• Diagnostic Platforms
• Health Department Response
• Mosquito response in Louisiana
• Community Strategies/Partnership
• Mitigating Public Health Vulnerabilities
• Mosquito Vector Surveillance and Control
• Clinical Picture: Country Report & Outbreaks Update
• Zika Virus Prevention, Community Engagement and Cultural Equity
• Community Mosquito Control Methods, Shortcomings & options
• Defending Susceptible Communities from Spread of Arbo Viruses
• Establishment and Implementation of A Scalable Vectorborne Disease Response Plan at the Local Level

Over 20 breakout sessions will be offered addressing a wide range of issues, including:

• Breakout: Zika & Politics
• Breakout: Diagnostic Platforms
• Breakout: Dengue fever, Hawaii
• Breakout: Zika Virus, Locally Acquired
• Breakout: Health department Response
• Breakout: Zika Virus, Travel-Associated Cases
• Breakout: Living With Imported Cases of Zika
• Breakout: How to reach out to Latino Communities
• Breakout: Learn Message Tools, Skills and Mapping
• Breakout: Locally acquired Dengue–Key West, Florida
• Breakout: Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN)
• Breakout: Contingency Planning for local transmission at local level
• Breakout: How the do cities combat the Zika Virus?
• Breakout: Perspectives on Zika and Other Emerging/Re-emerging Infections
• Breakout: Defending Susceptible Communities from Spread of Arbo Viruses
• Breakout: Chikungunya, Dengue, Yellow Fever & Zika Comparison of Signs & Symptom
• Breakout: The role of local health departments public health preparedness program
• Breakout: Recommended Surveillance and Response Actions for Local Agencies Including Vector Control Agencies and Health Departments
• Breakout: Emerging/Re-emerging pathogens (ZIKV, MERS-CoV, Flu, etc.)  case for strengthening collaboration on global health security

Workshops include:

• Learn How To Plan
• Know How To Respond
• Learn Message Tools, Skills & Mapping
• Learn Message development strategies.
• How To Harness The Power Of Social Media
• Develop Effective Risk And Crisis Communication Plan
• How To Work Effectively With News Media & Journalists
• Make everyone a stakeholder. Spell out roles and responsibilities
• Crafting Risk and Crisis Messages & Best Practices across Risk Phases
• Develop strategies needed to enhance believability, trust, and credibility
• Establish social media best practices for communications with the public during an outbreak

The Federal Interagency Working Group for Revision of the Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity’s second Federal Register Notice (FRN) has been published.  The FRN is available below and is open for public comment for 60 days.  Comments must be provided in writing to OMB.  Comments are encouraged to be sent via email to Race-Ethnicity@omb.eop.gov. Other methods of communicating questions and comments are contained in the FRN.

The Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (CLLS) will be hosting the 15^th  Meeting of theEuropean Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce. The conference will take place in Antwerp, Belgium on 5^th-7^th October.

The conference organizers invite papers on the causes, procedures and consequences of union dissolution. We encourage research from sociological, psychological, economic, demographic, legal and other perspectives on these topics. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. The format of the conference will be similar to previous meetings with regular paper sessions and plenty of time for discussion.

The conference will start on the morning of the 5^th, and ends on the afternoon of the 7^th. The conference venue is located in the heart of Antwerp, close to public transport and hotels. There is no conference fee. Participants will cover their own travel and lodging expenses.

Please submit your abstract (300 words) via the conference website by 1^st May. Abstracts will be evaluated, and notifications sent out by the end of May. Full papers should be uploaded at least three weeks before the meeting.

• Instructor: Ann Gleason
• 3 credits, standard grading
• Online

This course explores the characteristics of users of health sciences information; health professionals, researchers, consumers and patients; environments (academic health sciences centers, hospitals, clinics, and public libraries); evaluation of information resources in health care; types and uses of health information management systems; policy issues, professional standards, education, and certification. Offered jointly with BIME 570.