Summer News, June 18, 2013
Hi Everybody,
The United Nations has released a new set of its biennial World Population Prospects, with demographic
estimates and projections for all countries or areas of the world, 1950-2100; see:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/, click on the 2012 Revision of World Population
Prospects button (upper right part of the home page): http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm. Starting
this year, the Population Division decided to post the entire set of demographic estimates and
projections, including the version with interpolated population by single age and calendar year. See the
last 3 files in: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Excel-Data/Interpolated.htm.
And another data tidbit: The National Center for Health Statistics updated the national estimates of the
size and characteristics of the population without landline telephones. This new report is based on
National Health Interview Survey data collected from July - December 2012. During that time period,
38.2% of American homes were wireless-only and 15.9% were wireless-mostly. The online report may
be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201306.pdf, or accessed from
the NCHS homepage at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
It’s a changing world. Events and other announcements follow.
Leora-
EVENTS
Wednesday, June 19 | 6-7:30 p.m. The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on an Urban Pediatric
Population, with Nadine Burke Harris, M.D., MPH, FAAP. This is a Berkeley Extension class but there is
no fee for this one-time meeting; refer to EDP 315861. Make reservations online, or by calling 510-6424111. http://extension.berkeley.edu/catalog/course1937.html. Meets in downtown San Francisco.
June 24-28, 8th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health Berkeley and Oakland California. Last
chance to register: www.regonline.com/MigrationHealth2013.
NIH
Research to Characterize and Reduce Stigma to Improve Health (R03, R21 and R01). This program
encourages research grant applications to characterize the role of stigma in health, life course
development, and aging, both in the U.S. and globally, and to test interventions to prevent or reduce the
impact of stigma at the individual, community, health care system, and policy levels. The goal of this
FOA is to promote research addressing the health-related aspects of stigma, including the etiology and
perpetuation of stigma; its impact on physical and mental health, well-being, life course development,
and aging; its influence on health behaviors and on use, access to, and quality of received healthcare
services; its contribution to health disparities affecting vulnerable demographic groups; and
intervention strategies to reduce health-related stigma and/or the negative health and life course
developmental impacts of stigma. For the R01 and links to the other two forms, visit:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-248.html
Research Grants
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social
sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and
control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding
and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world. Awards normally
range from $15,000 to $40,000 per year for one or two years. Deadline(s): 08/01/2013
Address:
25 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019-5401.
E-mail:info@hfg.org
Web Site:http://www.hfg.org/
Program URL:http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution: Any/No Restrictions
Awards normally range from $15,000 to $40,000 per year for one or
two years.
American Educational Research Association: The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education
issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of
education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are
quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF or other federal agencies,
and have U.S. education policy relevance. Applicants for Research Grants may be U.S. citizens or U.S.
permanent residents. Non-U.S. citizens working at a U.S. institution are also eligible to apply. Applicants
must have received the doctoral degree by the start date of the grant. Underrepresented racial and
ethnic minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. Awards for Research Grants are up to
$20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects. In accordance with AERA's agreement
with the funding agencies, institutions may not charge indirect costs or overhead on these awards.
Deadline(s): 09/05/2013
Address:
1430 K Street NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20005
Web Site:http://www.aera.net
Program URL:
http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrantsProgram/Re
searchGrants/tabid/12813/Default.aspx
Proposals for Research Grants will be reviewed twice a year, once in
the fall and once in the winter.
Funding available for research on child care, Hispanic families
Application deadlines in July 2013. The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within the
Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has recently
published three research funding announcements: "Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child
Care Research Scholars;" "Child Care Research Partnerships;" "Center for Research on Hispanic Children
& Families." Letters of intent and applications for each are due on various dates from late June through
mid-July. For more information, please visit:
http://www.ncfr.org/news/funding-available-research-child-care-hispanic-families.
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health 2013 Call for Proposals.
Deadline: July 24, 2013, 3:00 p.m. ET. This is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation® (RWJF). The program seeks to build the evidence for and strengthen the use of regulatory,
legal and policy solutions to improve public health. PHLR is equally interested in identifying and
ameliorating laws and legal practices that unintentionally harm health. PHLR’s purpose is to answer
important questions, such as: How does law influence health and health behavior? Which laws have the
greatest impact? Can current laws be made more effective through better enforcement, or do they
require amendment? Up to 18-month awards of up to $150,000 each for short-term studies, and up
to $1 million will be available under this call for proposals (CFP). For more information, visit:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2013/public-health-law-research--making-the-casefor-laws-that-improv.html.
OPPORTUNITIES
ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development
(DFID) are pleased to announce a call for three large and exciting Research Programmes of work under
Phase 3 of the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research.
1) Disability, Inequality and Poverty
2) Poverty in Urban Spaces
3) Urbanisation and Risk in Africa
Both funders are committed to commissioning world class research and ensuring the results are
available for policy makers and development workers worldwide. Deadline(s): 09/10/2013
Additional contact: Lyndy Griffin +44 (0)1793 413135., E-mail: dfid@esrc.ac.uk
Link to full program description: http://www.infoed.org/new_spin/spin_prog.asp?23443
Program URL: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/funding-opportunities/26497/esr c-dfidpoverty-alleviation-research10-sep.aspx
Sociological Initiatives Foundation - Grants Program
The Sociological Initiatives Foundation supports research that furthers social change, including language
learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions.
Deadline(s): 08/15/2013 .
Address: Grants Management Associates, 77 Summer St, Suite 800, Boston, MA 02110-1006
E-mail:
pzinn@gmafoundations.com
Web Site:
http://www.sifoundation.org/
Program URL: http://www.sifoundation.org/sample-page/
The Peter F. McManus Trust will make grants of up to $50,000 for research into the causes of alcohol
and other drug addiction. A total of $150,000 to $200,000 in grants will be awarded this year to support
basic, clinical, and social-environmental research. Only nonprofits may apply, and no more than 10
percent of the grant amount may be used for indirect costs. Applicants should submit a two- to threepage summary proposal and proposed budget along with a copy of their institution’s 501(c)3 letter and
a bio-sketch of the investigator. Deadline: August 30, 2013. Contact: Katherine G. Lidz (610) 647-4974. –
See: http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/mayjun13/announce_0513.html#fund.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Illegality, Youth and Belonging: International symposium, Harvard University, October 25-26
We invite proposals for papers which investigate aspects related to the dual and conflicting experiences
of illegality and belonging, particularly as they concern the lives of children, youth, and young adults
who have grown up or spent their formative years in host countries. We welcome in particular proposals
that focus on one or more of the following areas:
Everyday experiences of ‘illegality’ among children and young people
Intergenerational impacts of undocumented status
The effects of widened access to rights and entitlements (e.g. DACA, financial aid, in-state tuition)
The uneven geography of contemporary immigration policy and practice
The political mobilizations of youth
Please submit an abstract (max 250 words) and a brief CV (1 page) to immigrantyouth@gse.harvard.edu by Monday July 15, 2013. Participants will be notified if their paper has been
selected by Friday, August, 2. Drafts of papers should be submitted to the organizers by Tuesday,
October 8, 2013 and will be circulated to discussants before the conference. Please note that by
submitting an abstract you commit to producing an initial draft of an original paper of about 3,000-4,000
words (presentations are expected to be about 20 minutes). Also note that we can only accommodate a
limited number of papers. For more information, visit http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/legal-statusinternational-symposia
The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH) invites service providers, practitioners,
policymakers, homeless and formerly homeless individuals, advocates, researchers, and members of the
media to submit presentation proposals for the Beyond Housing 2014 Conference, to be held January
15-17, 2014. A national conference to connect people to ideas and ideas to practice. The conference
includes concurrent sessions and workshops aimed at addressing and providing actionable solutions to
particular aspects of homelessness. Session formats are flexible, and we encourage proposals that are
interactive and explore the issues from innovative points of view. Proposal submission deadline is June
28, 2013. Visit http://www.BeyondHousing.ICPHusa.org for further informatnion and to find submission
guidelines.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Don’t forget that D-Lab has workshops during the summer. Take this time to expand your knowledge
base. Every method you learn in grad school is a skill you might need later on, and now is the time to
accumulate methodological capabilities. There are still spots open for R, SQL, databases and more. Visit
http://dlab.berkeley.edu for more information.
Summer News June 9, 2013
Hello everybody,
And yet again, we rock. I am pleased to announce that Paul Gertler has won the 2013 José Luis
Bobadilla Medal for Global Health during the 15th International Congress of Research in Public Health,
which took place in March in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Gertler has the distinction of being the first
economist to ever receive the award, which recognizes his extensive research on the role of financial
incentives in the delivery of health care services.
NIH announces that its electronic application forms will be changing for all grants that are submitted
electronically as of September 25, 2013. Should you be applying for an NIH grant (and do let me know!)
not much will be changing but it would be prudent to give the RES analysts and SPO a couple extra days
to get used to it. For more information, read the announcement at: E
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-074.html.
Events and other announcements follow. I hope you are all enjoying your summer.
-Leora
PS: I’m currently out of the country but am available by email and phone: 011-972-52-579-1861
between the hours of 7 AM to 2 PM PDT only. I cannot check the voice mail. I’ll be back June 25.
EVENTS
June 10 | 4-5 p.m. | Seminar: Atkins Center for Weight and Health Seminar: School and community
based approaches to the prevention of childhood obesity. With Gary Foster, Temple University, the
Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University.
101 Morgan Hall
June 12 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Workshop: Create. Connect. Collaborate: New Media Best Practices A Training
Series for Bay Area Health Care and Public Health Professionals: Mobile Technology in Public Health.
With Caricia Catalani, InSTEDD, and Deb Levine, ISIS. Location: The California Endowment Conference
Center, Oakland.
NIH GRANTS
NIH Short Course Program, "Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies in the Behavioral and Social
Sciences (R25)" Due date extended to November 14, 2013. For the full RFA, visit:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-13-009.html. [I’m writing an R25 now for another
program, and much of the material or at least the structure can be utilized if you have an idea. Let me
know.]
GRANTS
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/,
within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has
recently published two discretionary research funding announcements titled “Child Care Administrative
Data Analysis Grants” and “Research Connections.”
Grant Opportunity 1: Child Care Administrative Data Analysis Grants
The full announcement for “Child Care Administrative Data Analysis” is available online,
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2013-ACF-OPRE-YE-0604. . OPRE intends to
award up to 10 cooperative agreements to support rigorous, policy-relevant research that
primarily involves the analysis of child care administrative data. Research projects must be led
by State/Territory/Tribal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies, which may
partner with other local or state agencies that administer CCDF programs on their behalf, as well
as with institutions of higher education or research organizations, especially if the eligible
agency does not have the in-house capacity to conduct research. Applicants may apply for
project periods up to 36 months with three 12-month budget periods. Up to $100,000 may be
awarded for each budget period. Letters of intent are due June 10, 2013, and applications are
due June 24, 2013.
Grant Opportunity 2: Research Connections Grant
The full announcement for “Research Connections” is available online,
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2013-ACF-OPRE-YE-0601 . OPRE intends to
award a cooperative agreement to operate the Child Care and Early Education Research
Connections (“Research Connections”) website. Research Connections houses an increasingly
comprehensive collection of research reports, syntheses, and other critical information related
to child care, Head Start, and early education, with a particular focus on children in low-income
families. Further, Research Connections provides researchers and policymakers access to and
technical assistance with comprehensive collections of data from major child care, Head Start,
and early education research and evaluation studies; fosters collaboration and outreach that
can strengthen dissemination and research use by research and policymaker communities; and
supports the Child Care Policy Research Consortium. Eligible applicants include institutions of
higher education, non-profit organizations, and for-profit organizations. Applicants may apply
for project periods up to 60 months with five 12-month budget periods. Up to $1.5 million may
be awarded for each budget period. Letters of intent are due June 9, 2013, and applications are
due June 24, 2013.
Faculty/Post-Doctoral Grant Program (Fahs-Beck Fellows): Grants of up to $20,000 are available to
help support the research of faculty members or post-doctoral researchers affiliated with non-profit
human service organizations in the United States and Canada. Areas of interest to the Fund are: studies
to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate
major social, psychological, behavioral or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples,
families, or communities, or studies that have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about
such problems. The research for which funding is requested must focus on the United States or Canada
or on a comparison between the United States or Canada and one or more other countries.. Deadline:
November 1, 2013 For more information and to apply:
http://www.fahsbeckfund.org/pdf_files/FRG_Guidelines_&_Application.pdf.
Social Science Research Council: The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Faculty
Field Competition is now accepting research field proposals for the next fellowship cycle from tenured
humanities and social sciences faculty interested in creating or reinvigorating interdiscipoliknary fields of
study through the training of the next generation of researchers. Application deadline is October 1,
2013. For more information, visit: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-faculty-fields-competition/.
VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. SYNOPSIS: The Centre for
Studies in Religion and Society invites applications from scholars in Canada or abroad for visiting
fellowship appointments of up to 12 months' duration during the 2013/14 academic year. It does not
provide funding, just space and affiliation. The purpose of the fellowship is to provide research space
and an environment conducive to writing and reflection to scholars working on research projects in the
area of religion and society. Four to six fellowships are offered annually. Deadline(s): 06/30/2013.
Address: University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada.
E-mail: csrs@uvic.ca; Tel: 250-721-6325; Fax: 250-721-6234.
Program URL: http://csrs.uvic.ca/Awardsandfellowships/visiting.php
Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution: Any/No Restrictions
Eligibility: Individual, Non-Specific, Doctoral-Midcareer/Senior Investigator, Postdoctoral Researcher,
Young Investigator/Junior Faculty.
This fellowship is open to: Canadian and international scholars; emeritus scholars; new scholars; and
scholars on sabbatical leave from their regular academic appointments. OBJECTIVES: The centre
welcomes applications from all disciplinary backgrounds for projects that meet its mandate of
promoting the scholarly study of religion in relation to any and all aspects of society and culture, both
contemporary and historical. Topics may include, but are not limited to, examinations of religious
themes within the areas of ethics, health, law, environment, technology, government and public policy,
human conflict, art, literature, the media and currents and debates in philosophy and the natural
sciences. This fellowship does not provide a stipend, however it does provide: a private office space
centrally located on the scenic University of Victoria campus; a congenial, retreat-like setting; university
privileges; enhanced opportunities for research networking and exchange; participation in the centre's
wide range of scholarly and social activities. Ordinarily, fellows stay between 3 months to 12 months,
but the centre will consider request for research terms of any length.
COMPETITIONS
The Center for Global Public Health is holding an essay and photograph competition for undergraduate
and graduate students who went abroad this summer. The essay piece should be based on global health
and reflect on the theme: Global to Local. The prize will include Amazon gift cards prices ($100 and
$50). For more information, contact Simona Zompi, http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Aging And Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference: 8-9 November 2013. University Center, Chicago, IL.
Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters or colloquia are invited for the Aging and Society
Conference. They welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines and perspectives that will contribute
to the conference discourse, and also encourage faculty and research students to submit joint proposals
for paper presentations or colloquia. Proposals are invited that address one of the following categories:
Theme 1: Economic and Demographic Perspectives on Aging
Theme 2: Public Policy and Public Perspectives on Aging
Theme 3: Medical Perspectives on Aging, Health, Wellness
Theme 4: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging
For more information, visit: http://agingandsociety.com/the-conference. The deadline is June 11 2013.
Call For Submissions to the peer-reviewed The International Journal of Aging and Society. Presenters will
have the option to submit their papers to the journal. For more information, visit:
http://agingandsociety.com/about-the-community/advisoryboard?utm_source=J13B+Promo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=J13B+Promo.
SAVE THE DATE
XIII Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Global Health, to be held on October 15, 2013 in
Washington D.C. Known as Binational Health Week (BHW), it is one of the largest joint mobilization
efforts of community organizations, academia, and federal, state, and local agencies to improve the
health and well-being of people of Mexican and Latin American origin living in the United States.
Multiple government and non-government agencies from the U.S. and Mexico, as well as other
countries including Canada, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia,
have collaborated for thirteen years to carry out health promotion activities among the Spanishspeaking population during Binational Health Week and beyond. The forum's aim is to convene key
government, academic, and community stakeholders to encourage dialogue on the health challenges of
the migrant population and explore collaborative opportunities to raise their standard of living. The
program will address the following topics: Access to Health Services including the Affordable Care Act,
Chronic Diseases and Infectious Diseases. Questions can be directed to Daniela Núñez Pares for guests
from Mexico: semanabinacional2013@gmail.com, and to Liliana Osorio for guests from United States,
Canada, and other Latin American countries: losorio@berkeley.edu. More information will be available
this summer.
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program (Fahs-Beck Scholars): Grants of up to $5,000 are available to help
support dissertation expenses of doctoral students in the United States and Canada whose studies have
the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about problems in the functioning or well being of
children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or about interventions designed to prevent or
alleviate such problems. The research for which funding is requested must focus on the United States or
Canada or on a comparison between the United States or Canada and one or more other countries. For
more information and application:
http://www.fahsbeckfund.org/pdf_files/Dissertation_Guidelines_&_Application.pdf.
Weekly News May 21 2013
Hello Everybody,
I’m pleased to announce that once again one of our Popcenter affiliates has won an award. This time it’s
Ruth Dixon-Mueller, who was presented the 2013 Harriet B. Presser Award by the Population
Association of America for her sustained, distinguished contributions to research on gender and
demography. Ruth has had exemplary career of taking her academic knowledge and going out into the
world to have a direct impact. She received her PhD in sociology from Cal in 1965, was a tenured
professor at UC Davis, and then resigned to go off to Costa Rica and entered the coffee and pineapple
business, as well as consult on issues of women’s reproductive rights. She also published several books,
including Rural Women at Work: Strategies for Development in South Asia (1978); Women's Work in
Third World Agriculture (1985); and Population Policy and Women's Rights (1993), and Abortion and
Common Sense (2002). She retired and moved back to Berkeley where she regular attends Popcenter
and Demography events, and last fall co-taught a graduate seminar on demographic policy with John
Wilmoth.
On a less upbeat note, in its Weekly Newsletter COSSA listed a barrage of efforts by House
Representatives to reduce funding for research. For example, “In April 2013, a bill is introduced by Rep.
Gregg Harper (R-MS) to eliminate support for health economics research at NIH. On May 8, NIH
announces it is undertaking a ‘productivity review’ on the contributions of NIH-supported social and
behavioral science as well as cell biology.” For more detail, download the newsletter:
http://www.cossa.org/volume32/FY2014BudgetUpdate.pdf. These kinds of efforts won’t necessarily
gain traction but the concern is that if they throw enough at the budget it will eventually stick.
Popcenter Weekly News will be in summer mode until the end of August, so announcements will be
more intermittent.
Events and other announcements follow.
Have a great week,
Leora
*****
EVENTS
Thursday, May 23, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM. “Tutajadili (kwa Kiswahili) kitabu cha Prof. Shivji: Silences of NGO
Discourse: The Role and future of NGO’s in Africa” with Liz Boner, African Studies. | 34 Dwinelle Hall.
Rsvp to eboner@berkeley.edu. If working with NGOs in Africa is part of your research, you might want
to attend. For more information, read: http://www.oozebap.org/biblio/pdf/2011/shivji_forweb.pdf.
2013 Summer Institute on Migration and Health, June 24-28. UC Berkeley campus & Oakland. The
Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health offers researchers, faculty, graduate students and
professionals working with migrant communities around the world, a unique opportunity to learn
different issues that affect the health of mobile populations from an international and multidisciplinary
perspective. The five-day course is taught by highly recognized international faculty and offers a
combination of lectures, workshops, and field trips exploring various topics related to migration and
health. REGISTER NOW, space is limited. www.regonline.com/MigrationHealth2013.
NIH GRANTS
Research on the Role of Epigenetics in Social, Behavioral, Environmental and Biological Relationships,
throughout the Life-Span and across Generations (R21: RFA-TW-13-002). This Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) encourages exploratory and developmental grant applications to lay the
foundation for innovative and collaborative basic research on the role of epigenetics in social,
behavioral, environmental and biological relationships, throughout the life-span and across generations.
Research plans that are responsive to this FOA will use existing bio-psycho-social and environmental
data from human cohorts or animal studies that have biospecimens available for epigenetic profiling.
The one year exploratory/developmental awards are expected to generate preliminary data for
comprehensive basic research applications to study interactions between epigenetics and
social/behavioral/biological/environmental factors in both normal function and pathophysiology
throughout life and across generations. The results may ultimately inform research to develop clinical
decision/diagnostic tools and prevention/treatment strategies. View the complete announcement at
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-TW-13-002.html. It is due November 13, 2013. If this is
of interest to you we can help you put together a team, which is most likely what will resonate well with
reviewers. Contact Leora (llawton@berkeley.edu) or Bob Barde (barde@haas.berkeley.edu).
OTHER GRANTS
William T. Grant Foundation, Invites Applications for Youth Social Setting Research Projects that
enhance our understanding of (a) how youth settings work; (b) how they affect youth development; (c)
how they can be improved; and (d) when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in
policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved.. They intend to fund high-
quality research to understand and improve the everyday settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United
States. We define settings as the social environments in which youth experience daily life. These settings
include environments with clear boundaries such as classrooms, schools, and youth-serving
organizations and environments with less prescribed boundaries such as neighborhoods or other
settings in which youth interact with peers, family members, and other adults. At their best, these
settings embed youth within a network of engaging activities; ample resources; meaningful relationships
with adults and peers; and opportunities for academic, social, emotional, and identity development.
Grants of between $100,000 to $600,000 will be awarded for projects that address theory, policy,
and/or practice affecting the settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. For more information,
visit http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/current_research_interests.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Public Health Services and Systems Research: Mentored Research
Scientist Development Awards. PHSSR is a multidisciplinary field of study that examines the
organization, financing, delivery and quality of public health services within communities and the
resulting impact on population health. The National Coordinating Center (NCC) for PHSSR and RWJF seek
to expand the evidence base for effective decision-making in public health practice and policy through
research that responds to the questions defined in the National Agenda for PHSSR:
www.publichealthsystems.org/research-agenda.aspx. This solicitation is intended to strengthen the
pool of researchers available to conduct PHSSR and to build on successful principles and models
previously demonstrated in public health and health services research. The awards support mentored,
intensive career development through funding, educational experiences and protected time to conduct
independent research. Approximately 8 awards of $100k each will be made. Deadline August 21,
2013. For more information, visit: http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2013/publichealth-services-and-systems-research--mentored-research-s.html?cid=XEM_A7164.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Seeking papers for a monograph, "Preference Measurement in Health" to be edited by Glenn Blomquist
(University of kentucky) and Kristian Bolin (Lund University). The volume is part of a series entitled
"Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research" edited by Bjorn Lindgren (Lund University
and University of Gothenburg), Kristian Bolin (Lund University), Robert Kaestner (University of Illinois at
Chicago and NBER), and Michael Grossman (NBER). The series is published by Emerald Group
Publishing. See the attached announcement.
FELLOWSHIPS
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars 2013-2014 Call for Applications.
This program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to
build the nation’s capacity for research and leadership to address the multiple determinants of
population health and contribute to policy change. The program is based on the principle that progress
in the field of population health depends upon collaboration and exchange across disciplines and
sectors. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to (a) investigate the connections among
biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic, and social determinants of health; and (b)
develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge, interventions, and policies that integrate and act on
these determinants to improve health.
Deadline: September 20, 2013, 5:00 p.m. ET
ON THE WEB
A cool migration site: http://prcweb.co.uk/lab/worldmigration/ sent to me by one of my students.
D-LAB
I won’t list all here, but do remember that Dlab is in operation in the summer. They will be hosting
ICPSR summer courses on structural equations modeling, social network analysis and causal inference in
the social sciences. Visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu for more information.
Weekly News May 6 2013
Hi everybody,
I am very pleased to announce that two of our affiliates have won prestigious recognition for their
career accomplishments. Ann Swidler was appointed to the Academy of American Arts & Sciences (in
the same cohort as Bruce Springsteen, Robert DeNiro, Pete Seeger and Sally Field). Luis Rosero-Bixby,
who has joined us at Cal from the University of Costa Rica, was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences as a foreign scholar. Given these honors, I thought you might want to know a little about them.
The usual announcements follow these two paragraphs.
Ann Swidler studies the interplay of culture and institutions. She asks how culture works–both how
people use it and how it shapes social life. Earlier work focused on American culture, especially the
culture of love and marriage. She is best known for her books Talk of Love, and the co-authored works
Habits of the Heart and The Good Society.
Her classic article, “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies,”
(American Sociological Review, 1986) has been cited more than 700 times. Swidler’s current research is
on cultural and institutional responses to the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. She is interested in
how the massive international AIDS effort in sub-Saharan Africa–the infusion of money, organizations,
programs and projects–interacts with existing cultural and institutional patterns to create new dilemmas
and new possibilities. Her interests also increasingly touch on political sociology, development, and the
sociology of science and medicine. She has been funded on NICHD studies to explore the transmission
of AIDS. This work has resulted in several publications that address how beliefs, values and attitudes can
affect the ability to implement contemporary health behaviors.
Swidler brings a much-needed sociological perspective to questions of population health.
(http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/ann-swidler)
Luis Rosero-Bixby is a leading scholar on the demography of Latin America, with particular expertise on
Costa Rica. He was the founding director of the Central American Population Center at the University of
Costa Rica; under his stewardship the center obtained international recognition as one of the leading
population research centers in Latin America. Rosero-Bixby has published numerous internationally
known articles on the determinants of family planning diffusion and the determinants of Costa Rica’s
remarkably fast fertility decline in the 1960s. In recent years he has focused increasingly on
understanding the mortality breakthrough that took place in Costa Rica in the 1970s, and determinants
of Costa Rica’s exceptional health (with higher life expectancy than the U.S.); he has published
extensively in this area with Will Dow. He and Dow have served as the PIs of the CRELES project (Costa
Rican Longevity and Healthy Ageing Study), which is a panel of about 3,000 Costa Ricans followed up
since 2004. He has also worked with Ron Lee at Berkeley on the National Transfer Accounts
(NTA) project; he established the Costa Rican NTA team, and is assisting the national NTA teams in El
Salvador and Ecuador. The NTA results in Costa Rica, especially those related to fiscal challenges of
public transfers, have been broadly disseminated and have received attention of policy makers at the
highest levels of government, including Congress. After early-retirement as full professor at the
University of Costa Rica in 2011, he continues 100% focused on population research in Costa Rica and
Latin America with joint appointments as research associate at the University of Costa Rica and UC
Berkeley. (http://ccp.ucr.ac.cr/personal/lrosero.htm, en español)
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great week.
-Leora
*****
EVENTS
Monday May 6, 12-1:30 PM. Global Health Brown Bag. Event contact:
erika.gavenus@berkeley.edu,
Monday, May 6 12-2 PM. May 6, 2013. Labor Seminar. (1.) Owen Zidar
- "Who Benefits from Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach" and (2.) Sebastian Findeisen
- "Efficient Wealth and Labor Income Taxation over the Life Cycle." Evans Hall, room 639
Wednesday May 8 | 4-5p.m. “Migration, Parenting, and Children's Mental Health Adjustment: Studies of
Chinese American Immigrant Families and Migrant Families in China” by Prof. Qing Zhou, Psychology.
Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor), Conference Room.
RESEARCH ISSUES
Some of you may be aware of a proposal the Census Bureau recently issued to eliminate the "number of
times married" question on the American Community Survey (ACS). Here is the link to the agency's
official notice about their plans to eliminate this question
(http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-04-16/pdf/2013-08876.pdf) .
Comments are due by May 16 and can be sent to our contact in the White House Office of Management
and Budget, Brian Harris-Kojetin via email, Brian_A._Harris-Kojetin@omb.eop.gov.
Request for Information (RFI): Input on a Literature Review Approach “Evaluation of the State of the
Science for Transgenerational Inheritance of Health Effects” These RFI’s are an opportunity to get the
funders value your area of interest in research, so it behooves you to respond. From the Notice: “There
is a large body of evidence indicating that early life exposures can lead to disease outcomes later in life.
The effects of these exposures are thought to be limited to the exposed generation, such that
subsequent generations are unaffected by the exposure history of their parents and grandparents.
However, recent reports have suggested that this may not be the case, and that adverse outcomes may
be carried over to multiple unexposed generations. This phenomenon is known as “transgenerational
inheritance.” If the effects of exposure can indeed be transmitted to subsequent generations, this
would have major public health implications.” Read the entire notice here:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-ES-13-006.html
GRANTS
NIH R25: Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies in Behavioral and Social Science Research. If you
have a fairly well-formed idea on a short course, NIH has an opportunity for you. It is due July 3, 2013,
but if this is of interest, contact me and we’ll see what we can do.
For more information, view the announcement:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-13-009.html
SHORT-TERM RESEARCH ASSISTANT NEEDED
Seeking someone interested in a couple of weeks of intense work in the near time frame pursuing and
summarizing the literature on housing and HIV/AIDS. Best would be someone who’s already somewhat
familiar with the area, or at least one aspect of the area, as well as someone who thinks in
interdisciplinary terms. We’re interested in findings that address connections among poverty, housing
stock / cost / availability / barriers, other social determinants of housing access, and policy – on the one
hand – and housing status and stability, HIV prevention, and care outcomes on the other. Access to
journals such as AIDS and Behavior and Health Affairs, among others; conference proceedings; and
information from web sites such as HUD, CDC, advocacy, and other organizations would be involved.
Interested folks could send an email expressing interest with a short resume attached to Richard
Speiglman, Principal, Speiglman Associates, rspeiglman@sbcglobal.net.
Weekly News April 22, 2013
Hello Everybody,
Some of you know that I also have a small consulting business that I do in addition to my work at the
Popcenter. One of my clients is a large financial services firm (investments of various sorts). If anyone is
interested in doing some research regarding individual behavior and retirement savings or some other
investment behavior, contact me as I may be able to arrange working with this company. Graduate
students are included in this appeal.
One way to increase the odds that next year’s PAA (in Boston) will have sessions for your work is to let
the Program Committee know. Submit your ideas to
http://www.populationassociation.org/2013/04/07/call-for-suggestions-2014-annual-meeting/ . The
deadline is Friday, April 26.
Events and other announcements follow.
Have a great week,
Leora
*****
EVENTS
Wednesday, April 24 | 12-1:00 PM. Demography Brown Bag: “Fertility in the Great Recession “ Daniel
Schneider Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, UC Berkeley).
Demography Dept Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont St. Cookies, Snickers bars and refreshments served.
Monday, April 22 | 12-1 p.m. Colloquium: “Health and Happiness in Wealthy Democracies: A
Comparative Analysis “ with Jerome Karabel, Sociology. | Institute for Research on Labor &
Employment, Large Conference Room. 2521 Channing Way. RSVP (a light lunch is served) by emailing
Myra Armstrong at zulu2@berkeley.edu.
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 2:00 to 3:30. "Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low
Income Students" Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford. 648 Evans Hall. Download the paper:
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/~webfac/auerbach/hoxby.pdf
Thursday, April 25. 1:00pm — 5:30pm, CEGA presents “Evidence to Action: Promoting Global
Development in a Changing Climate”. Berkeley City Club Ballroom, 2315 Durant Ave.
Thursday, April 25 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Transnational (After)life: Migrant Transnationalism and Engagement in
U.S. and Mexican Politics” with Dr. Adrián Félix, UC Santa Cruz. Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way.
Friday April 26 | 4-6 p.m. “Visualizing the Geography of Diseases in China, 1870s-1920s: An Overview of
the Earliest Disease Maps of China” with Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University, Department of the
History of Medicine. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
June 21, 2013. American University, Washington DC. Pathways to Population Stabilization and a Healthy
US Economy. Keynote speaker: David Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health. For more information,
visit www.populationconnection.org/pathways Reserve by May 30, 2013.
SAVE THE DATE
ISSI Year-End Party, May 3, 3:30-5 PM. ISSI invites its community members (and friends) to join them
for an end of the year party on May 3, from 3:30-5:00pm in the Wildavsky Conference Room. To be
celebrated are significant endings, such as the end to living in a construction zone, and the departure of
our dear colleague and friend Mike Hout, who will be leaving us for the East Coast. In honor of Mike and
all he has meant, and to confirm that wines are not so bad in NY, there will be a CA versus NY blind wine
tasting, in addition to our usual fare of drinks and finger food. Wildavsky Conference Room, 2538
Channing.
FELLOWSHIPS
The National Program Office (NPO) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars
(HSS) program is pleased to announce the release of our next Call for Applications to recruit our 12th
cohort for the period September 1, 2014 through August 31, 2016. Copies of the brochure and onepage overview versions of the CFA are attached to this email for your perusal and additional information
may be found at the following link: http://pweb1.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21423.
SEEKING NOMINATIONS
The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is requesting nominations of individuals, both experts and
organizational representatives, to the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other
Populations. The Advisory Committee provides insight, perspectives, expertise and advice to the
Director of the Census Bureau on the full spectrum of Census surveys and programs. The Committee
assists the Census Bureau in developing appropriate research/methodological, operational, and
communication strategies to reduce program/survey costs, improve coverage and operational
efficiency, improve the quality of data collected, protect the public's and business units' privacy and
enhance public participation and awareness of Census programs and surveys, and make data products
more useful and accessible. Please submit nominations by May 13, 2013. For more information about
the process, go to: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/04/12/2013-08680/request-fornominations-of-members-to-serve-on-the-national-advisory-committee-on-racial-ethnic-and
RESOURCES
D-LAB Job Match. D-Lab is trying out a new job board to match graduate students with research
opportunities on campus. Faculty can post jobs here: http://dlab.berkeley.edu/advertisejob.
Russell Sage is having a 50% off sale of its book through May 31. You may order online
https://www.russellsage.org/publications. or place a call: 800-524-6401. Use the code "SPRINGSALE".
ON THE WEB
One of my students found a cool migration website: www.peoplemov.in – a visualization of migration
streams.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
D-LAB Job Match. D-Lab is trying out a new job board to match graduate students with research
opportunities on campus. Students can check it out here: http://dlab.berkeley.edu/jobprofile.
D-LAB RECEPTION: Tuesday April 23, 5 PM (Poster session begins at 4 PM). Food, drink and good cheer
provided, no RSVP required. Find out what's inside the black box. We'll show you our strategy so far.
And we'll ask for your involvement, because we're just getting started. We're an empirical social science
laboratory, and we can only design solutions to problems (yours) we understand. So come…
Talk with the D-Lab team
Be introduced to our governing board
Meet the architect who designed our incredible space
Give us your input and help.
Training
Tuesday, 04/24/2013 - 12:00pm. D-Lab Workshop: “Introduction to regression analysis in STATA” with
Noli Brazil/Savet Hong. 350 Barrows Hall. http://dlab.berkeley.edu
Wed, 04/25/2013 - 11:00 am D-Lab Workshop: “Intro to R for absolutebeginners”
with Melinda Fricke. 350 Barrows Hall. http://dlab.berkeley.edu
Thursday, 04/18/2013 - 12:00pm. D-Lab Workshop: “Introduction to Python” with Michael Schultz.
350 Barrows Hall. http://dlab.berkeley.edu
Friday, 04/26/2013 - 12:00pm. D-Lab Workshop: “Introduction to Regression Analysis in R” with Noli
Brazil and Savet Hong. 350 Barrows Hall. http://dlab.berkeley.edu
Weekly News April 1 2013
Hello Everybody,
As it’s been spring break, there’s little to report but there are many events taking place this week, as
well as other announcements in this week’s edition. Also, I’m on vacation Monday and Tuesday this
week (April 1, 2).
Be well,
Leora
*****
EVENTS
Wednesday, 12-1:10 PM, Demography Brown Bag. Pre-PAA Student
Presentations, Session 2: Sarah Bradley (Demography, UC Berkeley),The
impact of unintended pregnancy on child health outcomes. Maggie Frye,
Topic TBA. Savet Hong, More or less care in multigenerational
households? An empirical analysis of time use in Cambodia. 2232
Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and refreshments served.
Thursday, April 4, 4-6 PM. BacPop (Bay Area Colloquia on Population),
Gopi Shah Goda (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research,
Stanford) will present, "What will my account really be worth?
Experimental evidence on how retirement income projections affect
saving." To obtain the paper or RSVP for dinner, email
Monique@demog.berkeley.edu.
Tuesday, Apr, 02 2013 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM. “Managing Collaborative
Digital Projects” - A Workshop with Lynne Siemens, sponsored by D-Lab
(http://dlab.berkeley.edu). D-Lab Convening Room, 356 Barrows.
Tuesday, April 2 | 4-5:30 PM. “The Global Decline of Private Higher
Education: From Overwhelming Growth to a Mix of Surging, Slipping, and
Stagnating” with Daniel Levy, SUNY Albany. | 768 Evans Hall |
Wednesday, April 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. “The Two Faces of the Ghetto:
Horizontality and Verticality in Racial Domination” with Loic
Wacquant. ISSI 2538 Channing, Wildavsky Conference Room.
Friday, Apr. 5, 2013, 12-1:30 PM. Kevin Novan, ARE - UC Davis,
“Overlapping Environmental Policies: When Does Renewable Electricity Reduce Pollution?”
201 Giannini Hall.
PAA EVENTS
Thursday, April 11, 6:15-7:30 PM, “NICHD funded data collection
projects for demography and population science: building a resource
tool for data access and sharing.” Presenters: Mary McEniry, Director
of Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR), and Regina Bures,
Population Sciences Division of NICHD. Napoleon A1, 3rd Floor.
SAVE THE DATE:
Thursday, April 25th, 2013, 1-5:30 PM. CEGA presents: “Evidence to Action:
Promoting Global Development in a Changing Climate” The program will
highlight important research on the impacts of climate change in
developing countries, and the effectiveness of specific climate change
mitigation and adaptation strategies. We'll discuss policy-based
approaches (like incentives for energy-efficient appliances in Mexico)
and community-based solutions (like promotion of drought-tolerant rice
in India). Tom Steyer, Co-Founding Director of Next Generation, will deliver the keynote speech.
For a complete list of speakers and registration information, please
see attached flyer and visit: http://cega.berkeley.edu/events/E2A_2013/.
Location: Berkeley City Club (2315 Durant)
June 24-28, 2013, The Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health,
to be held this year in Berkeley and Oakland, offers researchers,
faculty, graduate students and professionals working with migrant
communities around the world, a unique opportunity to learn different
issues that affect the health of mobile populations from an
international and multidisciplinary perspective. The five-day course
is taught by highly recognized international faculty and offers a
combination of lectures, workshops, and field trips exploring various
topics related to migration and health. Don’t miss this opportunity to
be part of this incredible professional and personal experience!
REGISTER NOW, space is limited, at
www.regonline.com/MigrationHealth2013. For more information, email
Liliana.Osorio@sdcounty.ca.gov.
The Stanford Centers for Population Research and the Demography and
Economics of Health & Aging, with co-sponsorship from UC Berkeley’s
CEDA, announce a workshop on Biodemography May 6-8 2013. For more
information, please see https://population.stanford.edu
NIH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
NIH has just issued an RFA for researching stigma using experimental,
laboratory or survey research methods. “Limited Competition: Revision
Applications for Basic Social and Behavioral Research on the Social,
Cultural, Biological, and Psychological Mechanisms of Stigma (R01).”
The URL for the complete RFA, RFA-MD-13-005, is
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-13-005.html. To
be successful this grant will require an interdisciplinary team. Both
Bob Barde and I will endeavor to be helpful in putting this grant together.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The ninth global National Transfer Accounts (NTA) meeting will take
place at the University of Barcelona Faculty of Economics, from June
3rd to June 8th, 2013. The meeting will be composed of an
international conference (3-4 June) and a workshop (5-8 June). The
workshop will be structured in two parallel tracks for training and
discussion and working groups. Authors are invited to submit papers to
be presented at the conference. Deadline for abstracts is March 31st. Submissions must consist of a
single PDF file sent to:
congress.ntabarcelona@ub.edu. For more details, please see the NTA website,
www.ntaccounts.org.
October 18-19, 2013 Diversity Challenge Conference, sponsored by The
Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture (Boston
College, Lynch School of Education). “Intersections of Race, Culture
and Health or Mental Health: Call for Paper Proposals. Convenient and
Easy online
submission:
https://bclynch.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b2hqaJLZ9vPs1EN. Or view the
Call for Papers, http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/lsoe/isprc/dc20130.html.
Proposals are sought that seek proposals that focus on research,
assessment, interventions, and health policies that move beyond merely
comparing racial/ethnic groups to more fully considering the
complexity of race and culture as effects on mental and physical
health. We welcome proposals that address such issues across the
lifespan and focus on specific age groups, such as children and
adolescents and adults of all ages. Also, we encourage proposals
outlining systemic approaches to these concerns, which may include
preventive strategies, school interventions, and agency collaborations
that focus on racial life experiences, such as racism and discrimination, and/or cultural attributes, such
as resilience and health beliefs.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Tue, 04/02/2013 - 12:00pm D-Lab Workshop: “Managing Collaborative
Digital Projects” with Lynne Siemens. 350 Barrows Hall.
http://dlab.berkeley.edu
Thursday, April 4, 1 PM, D-Lab talk: D-Lab Workshop: “Non-academic
Careers for Social and Behavioral Scientists” 350 Barrows Hall.
http://dlab.berkeley.edu
Fri, 04/05/2013 - 11:00am. D-Lab Workshop “Introduction to R for
Advanced Beginners” with Anna Decker. http://dlab.berkeley.edu
Call For Fall 2013 Visiting Graduate Student Scholars At UC Davis:
Deadline for Receipt of Applications: April 5, 2013 (5pm PST),
http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/graduate-students. An opportunity at UC
Davis for graduate students who are interested in poverty research.
The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis seeks applications from
graduate students who are interested in visiting the Center in order
to expand their understanding of the causes and consequences of
poverty. The Center anticipates hosting up to four graduate students during fall quarter 2013.
We seek applications from Ph.D. students in a variety of disciplines,
including economics, psychology, sociology, social work, public policy
and graduate schools of law and education, with research interests in
our core research areas:
• Labor markets and poverty
• The non-cash safety net, broadly construed to include education and
health policies • Children and the intergenerational transmission of
poverty • Immigration and poverty, especially in connection with the
above three areas Visiting graduate student scholars will be expected
to participate in our graduate course on poverty and public policy?,
our graduate student retreat, attend poverty related seminars and
conferences, and engage with faculty to develop poverty related
research ideas. Graduate Scholars are matched with both a faculty
affiliate of the Center and a current graduate student. They will also
be asked to write a policy brief that will subsequently be
disseminated through the Center’s website, and will receive a stipend
of $7,000 to cover living expenses while in Davis.
Weekly News March 24, 2013
Hello Everybody,
I’ll be on vacation March 25-27, and April 1, 2.
There are no events scheduled this week, but other announcements follow.
Have a happy Passover, Easter, and/or just a great spring break.
Leora
*****
PAA EVENTS
NLSY Workshop: National Longitudinal Surveys (NLSY79, NLSY79 Children and Young Adults and the
NLSY97) can be used for your research. Attend a two-hour workshop from 3:30-5:50 on Wednesday
April 10th, 4th floor of the conference hotel. We are currently in the field for Round 25 of the NLSY79,
plus interviewing all children born to NLSY79 women who have been followed every other year since
birth or 1986.
We have also completed 15 rounds of the NLSY97. We will provide an overview of the data available,
alert you to new and forthcoming data, explain how information from all three surveys can be used
either separately or in conjunction with each other, provide you with a guided tour of our "investigator"
for navigation of our datasets and data downloads into SAS, SPSS and STATA, and answer any questions
you might have. Led by Elizabeth Cooksey, Ohio State University. Attendees do not need to register in
advance.
CAL PAA dinner: The annual PAA is coming up and that means the annual Demography dinner at PAA is
also coming up! The dinner will be Friday, April 12th at Tomas Bisto in New Orleans, LA. Please click the
link below for details and to RSVP.
http://paperless.ly/12jxCNf, Feel free to contact Julia Goodman
(juliagoodman@berkeley.edu) if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you there! Julia
Goodman & Sara Lopus (dinner co-organizers).
SAVE THE DATE:
June 24-28, 2013, The Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health, to be held this year in Berkeley
and Oakland, offers researchers, faculty, graduate students and professionals working with migrant
communities around the world, a unique opportunity to learn different issues that affect the health of
mobile populations from an international and multidisciplinary perspective. The five-day course is
taught by highly recognized international faculty and offers a combination of lectures, workshops, and
field trips exploring various topics related to migration and health. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part
of this incredible professional and personal experience! REGISTER NOW, space is limited, at
www.regonline.com/MigrationHealth2013. For more information, email
Liliana.Osorio@sdcounty.ca.gov.
The Stanford Centers for Population Research and the Demography and Economics of Health & Aging,
with co-sponsorship from UC Berkeley’s CEDA, announce a workshop on Biodemography May 6-8 2013.
For more information, please see https://population.stanford.edu
NIH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Predoctoral Fellowship Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-152.html
NIH recognizes a unique and compelling need to promote diversity in the NIH-funded biomedical,
behavioral, clinical and social sciences workforce. NIH expects efforts to diversify the workforce to lead
to the recruitment of the most talented researchers from all groups; improve the quality of the
educational and training environment; balance and broaden the perspective in setting research
priorities; improve the ability to recruit subjects from diverse backgrounds into clinical research
protocols; and to improve the Nation's capacity to address and eliminate health disparities. This is a 2year fellowship with a six-page research strategy.
It is not a training grant. It does not pay for tuition and fees. But it is less work than an F31.
Development and Characterization of Animal Models for Aging Research (R01 and R21).
R01: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-155.html
The purpose of this announcement is to promote research that develops,
characterizes, refines, and enhances model systems for research on aging. Studies
of the biology of aging require biological models systems such as rodents and cell
lines. No human studies are involved. Studies using inbred and hybrid strains of
rats and mice have made significant contributions to the foundation of biology of aging. However, to
maximize the return for aging research, a broader array of model systems needs to be explored, in order
to identify and understand the diverse sources of functional decline with age. Studies developing new
model systems or refining existing models to maximize their value for aging research will contribute to
the understanding of normal changes in physiology and function with age and the onset, progression,
therapeutics and prevention of age-associated diseases.
ON THE WEB
U.S. Life Expectancy Map: Interactive map and a quote from AAPOR member Ali Mokdad at
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/life-expectancy-map/?asid=3df0af7c
Or http://tinyurl.com/c8s6lsx
Survey Non-Response Report. RWJ releases a study about non-response rate in survey
research: http://tinyurl.com/chsv4bg. From the executive summary: This review addresses the core
issues regarding survey nonresponse. It considers why response rates are declining and what that means
for the accuracy of survey results. These trends are of particular concern for the social science
community, which is heavily invested in obtaining information from household surveys. The evidence to
date makes it apparent that current trends in nonresponse, if not arrested, threaten to undermine the
potential of household surveys to elicit information that assists in understanding social and economic
issues. The trends also threaten to weaken the validity of inferences drawn from estimates based on
those surveys. High nonresponse rates create the potential or risk for bias in estimates and affect survey
design, data collection, estimation, and analysis.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Summer Institute and Pre-dissertation Fellowship on Inequality (June 17-26,2013) The Penn Social
Science and Policy Forum is pleased to announce its initial Summer Institute for Pre-dissertation
Students to be held in June of 2013. Under the leadership of SSPF Director Thomas Sugrue of the
University of Pennsylvania and Professor John Skrentny of the University of California-San Diego, this
program will provide opportunities for talented doctoral students in the social sciences to visit the
University of Pennsylvania campus to explore research topics and scholarship related to the theme of
Inequality. Over a period of 10 days, this program will provide a mix of visiting speakers, seminars, and
workshops designed to expose students in a close-knit group to cutting-edge qualitative and
quantitative research on a variety of topics related to the theme, including poverty; labor force
participation; income and wealth disparities; the impact of race and ethnicity; spatial dynamics;
educational gaps; and social and economic policies that address inequalities. For more information visit:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sspf/opportunity/2013/summer-institute-and-predissertation-fellowshipinequality-june-17-26-2013.
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues is proud to announce the Social Issues
Dissertation Award, established to encourage excellence in socially relevant research.
OBJECTIVES: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social issues is proud to
announce the Social Issues Dissertation Award, established to encourage excellence in socially relevant
research. ELIGIBILITY: Any doctoral dissertation in psychology (or in a social science with psychological
subject matter) accepted between March 1st of the previous year and up to the deadline of the current
year is eligible. Applicants must have successfully defended their dissertation prior to the current year's
award deadline. Please note that in the award year an individual or group may only submit one paper to
one SPSSI award (from amongst the Allport, Klineberg, and Dissertation Awards) and applicants may not
submit to the Dissertation Prize twice. A first prize of $1000 and a second prize of $500 will be awarded
to the dissertations that best demonstrate scientific excellence and potential application to social
problems. For more information: Program URL:
http://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=724
Lisa Kernan Social Justice Fellowship, San Francisco, CA: We are currently accepting applications for the
Lisa Kernan Social Justice Fellows Program to honor the life and work of Lisa Devereux Kernan.
Fellowships will be provided for a four week Program in the late Spring to early Summer 2013 to two
outstanding students with a demonstrated commitment to social justice. *Due date for application:
**April 5, 2013**.* Eligibility: Open to graduate students or exceptional undergraduate Seniors and
Juniors aspiring to careers in public health, health care, law, public policy or related subjects, and who
are dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities and promoting social justice in the
United States and globally. Fellows will receive a stipend of $1,000 for the Program.
http://healthjustice.centerforpolicyanalysis.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/APPLICATIONFORM-LISA-KERNAN-SOCIAL-JUSTICE-FELLOWSHIP-2013.doc
Weekly News March 4, 2013
Hello Everybody,
The sequester is on we are still not quite sure about what it all means. I want to clarify my last week’s
post that grants currently funded will have their continuation grant be awarded up to 90% of the
proposed amount. NSF will likely reduce awards and make smaller ones. Still, there are priorities and
NIH and NSF are not going away. I remain hopeful.
Events and other announcements follow,
Leora
*****
EVENTS
Wednesday, March 6, 12-1 PM: Demography Brown Bag. “Hormonal Evidence of Selection in Utero.”
Ray Catalano, School of Public Health. 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room, Cookies and
refreshments served.
Thursday, March 7, 4-6 PM. BacPop. March 7, 2013: Genetic inheritance and demographic inquiry: What
do specific genes tell us?” Jason Boardman (Sociology, University of Colorado). Rsvp with
Monique@demog.berkeley.edu if you wish to join everyone for dinner afterwards.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 4 - 5:30 p.m., “The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of HighAchieving, Low Income Students” Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University. Evans Hall, room 648. Download
paper: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2590045/hoxby_missing_students_NBERwp18586.pdf.
Thursday, March 7, 2013, 2 - 4 p.m., Labor: "Assessing the Job Polarization Explanation of Growing Wage
Inequality" Speaker: Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute. Evans Hall, room 648, Download the
paper: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/moretti/e251_s13/mishel.pdf
Thursday, March 7 | 12-1 p.m. “Extreme Climate Events and Human Health: Special lecture by Dr. Kristie
Ebi,” | 103 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Friday, March 8 | 1-2 p.m. “BMI and Mortality: What are the associations?” Katherine Flegal, Center for
Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. | 101 Morgan Hall.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday, January 23 4:15-5:30 PM, Herrin Hall, Room T-175, Jan.23: Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe
Institute: “Structural and Dynamical Roles of Human Hunter-Gatherers in Northwest Pacific Marine Food
Webs” For more information, about the Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium call (650) 723-7518 or
email morrisoninstitute@stanford.edu or visit http://hsblogs.stanford.edu/morrison/morrisoninstitute-winter-colloquium/.
Webinar on the American Community Survey. ACS Workshop, National Academy Report, March 20,
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT. This webinar will summarize and provide pointers to the materials generated
from the June 2012 Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey (ACS),
particularly the formal workshop summary that was released on February 28, 2013. The workshop was
designed to canvass a broad array of the nonfederal ACS user base---among those users, the media,
policy research and evaluation groups, state/local/tribal agencies, businesses and economic
development organizations, and local and regional planning authorities. In particular, it sought to gather
information on users' experiences with the first few sets of full ACS data product releases (1-, 3-, and 5year estimates). The workshop also devoted attention to the multiple burdens associated with the ACS,
ranging from privacy and confidentiality concerns to the challenges of communicating and interpreting
high-variability estimates. To register, visit: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/641819266
SAVE THE DATE:
STANFORD WORKSHOP ON BIODEMOGRAPHY will be from May 6th to 8th, and we are The application
deadline is March 22nd. Applications are invited from advanced students/postdocs/junior faculty for this
3-day workshop in Biodemography. We provide materials and meals at the workshop. Students are
expected to arrange for their own travel. A limited number of scholarships are available to help pay for
lodging and/or travel. Space may be available for a few students who are able to pay their own expenses
toward attending the workshop.
Applications include a 1-page CV and a short statement explaining your interests. To apply for a
scholarship, include with your application a recommendation letter from your faculty advisor and
specify whether you are requesting support for travel, lodging, or both. Due no later than March 22,
2013 via email to neesha.joseph@stanford.edu. Details can be seen on our SCPR website
https://iriss.stanford.edu/scpr/activities.
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Annual IGSS Conference, Boulder, CO, October 10-12, 2013. The University of Colorado Population
Center is hosting the 4th annual Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences Conference. The goal of
this conference is to showcase behavioral and molecular genetic studies that enhance demographic and
social scientific inquiry. Researchers from any of the biological or social sciences are encouraged to
participate. Information about the conference can be found here:
http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/CUPC/conferences/IGSS_2013/. To be considered for this conference,
please submit a complete paper, a working draft, or an extended abstract (including data description,
methods, and preliminary results) as a .pdf file to the following link by June 1st, 2013:
https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3mvDLnGkj8jc65T. For additional information, please
contact Jason Boardman at boardman@colorado.edu.
Call for manuscript submissions to the Advances in Aging Research (AAR, ISSN: 2169-0502), which is an
open access academic journal and has been indexed by 12 databases so far. As it is an open access
journal, researchers around the world are able to freely download the published articles online without
a subscription. Now, more and more scholars are paying close attention to the AAR, please visit the
journal's homepage: www.scirp.org/journal/aar. Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online
at Paper Submission. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language
copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality
possible.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Tuesday, March 6, 1:30pm - D-Lab Open House in the D-Lab Collaboratory. Come see D-Lab and meet
others interested in data-intensive research. Tell us what you work on and what your needs are. Light
refreshments and thoughtful conversation provided.
UC BERKELEY’S D-LAB: Basic Elements of SPSS Wed, 03/06/2013 - 2:00pm, with Jon Stiles. This 2-hour
workshop will introduce the basic elements of SPSS – including the GUI menu, help system, basic
settings, and file types – for new users. It will, drawing on examples, identify how to read in data in
various forms, label variables and values, assign missing values, generate frequencies, descriptive
statistics and cross-tabulations, and manipulate and export tables.… If you are interested in a nonacademic career, you might want to check this out. For more information and registration, go to:
http://dlab.berkeley.edu/training.
The Summer Institute in LGBT Population Health is hosted annually by The Center for Population
Research in LGBT Health at The Fenway Institute. The Summer Institute is a one-of-a kind opportunity to
train in LGBT health research and it provides participating students with foundational training in
interdisciplinary theory, knowledge and methods for conducting population research in sexual and
gender minority health. The Institute is a 4-week training program open to graduate students and early
career scholars that links promising students to training opportunities they need to improve the reach,
quality and methodological rigor of their research and to prepare them for careers in LGBT health and
population science. There is no cost for tuition and slots are available for free housing. The 2013
Summer Institute will be held July 15-August 9. Applications are due April 15, 2013. For more
information please see our website. or Click here to download the call for applications. If you have any
further questions about the program or to see if your students may be eligible, don't hesitate to contact:
Sammy Sass, The Fenway Institute | Fenway Health, Ansin Building, 8th Floor,
1340 Boylston Street | Boston, MA 02215Voice: (617) 927-6319 | Fax: (617) 267-0764
www.thefenwayinstitute.org
Weekly News February 24, 2013
Hello Everybody,
If you haven’t yet heard from SPO or your program officer, the NIH has recently published a statement
about the potential effects of sequestration should it occur. The expectation is that currently funded
grants (continuation awards) will be reduced by “up to 90% of the previously committed levels.”
Funding decisions for others will likely mean reduced awards, and there may also be fewer awards
made. We’ve been asked by the PAA to contact our Congressfolk to make it clear that funding NIH, NSF
and other research endeavors is critical not just to our own lives, but also to creating high quality
science for the immediate and more distance future, and all that it entails. I suspect a sequester would
also have negative effects on other sources of research funds, either directly or indirectly.
What this means is that in order to get funding one will have to pay attention to the funders’ priority
areas so your interests align with theirs. There are many ways that we can know this. For example,
periodically the scientific community is invited to provide their comments stating what they think are
the priority areas. Take a little bit of time – and I know it’s not plentiful – to respond to these requests
for information so that their interests are shaped by you. Another is to be prepared to respond to their
announcements. Let me know (and other people who pay attention to grant announcements) about the
topic of research you want to do so we can see if something comes up.
Events and other announcements follow,
Leora
*****
EVENTS
Wednesday, February 27, 12-1 PM: The state of race: U.S. census categories and trends in public
discourse. Aliya Saperstein (Sociology, Stanford University). 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar
Room, Cookies and refreshments served.
Monday February 25 | 1-2:30 p.m. Data, Society, and Inference Seminar. Hal Varian, Google. (session
streamed from Stanford), 330 Blum Hall. A light lunch will be provided, but the RSVP was Feb 20.
Contact: brian_reschke@haas.berkeley.edu.
Monday, February 25 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Building the New Economics of Sustainability” with
Daniel W. O'Neill, Lecturer in Environmental and Ecological Economics, Sustainability Research Institute,
University of Leeds, UK. 110 Barrows Hall.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 — 4:10 PM. “Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower”,
with Mary Ann Mason — Professor of the Graduate School and Faculty Co-Director of the Earl Warren
Institute for Law and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
Tuesday February 26, 2013, 2 - 3:30 p.m. Psych & Economics/Public Finance Seminars: "The
Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance" –
with Sally Sadoff, UCSD, Evans Hall, room 648. Download paper:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w18165.pdf
March 1, 2013, 12 - 1 p.m., Labor Lunch: "Looking behind household mortgage delinquency rates" Sauro
Mocetti, Bank of Italy. Evans Hall, room 648.
Thursday February 28, 2013, 2 - 4 p.m. Labor Seminar: "Consumption Inequality and Family Labor
Supply" Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University, Evans Hall, room 648. Download paper:
http://www.stanford.edu/~pista/w18445.pdf
NIH GRANTS
Research on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS (R03, R21, R01). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is
intended to appeal to a broad audience of alcohol and HIV/AIDS researchers, including alcohol
researchers with no prior experience in HIV/AIDS research but with a keen appreciation for the
relationship between problem drinking and HIV/AIDS and a strong interest in acquiring such experience;
HIV/AIDS researchers with no prior alcohol research experience who realize the importance of more
intensive alcohol interventions to improving clinical outcomes among HIV-infected individuals; and
those with prior research experience in the area of co-occurring HIV/AIDS and alcohol and other
substance abuse. The primary objectives for this announcement are to increase innovative
developmental research: 1) to characterize the relative importance of reducing alcohol misuse in the
prevention of acquisition and transmission of HIV in order to identify and apply appropriate alcohol and
HIV interventions as public health measures; 2) to more fully understand and prevent the progression of
HIV disease in the presence of continued alcohol exposure; and 3) to develop operational research
frameworks for addressing the occurrence and persistence of infections in high-risk populations (e.g.
minority women, young gay men, etc.), and translate findings into effective, culturally appropriate
preventive and treatment interventions for these targeted populations. Given the breadth of research
objectives included in this announcement, potential applicants are encouraged to carefully review all
sections of the announcement for research opportunities. The R21 link is
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-122.html and links to the R03 and R01 versions can be
found at this site.
Regional and International Differences in Health and Longevity at Older Ages (R03, R21, R01). his
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Small Grant (R03) applications from
institutions/organizations proposing to advance knowledge on the reasons behind the divergent trends
that have been observed in health and longevity at older ages, both across industrialized nations and
across geographical areas in the United States. This FOA is intended to capitalize on provocative findings
in the literature which have been insufficiently understood and addressed. This FOA is also intended to
capitalize on NIA’s investment in the development of cross-nationally comparable datasets that can be
harnessed to study these research questions; these include the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the
English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA), the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
(SHARE), and the Human Mortality Data Base. Applications proposing secondary analysis, calibration of
measures across studies, development of innovative survey measures, and linkages to administrative
sources are encouraged. Applications are not restricted to projects using the NIA-supported datasets
above and may propose research using any relevant data. The R01 link is
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/PA-files/PA-13-125.html and links to the R03 and R21 versions can
be found at this site.
The Ronald McDonald House Charities Global Grants program is accepting applications from U.S.-based
nonprofit organizations working to address the health needs of children around the world. The program
supports sustainable healthcare solutions focused on improving the global health and well-being of
children. Priority is given to organizations whose project methodology uses a comprehensive
ethnographic approach toward research, program development, program implementation, and/or
evaluation. It is not yet possible to submit applications: This will happen in the Summer 2013 so make a
note of it in your calendar to refer to the grant website: http://rmhc.org/what-we-do/grants/how-toapply/
The California Wellness Foundation is accepting Letters of Interest from nonprofit organizations that
provide direct services in disease prevention, health promotion, and wellness education in California.
Through its Responsive Grantmaking program, the foundation awards general operating support grants
to nonprofits working in the areas of diversity in the health professions, environmental health, healthy
aging, mental health, teenage pregnancy prevention, violence prevention, women's health, and work
and health. In addition, funding for special projects that relate to emerging health issues or issues
outside these eight priorities will be considered. Grants range from $20,000 to $300,000 for a period of
one to three years; on average, grants do not exceed $150,000 over three years. For more information:
http://www.calwellness.org/how_to_apply/
WORKSHOPS & TRAINING
UC BERKELEY’S D-LAB: Graphing in Stata Thu, 02/28/2013 - 12:30pm, with Ben Chaffee. This
introductory workshop focuses on practical strategies for visualizing data using Stata. We will explore
the basic graphing commands for scatter, line, bar, and pie charts, as well as strategies for navigating the
help commands to make visuals that are high-quality, high-resolution, customizable, and effective…For
more information and registration, go to: http://dlab.berkeley.edu/training.
[Below are some previews from the Winter PAA Affairs, due out in about another 2 weeks.]
Columbia Population Research Center Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Workshop, July 8th –
10th, 2013: Applications are being accepted for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held,
at the Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City. The workshop is designed to
familiarize participants with the data available in the study. The 2013 workshop will include a
specialized panel on how the data can be used to examine the effects of the Great Recession on urban
families. The workshop is targeted toward young scholars from various social and biomedical science
disciplines, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. Applicants
must possess basic quantitative data analysis skills. Ethnic minorities are particularly encouraged to
apply. About 25-30 applicants will be selected. Travel costs for out-of-town participants will be
reimbursed up to $750, including hotel which will be booked directly by Columbia. Applications will be
accepted until Friday, March 22nd (11:59PM EST). For more information, visit the website:
http://cupop.columbia.edu/research/signature-research-areas/fragile-families-data-workshops.
RAND Summer Institute: July 8-11, 2013. The RSI consists of two conferences addressing critical issues
facing our aging population: a Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists (July 8-9) and a Workshop on the
Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging (July 10-11). The primary aim of the RSI
is to expose scholars interested in the study of aging to a wide range of research being conducted in
fields beyond their own specialties. We invite all interested researchers to apply to attend the 2013 RSI.
Applicants may apply for fellowship support to pay for travel and accommodations. Both the Mini-Med
School and the Workshop on Aging are described more fully at our web site:
http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi/. The deadline to submit application and supplemental materials
is March 22, 2013. For additional information, please contact Diana Malouf (malouf@rand.org).
Weekly News February 19, 2013
Hello everybody,
In addition to all the wonderful seminar talks this week, note that I am giving a talk about Pre- and Postdoctoral grants from NIH (see below). While I’m also available to address your students on this or other
career topics, here’s an opportunity for students and other researchers to hear about these funding
opportunities. The F grants are much easier to win than are the R01 and R21 grants sought by
established researchers. Speaking of odds of winning grants, here is a link to a page where someone
compiled the paylines and priority scores for the different institutes and centers at NIH:
http://writedit.wordpress.com/nih-paylines-resources/. This site has an impressive number of wellorganized links to grant resources, too.
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great week.
-Leora
EVENTS
Wednesday February 20, 12-1 PM. Demography Brown Bag. Noli Brazil (Demography, UC Berkeley),
topic TBA. Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Refreshments and cookies served.
Tuesday, Feb 19, 4-5:30 PM. ISSI Colloquia series: “Intergenerational Social Mobility in Contemporary
Argentina: Structural Transformations, Stratification Patterns and Pathways of Upward Mobility from
Working Class Origins.” Pablo Dalle, Visiting Scholar, University of Buenos Aires. Wildavsky Seminar
Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 7 PM. “Pretending to Save the World -- One Stove at a
Time: Darfur Stoves” with Charlie Sellers, Catapult Designs. Sponsored by Engineers Without Borders |
Blum Hall
Wednesday, February 20, 12-1 PM. “People Moving, People Dying Along the Way:
Analyses of human remains and mortuary contexts from northern Chile's Atacama Desert” with
Christina Torres-Rouff, Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced. |
101 2251 College (Archaeological Research
Facility)
Wednesday, February 20 | 2-3:30 p.m. “The Radical Right and the Politics of Xenophobia in Europe”
Michael Minkenberg, Dept. of Political Science, Viadrina University. | 201 Moses Hall
Thursday, February 21, 4-6 PM. Labor seminar (note change of time): “Predictive Effects of Teachers
and Schools on Test Scores, College Attendance, and Earnings”
Gary Chamberlain, Harvard University | 648 Evans Hall
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday, February 20, 4:15-5:30 PM, Herrin Hall, Room T-175, Lauren Meyers,
University of Texas-Austin: “Tracking and Curbing the Next Pandemic.” For more
information, about the Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium call (650) 723-7518 or email
morrisoninstitute@stanford.edu or visit http://hsblogs.stanford.edu/morrison/morrison-institutewinter-colloquium/.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
Thursday, February 21, 2-4 PM. Social Science Data Laboratory (D-Lab) presents “NIH
Grants – An Introduction for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers” by
Leora Lawton. Attendees will hear about different kinds of grants, and also view
the different parts and strategies of the NIH grant application for pre-doctoral and
post-doctoral grants. 350 Barrows Hall.
The 2013 LED Partnership Workshop will be held June 12-13, 2013, at the US Census
Bureau in the Washington DC. Registration will begin in April, so please save the
date and look for an email notifying you when registration opens. At this time we
are seeking submissions of proposals to present at the workshop, as well as poster
session submissions. You may download more information, full submission
requirements, and instructions by clicking here for presentations and here for
posters. An overview is below:
The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and
the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of
economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop
provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information
directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit
organizations, businesses, and other data users. The focus of posters at the
workshop is useful and new applications of new data made possible through the LED
State/Federal partnership, The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and OnTheMap.
Posters, provided by the submitter, will be displayed for attendees to read at their
leisure during the meeting and a scheduled "poster session" will allow poster
authors and attendees to discuss the work in person. Our theme for this year is
"Working Together" and thus we are particularly interested in presentations that
explore how LED data encourages a wide variety of partners to work together in new
ways. Topics could be from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited
to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, and
emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state
partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply. REMINDER: Poster and
presentation proposals are due Friday, February 22nd!
Weekly News February 11, 2013
Hello everybody,
There are several attachments to this week’s edition of the Weekly News[Note: These have been
removed from this archived file but may be requested from Popcenter@demog.berkeley.edu] because
sometimes it’s not possible to adequately condense and refer one to the website. Each has its own
value – PAA workshops, student internships, and a publication summarizing 30 years of demographic
trends in the US and Canada – for you to take advantage of or share with students and colleagues.
We will be shortly resuming our Social Networks discussion group, and there are opportunities for
collaborative research. If you aren’t already on our list and are interested, please let me know.
And as ever, if any of the grant programs listed below interest you, drop me a line. Do remember that
our motto is “you worry about the research, we’ll do the application.”
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great week.
-Leora
EVENTS
Wednesday February 13, 12-1 PM. Demography Brown Bag. Ronald Dahl (Community Health and
Human Development Program and Joint Medical Program in the School Of Public Health, UC Berkeley)
will present, "Transdisciplinary Research on Adolescent Brain Development: Identifying Unique
Opportunities for Prevention & Policy." Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Refreshments
and cookies served.
Thursday, February 14, 2013 2-4 PM Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY AND
FAMILY LABOR SUPPLY" Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University. | 648 Evans Hall.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday, February 13, 4:15-5:30 PM, Herrin Hall, Room T-175, Nir Barzilai, Einstein Medical Center,
Yeshiva University: “The Interaction between Longevity and Aging Genes in Humans.” For more
information, about the Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium call (650) 723-7518 or email
morrisoninstitute@stanford.edu or visit http://hsblogs.stanford.edu/morrison/morrison-institutewinter-colloquium/.
GRANTS
NIH: School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Obesogenic Behaviors and Weight Outcomes (R01,
R21, R03). NIH seeks hat propose to: (1) foster multidisciplinary research that will evaluate how policies
(federal, state and school district levels) can influence school physical activity and nutrition
environments, youths’ obesogenic behaviors (e.g., nutrition and physical activity behaviors), and weight
outcomes; (2) understand how schools are implementing these policies and examine multi-level
influences on adoption and implementation at various levels (e.g., federal, state, school district, and
school); and (3) understand the synergistic or counteractive effect of school nutrition and physical
activity polices on the home and community environment and body weight. These grants are not about
individual-based behavior per se, but about the organizational and communal contexts. For more
information, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/PA-files/PA-13-100.html
NICHD joins the F31 Predoctoral Grant Program. NICHD just joined the F31 pre-doctoral grant program,
just in time for the talk I’ll be giving next week on NIH grants (which, fortunately, have a higher payline
than do the regular research grants). To view the parent F31, visit:
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-111.html.
Obesity Policy Evaluation Research (R01). This program seeks applications that propose to evaluate
large scale policy or programs that are expected to influence obesity related behaviors (e.g., dietary
intake, physical activity, or sedentary behavior) and/or weight outcomes in an effort to prevent or
reduce obesity. For more information, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13110.html
FELLOWSHIPS
HHS Fellowship position available in the Division of Policy and Assurances. Applicants should have
earned a Bachelor's, Master's or Doctorate degree in public health, public policy, science, law, ethics,
philosophy, or related fields. A focus on health, as well as research experience, is beneficial. In addition,
experience in writing papers that address specific aspects of the protection of human subjects in
biomedical and behavioral research is a plus. The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
administers the program. The initial appointment is for one year, but may be renewed upon OHRP's
contingent on the availability of funds and project needs. The participant will receive a monthly stipend
based on educational level and experience. The participant must show proof of health insurance. The
appointment is full-time at OHRP in the Rockville, Maryland, area. Further information about OHRP's
programs, projects and activities can be found at: http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/index.html. To apply please
send a cover letter stating your interest, CV/resume, writing sample and the names and contact
information for three persons who will provide references for you to DeAnna Copeland at
DeAnna.Copeland@orau.org. Please reference Project #DHHS-OHRP-2013-0103 in all communications.
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program is seeking applications for a
special Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy: Causal Inference that will be held on May 2931, 2013, in Washington DC. It is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Selected
participants will receive support to cover fees, transportation, housing, and meals. Advanced doctoral
students and recent doctorates are especially encouraged to apply. The deadline to apply is Monday,
February 25, 2013. For more information about AERA and/or the Institute on Statistical Analysis for
Education Policy: Causal Inference, review the Call for Applications, visit www.aera.net/grantsprogram
or contact Kevin Dieterle, AERA Grants Program Manager, at grantsprogram@aera.net or (202) 2383227.
The Center for Research on Social Change Announces a Call for Applications for the 2013-14 Graduate
Fellows Training Program. Deadline: Monday, March 11 @ 5pm * For more information, visit the ISSI
homepage: http://issi.berkeley.edu/
Conducting Research Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Application
Deadline: March 1, 2013. The National Poverty Center (NPC) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public
Policy at the University of Michigan invites applications to participate in a five-day summer workshop
June 24 – 28, 2013, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop will introduce participants to the use of
micro-data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and provide hands-on
applications to prepare them to conduct their own SIPP-based research project. H. Luke Shaefer,
Assistant Professor of Social Work and NPC Research Affiliate, will lead the workshop in collaboration
with researchers at the University of Michigan, the U.S. Census Bureau and other nationally recognized
SIPP scholars. The National Poverty Center will pay travel, lodging, and meal costs for a limited number
of participants. Learn more at http://npc.umich.edu/opportunities/RFA-2013-Summer-Workshop.pdf.
Questions may be directed to npcinfo@umich.edu
Census Bureau Internships: The Census Bureau is now accepting applications for its 2013 Demographic
Directorate Internship Program. This opportunity is a paid, ten-week program starting in June 2013. We
seek highly motivated individuals at all education levels with excellent analytic, quantitative, computer,
and communication skills. Please share the attached flyer with your students. The Census Bureau is
located in the Washington, D.C. area.
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Family Planning, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 12-15, 2013. The
Conference organizers invite abstracts on cutting edge research and program results directed at
enabling individuals in the world, especially in low-income areas, to achieve their contraceptive and
reproductive intentions. Of particular interest are abstracts on research demonstrating how family
planning benefits and advances the health and wealth of people and nations and on high impact or best
practices of family planning programs and service delivery models. Abstracts using strong
scientific/evaluation methods will be given priority in the review and acceptance process.
Pre-formed panels may be submitted for review. These will include no more than four (4) abstracts,
thematically integrated with each abstract based on work carried out by separate organizations.
To submit abstracts please visit the 2013 International Conference on Family Planning Website,
www.fpconference2013.org. We encourage you to submit via the website, but if you are unable to
submit online please complete an attached cover form and email with your abstract to
abstracts@fpconference2013.org. The deadline is May 1, 2013.
PAA EVENTS
The first, no doubt, of many events at the PAA to be advertised here…
The PAA’s Committee on Population Statistics will hold a training workshop on the U.S. Census
Bureau’s Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) which tested various ways to collect
race/ethnicity data for the American population during the 2010 Census. This important pre-PAA
training workshop will be led by experts from the U.S. Census Bureau (Nicholas Jones, Roberto Ramirez,
and Joan Hill) along with invited PAA researchers. The workshop is open to the first 50 PAA members
who are interested in learning more about the 2010 AQE research and plans for ongoing research
explorations. There is no cost for the workshop but it is necessary to register during your registration
for the annual PAA meeting. If you have already registered for PAA and wish to attend the workshop,
please e-mail or call Lois Brown at lmbrown@popassoc.org; 301.565.6710. (See the attached flyer).
RESOURCES
From Magali Barbieri (Demography) and Nadine Ouellette (Postdoctoral fellow): We would like to bring
to your attention our recent article describing 30 years of demographic trends in the United States and
Canada. You might find the statistical appendix and the extended list of references particularly useful for
teaching or general research purposes. Feel free to circulate among those of your colleagues and
students who might be interested. (This article is attached.)
Weekly News January 28, 2013
Hello everybody,
The nascent ‘D-Lab’ or a centralized data laboratory to serve the broader campus is beginning to offer a
variety of workshops. One of the first series is with their Geospatial Innovation Facility, which will be
techniques and applications of GIS and other forms of geospatial data. Scroll down for the first of these
series. Also in the works: I’ll be giving a workshop on NIH grants for graduate students, and also a
workshop on non-academic careers for PhD’s. So stay tuned for details.
Some of you may have noticed that I am now one of the editors of the newsletter PAA Affairs. We want
to bring back a feature of interviews with new and veteran PAA members. I can do this easily but I
thought this would be a great opportunity for a graduate student or job-seeking post-doc to get
exposure. I am therefore seeking volunteers (or suggestions). Send them my way.
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great week.
-Leora
EVENTS
Wednesday January 30, 12-1 PM. Demography Brown Bag. David Steinsaltz (Department of Statistics,
Oxford University), What do we think we know about prenatal sex ratio, and when did we think we
knew it? Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Refreshments and cookies served.
Monday, January 28 | 12-1 p.m. Land Change Science Talk: Shifting lands with the winds of change:
Understanding land use - climate interactions Alan Di Vittorio, | 132 Mulford Hall
Monday, January 28, 2-3:30pm, “Social Democratic America,” Lane Kenworthy, University of Arizona, in
402 Barrows Hall
Thursday, January 31 | 2-4 p.m. Labor Economics Seminar 251, "LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS UNDER THE
UC AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAN" Danny Yagan, UC Berkeley | 648 Evans Hall
Thursday, January 31 | 12-1:45 p.m. “Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape
Abortion Law in the United States, Britain and Canada” Drew Halfmann, Sociology, UC Davis | Moses
Hall, 223, IIS Conference Room.
Friday, February 1, 12-4 PM. D-Lab Workshop: Intro to Geographic Information Systems
(GIS):/Environmental Science Focus/.
http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshop_descriptions.html#intro_gisl (fee).
Friday, February 1 | 3:10-5 p.m. Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), Phase 2: Current Status
and Developments. Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia, with Ray R. Larson, Adrian Turner, & Brian Tingle
(UCB). | 107 South Hall
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday, January 30 4:15-5:30 PM, Herrin Hall, Room T-175, Jan.30: Alex Weinreb, University of
Texas-Austin: “The Effects of Plague on Religion; or, How Monotheism (Almost) Conquered the World”
For more information, about the Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium call (650) 723-7518 or email
morrisoninstitute@stanford.edu or visit http://hsblogs.stanford.edu/morrison/morrison-institutewinter-colloquium/. Interested in carpooling? Email me so that other travelers can be matched.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) is offering 10 training workshops this semester
that use a hands-on approach to help you get started using spatial analysis to enhance your research.
GIF workshops are available at a subsidized rate of $84 each for all UC students, faculty, and
staff, and $224 each for all non-UC affiliates. View our website
http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshops.html to learn more about the following workshops and to
register. The first is theworkshop listed above in Events.