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Webinar: Color, class, and context: Examining heterogeneous family structure effects

WHEN: January 28, 2021 (12:00 pm-1:00 pm EST)
WHERE: Online (REGISTER)
COST: Free

The Social Demography Seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS), provide a forum for social science scholars to discuss in-progress research that touches on timely topics such as health and social inequalities, race and ethnicity, aging and life course, gender, immigration and migration, and other population health themes. In the wake of COVID-19, these seminars are transitioning to an online format this fall, and can now reach a much wider audience.

The presenter, Christina Cross, is a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of sociology (beginning 2022), Harvard University.

U.S. Policy Communication Training Program

The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program builds on PRB’s 40-year legacy of training researchers to bridge the gap between research findings and the policy development process. While research often has profound practical implications, it must be communicated effectively to a variety of nontechnical audiences to influence policy and programmatic change. The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program prepares researchers to influence policy and practice through effective communication.

Through the U.S. Policy Communication Training Program, participants will:

  • Understand the process by which research informs the policy environment.
  • Learn various ways to communicate findings to U.S. and international policy audiences.
  • Improve their ability to communicate in written and verbal formats.

Core training sessions cover the research to policy gap, communication strategies to link research to policy, writing for policy and nontechnical audiences, and effective content for and delivery of presentations. Training sessions may be either in-person or remote, depending on 2021 COVID-19 guidelines.

This program is made possible by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

For more information and to apply: https://www.prb.org/work-with-us/fellowships/u-s-policy-communication-training-program/

Recent COVID-19 Seed Grants at NICHD Population Centers

Summary of Seed Grant Funding by Major Topic Area

Economic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities

Ohio State University (Grant # P2CHD058484)
Household Formation and Inequalities in Financial Coping in the COVID-19 Crisis: Building Demographic Insight with New Credit Report Panel Data (PIs: Meta Brown, Economics; Rachel Dwyer, Sociology; Stephanie Moulton, John Glenn School of Public Affairs).

University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
Understanding Latino Aging in the Era of COVID (PI: Justin Vinneau).

Designing/Collecting New Data to Evaluate Pandemic Impacts

Columbia University (Grant # P2CHD058486)
Preparing a COVID-19 Module for the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (PIs: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Teachers College, Columbia University; Elizabeth Ananat, Barnard College, Columbia University).

University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Community-based Sampling of Asymptomatic Individuals in the Northern California Bay Area for Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 (PIs: Lisa Barcellos, School of Public Health; Eva Harris, Division of Infectious Disease & Vaccinology, School of Public Health; Nick Jewell, Division of Epi & Biostatistics, School of Public Health).

Mental Health and Other Socio-Medical Consequences of COVID-19 Response Measures Among Low-Income Latinx Families (PI: Julianna Deardorff, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health; Co-I: Brenda Eskenazi, CERCH, School of Public Health).

Effects of COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies on Economically Disadvantaged Children and Families in California (PIs: Lia Fernald, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley; Wendi Gosliner, Nutrition Policy Institute, UC Davis; Rita Hamad, UC San Francisco).

University of North Carolina (Grant # P2CHD050924)
Pandemic Benefits for US Households and Their Impacts on Household Food Security and Nutritional Quality (PI: Shu Wen Ng, Carolina Population Center, UNC).

Maternal Physical and Mental Health and Outcomes for Children

Columbia University (Grant # P2CHD058486)
The Impact of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Gestational Hypertension On Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in the Context Of Maternal Stress and Depression During The COVID-19 Pandemic (PIs: William P. Fifer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Carmela Alcántara, Columbia University School of Social Work; and Noelia M. Zork, Columbia University Irving Medical Center).

Bowling Green State University (Grant # P2CHD050959)
Familial Responses to Social Distancing and Mother’s Gatekeeping Role (PI: Monica Longmore).

University of North Carolina (Grant # P2CHD050924)
Family, Work, and Maternal Mental Health During and After the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic (PIs: Angela Parcesepe and Denis Nash, Carolina Population Center).

Duke University (Grant # P2CHD065563)
Children, COVID-19, and its Consequences (the “Triple C” study) (PIs: Christina Gibson-Davis, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University and Sara Curran, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington).

University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Social Distancing Policies in Denver, CO (PI: Shelby Ross).

Impact of COVID-19 in Countries Outside the United States

University of Maryland (Grant # P2CHD041041)
How Ending a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Impacts Children’s School Enrollment:  Evidence from Mexico (PI: Susan W. Parker, Maryland Population Research Center).

University of Michigan (Grant # P2CHD041028)
COVID-19 Vulnerability in South India (PIs: Narayan Sastry, Rand Corporation and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; Emily Treleaven, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan).

University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Understanding Economic Outcomes and Resilience to COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey (PIs: Edward Miguel, Department of Economics Collaborating Investigator; Michael Walker, Post-Doc at CEGA, UC Berkeley).

Women’s Health and COVID-19: Understanding Shifting Needs and Access to Reproductive Health in Kenya and Rwanda (PIs: Laura Packel, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Sandra McCoy, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Jenny Liu, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco).

University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
COVID-19 Research in Puerto Rico and Globally in the Public Health and the Social Sciences (PI: Jocelyn West).

Using Twitter and Social Media to Study COVID-19

University of Michigan (Grant # P2CHD041028)
Leveraging Twitter Data on a US Probability Sample during Covid-19 (PI: Zeina Mneimneh, Director, International Unit, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research).

University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Understanding Spatial Variations in “Social Distancing” Practices and the Impact on COVID-19 Outbreak Dynamics (PIs: Ayesha Mahmud, Department of Demography; Dennis Feehan, Department of Demography; Joseph Lewnard, Division of Epidemiology).

University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Shaping Health Lifestyles and Technology Use (PI: Theresa Edwards-Capen).

Role of Community Organizations and Prisons and COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics

University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Disease Prevention and the Role of Community Organizations: Responses to Covid-19 in China and the U.S. (PI: Yan Long, Department of Sociology).

University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
Views from the Inside: Prisoners on COVID‐19 Risk and Responses (PIs: Jennifer Ashley, Tostlebe Blinkhorn).

University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Characterizing the Early Transmission Dynamics and Clinical Spectrum Of SARS-Cov-2 in the United States (PIs: Ayesha Mahmud, Department of Demography; Joseph Lewnard, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health).

Creating and Using Measures of Structural Racism

Minnesota Demography & Aging Seminar: Creating and Using Measures of Structural Racism

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Philando Castile. Michael Brown. COVID mortality rates of 108.4 per 100,000 for Blacks vs. 54.4 per 100,000 for Whites (APM Research Lab, 2020-10-15). Pregnancy-related mortality rates of 43.5 per 100,000 for Black women vs. 12.7 per 100,000 for non-Hispanic White women (Melillo 2020). Black men and women are 2.5 and 1.4 times, respectively, more likely than White men and women to be killed by police over the life course (Edwards et al. 2019). These shocking disparities highlight the racism that pervades the systems that structure our world. Scientists from multiple disciplines are currently working to develop meaningful and useful measures of structural racism that may shed light on these disparities. Our panel discussion will review these ongoing efforts and highlight areas that require additional study and data.

November 30, 2020 | 12:15 – 1:15 PM CT

Panelists:
Jaime Slaughter-Acey, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota
David Van Riper, ISRDI, University of Minnesota
Rachel Hardeman, Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota

Details and links: https://pop.umn.edu/events/seminar-series

NIH Inviting Comments and Suggestions on their Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research

Urgent public health measures are needed to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. Scientific research to improve basic understanding of COVID-19 and to develop the necessary tools and approaches to better prevent, diagnose, and treat this disease is of paramount importance. The NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research, released on July 13, 2020, provides a framework for achieving this goal. It describes how NIH is rapidly mobilizing diverse stakeholders, including the biomedical research community, industry, and philanthropic organizations, through new programs and existing resources, to lead a swift, coordinated research response to this global pandemic.

Because of the urgency and evolving nature of the pandemic, this plan is intended to be a living document, which will be continually updated to reflect new challenges presented by COVID-19. To ensure that it remains in step with public needs, NIH invites stakeholders throughout the scientific research, advocacy, and clinical practice communities, as well as the general public to comment on their plan.

Responses must be received by 11:59:59 pm (ET) on December 7, 2020.

For more information, visit: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-018.html

NIH Releases New Policy for Data Management and Sharing

The National Institutes of Health recently released a new Policy for Data Management and Sharing to promote the management and sharing of scientific data generated from NIH-funded or conducted research. This Policy emphasizes the importance of good data management practices and establishes the expectation for maximizing the appropriate sharing of scientific data generated from NIH-funded or conducted research, with justified limitations or exceptions. This Policy applies to research funded or conducted by NIH that results in the generation of scientific data.

For more information, visit: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-013.html

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