The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is seeking innovative ways to increase breastfeeding initiation and continuation rates and decrease disparities among breastfeeding mothers in the United States. OWH is creating a national competition to identify effective, pre-existing programs that increase breastfeeding initiation and continuation rates and…

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WHEN: October 1, 2020 (12:00 pm-1:00 pm EDT) WHERE: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/event/social-demography-seminar-online-5/ 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….

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WHEN: September 17, 2020 (12:00 pm-1:00 pm EDT) WHERE: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/event/social-demography-seminar-online-2/ 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…

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DemSemX is a cross-center virtual collaboration among population research centers at 9 universities (Bowling Green, Brown, Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Texas, UCLA and UW-Madison), designed to enhance scholarly interaction and graduate training across institutions. On Friday, August 21st, 3-4 pm ET, each center will host a virtual breakout room, where 2 students will provide brief…

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The National Institutes of Health is encouraging research to test the implementation of COVID-19 diagnostic testing in underserved or vulnerable communities through the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative. NIH will hold two pre-application webinars covering the four RADx-UP funding opportunities: NOT-OD-20-119, NOT-OD-20-120, NOT-OD-20-121, and RFA-OD-20-013. RADx-UP Pre-Application Webinar I June 26, 2020 (2:00-4:00 p.m. EDT) For…

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WHEN: June 23, 2020 (1:00 pm-2:30 pm EDT) WHERE: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UFcl7xniRMOGD-rr3m7Csw COST: Free Are you interested in doing empirical work on COVID-19? This session will detail how six existing publicly available longitudinal studies are incorporating new measures to capture peoples’ experiences of the pandemic. The panel participants and surveys include: Session Organizer and Chair – Pam…

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