April 2024 QMLC newsletter

Please find below an exciting opportunity at University of Maryland for a postdoctoral fellow interested in working on a newly awarded NIH R01. The work is related to the measurement of structural racism and health inequalities. This time, we are … Read more

Senators Sanders (I-VT) and Booker (D-NJ) introduced a Senate bill on childhood diabetes that was based on research from the UNC Global Food Research Program as well as Lindsey Smith Taillie’s testimony in the Senate last December. Taillie is a … Read more

We are seeking one or two graduate research assistants for projects studying health care providers and social services organization in North Carolina. The projects consist of interviews with health care providers and social service providers in North Carolina on their … Read more

NIA Funding Opportunities     This alert links to all of NIA’s notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) and other related notices in the previous month, giving researchers and trainees a heads up about what’s new. Read about the latest opportunities … Read more

The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be April 17-20, 2024 in Columbus, OH. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, CPC external faculty affiliates, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, staff members and … Read more

Predoctoral Trainee Georgina Gemayel received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award. Gemayel is a MA/doctoral student in the department of Geography, advised by Clark Gray. Other recipients include Adriana Wisniewski (Biological Anthropology), advised by Amanda Thompson and Athena Owirodu, … Read more

Clark Gray and Maia Call received the 2023 IPUMS Research Award in the category of published research using IPUMS Spatial data. Their paper, “Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics”  was published in Population and Environment … Read more

NIA just published a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) – U.S. Health in the International Perspective (NOT-AG-24-004). It is designed to stimulate applications for conducting research that examines mechanisms and causes behind the increasing U.S. health disadvantage, which refers to … Read more

The California Pan Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) is accepting applications for a Data Scientist. Candidates must be based anywhere in California or be willing to move. This is a hybrid position.   Posting is attached to this email and linked here on … Read more