The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice in the U.S.
The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice in the U.S.
Family Demography Working Group Brownbag
Thursday, March 25th at 12:00 - 1:00 pm
“Time Use Activities and Mental Health of Adolescent Girls and Boys in India"
Nancy Luke and Ashley Larsen Gibby
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“The Color Line in Women’s Work and Family Lives across Education Levels”
Léa Pessin, Sarah Damaske, and Adrianne Frech
Information: Molly Martin (mam68@psu.edu) for zoom link
CJARS is a next generation data platform built on over 2+ billion lines of raw data, looking to transform criminal justice research and statistical reporting as we know it. The system, which grows each and everyday, currently contains over 133 million criminal justice events from arrest to parole, occurring in 18 states, covering over 33 million individuals. All of this data can be integrated at the individual level with extensive, longitudinal socio-economic data in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
March 19: Janine Kwapis (Penn State University) "Epigenetic regulation of the circadian gene Per1 in memory and aging"
April 9: Scott Huettel (Duke University) "Seeking mechanisms of social decision making"
April 16: Ted Satterthwaite (University of Pennsylvania) "Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding Psychopathology with Large-Scale Studies of Brain Development"
April 30: Linda Wilbrecht (University of California, Berkeley)
The Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition (CBBC) promotes interdisciplinary and integrative research across the life, social, and neural sciences. It provides a dynamic forum for research collaboration, student training, and community building in the areas of brain, behavior, and cognition studies. CBBC members come from multiple Colleges across the University: Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, Health and Human Development, Liberal Arts, and the Eberly College of Science. The CBBC is supported by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Lunchtime seminars provide a forum for discussion and are open to all Penn State students and faculty. If you have questions, or need the Zoom link,or want to meet with a speaker, please contact: Sonia Cavigelli (sac34@psu.edu) OR Chuck Geier (cfg2@psu.edu).
In this seminar, Jessica Myrick, Ph.D., associate professor of film-video and media studies, will address how the language and images used to describe COVID-19 in the media can shape emotional and cognitive responses to the condition as well as subsequent policy support. This talk will draw on interdisciplinary approaches spanning health behavior, media studies, political science and social psychology.
Charleen Hsuan, Ph.D., who offers health policy impact consultations through the institute, will moderate the seminar. Learn more and request a consultation here.
PRI Environmental Demography Working Group
Monday, February 22nd, 2:00 pm -3:00 pm
Discussion about publicly available datasets that can be used for population-environment research.
Information: Heather Randell (hrandell@psu.edu)
Rock Ethics Institute
This Conference will include various poster presentations, followed by presentations on topics related to demography, and then another time span of various poster presentations. Each session/presentation will be presented by various graduate students associated with the Population Research Institute and the Graduate Program in Demography.
This event is a great opportunity for graduate students to practice presentations ahead of the actual PAA conference 2021 held virtually.
The Pennsylvania State University Population Research Institute and Graduate Program in Demography are proud to sponsor the mini-PAA Conference for 2021
10:30 am |
Session 1: Introduction |
10:35 am |
Age, period, and cohort patterns in the use of drugs with elevated overdose risk in the US, 1979-2018. Kira England, Ashton Verdery, Liying Luo, Shannon Monnat (Discussant: Dr. Louisa Holmes) |
10:55 am |
The intersection of time and place: Cohort patterns and regional differences in obesity among blacks and whites, 1976-2018. (Discussant: Dr. Steven Haas) |
11:05 am |
The relationship between suspension and dropout in three cohorts of youth in the United States. (FLASH TALK) Brittany Freelin (Discussant: Hannah Ahn) |
11:20 am |
Transition to open questions |
11.35 am |
SHORT BREAK |
11:40 am |
Session 2: Poster Session Introduction |
11:42 am |
Place and perception: Connections between activity space and beliefs in Chitwan, Nepal. Anna Shetler, Scott Yabiku |
11:44 am |
The contribution of varying female community autonomy levels to child nutritional status. Marco Faytong Haro |
11:46 am |
Anomaly in the education-health gradient in gestational outcomes in the U.S. Aarti Bhat, Alexis Santos |
11:48 am |
The generational boundaries of educational advantage: Does great-grandparent education predict great-grandchild early academic achievement? Megan Evans, JD Daw, S. Michael Gaddis |
11:50 am |
Poster Breakout rooms with transitions between room prompts sent at 12.00 pm and 12.10 pm |
12.20 pm |
SHORT BREAK |
12:30 pm |
Session 3: Introduction |
12:35 pm |
The effect of integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness policy on mortality: Evidence from Zimbabwe. Nigel James, Yubraj Acharya (Discussant: Dr. Nancy Luke) |
12:55 pm |
Wives’ relative income and teen sex risk latent classes: Evidence from a developing setting. (Discussant: Saman Naz) |
1:15 pm |
Open questions |
1:30 pm |
Session 4: Introduction |
1:35 pm |
Operationalizing Gentrification. (FLASH TALK) (Discussant: Megan Evans) |
1:50 pm |
The changing landscape of affordable housing in the rural and urban United States, 1990-2016. Matthew Brooks (Discussant: Dr. John Iceland) |
2:10 pm |
Open questions |
2:25 pm |
Wrap-up |
2:30 pm |
End |
PRI Coding Working Group
Tuesday, February 23rd 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm via Zoom
Table Making in Stata with Sarah Miller
All Students, faculty and PRI Associates are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Information: Megan Evans (mme5163@psu.edu)
Our speaker will be Dr. Katie Gates, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Gates’ talk will be entitled “Detecting change points in connectivity maps”.
Zoom link for the seminar: https://psu.zoom.us/j/94202655109
PRI Community and Place Working Group
February 26th ~ 12:00 pm
Matt Brooks, Ph.D. will present on a chapter of his dissertation.
"Persistent Disparities in Affordable Housing among America’s Ethnoracial Groups: 2006-2018."
Information: John Iceland (jdi10@psu.edu) or Charley Boynton (cnb35@psu.edu)
PRI Community and Place Working Group
April 2nd ~ 12:00 pm
Megan Evans will present her talk "Neighborhood Reputations and the Search for Housing"
Information: John Iceland (jdi10@psu.edu) or Charley Boynton (cnb35@psu.edu)
Hosted by the UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science & the Northwestern University Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
Facilitator: Sara Brennen, M.A., PRC Manager of Strategic Communications
Presenters:
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__CWP-OBiTuGcR97KMgkN5w
The fifth annual Arthur W. Page Center Awards will honor Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of PBS Newshour; Eugene Robinson, Washington Post columnist and editor; and Bill Heyman, CEO of Heyman Associates.Each honoree will join the event live and participate in a Q&A session to discuss the important role of truth-telling and integrity in their work. The honorees represent a wide range of areas in public communication, including health, science, policy, recruitment, journalism and more. Questions for the Q&A can be submitted during registration.
The event is free and open to the public.
How Functional Data Analysis Contributes to Biomedical Research: The Genetics of Childhood Obesity, and the Unfolding of COVID-19 in Italy
Limitations in Microbiome Association Analysis
Graphical Models: New Methods, Algorithms and Applications
PRI Population Health Working Group
April 21st - 4:00 pm
Kira England, Liying Luo, Ashton Verdery
"Intergenerational Effects of Disability: Evidence from a Low-Income Country"
Information: JD Daw (jddaw@psu.edu)
PRI Population Health Working Group
March 22nd - 11:00 am
"Intergenerational Effects of Disability: Evidence from a Low-Income Country"
Information: JD Daw (jddaw@psu.edu)
Fostering a Sense of Belonging in College
Abstract: For this seminar, I will review the accumulating evidence regarding the key role that feelings of belongingness play in helping students thrive in college. Specifically, I will use examples from two studies I have conducted with social psychologist colleagues to unpack the various facets of belonging among college students. The first one is an observational study from a national sample of college students and the second one a randomized field experiment conducted in a large broad-access university in the Midwest. If time permits, I will also describe some early-stage ideas I am working on to extend our understanding of how students come to belong in a new setting—how context matters and how COVID might have influenced these processes.
PRI Population Health Working Group
March 8th - 11:00 pm
"Cannabis Rules: Prevalence of Home Smoking Bans among Young Adults in the San Francisco Bay Area "
Information: JD Daw (jddaw@psu.edu)
PRI Population Health Working Group
February 15th - 11:00 am
"Anomaly in the Education-Health Gradient in Gestational Outcomes in the United States."
Information: JD Daw (jddaw@psu.edu)
PRI Coding Working Group
Locals, Globals, and Loops
with Dr. Jonathan Daw.
Thursday, February 4 12-1pm via Zoom
Information: Megan Evans (mme5163@psu.edu)
Family Demography Working Group Brownbag
Thursday February 25th at 12:00 - 1:00 pm
"The Intergenerational Effects of Head Start on Infant Health"
By Esra Kose (Bucknell University)
Information: Molly Martin (mam68@psu.edu)
January 25, February 22, March 15, March 29, April 12, April 26
All lectures will be held remotely via Zoom
https://psu.zoom.us/j/526737440
No prior registration is necessary
Community-engaged adaptation of a coparenting-focused prevention program for parents of children diagnosed with ASD: Pilot study results
Family Demography Working Group Brownbag
Thursday January 28th at 12:00 - 1:00 pm
"The Effects of Mortality Exposure on Fertility Preferences"
By Mary Shenk and Lisa McAllister
Information: Molly Martin (mam68@psu.edu)
Dr. Anna Haskins
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Cornell University
"Complexity and Constraint: College Attitudes and Expectations among Teens of the Prison Boom"
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
**Special Time**
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Interactive, "choose your own topic" virtual event
Faculty Research in Action
Informed Consent: Beyond Compliance
We invite you to a symposium organized by LEAADS@psu on Addressing Intersectionality to Transform Leadership at Penn State. Please reserve time on your calendar to attend and feel free to share this email with others in your unit. We look forward to your attendance and participation!
When: Friday, February 19, 2:00-5:00 pm and Friday, February 26, 2:00-5:00 pm, via zoom (details to follow)
Who Should Attend: All academic leaders and faculty interested in academic leadership who seek to broaden and deepen their understanding of intersectionality and its relationships to leadership within academia
Symposium Topic: We will engage in interdisciplinary dialogue within our Penn State community in order to build understanding of the effects of intersectionality on success and leadership in academia with the goal of identifying pathways for transformational action and informing future initiatives.
Intersectionality asks us to unveil the structures of privilege and power that maintain systems of discrimination and marginalization of minority groups and to particularly examine how simple, one-dimensional categorization of discrimination and bias can hide these patterns. By calling attention to the ways in which laws, policies, structures, and biases can focus on particular groups and ignore others, the concept of intersectionality is a call to action to identify how systemic barriers maintain systems of exclusion, marginalization, or oppression. Within academia, the interface among race, gender, economic class, sexuality, and other categorizations is poorly examined yet continues to stifle calls for diversity, inclusion, and the advancement of historically marginalized groups. Recent experiences with COVID-19 and anti-racist reckoning have concomitantly revealed and heightened some of these vulnerabilities. How do we address intersectionality while transforming institutional systems? How do we incorporate intersectionality into considerations of academic inclusion, advancement, and leadership?
Who We Are: LEAADS@PSU is a network of women faculty committed to LEading Advocacy and Action for Diverse LeaderShip at Penn State. We are exploring and acting on issues that impact willingness and preparedness of faculty to engage in leadership.
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute will present "Data4Action: The Centre County COVID-19 Cohort Study" at its next Recent Topics in Research Methods Seminar Series from 4 to 5 p.m. on Jan. 26.
Financing Autism Services: The Role of Medicaid
The 28th Annual PRI Sponsored Demography Graduate Student Methods Workshop
We are pleased to announce this year's
workshop theme "Agent-based Modeling"
Our speakers include:
Tuesday, May 11, 9:00-12:30
Via Zoom!
Please register for the workshop at the link provided below!
Registration Link: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2tKwz3FZLTUFsRE
Please contact Megan Evans (mme5163@psu.edu) or Lauren Newmyer (lun148@psu.edu) for any questions.
Introducing N3C -The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) - A National Partnership to Fight COVID-19
During public health emergencies like COVID-19, science - and the process of turning observations into new therapies - must be translated faster than ever. Vast amounts of clinical data are being generated that could be used to advance research efforts focused on COVID-19. These datasets often become too large to share and the networks for data management are so dissimilar that they cannot be combined easily, creating roadblocks along the path to developing new treatments. With no standardized way to collect and harmonize all this data being generated, there is an urgent need for a COVID-19 analytics platform that can turn all this data into new knowledge that can speed research efforts across the country. Making data more meaningful, open and accessible is a key goal in NCATS' efforts to improve translational science and advance research across many diseases.
An effort called the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, or N3C, is building a centralized national data resource - the NCATS N3C Data Enclave - that the research community can use to study COVID-19 and identify potential treatments as the pandemic continues to evolve. Specifically, the N3C will enable the rapid collection and analysis of clinical, laboratory and diagnostic data from hospitals and health care plans. If successful, this approach will be applicable to other research questions and may serve as a model for addressing future public health emergencies.
The N3C is a partnership among the NCATS-supported Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program hubs and the National Center for Data to Health (CD2H), with overall stewardship by NCATS. Collaborators will contribute and use COVID-19 clinical data to answer critical research questions to address the pandemic.
The colloquium is co-sponsored by the Center for Health Care and Policy Research and the Department of Health Policy and Administration.
Health Disparities Facing Native American and Indigenous Communities
Collaboration Across Disciplines
PRI Environmental Demography Working Group
Monday, December 7th, 2:00 pm -3:00 pm
Heather Randell
“The health and demographic implications of dam-induced displacement for women and children: The case of Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam”
The PSU Population Research Institute & Syracuse University CPR/Lerner Center
Joint Symposium
SAVE THE DATE
"Population Health, Children and Family Policy"
January 26th ~ 12:00 - 1:30 pm on Zoom
Link will be emailed directly to PRI Associates and PRI Students
Implementation Science (IS) aims to identify effective strategies for translating scientific discoveries into broad and sustained real-world use—toward the betterment of the human condition.
Most IS has focused on biomedical and health sciences. The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers from across Penn State with an introduction to IS and insights on how they can incorporate IS into their own research programs.
An RFA for projects that incorporate novel IS into ongoing Penn State research programs will be announced.
Workshop registration link for University Park and Commonwealth Campuses: https://forms.gle/tFXTTYaBPy5cVGpN6
Workshop registration link for researchers at the Hershey campus: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2bqvSpSBnJf6669
Please register by 12/12/20 to facilitate our planning.
Keynote speaker:
Russell Glasgow, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus; formerly Director of Implementation Science, The National Cancer Institute
Flash Examples of Implementation Science:
William Calo, PhD, JD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences; Penn State Cancer Institute
Max Crowley, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies; Director, Evidence to Impact Collaborative & Taylor Scott, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Prevention Research Center, Co-Director, Research to Policy Collaboration
Jennifer Frank, PhD, Associate Professor of Education (Special Education)
Daniel Perkins, Professor of Youth and Family Resiliency and Policy; Principal Scientist, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
Implementing Implementation Science across the Disciplines--Panel Discussion:
Karen Bierman, PhD, Evan Pugh Professor of Psychology; Director, Child Study Center
Kathryn Brasier, PhD, Professor of Rural Sociology; Institutes of Energy and the Environment cofunded faculty member
Andrew Read, PhD, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology; Director, Huck Life Sciences Institutes
Justin Schwartz, PhD, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering
Implementation Science Workshop Resources
Jennifer Frank - Applying Implementation Science to School-Based Prevention
Max Crowley - Understanding the Process of Bridging Research and Policy
Russell Glasgow - Keynote Speaker
You are invited to the
PRI Year End Celebration!
Tuesday, December 8th
12:00 - 1:30 pm
For all PRI Associates, Staff and Students
PRI Environmental Demography
Working Group
Wednesday, November 18th, 11 am-12 pm
Asher Rosinger
“Chronic health effects of water salinity and water insecurity in the context of extreme heat”
The increasing salinity of groundwater is a key emerging global environmental health risk for millions of adults globally. Therefore, our overarching objective is to understand how water salinity, quality, and access in the context of extreme heat manifests in water insecurity and affects the health and well-being of adults. The proposed research aims to develop a longitudinal study in Northern Kenya comprised of 600 adults (300 men, 300 women; 50% aged 18-45; 50% aged 45+) with high resolution seasonal assessments of in-depth environmental measures of water quality, water access, wet bulb globe temperatures, lifestyle and stressor measures, and health and biomarker examinations. This will make it possible to test our central hypothesis that water salinity and heat stress are detrimental to chronic kidney and cardiovascular health as well as leading to water insecurity, psychosocial stress, and cognition.
For more information, contact Heather Randell (hrandell@psu.edu)
Getting your message out there: Using press and social media to enhance the reach of your research
The webinar will feature remarks from Amanda Morris, Journal for Research on Adolescence Editor in Chief; Jon Stemmle, University of Missouri, School of Journalism; Megan Maas, Michigan State University, and Kalee De France, Queen's University. Speakers will take a deep dive into how to share research on different mediums without breaking the rules.
The next event in the HHD Dean's Virtual Lecture Series: The Impact of Structural Racism and Racial Discrimination on Health, Wellness, and Well-Being will be this Thursday Nov 12th at 4pm.
When the Goal is Racial Justice: Learning from Youth, Families, and Educators
Dr. Rivas-Drake will provide an overview of how racism permeates the everyday interpersonal experiences of youth in schools, among peers, and in their communities, and the psychological, academic, and health implications of these experiences. She will also outline strategies that families and schools use to build adolescents' capacities to navigate, challenge, and disrupt racism and xenophobia, using examples from her quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research to illustrate how developmental science can be used to advance racial justice.
A PSU News Story previewing the lecture is here. You can watch this HHD Dean's Lecture on Zoom here.
Supporting caregivers to implement behavioral interventions for young children on the autism spectrum
The Future of Data Science: Its Role, Impact and Responsibility to the Advancement of Scientific Research and Public Understanding
The Impacts of Child Maltreatment on Development: Implications for Prevention and Policy
Family Vulnerability and Disruption during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Child Adjustment
To understand child emotional and behavioral health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, we look at data from 204 families from before and during COVID-19 onset in the US to examine pre-existing indications of vulnerability and the impact of disruption to family relationship quality, routines, and parenting quality in relation to children's adjustment.
Early Family Prevention Programming Provides Long-term Benefits for Parents and Children During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Mark Feinberg, PRC Research Professor
Co-Authors: Jacqueline Mogle, Jin-Kyung Lee, Samantha L. Tornello, Michelle L. Hostetler, Joseph A. Cifelli, Emily Hotez, Sunhye Bai
In the context of long-term follow-up of outcomes in a randomized trial, we first assessed the magnitude of declines in parent/child well-being one to three years before the pandemic to well-being assessed during the first two months of the pandemic. We then examined whether random assignment to the Family Foundations program eight years before was associated with families' resilience in the face of the acute stress of the early pandemic period.
Testing Science Communication Strategies among Legislators in the Era of COVID-19
Presenter: Taylor Scott, PRC Assistant Research Professor; Co-Director, Research-to-Policy Collaboration
Building on the Research-to-Policy Collaboration, this effort has sought to complement interactive approaches to supporting legislative use of research evidence by disseminating timely research to thousands of state and federal legislative offices. This has allowed us to investigate strategies for improving the reach of scientific messages among legislative audiences through rapid-cycle trials, as well as improve the reach with personalization, problem-framing, grassroots distribution, and other strategies.
Sex-specific brain transcriptional signatures in human MDD and their correlates in mouse models of depression
This year our esteemed keynote speaker will be Susan Sherman, PhD, Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Sherman’s research and publications focus on the social determinants of health and structural interventions among people who use drugs and female sex workers. Her work examining the validity, acceptability, and implementation of several fentanyl testing technologies led to the decriminalization of drug checking in several jurisdictions in the US. Dr. Sherman is leading the evaluation of a community-level intervention targeting street-based, drug using, female sex workers. The intervention consists of a full service drop-in center (SPARC Center) and extensive peer outreach. Dr. Sherman serves on several state and national advisory committees and testifies regularly at state and local government hearings, using evidence to support humane drug policy. She is a newly endowed Bloomberg Professor of the American Health in Addiction and Overdose.
Dr. Sherman will present two unique talks, one at the faculty event focused on policy, and one at the symposium focusing on her research.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020: Virtual faculty event formerly the “Dinner”
5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Zoom
Register here http://bit.ly/PSUAddictionDinner
This event, formerly known as “The Dinner,” will include a social/networking hour (5-6 p.m.), possible through self-selected breakout Zoom rooms, to allow you to catch up with acquaintances and make new connections.
Dr. Sherman will deliver the keynote address, focused on public health and policy:
‘Innovative Approaches to the Opioid Epidemic: Harm Reduction Efforts in the time of COVID’
Dr. Sherman will discuss the evidence in support of harm reduction and overdose prevention among people who use drugs, including syringe service programs, safe consumption sites, and drug checking. She will also examine the nature and reach of these programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, including examples of nimble programs that reshape to meet a changing environment that impacts care delivery and need.
Dr. Rachel Levine, Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, will also speak to provide an update on substance use in the state.
In attendance will be representatives from Penn State University, local and state government, and prominent members of the Pennsylvania substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery community.
Continuing Education Credits (1 hr CME and APA; eligible for opioid credit requirement) will be available for Penn State employees (currently pending).
All interested faculty and clinicians are invited, but registration is required (see below).
Thursday, December 3, 2020: Addiction Symposium
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Zoom
Register here http://bit.ly/PSUAddictionSymposium
The goal of the symposium is to familiarize ourselves with the many groups studying and treating addiction at the various Penn State campuses. This year, we will highlight the significant advancements at Penn State Hershey pertaining to substance use Research, Treatment, Education, and Community Engagement that have been achieved. We will also be discussing the role of the Penn State Addiction Center for Translation and how it can better serve the clinicians, researchers, and community affiliates of Penn State Hershey and beyond.
The symposium will feature a second talk by Dr. Sherman (12:00-1:00 p.m.) focused on her harm reduction research in the community:
‘The Invisible Impact of Gender: Overdose and HIV Risk Environment of Street-based Female Sex Workers’
Dr. Sherman will discuss the unique risk conferred by the environment for women who use drugs and sell sex. Specifically, she will examine the role of the police on overdose and HIV/STI outcomes, as well as describe a full-service drop-in Center, the SPARC Center. She will detail SPARC services during the time of COVID-19.
Continuing Education Credits (1 hr CME and APA; eligible for opioid credit requirement) will be available for Penn State employees (currently pending).
Due to the restrictions of a large virtual event, our plan this year the majority of our data-blitz talks and all of our posters will be pre-recorded and made available to registrants for viewing prior to the symposium. During our Poster and Presentation Session attendees will be able to toggle between Zoom rooms to “visit” presenters and discuss research. Presenters will be able to share their screen to provide visuals for discussion.
ALL are encouraged to share their research and/or current projects.
To present a 5min data blitz-style TALK or a POSTER at the Symposium, the deadline for submission is November 17, 2020.
Please send a 250 word abstract, complete with title, author(s), affiliations, and the presenter’s email address to Sarah (PSACT@pennstatehealth.psu.edu). Specific recording directions will then be sent to you.
PRI Community and Place Working Group
November 20th ~ 12:00 pm
Jaclyn Butler will present her talk "The Dynamics of Uneven Development, Population Redistribution, and Economic Inequality in the United States."
NOTE: There is a new link and password for this meeting.
Information: John Iceland (jdi10@psu.edu) or Charley Boynton (cnb35@psu.edu)
PRI Zoom Social Hour!
We realize that during the Brown Bags, we don't have our usual time to chat/connect and that it would be nice to see each other.
Thursday, November 12th from 4-5:30.
Please feel free to drop by whenever during that time that would be convenient.
You'll have to provide your own food and drink!
Thursday December 17 12:00 - 1:00 pm on Zoom
Presentation by Marco Faytong-Haro's dissertation chapter
"Mother’s economic dependence and child nutritional status: an explanation of mechanisms"
Information: Molly Martin (mam68@psu.edu)
PRI Family Demography Working Group
Thursday, November 12 12:00 - 1:00 pm on Zoom
Speed talks:
A Population Approach to Affective Science
Speech-Language Pathology and ASD: How Language Research Can Inform Clinical Practice
"Early life adversity shapes the mind, brain, and body: A cross-species analysis of learning, memory, and the microbiome in rats and humans"
Dr. Callaghan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCLA. She conducts cross-disciplinary work on the influence of early life experiences on interactions between physical and mental health across the lifespan. Her work includes analyses at the level of behavior, neural systems (using fMRI), gastrointestinal bacteria and health (i.e., the microbiome), and physiology (e.g., gastric function, heart rate, skin conductance), with interesting work on the relationship between gut microbiome, the development of emotion-regulation brain areas, and fear and anxiety.
Alexis Santos-Lozada will be presenting a working paper on linkages between hurricanes and birthweight in Puerto Rico.
October 12th ~ 2:00 pm
Please email Heather Randell (hrandell@psu.edu) with any questions and if you would like to be added to the working group listserv.
PRI Family Demography Working Group
A long-running PRI working group focused on all things family.
Jane Lankes will present her NIH F32 (postdoc) application.
Join us!
Thursday, October 29th at 12:00 pm, on Zoom
Information: Molly Martin (mam68@psu.edu)
PRI Community and Place Working Group
October 16th ~ 12:00 pm
At our first meeting Prof. Corina Graif, Chris Seto and Aria Khademi will present their working paper
"Commuting Network Spillovers and COVID-19 Deaths Across US Counties."
Information: John Iceland (jdi10@psu.edu) or Charlie Boynton (cnb35@psu.edu)
Research Recruitment in Rural Communities
Advancing Substance Use Prevention in HIDTA Communities: Standards, Strategies, and Support
PRI Population Health Working Group
December 9th - 2:00 pm
Marco Faytong-Haro, Graduate Student
"Gender norms, maternal bargaining power, and child nutritional status in South India"
Information: JD Daw (jddaw@psu.edu)
PRI Population Health Working Group
November 11th - 2:00 pm
Dave Baker and Erik Hernandez
"What Long-term Effect did Exceptional Mid-20th Century Educational Expansion have on the Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic?"
Abstract
The type 2 diabetes epidemic is a leading cause of mortality and comorbidity in the U.S., and significantly contributes to the nation’s epidemiologic transition to a greater chronic disease burden. Although earlier education attainment is established as a major social factor in the fundamental cause of disease paradigm, the long-term impact of the education attainment gradient with type 2 diabetes has been less considered than have race/ethnicity and gender disparities. An informative case is the exceptionally rapid education expansion in the U.S. emerging just after WWII and accelerating for several decades paralleling the worsening of the type 2 diabetes epidemic. Nationally-representative samples of four cohorts of 60-64-year-olds, whose start and end of schooling occurred at different periods over the rapid mid-century expansion in the supply and demand, are compared. After conditioning on four demographic factors known to associate with prevalence, across all the cohorts greater education attainment substantially reduces the odds of diagnosis of type 2 diabetes by age 60-65 to a slightly greater degree than the known reduction in life-long odds associated with females, and equal to about a quarter of the large reduction of odds among whites. Then, a mediation analysis supports known somw pathways of the long-term effect on type 2 diabetes. Lastly, a decomposition analysis of the education gradients reveals that the massive education upgrading at mid-century likely lessened the epidemic significantly even as it worsened over the period. For example[BDP2] , preventing an additional million persons from the ages 60-64 born in 1950-54 cohort would have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Implications of the findings for future forecasting type 2 diabetes prevalence and the broader role of the demography of educational expansion in the epidemiological transition are considered.
Information: JD Daw (jddaw@psu.edu)
PRI Population Health Working Group
October 14th - 2:00 pm
Andy Fenelon
"Emerging Political and Demographic Divides: State Politics, Welfare Generosity, and Adult Mortality in U.S. States 1977-2017"
Abstract: The past several decades have demonstrated growing geographic disparities in adult mortality within the US, but why these disparities have grown is unclear. In this article, we examine trends in adult mortality (ages 55+) across US states from 1977-2017, paying close attention to the shifting geographic pattern of high- and low-mortality states. We then turn our attention to the changing political patterning of adult mortality in the United States—recent years show that more liberal states and state governments tend to have better mortality outcomes and experience the largest mortality declines. We find that states in the South tended to fall behind the rest of the country in the 1970s and 1980s, while states in the Great Plains and Mountain West tended to fall behind in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In contrast, states on the East and West Coasts have tended to see considerable improvement in mortality. Finally, we consider one possible mechanism linking these trends: state-level spending on public welfare programs. We show that state welfare generosity predicts greater yearly reductions in mortality. State shifts towards liberal political orientation and more generous welfare spending may contribute to the political realignment of adult mortality in the United States.
Please get in touch with JD if you want to be included on the working group listserv.
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PRI Population Health Working Group
September 23rd - 2:00 pm
JD Daw and Ashton Verdery
"The Ties that Transplant: Social Networks, Biomedical Capital, and the Living Kidney Donor Relationship Distribution"
Abstract: Living donor kidney transplantation is the optimal therapy for end-stage kidney disease, yet only about 15% of transplant candidates obtain one. One reason for this scant uptake may result from a novel social conundrum created by these medical advancements: whether to pursue an LDKT, and from whom to seek or accept a donation. A critical statistical clue to how transplant patients and their networks resolve this conundrum is the distribution of relationships between living kidney donors and recipients. Which relationships are over- and under-represented compared to their share of transplant candidate social networks, and what factors best explain these deviations? Using two original datasets on the social networks of kidney transplant candidates, we find that typical relationship quality best explains which relationship categories produce LKDs, but that which members of these categories become LKDs is a more complex mixture of relationship quality, biomedical capital (defined as ability to donate), and alter demographic attributes.
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Data-informed Implications for Transitioning Veterans
An Introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis and Research at Penn State Harrisburg
PRI Grant Writing Working Group
This group is for those who are actively planning or writing an external grant with a PDB (Population Dynamics Branch) focus. If you are interested in participating, please e-mail Jen Glick for more information.
Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 3:00 on Zoom
Contact Jennifer Glick (jeg115@psu.edu) for Zoom Link and more information.
PRI Grant Writing Working Group
This group is for those who are actively planning or writing an external grant with a PDB (Population Dynamics Branch) focus. If you are interested in participating, please e-mail Jen Glick for more information.
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00 on Zoom
Contact Jennifer Glick (jeg115@psu.edu) for Zoom Link and more information.
PRI Grant Writing Working Group
This group is for those who are actively planning or writing an external grant with a PDB (Population Dynamics Branch) focus. If you are interested in participating, please e-mail Jen Glick for more information.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Contact Jennifer Glick (jeg115@psu.edu) for Zoom Link and more information.
PRI Grant Writing Working Group
This group is for those who are actively planning or writing an external grant with a PDB (Population Dynamics Branch) focus. If you are interested in participating, please e-mail Jen Glick for more information.
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:00 on Zoom
Contact Jennifer Glick (jeg115@psu.edu) for Zoom Link and more information.
The End of Adolescence: Purpose, Insecurity, and Indecision on the Pathway to Adulthood
Even as youth often live ‘in the moment,’ adolescence is a time of preparation and transition. Youth are figuring out what they need from their adolescent years and from schools to be prepared for adulthood. In addition to academic preparation, youth need a broad set of skills and dispositions to navigate a complex and global economy. Whereas it is important to help youth envision themselves in careers and in college, focusing on college and careers as outcomes often misses the importance of helping youth hone their sense of purpose and develop the cognitive and analytical skills to make sense of and navigate the job market. Professor Hill will present research on the significance of these broader outcomes and the relational supports that are associated with their development. As there are entrenched inequities in access to high quality education, to college, and to the social capital needed to navigate a successful transition to adulthood, these processes are examined in series of studies on diverse samples. By examining findings across samples from a range in economic and ethnic backgrounds, commonalities and divergences in goals and experiences will be highlighted. Further, as these studies are grounded in research-practice partnerships, the integration of findings across theory, policy and practice will be emphasized.