Fwd: Open Positions | Data Releases | Upcoming Workshop Deadlines

IPUMS Census and Survey Data                                                        View this email in your browser Dear Benjamin, Read on for news on data releases, workshops, and job openings at IPUMS HQ OPEN POSITIONS IPUMS is hiring! We are looking for two or more data analysts and/or senior data analysts to work on IPUMS USA and IPUMS Health Surveys. For more information and to apply, visit ipums.org/about/jobs. DATA RELEASES IPUMS USA The 2018 5-year American Community Survey and Puerto Rican Community Survey data are now available. IPUMS HEALTH SURVEYS IPUMS Health Surveys released variables covering the MEPS Diabetes Care Survey (DCS), a supplemental survey about how people with diabetes care for their diabetes. IPUMS TIME USE 2017 and 2018 U.S. data are now available via MTUS. WORKSHOPS 2020 IPUMS CPS Summer Workshop: Using the Panel Component of CPS May 18-20 Minneapolis, MN IPUMS is accepting applications for the IPUMS CPS Summer Data Workshop. The workshop will familiarize researchers with the under-utilized panel component of the Current Population Survey. Up to $1,000 travel support for selected candidates. Additional workshop information, including application submission details, is available at cps.ipums.org/workshops. Applications are due February 23, 2020. Please share this information widely with colleagues and students. How to Use IPUMS to Study the Health Workforce February 25, 2020 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. CST In collaboration with the AcademyHealth Health Workforce Interest Group and the Health Workforce Technical Assistance Center, this webinar will cover the basics of using IPUMS for studying the health workforce. PAA Can you believe it? PAA is only two months away. Consider these workshops when planning your conference. We will be in touch with more ways to tell us about or check out #poweredbyIPUMS research on the PAA program.  Analyzing and Linking Full Count U.S. Census Data from IPUMS April 22, 2020 Washington, D.C. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Learn how to use the newly available full count U.S. Census microdata from the IPUMS data experts that made it at our full-day, pre-PAA workshop on April 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. Be sure to reserve your spot for this unique opportunity.  Linking IPUMS Time Use & CPS ASEC Data to Study Health & Well-Being April 22, 2020 Washington, D.C. 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The IPUMS Time Use team (Sayer, Flood, Hofferth) is hosting a pre-PAA workshop on linking ATUS and CPS data. Registration is limited, so reserve your spot now! . Data, Transformed - CANCELED April 21, 2020 Washington, D.C. 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. We have canceled the Data, Transformed workshop scheduled for April 21, 2020. Use it for good! The IPUMS Team THE LATEST FROM IPUMS HQ NEW BLOG POST New Products! IPUMS GeoMarker and NHGIS APIs The IPUMS spatial team has two new products that expand the ways to access NHGIS data: IPUMS GeoMarker and IPUMS APIs. READ HERE UPCOMING EVENTS American Association of Geographers April 6-10, 2020 | Denver, CO Consortium of Universities In Global Health April 18-20, 2020 | Washington D.C. SEE MORE IPUMS.ORG | University of Minnesota Copyright © 2019 University of Minnesota, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: IPUMS 225 19th Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55455

Fwd: On Behalf of Jean Harvey, CALS Interim Dean ~ UVM-ARS Food Systems RFA - Due June 1, 2020

Dear Colleagues,

 

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is pleased to invite proposals for $75,000 awards for research that will support the new UVM-ARS Center for Food Systems Research.  The mission of this newly developed center is described in full in the attached document but briefly is as follows:

 

The Center will become a leader in food systems sustainability research, with a core focus on small and medium farms. It will develop new knowledge that expands our understanding of the suite of benefits that small and medium farms contribute to farm families, local and global communities, and people that consume their products. A key goal of the Center is to improve our ability to measure and document sustainability outcomes from small and medium farms that may not be fully recognized or valued by markets and policies.    

 

The ambitious research goals of the Center can only be realized by catalyzing the broader UVM community in a process to identify the types of metrics, measurement techniques, analysis and integration that is necessary and possible across scales to measure small and medium farm sustainability.  Therefore, the Center invites proposals for concept/white papers to identify the suite of key food system metrics, measurement techniques, and/or data integration tools that can be deployed across the Center's research projects. 

 

Proposals are due June 1, 2020 in the Dean's Office of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (see attached RFA for details).  Awards will begin July 1, 2020 and end December 15, 2020. 

Please direct questions to Jean Harvey, Interim Dean, CALS (jharvey@uvm.edu)

 

 

Jean R. Harvey, PhD, RDN

Interim Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Robert L. Bickford, Jr. Endowed Professor

University of Vermont

146 University Place; 108 Morrill Hall

Burlington, VT 05405

Ph: 802-656-0668

 

Fwd: New Release:Problems Paying Medical Bills, 2018

Problems Paying Medical Bills, 2018

February 12, 2020 | Data Brief No. 357

Problems Paying Medical Bills, 2018 Key Findings Data from the National Health Interview Survey: Overall, the percentage of persons who were in families having problems paying medical bills in the past 12 months decreased from 19.7% in 2011 to 14.2% in 2018. In 2018, the percentage of persons who were in families having problems paying medical bills was higher among females (14.7%), children (16.2%), and non-Hispanic black persons (20.6%) compared with males, adults, and other racial and ethnic groups, respectively. Among persons under age 65, those who were uninsured were more likely than those with Medicaid or private coverage to have problems paying medical bills. Among adults aged 65 and over, those with Medicare and Medicaid, and Medicare only were more likely than those with Medicare Advantage or private coverage to have problems paying medical bills. Keywords private coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, National Health Interview Survey Full Report in HTML >  Full Report in PDF >

Problems Paying Medical Bills, 2018

Ways to Access Related Information & the National Health Interview Survey

2019 Redesign	Questionnaires, data sets, and related documentation	NHIS fact sheet

Suggested Citation

Cha AE, Cohen RA. Problems paying medical bills, 2018. NCHS Data Brief, no 357. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2020.

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New publications by Levi Bonnell

Congratulations to Levi Bonnell, MPH, CTS PhD candidate, for these recent publications of work done in a prior life.

Using Finger Puppets in the Primary Care Setting to Support Caregivers Talking With Their Infants: A Feasibility Pilot Study.

Domek GJ, Szafran LH, Bonnell LN, Berman S, Camp BW.

Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2020 Feb 10:9922820903407. doi: 10.1177/0009922820903407. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 32037858

 

Cumulative risk, the cognitive home environment and vocabulary in early childhood.

Shriver AE, Bonnell LN, Berman S, Camp BW.

Child Care Health Dev. 2020 Mar;46(2):244-246. doi: 10.1111/cch.12738. Epub 2020 Jan 9.

PMID: 31849078

 

Fwd: Watch the Health, United States (2018) Webinar Now!

Webinar Recording: Health, United States, 2018

The slides and recording of the live webinar held on 10/14/2019 have been released. Re-watch or watch for the first time our webinar, where Dr. Renee Gindi presents highlights from the latest release of Health, United States and demonstrates how Health, United States can be a year-round statistical resource. Where Can I Find the Webinar? Option 1: From the NCHS website at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/outreach.htm Option 2: On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvOm78YeGfc More from Health, United States Health, United States is redesigning our products, and we want to improve your access to the data you need. Please share your experience, so that we can continue to improve. Check out our Data Finder tool for online-only, detailed trend tables.

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Fwd: Please join us for a TGIR faculty candidate seminar on Thursday 2/6 at 4:30

Dear all,

 

Our first faculty candidate for a shared TGIR assistant professor position, shared between CEMS and LCOM, will be here this Thursday 2/6. This recruit should have a special emphasis on ID Epidemiology/Quantitative Methods. Our first candidate, Dr. Racheal Sippy, will be giving her research seminar at 4:30-5:30 in the Innovation Building Rm E100. UVM map link is also below. Talk is entitled, "Mosquitos in the Home: Disease Risks from the Environment". The talk abstract is below. 

 

Hope to see you then. Thanks, the TGIR team.

 

Aedes aegypti is the principal vector for dengue, chikungunya and Zika. Human cases and mosquito abundance are linked to the environmental factors in studies at regional, city, or neighborhood scales, but finer scale research is sparse. The impact of the household environment on mosquito presence is unclear. Using surveys, housing assessments and entomological data captured across the dengue transmission season in two cities (Zaruma and Portovelo) in Ecuador, we compare the effect of housing on Ae. aegypti presence. We used binomial generalized linear mixed models (houses within clusters as random effects), adjusting for potential confounders. Across seasons, 65 houses from Portovelo and 73 houses from Zaruma participated.

In Portovelo, patios affected Ae. aegypti risk. Compared to homes with no patio, those with messy patios had a risk increase (RR: 2.30, 95% CI: 1.38—3.84) as did homes with clean patios (RR: 2.78, 95% CI: 1.44—5.36). In Zaruma, patio presence, patio cleanliness, and frequency of trash pickup affected risk. Compared to homes with no patio, those with messy patios had a risk increase (RR: 2.52, 95% CI: 1.07—5.94) and no effect among homes with a clean patio (RR: 1.39, 95% CI: 0.58—3.34). Compared to homes with trash pickup of 3 times a week or less, homes with daily pickup had increased risk (RR: 3.10, 95% CI: 1.14—8.41).

Each location had different built environment risk, which could be explained by mosquito adaptation to local environments or differential effects of climate on the built environment in each city. Mosquitoes may have unmeasured preference for specific housing characteristics present in each location (e.g. homes with patios in Portovelo have some unmeasured additional breeding habitats), or there are unmeasured confounders. This work demonstrates that built environment impacts on Ae. aegypti presence may vary according to location, meaning public health communication and control efforts should be place-specific. Additional research must assess the mediating effects of climate and the built environment or potential interactions in the creation of suitable Ae. aegypti habitats.

 

Fwd: TGIR event 2/6 on the 2019 nCOV Coronavirus Epidemic

Dear all,

 

Please join us on Thursday 2/6 at 10-12 in MEDED 200 as the TGIR team discusses the 2019 nCOV Coronavirus Epidemic.

As you know, the TGIR (Translational Global Infectious Diseases) COBRE team has a breadth of expertise on many facets of the global coronavirus outbreak, from basic virology to epidemiologic modeling and everything in between. Since we can't to go into depth into all of these areas, we are planning an overview session that allows us to hear how our faculty understand the context and gaps of knowledge in their areas of expertise.

 

Here is how it works:

We'll need to start right at 10AM. We will have a brief intro and review of format

A pair of faculty experts will have 5 minutes to speak on their field's view of the Coronavirus epidemic. This will be mostly extemporaneous and there will be no slides!

This is followed by 5 minutes of questions (microphones will circulate), we then turn to the next speaker

Time will be controlled by moderators (BK, JB)

20 minutes at the end for open questions

 

Our GOALS are:

• Increased knowledge about the 2019 nCOV and ongoing epidemic.
• A recognition of the cross-campus breadth of expertise of the TGIR team
• Identification of contributions our team (and others at UVM, both individuals and collaborative teams), can/should make to control/understand this epidemic
• Considerations and discussions of how our TGIR team can develop and expand our collaborations to contribute to the control/understanding/prevention of the next epidemic.

 

Hope to see you there! Given the tight time, we'll get going right at 10AM
The TGIR Team

 

	Topic	First	Second
10:00-10:05	Introduction, Welcome, Format	Kirkpatrick
10:05-10:10	Virology: The 2019 nCOV Coronovirus	Botten	Thali
10:15-10:20	Epidemiology: Update on the epidemic	Colgate	Read
10:25-10:30	Animal Science: The jump from animals to humans	Barlow
10:35-10:40	Clinical and Pathogenesis: The clinical syndromes and pathogenesis	Pierce	Huston
10:45-10:50	Diagnosis: Developing Diagnostic Tests	Diehl	Crothers
10:55-11:00	Prevention: Developing and testing vaccines	Kirkpatrick	Lee
11:05-11:10	Epi Modeling: Modeling to understand the epidemic	Hebert-Dufresne	Hanley
11:15-11:20	Modeling Mechanism: Modeling to understand the disease	Bates	Rizzo
11:25-11:30	The environmental and climate context	Ricketts	De Wit
11:35-11:40	Infection Control: Controlling spread in the hospital	Noyes
11:40-12:00	Open Discussions, Q &A
	Colleges, Centers, and Institutes Represented
	College of Medicine (LCOM)
	College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
	LCOM and College Agriculture &Life Sciences (CALS)
	College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS)
	GUND
	LCOM and VT State Department of Health
	LCOM and UVMMC (MDs)