BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//California Center for Population Research - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for California Center for Population Research REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171213T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20171201T201239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T184317Z UID:10000487-1513166400-1513171800@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Nathaniel Osgood\, University of Saskatchewan\, "Using Smartphones and Wearables for Public Health Insight: A Hands-On Introduction" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Acquisition of evidence-based understanding of human health behavior and exposure to environments forms a central focus of health research\, and a critical prerequisite for effective health policy. The use of mobile devices to study health behavior via cross-linked sensor data and on-device self-reporting and crowdsourcing offer compelling advantages to complement traditional techniques. Data collected on such devices can be particularly powerful in supporting understanding of health behaviors in areas where accurate self-reporting is difficult\, including nutritional intake\, physical activity and sedentary behaviour\, and exposures to physical and social environments. Through structured surveys and crowdsourcing mechanisms\, such devices can further provide potent means of gaining insight into knowledge\, attitudes\, beliefs\, and perceptions in health areas. Finally\, while little explored\, some of the most powerful uses of such day lie in terms of understanding the particular causal pathways impacted by interventions. This hands-on talk will provide public health researchers and practitioners with a high-level introduction to the motivation\, state-of-the-art in and tools for use of mobile data collection in public health.  Topics touched on include elements of motivation\, study design\, behavioral ethics concerns and needs\, data collection systems requiring low technical involvement\, and analysis.  Participants will be invited to experience a state-of-the-art and widely used mobile data collection system during the talk that illustrates many of the principles discussed. \nSponsored by The Department of Community Health Sciences along with the Center for Social Statistics and the California Center for Population Research URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/using-smartphones-wearables-public-health-insight-hands-introduction/ LOCATION:CHS 61-269 CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171212T153000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20171201T200948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T184243Z UID:10000485-1513087200-1513092600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Nathaniel Osgood\, University of Saskatchewan\, "Dynamic modeling for health in the age of big data" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Traditional approaches to public health concerns have conferred great advances in the duration and quality of life. Public health interventions – from improved sanitation efforts\, to vaccination campaigns\, to contact tracing and environmental regulations – have helped reduce common risks to health throughout many areas of the world. Unfortunately\, while traditional methods from the health sciences have proven admirably suited for addressing traditional challenges\, a troubling crop of complex health challenges confront the nation and the world\, and threaten to stop – and even reverse the – rise in length and quality of life that many have taken for granted. Examples include multi-factorial problems such as obesity and obesity-related chronic disease\, the spread of drug-resistant and rapidly mutating pathogens that evade control efforts\, and “syndemics” of mutually reinforcing health conditions (such as Diabetes and TB; substance abuse\, violence and HIV/AIDS; obesity & stress). Such challenges have proven troublingly policy resistant\, with interventions being thwarted by “blowback” from the complex feedbacks involved\, and attendant costs threaten to overwhelm health care systems. In the face of such challenges public health decision makers are increasingly supplementing their toolbox using “system science” techniques. Such methods – also widely known as “complex systems approaches” – provide a way to understand a system’s behavior as a whole and as more than the sum of its parts\, and a means of anticipating and managing the behavior of a system in more judicious and proactive fashion. However\, such approaches offer substantially greater insight and power when combined with rich data sources. Within this talk\, we will highlight the great promise afforded by combining of Systems Science techniques and rich data sources\, particularly emphasizing the role of cross-linking models with “big data” offering high volume\, velocity\, variety and veracity. Examples of such data include fine-grained temporal and spatial information collected by smartphone-based and wearable as well as building and municipal sensors\, data from social media posts and search behavior\, helpline calls\, website accesses and rich cross-linked databases. Decision-oriented models grounded by such novel data sources can allow for articulated theory building regarding difficult-to-observe aspects of human behavior. Such models can also aid in informing evaluation of and judicious selection between sophisticated interventions to lessen the health burden of a wide variety of health conditions. Such models are particularly powerful when complemented by machine learning and computational statistics techniques that permit recurrent model regrounding in the newest evidence\, and which allow a model to knit together holistic portrait of the system as a whole\, and which support grounded investigation of between intervention strategies tradeoffs. \nSponsored by The Department of Community Health Sciences along with the Center for Social Statistics and the California Center for Population Research URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dynamic-modeling-health-age-big-data/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T204821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193516Z UID:10000580-1511956800-1511962200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Jessica Ho\, USC DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Trends in American Mortality: International Comparisons and Emerging Challenges” \nAbstract: The decades surrounding the turn of the 21st century have been a challenging period for American mortality. The United States is currently facing a large-scale opioid epidemic\, and life expectancy barely increased between 2010 and 2015. This talk will cover various dimensions of contemporary trends in American mortality including the contribution of drug overdose to educational gradients in life expectancy\, an analysis of the contemporary drug overdose epidemic in international perspective\, and how the U.S.’s recent life expectancy stagnation has impacted its standing in international life expectancy rankings relative to other high-income countries. \nMore on Prof. Ho URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jessica-ho-usc/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Ho_11_29_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T204629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T192204Z UID:10000577-1510747200-1510752600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Skeem\, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION:“’What works’ for justice-involved people with mental illness” \nAbstract:  Each year\, over 2 million people with serious mental illness are booked into U.S. jails. These people typically stay longer in jail than those without mental illness—and\, upon release\, are more likely to be reincarcerated. Today\, over 300 counties have resolved to “step up” their efforts to reduce the number of people with mental illness in jail. In this presentation\, I highlight research on “what works” to reduce re-offending among justice-involved people with mental illness. Programs must avoid the traditional assumption that mental illness is the direct cause of the problem\, and linkage with psychiatric services is the solution. Evidence-based\, cost-effective programs look beyond psychiatric explanations to address robust risk factors that are shared by people with- and without mental illness. \nMore on Prof. Skeem URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-skeem-uc-berkerly/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Skeem_11_15_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T204442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T194646Z UID:10000575-1510142400-1510147800@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Victoria Baranov\, University of Melbourne DESCRIPTION:“Mental health and women’s choices. Experimental evidence from a Randomized Control Trial. “ \nAbstract: We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions by exploiting experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial which provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The trial\, which is the largest psychotherapy trial in the world\, was highly successful at reducing depression rates of mothers. We relocate mothers 6 years after the intervention concluded to evaluate the effects of the intervention on women’s financial empowerment\, parental investments\, fertility\, as well as children development. We find that treating maternal depression increased women’s empowerment\, particularly control over spending\, both in the short-run and in the long-run. Consistent with the reports of increased control over spending\, we find persistent effects of the intervention on both time- and monetary-intensive parental investment. We do not find any detectable effect on children development. The long-run treatment effects are concentrated among girls. \nMore on Prof. Baranov\nPodcast Here URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/victoria-baranov-university-melbourne/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Baranov_11_8_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T204240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T192932Z UID:10000573-1509537600-1509543000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Rodrigo Soares\, Columbia University DESCRIPTION:“Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Maternal and Child Health in Brazil“ \nAbstract: We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage. Using administrative data from multiple sources and an event study approach that exploits the staggered rollout of programmatic changes across municipalities\, we find large reductions in maternal\, foetal\, neonatal and postneonatal mortality\, and fertility. We document increased prenatal care visits\, hospital births and other maternal and child hospitalization\, which suggest that the survival gains were supply-driven. We find no improvement in the quality of births\, which may be explained by endogenous shifts in the composition of births towards higher-risk births. \nMore on Prof. Soares \nPodcast Here URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rodrigo-soares-columbia-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Soares_11_1_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T203938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170925T164056Z UID:10000571-1508932800-1508938200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Mark Kaplan\, UCLA DESCRIPTION:“Title: The Impact of Socioenvironmental Stressors on Alcohol-Linked Suicides: A Nationwide Postmortem Study” \nAbstract: Not only is suicide a major public health problem\, but also\, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, 8\,179 deaths and 273\,206 years of potential life lost resulted from alcohol attributable suicides in 2006-10 (the latest years available). Since 2011\, Professor Kaplan and his colleagues have worked with the National Violent Death Reporting System Restricted Access Database on two projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism\, focusing on acute alcohol use immediately prior to suicide. This presentation will show that nearly a third of suicide decedents nationwide were intoxicated at the time of death. Furthermore\, Prof. Kaplan will describe the effects of the 2008-09 economic contraction and other adverse socioenvironmental conditions on rates of suicide involving acute alcohol intoxication. \nMore on Prof. Kaplan URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-kaplan-ucla/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Kaplan_10_25_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170925T201718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220906T222320Z UID:10000479-1508338800-1508342400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Tips on Giving Effective PAA Presentations\, Job Talks\, and the Like DESCRIPTION:Tips on Giving Effective PAA Presentations\, Job Talks\, and the Like: a Discussion Led by Prof. Donald J. (Don) Treiman \nClick here to download the presentation. URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/tips-giving-effective-paa-presentations-job-talks-like/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T203405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T230356Z UID:10000569-1508328000-1508333400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:David Chae\, Auburn University DESCRIPTION:“Getting Under the Skin: Socio-Psychobiological Pathways and Racial Disparities in Health.“ \nAbstract: Racism is physically embodied through social\, behavioral\, and psychobiological mechanisms. In this talk\, David H. Chae\, will discuss the utility of a social-ecological and developmental lens to examine how racism is biologically embedded. He will discuss his research on multiple levels of racism and the channels through which they compromise health throughout the lifecourse. \nMore on Prof. Chae URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-chae-auburn/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Chae_10_18_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170925T170336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T023146Z UID:10000477-1507896000-1507899600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Workshop: Useful R 4 Stata Users Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Michael Tzen \n\n\n\nThis workshop is a brown bag forum. Participants are encouraged to bring in tangible questions they wish to explore using R. To serve as a background road map\, the instructor will provide an abbreviated sample of what he thinks are the most useful features of R. However\, the goal is to have participants ask questions that the collective group can figure out using R. Any R question is fair game\, for example: questions about fundamental R concepts or even questions about how to run Stata-equivalent R commands. Participants will be provided access to Rstudio\, so please bring a laptop. \nThis CCPR brown-bag is intended to be an open forum that complements the 3 great resources below. Please see the resources\, especially the first one. \n1) 10 minute demo: interactive call–response slideshow of R basics\nhttp://tryr.codeschool.com/ \n2) Worked out examples from a UCLA IDRE workshop on R concepts\nhttps://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/seminars/intro/ \n3) R 4 Data Science e-book\nhttp://r4ds.had.co.nz/ \n\n\n\nRVSP Here  \n  \nslides URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-r-4-stata-users-brownbag/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T202008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193058Z UID:10000567-1507723200-1507728600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Roland Rau\, University of Rostock DESCRIPTION:“Title: The challenges of estimating mortality in small areas — using German counties as a case study” \nAbstract:  \nWe develop and analyze Bayesian models that produce good estimates of complete mortality schedules for small areas\, even when the expected number of deaths is very small. The models also provide estimates of uncertainty about local mortality schedules. The TOPALS relational model is the primary building block\, used to model age-specific mortality rates within each small area. TOPALS models produce estimates for single-year ages from a small number of local parameters. We experiment with Bayesian models for smoothing and ‘borrowing’ mortality information across space\, using two alternative specifications. First we test a Bayesian model with conditional autoregressive (CAR) priors for TOPALS parameters. CAR priors assign higher probability to parameters that are similar across adjacent areas\, thus emphasizing spatial smoothness in estimated rates. Second\, we test a hierarchical Bayesian model\, which assigns higher probability to parameters that are similar for locations that are close in terms of political geography. \nMore on Prof. Rau \nPodcast Here URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/roland-rau-university-rostock/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Rau_10_11_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T175638 CREATED:20170719T180734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T170714Z UID:10000565-1507118400-1507123800@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2017-2018 CCPR Welcome and Introductions DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nProfessors Judith Seltzer\, Till von Wachter\, and Jennie Brand will be presenting. \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2017-2018 CCPR Seminar Series. URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2017-2018-ccpr-welcome-introductions/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR