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Association of Public Data Users (APDU) One of the few constants in the world is change – our lives, towns, neighborhoods and economic conditions are continuously changing over time. Public data are a democratic means to track these changes since they are available to advocates, businesses, journalists, public employees, scientists, think tanks, and the public at large. Join us to discuss how data are used by a variety of stakeholders to reveal these trends at the 2024 Annual Conference: Unlocking the Potential of Public Data.

🗓️ Event Dates: July 23-24 | Washington, D.C.

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NEW Climate Change, Health & Justice: A Workshop on Community-Engaged Research to Promote Health Equity!

Climate change interacts with social determinants of health to disproportionately impact populations experiencing health disparities in the US, and timely, effective, and culturally appropriate adaptation and mitigation actions are needed. This workshop will convene researchers, clinicians, and community partners for two days of panels, presentations, and flash talks on the state of the science in order to stimulate community-engaged, multi-level intervention research.

Learn more and register here.

🗓️ Event Dates: July 29 – 30, 2024 (12:30 – 5:30 p.m. ET)

Posted 07/19/24

2024 Data-Intensive Research Conference The Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA), a collaboration between IPUMS and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center, is proud to sponsor the 2024 Data-Intensive Research Conference.

2024 CONFERENCE THEME: HARNESSING THE POWER OF LINKED DATA TO STUDY AGING

Data linkages open up novel opportunities for understanding and contextualizing aging and life course processes. Linking people over time allows for the examination of transitions and trajectories and linking contextual information to data on individuals allows researchers to situate them within their environments. Analyzing associations that leverage these linkages is one way to get more out of our data and extend scholarship on aging and the life course. We are interested in a broad range of aging and life course processes and conceive of linking broadly, including longitudinal linkages, linking identified data with external resources, situating individuals within contexts, or linking places to reframe context.

See the call for proposals.

🗓️ Event Dates: July 31 – August 1, 2024 | Minneapolis, MN & Online

Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM)

It is also one of the broadest, with topics ranging from statistical applications to methodology and theory to the expanding boundaries of statistics, such as analytics and data science.

JSM offers a unique opportunity for statisticians in academia, industry, and government to exchange ideas and explore opportunities for collaboration. Beginning statisticians (including current students) can learn from and interact with senior members of the profession.

🗓️ Event Dates: August 3-8 | Portland, OR

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NEW Call for Abstracts: 105th AMS Annual Meeting

🗓️ Abstracts due: August 15. 2024 (5 p.m. ET)

Abstract submissions are now open for the 105th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting. Share your ideas and research on climate and health with colleagues worldwide! The Conference on Environment Health is organizing sessions on topics like:

·         Building Equitable Heat Resilience

·         Community Engagement in Climate Change and Health Adaptation

·         Merging Environmental and Health Data for Climate Resilience

·         The Role of Housing in Health Impacts from Extreme Weather

We encourage you to visit the Call for Papers and consider submitting an abstract! The 105th AMS Annual Meeting will take place from January 12-16, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

CfP: Submissions for Scholarly Migration and Mobility Symposium

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Keynote speaker:
Prof. Vincent Larivière
Université de Montréal
Canada Research Chair in the Transformations of Scholarly Communication
UNESCO Chair in Open Science

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research invites submissions from researchers working on or interested in scholarly migration and mobility to attend a one-day symposium in Rostock on October 15, 2024. The symposium aims to promote lively exchange and collaboration among a group of interdisciplinary scientists (from areas such data science, scientometrics, demography, science of science, sociology, migration studies, and more) with interests related to scholarly migration and scientific mobility. We welcome submissions that use a broad set of methods and data. The use of the Scholarly Migration Database (https://www.scholarlymigration.org/) is particularly encouraged, but not required.

🗓️ Event Dates: October 15, 2024 – 8:00 – 6:00pm

2024 National Humanities Conference

The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance will hold the 2024 National Humanities Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13-17, 2024. A special thanks to our host council, Rhode Island Humanities!

We would like to thank everyone who submitted proposals for NHC 2024. The Call for Proposals submission period has now ended, and we will notify the selected proposals in May.

Registration will open in July 2024.

🗓️ Event Dates: November 13–17, 2024

NEW CAFÉ Climate and Health Conference 

Keep your eyes out for submission deadlines for workshops, sessions, posters, and more. Registration for the conference is open to all in the climate and health community and will open Fall 2024.

🗓️ Event Dates: March 3-6 2025

Call for Papers: 2025 International Conference on Urban Affairs – Triangulating the Urban-H (Housing, Heat, Health) in Cities Session

In 2023 the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing warned of a global housing crisis in which millions were struggling with access to safe, secure and habitable housing. That same year heat records were broken on all continents and the world saw the highest global temperatures in over 100,000 years. The frequency, duration, and intensity of heatwaves are expected to increase. Individuals living within urban heat islands are more vulnerable to heat than those living outside of them. High temperatures can exacerbate already present negative physical health effects, especially for vulnerable groups, including young children, older adults, and those with chronic conditions. Exposure to extreme heat, especially during heatwaves, can also have detrimental effects on mental health. The quality and stability of housing plays a crucial role in mitigating or worsening the effects of extreme heat on physical and mental health, living in substandard or unaffordable housing heightens the impact on health. Socioeconomic stressors associated with housing displacement and insecurity, such as financial strain, social isolation, and disruption in access to healthcare, can compound the impact of extreme heat on mental wellbeing.

The proposed session seeks papers that explicitly triangulate research, policy and/or practice on housing-heat-health. As the impacts of climate change and the housing crisis worsen around the world the public health impacts will no doubt be severe. We feel that this triangulation is critical going forwards.

Session Organizers: Loretta Lees, Professor of Sociology, and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Research Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University Initiative on Cities

If interested in participating in this conference session, please email your name, institution, paper title, and short abstract to Loretta Lees at llees@bu.edu and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba at sedc@bu.edu.

🗓️ Event Dates: April 15-19, 2025

Where: International Conference on Urban Affairs, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada