American Association of University Women (AAUW) Selected Professions Fellowships

Application Deadline: January 10, 2018

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is the nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls. Since it founding in 1881, AAUW members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day — educational, social, economic, and political.

Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited U.S. institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women’s participation traditionally has been low.

Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded for the following master’s programs:

• Architecture
• Computer/information sciences
• Engineering
• Mathematics/statistics

Fellowships in the following degree programs are restricted to women of color, who have been underrepresented in these fields:

• Master’s in business administration — applicants may apply for second year of study only
• Law — applicants may apply for third year of study only
• Doctorate in medicine — applicants may apply for third or fourth year of study only

Applicants must be women who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States who have achieved high standards of academic excellence and show promise of distinction in their respective fields. Applicants must be full-time students at an accredited U.S. institution during the fellowship year, and should be pursuing a course of study in the United States over the full academic year. Priority is given to women who do not already hold a master’s or first professional degree.

For complete information about this opportunity, including how to apply, click here.

Agency for Health Care Research & Quality Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation

Application Deadline:  May 1, 2017

The AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program provides dissertation grants for doctoral candidates. This program supports dissertation research that addresses AHRQ’s mission and priorities and welcomes any areas of health services research as dissertation project topics. The grants provide up to $40,000 in direct research costs. Applications for dissertation research grants must be responsive to AHRQ’s mission, which is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

Candidates must:

• Be U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals, or permanent residents by the time of the grant award.
• Be full-time academic students in good standing, who are enrolled in an accredited research doctoral program in such fields as behavioral sciences, health services research, nursing, social sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, health informatics, engineering, and mathematics.
• Have completed all non-dissertation requirements for their doctoral degree by the time of submission of the application, including completion of their qualifying exams. (The only exception allowable will be the completion of required clinical internships that follow completion of the dissertation.)
• Not have more than part-time employment in addition to the requirements of their current, full-time academic student appointments (defined as greater than 20 hours per week).
• Not be recipients of mentored career development awards.
• Institution is any of the following: public or non-profit private institution (such as a university, college, faith-based or community-based organization), units of local or State government, eligible agencies of the Federal Government, and Indian/Native American Tribal Government or Designated Organizations.

For more information about this opportunity, including how to apply, click here.

Agency for Health Care Research & Quality Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation

Application Deadline:  November 1, 2016

The AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program provides dissertation grants for doctoral candidates. This program supports dissertation research that addresses AHRQ’s mission and priorities and welcomes any areas of health services research as dissertation project topics. The grants provide up to $40,000 in direct research costs. Applications for dissertation research grants must be responsive to AHRQ’s mission, which is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

Candidates must:

• Be U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals, or permanent residents by the time of the grant award.
• Be full-time academic students in good standing, who are enrolled in an accredited research doctoral program in such fields as behavioral sciences, health services research, nursing, social sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, health informatics, engineering, and mathematics.
• Have completed all non-dissertation requirements for their doctoral degree by the time of submission of the application, including completion of their qualifying exams. (The only exception allowable will be the completion of required clinical internships that follow completion of the dissertation.)
• Not have more than part-time employment in addition to the requirements of their current, full-time academic student appointments (defined as greater than 20 hours per week).
• Not be recipients of mentored career development awards.
• Institution is any of the following: public or non-profit private institution (such as a university, college, faith-based or community-based organization), units of local or State government, eligible agencies of the Federal Government, and Indian/Native American Tribal Government or Designated Organizations.

For more information about this opportunity, including how to apply, click here.

AHRQ Health Services Research Dissertation Grant

Application deadline:   August 1, 2016 (additional cycles in November, February, and May)

The overall goal of the AHRQ Health Services Research Dissertation Grant Program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained health services researchers is available in adequate numbers and appropriate research areas to address the research mission and priorities of AHRQ.  9-17 month awards are up to $40,000.

Applications for dissertation research grants must be responsive to AHRQ’s mission, which is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.  The research sponsored and conducted by the Agency develops and presents scientific evidence regarding all aspects of health care in the United States.  It addresses issues of organization, delivery, financing, utilization, patient and provider behavior, outcomes, effectiveness and cost.  It evaluates both clinical services and the system in which these services are provided.  These scientific results improve the evidence base to enable better decisions about health care, including such areas as disease prevention, appropriate use of medical technologies, improving diagnosis and treatment in cost-effective ways, long-term care, and reducing racial and ethnic disparities.

AHRQ has identified strategic goals as priority research areas.  Applied research applications must address one of these areas.  Applicants are strongly encouraged to focus on topical areas unique to AHRQ, demonstrating how expected results can be used or made available for use to enhance healthcare quality.  Results should be directly relevant to customers, such as providers and practitioners, administrators, payers, consumers, policymakers, and insurers.  The strategic research goals are:

• Safety/quality – Reduce the risk of harm from health care services by promoting the delivery of appropriate care that achieves the best quality outcomes
• Efficiency – Achieve wider access to effective health care services and reduce health care costs
• Effectiveness – Assure that providers and consumers/patients use beneficial and timely health care information to make informed decision choices.

Candidates are required to address health services research issues critical to AHRQ priority populations, including: individuals living in inner city and rural (including frontier) areas; low-income and minority groups; women, children, the elderly; and individuals with special health care needs, including those with disabilities and those who need chronic or end-of-life health care.

Candidates must conduct dissertation projects which focus on health care delivery in the United States. AHRQ will not accept international health care research projects.

Eligibility

• Candidates must be U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals, or permanent residents by the time the award is issued.
• Candidates must be full-time students in good standing, who are enrolled in an accredited research doctoral program in such fields as the social or behavioral sciences, mathematics, engineering, health services research, nursing, social sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, and health informatics.
• Candidates with more than part-time employment (defined as greater than twenty hours per week), in addition to the requirements of their current, full-time academic student appointments, are not eligible to apply for this grant mechanism.
• Students must complete all non-dissertation requirements for their doctoral degree by the time of submission of the application (except in cases where a clinical internship is required to follow the dissertation phase).  Approval of the dissertation proposal by the doctoral committee is required before the grant award is issued.

For complete information about this opportunity, see: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-256.html

Summer 2016+ RA Position in the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation

Application deadline:   May 29, 2016

Start date: 6/16/2016 or as soon as possible
End date: 9/15/206 (possibility of extension into the following academic year)

The UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation is seeking an RA for Infectious Disease Surveillance. This position will average 20 hours per week.

The RA position involves two separate but related projects. The first project is focused on the integration of novel data streams (e.g., Internet News sources, and social media data) with environmental and epidemiological data for infectious disease surveillance and forecasting. The objectives of the project are to develop an automated process for acquiring, processing and filtering data for modeling. Once we gather these data, we will develop temporal models for the dynamical assessment of the relationship between the various data variables and infectious disease incidence. Finally, we will assess these modeling approaches for forecasting the dynamics of select infectious diseases.

The second project is focused on integrating data from social media, blogs, local news sources, restaurant and food service review sites to augment traditional approaches to foodborne disease surveillance. An approximately 48 million people experience foodborne illness in the United States each year, however, only a small proportion of cases are captured by traditional surveillance systems. This is mainly due to a limited number of affected persons seeking medical care and reporting symptoms to appropriate authorities. We therefore aim to supplement existing surveillance systems by developing a validated system for monitoring reports of foodborne illness using event-based digital disease surveillance data sources, and characterize and estimate the extent of foodborne illness and disease outbreaks in the United States.

Duties include:

• Perform data analyses using statistical and machine-learning methods
• Visualize results for presentations and publications
• Aid in drafting manuscripts for journal publications
• Participate in other research activities as needed by the project

Requirements :

• Currently enrolled graduate student at the University of Washington during AY 15/16
• Experience with machine-learning and statistical methods for data analyses
• Interest in public health
• Ability to work independently
• Very strong analytic, creative, and writing skills
• Proficiency in natural language processing is a plus

Desired qualification:

• Proficiency in R or Python

For complete information about this opportunity, including application details, see HuskyJobs Position ID # 103088

DataONE Summer Internship Program

Application deadline:   March 16, 2016

The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is a virtual organization dedicated to providing open, persistent, robust, and secure access to biodiversity and environmental data, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. DataONE is pleased to announce the availability of summer research internships for undergraduates, graduate students and recent postgraduates.

Interns undertake a 9 week program of work centered around one of the designated projects. Each intern will be paired with one primary mentor and, in some cases, secondary and tertiary mentors. Interns need not necessarily be at the same location or institution as their mentor(s).

The program is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and postgraduates who have received their degree within the past five years. Given the broad range of projects, there are no restrictions on academic backgrounds or field of study.

Interns must be at least 18 years of age by the program start date, must be currently enrolled or employed at a U.S. university or other research institution and must currently reside in, and be eligible to work in, the United States. Interns are expected to be available approximately 40 hours/week during the internship period (noted above) with significant availability during the normal business hours. Interns from previous years are eligible to participate.

Interns will receive a stipend of $5,000 for participation, paid in two installments (one at the midterm and one at the conclusion of the program). In addition, required travel expenses will be borne by DataONE.

For complete information about this opportunity, see: http://dataone.org/internships

Research Assistant, Institute of Translational Health Sciences

Deadline: None listed. Originally posted 11/17/12.

Biomedical Informatics Core – LC Data QUEST Research Assistant

Appointment Period: Fall Quarter 2012 – Spring Quarter 2013, with potential for on-going support past Spring 2013

To apply, and contact for more information: Kari Stephens, PhD kstephen@uw.edu

Office Location: South Lake Union in the ITHS BMI Core space; meeting spaces vary mainly between Roosevelt Commons and Met Park East; some travel to locations across the WWAMI region may be needed

The goal of this project is to create and test a technical infrastructure for sharing electronic health information regarding primary care practices in the WWAMI (WA, WY, AK, MT, ID) States. The LC Data QUEST architecture facilitates research and quality improvement by increasing the accessibility to health data captured in EMR systems at clinics that serve rural populations, thus accelerating the integration of new findings into practice. This electronic health information, when combined across sites, can be used for many research endeavors including comparative effectiveness research, research trials, and identifying patients for research. LC Data QUEST is a joint effort of the Community Outreach and Research Translation (CORT) the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) cores at the University of Washington’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS).

Description: The individual in this position will be a key contributor to the ITHS community data sharing initiatives, and will provide both technical and research support.  The following activities are anticipated: 1. Perform data testing for LC Data QUEST architecture based on a pre-defined specification, 2. Assist with coordinating development of a pilot web-based tool, Federated Information Dictionary Tool (FInDiT), integrating it with the testing datasets, 3. Participate in site visits with current and future partners, assisting with technical feasibility evaluations and building relationships, 4. Assist with research consultations related to LC Data QUEST, 5. Assist with the technical evaluation of new / existing data sharing tools, architectures, and ontologies, 6. Assist with producing academic products, including manuscripts and conference presentations, grant preparation and IRB applications, 7. Oversee and upkeep the public website for LC Data QUEST and FInDiT , 8. Attend project specific and organizational meetings, 9. Assist with monitoring budget expenditures related to project vendor costs.

This position will promote awareness of the current research and approaches in community based data sharing in the US and will contribute to evolving opportunities to design coordination and / or expansion of the LC Data QUEST work of the ITHS to other efforts as the evolve.

This position requires: – Familiarity with relational data structures and ability to perform simple data queries and analyses in SQL. – Experience writing and using shell scripts. – Flexibility, organizational skills and self-motivation, and ability to work effectively under limited direct supervision. – Excellent written and oral communications skills in English. – Excellent interpersonal skills.

Preferred qualifications/requirements – Experience in working in medical settings, particularly in primary care community based settings. – Experience with web based application design. – Preferred candidates will have an interest and / or background in biomedical or public health informatics, public health genetics, or computer science.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree and enrollment in a Masters or Doctoral Program. Desired: Masters degree in Biomedical and Health Informatics or related field.