Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW)

Students may access audio and video recordings of previous School of Social Work guest lectures at the following site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/ocit/media/

Wednesday, November 11
12:00-1:00pm
Room 524
Negotiating the Job Offer
Presented by Prof. and Dean Emeritus Ronald Feldman

Please RSVP to Lindsay at lrb2109@columbia.edu if you wish to attend any of these sessions.

All seminars occur on Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Room 1109, School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd Street
RSVP required to cprc@columbia.edu

October 22
Marah Curtis & Amanda Geller
Housing Stability among Fathers: Hidden Insecurity

November 19
Terry-Ann Craigie
Effects of Paternal Presence and Family Instability on Child Cognitive Performance

December 3
Ofira Schwartz-Soicher & Ron Mincy
Father Involvement, Incarceration, and Child Wellbeing

For updates, check here.

All seminars occur on Thursdays, 12:00-1:30pm
CUSSW Building Room 1109
Lunch will be served. RSVP to cprc@columbia.edu required.
CPRC Site

November 12*
Michel Guillot
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
TBN

December 10*
Maurice Crul
Researcher, The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam
Different national school systems, different opportunities!: School careers of children of immigrants in seven European countries

*Available via videoconference at the Department of Sociomedical Sciences.

The Social Policy seminars will be held on Tuesdays from 1:00-2:00pm in Room 1109, School of Social Work. For updates, click here.

November 10
Andrew White, Director, Center for New York City Affairs, The New School
Title TBA

November 17
Edward Wolff, Professor of Economics, New York University
The Middle Class Squeeze

November 24
Ira Gang, Professor of Economics, New York University
Revealed Informal Activity

December 1
Yao Lu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Migration and Health in Developing Settings

December 8
Jane Waldfogel, Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of Social Work
Improving the Measurement of Poverty in the U.S.

December 15
Robert Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Title TBA

Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS)

Thursday, October 15
4:30-5:30pm
CUSSW, Room 405

Dr. Steven Mintz, Director of Columbia University GSAS Teaching Center, will be leading a workshop to provide practical advice on:

• handling angry, disgruntled, chronically needy, and withdrawn students
• grade disputes
• challenges to your authority
• and many other difficult situations

Teaching Center Website

Sessions are held on Thursdays at 12:00pm in 301 Philosophy Hall. To register for Teaching Center Workshops, click here

October 22
Avoiding the CEMs: Career Ending Mistakes—How to be Perfectly Ethical and Legal in the Classroom

November 5
Creating a Professional Online Presence

November 12
Creating Unforgettable Lectures

November 19
Ending the Semester on a Positive Note

October 19, 4:00pm
Place TBA
Build-a-Mentor Workshop

Recommended for PhD students 1 to 3 yeras before the academic job search

October 16, 9:00am to 4:00pm
Fall PFF Confernece

Date TBA, 9:00am to 4:00pm
Spring PFF Conference

For details and pre-registration, go to the following link

October 19, 1:30pm
CCE Conference Room
Job Search for PhD Students

October 28, 4:00pm
Inside the Academic Search Committee: Humanities & Social Sciences

For details, pre-registration, and additional workshops, go to www.careereducation.columbia.edu

All events take place in 509 Knox Hall at noon. A light buffet lunch is served—all are welcome to attend.

Department of Sociology
501 Knox Hall
606 West 122nd Street
www.sociology.columbia.edu

Wednesday, October 21:
Richard Sennett (NYU)
The Decline of the Skills Society

Wednesday, November 4:
Brian Uzzi (Northwestern)
Outstanding Scientific Impact: Formation and Performance Patterns of Scientists' Collaboration Networks

Thursday, November 12:
Olivier Godechot (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure)
Hold-up in Finance: The Condition for High Wages in the Financial Industry

Wednesday, November 18:
David Stark (Columbia)
The Network Costs of Political Ties: Blockage and Brokerage in a Polarized Economy

Wednesday, December 3:
Michele Lamont (Harvard)
How Professors Think

Thursday, December 9:
Joan Fujimura (Wisconsin/Madison)
Different Differences: Human Populations and the New Genomics

Mailman School of Public Health

The Center’s bi-weekly Grand Rounds program is usually held every second Thursday, from 2-3:30pm (unless otherwise noted). The talks are open to the public but seating is limited, so please let us know ahead of time if you would like to attend. For more information, go to: http://cchps.columbia.edu/GRounds.cfm.

Location:
Room 6602, "All-Purpose Room"
Sixth Floor, Psychiatric Institute
Entrance at 40 Haven Avenue
168th Street and Haven Avenue

October 22:
Norweeta Milburn, Research Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Semel Institute Center for Community Health
Trajectories of Homeless Adolescents

November 12 (2:30-4:00):
David Holtgrave, Department of Health, Behavior & Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Economic Evaluations of the Housing & Health Intervention Study

November 19:
Kenneth Prager, Professor of Clinical Medicine / Director, Clinical Ethics, Columbia University Medical Center
Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Homeless People

December 3:
Peter Sastny, Co-founder, International Network Toward Alternatives ad Recover (INTAR); Senior Psychiatrist, South Beach Psychiatric Center
Preventing Homelessness among Persons Diagnosed with Schizophrenia

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Hess Student Commons
722 West 168th Street

Universal Dimensions of Inequality: Warmth and Competence
Presented by Susan Fiske, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power.

Mailman School of Public Health
Allan Rosenfeld Building
722 W 168th Street, 5th floor
Conference Room 532

All sessions are held from 9:00-11:00am. A continental breakfast will be available from 9-9:30am. There will be an opportunity for doctoral students to meet with faculty speakers following the presentaion (i.e., 10:30-11).

October 20, 2009
Rebecca Young, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, Barnard College

November 17, 2009
Diana Romero, Associate Professor, Hunter College

December 1, 2009
Carolyn Westhoff, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Population and Family Health, and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center

Judith Jansen Conference Room
722 W. 168th St., 4th Floor
Room R425
12:30-2:00pm


October 15
Jerome Wakefield
The Loss of Sadness: Are Normal Emotions being Misdiagnosed as Depressive Disorders?

October 22
Abby Fyer
Family Studies of Anxiety Disorders

October 29
Patricia Cohen
The Critical Role of Early Life Risks and the Extraordinary Apparent Validity of Repeated Assessments Over Many Years

INVITED SPEAKERS :

Monday, November 9th
1:00-2:30pm
Room 509 Knox Hall
606 West 122nd Street

Hyperincarceration and Public Health
Loïc Wacquant, PhD, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkley; Researcher, Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris

More Information

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SHORT COURSES :

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
10:00am - 12:00pm and 1:00pm - 3:00pm
CU Morningside Campus, Room TBA

Sleep
Diane Lauderdale, University of Chicago
This half-day short course will give an overview of epidemiologic studies that have included sleep measurement. It will discuss research concerning social correlates of sleep and the health effects of sleep. The course will describe the diverse dimensions of sleep that might be related to health and the ways they are measured in population-based studies, including survey instruments, sleep logs, actigraphy and polysomnography. Practical and conceptual issues with sleep measurement will be covered, and also reliability and validity.

For more information, please contact Claire Espey, cte2105@columbia.edu, 212-342-0271.

Columbia University Medical Center

Faculty Club, 446 P&S Building
630 West 168th St. (b/w Broadway & Fort Washington Ave.)
More Information

November 4, 2009
Harlan Coben, NYT bestselling author reads from Hold Tight, which examines family, adolescent suicide, and child's right to privacy over a parent's right to know.

December 2, 2009
Virgil Wong. Artist and filmmaker Wong's work grapples with bioethically vexed medical technologies—including nanorobots, a smart-as-human genetically engineered mouse, and a male pregnancy program. His fictional "RYT-Dwayne Medical Center" (www.rythospital.com) has been callled "disarmingly authentic" by the New York Times.

January 6, 2010
Cortney Davis. Nurse-poet and memoirist Davis reads from her new collection, The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing.

February 3, 2010
Robin Romm. Romm reads from her acclaimed book The Mercy Papers: A Memoir in Three Weeks, written about the three weeks prior to her mother's death.

March 3, 2010
Shamita Das Dasgupta. Domestic violence activist and faculty at NYU Law School, Daguta reads from Mothers for Sale: Women in Kolkata's Sex Trade. Based on hundreds of interviews with women and children sex workers in India, this "unique and urgently needed book" focuses on motherhood, sex work,and human rights in local and national contexts.

April 7, 2010
Susan Squier. Author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth Century Visions of Reproductive Lives and Liminal Lives: Imagining Frontiers in Biomedicine, Squier is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State. She speaks on her latest work, graphic fiction of illness and disability.

May 5, 2010
Ekiwah Adler-Belendez Called a child prodigy when he published his first book of poetry Soy (I Am) at age 12, Ekiwah has lectured and read widely throughout North America from his books of Spanish and English poems.

Interdisciplinary Centers

This interdisciplinary seminar series is held on Thursdays from 2:00-3:30 pm in room 801 of the International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (Amsterdam Avenue & 118th).

November 19:
Susan Olzak, Stanford
Title TBA

December 3:
Thomas Espenshade, Princeton
Title TBA

Next spring, ISERP will host talks by David Grusky, Hans Peter Blossfeld, Jennifer Jennings, and others.

Admission to all Heyman Center events is free and open to the public. No registration or tickets necessary. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
For more information, please visit www.heymancenter.org.

Thursday, September 17
6:15-8:15pm
Robert Darnton
Google, Libraries, and the Digital Future
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

Tuesday, October 13
6:15-8:15pm
Daniel Kahneman
Discussants: Jon Elster, George Ainslie & Walter Mischel
Title TBA,br> Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

Wednesday, October 21
3:00-8:30pm
Judith Butler, David Bromwich, Robert Zimmer, & Richard Shweder
What is Academic Freedom For?
Presidential Rooms 2 & 3, Third Floor, Faculty House

Thursday, October 22
6:15-8:15pm
Quentin Skinner
Is the State a Fictional Person?
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

Thursday, November 5
6:15-8:15pm
Carol Gilligan & Nancy Chodorow
Transforming Psychology
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

Tuesday, November 10
6:15-8:15pm
Charles Taylor
Can Human Action be Explained?
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

Friday, November 13
4:00-5:30pm
Jonathan Israel
Dutch Cities, Radical Enlightenment, and the "General Revolution" (1776-1790)
Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street

Monday, November 16
6:15-8:15pm
Robert Hass
A Poetry Reading by Robert Hass Followed by an Interview with Saskia Hamilton
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Thursday, November 19
6:15-8:15pm
Caroline Bynum
What is Happening in History Now?
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

Friday, November 20
10:00am - 5:00pm
Stanley Fish, Catharine Stimpson & Akeel Bilgrami
Freedom, Law, and Academic Inquiry
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Thursday, December 3
6:30-8:30pm
Noam Chomsky
The Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture
Althschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building)

Tuesday, December 8
6:15-8:15pm
Ezra Tawil
Discussants: Andrew Delbanco & Ross Posnock
American Exceptionalism and the Question of Style
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Friday, December 11
4:00-6:00pm
Amartya Sen
Discussants: Kenneth Arros & Eric Maskin
Chair: Joseph Stiglitz
Social Choice and Individual Values
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building)

Grand Rounds are held on Thursdays from 9:30-11:00am in Room 6602 at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), 1051 Riverside Drive. Podcasts are also available—see www.hivcenter.org for more information and links.

October 15
CONSTRUCTIONS OF MASCULINITY AMONG DIVERSE SAMPLES OF MEN IMPLICATIONS FOR HIV RISK BEHAVIOR
David Seal, Ph.D.
Unit for Online Research & Prevention
Center for AIDS Intervention Research
Medical College of Wisconsin

October 22
HIV INFECTION AMONG MSM IN NORTH CAROLINA: PROGRESS OR PROGRESSION
Lisa Hightow-Weidman, M.D., M.P.H.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

October 29
TBA

QMSS seminars are open to the Columbia University and ISERP communities.
Events Home

October 22
6:30-8:30pm
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Paula Parigi, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
TBD (QMSS & Columbia University Sociology alum)
Title TBA

October 29
6:30-8:30pm
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Michael Benigno and Ivan Bojanic, QMSS Alumni
Topic TBA

November 19
6:30-8:30pm
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Dana Carney, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Challenging Assumptions

December 3
6:30-8:30pm
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Koleen McCrink, Barnard College Department of Psychology
Mathematical Operations Throughout the Lifespan

December 10
6:30-8:30pm
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Christine Greer, Fordham University Department of Political Science
Extending the American Dream: Black Ethnic Cultural Distinctions and Linked Fates

Columbia University Libraries

Join us for events exploring how scholars and researchers can take advantage of new and powerful ways of creating, sharing, reusing, and preserving knowledge. The series is free and open to the public. Refeshments will be service. For more information, email Kathryn Pope at kp2002@columiba.edu or visit scholcomm.columbia.edu.

October 22, 12:30pm
Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 555
The Future of Learned Societies

November 12, 12:30pm
Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 555
Open Data and the Future of Funded Research

October 19
Session 1: 10:30am-12:00pm
Session 2: 2:30-4:00pm
201 Lehman Library
Center for Digital Research & Scholarship (CDRS) Open House

Seminars Outside Columbia University

When: November 18, 2009
Where: Cleveland, OH
Deadline: September 25, 2009

The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) announces a new fellowship opportunity for doctoral students writing a dissertation on a topic in nonprofit or philanthropic studies. Fellows will have the chance to get important feedback as well as funding to attend the 2009 ARNOVA Annual Conference in Philadelphia.

Full announcement

Seminars will be held on Fridays from 1:00-2:30pm in Room 5832 of the CUNY Graduate Center/NBER (365 Fifth Ave on the northeast corner of Fifth Ave and 34th St).

October 16
Narayan Sastry, University of MichiganM
The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans

October 23
Billy Jack, Georgetown University
Title TBA

November 13
Bill Evans, Notre Dame University
Title TBA

November 20
David Cutler, Harvard University
Title TBA

December 4
Nancy Luke, Brown University
Title TBA

More information can be found at the following link.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
5:30pm
12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Center
Fordham University
30 West 60th Street

How to Detect and Correct the Lies that Data Tell

Frank L. Schmidt, PhD, Gary C. Fethke Chair in Leadership, Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa

The Psy-ences Project is a regional seminar that provides a venue for scholars—from graduate students to professors to practitioners—concerned with the emergence and social influence of such disciplines psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychopharmacology. For more information, please click here.

January 29, 2010
3:00-5:00pm
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
Jonathan Metzl, University of Michigan, Psychiatry and Women's Studies
Author of Prozac on the Couch

February 12, 2010
3:00-5:00pm
Icarus 2.0 A talk on the pressures exerted on the concept of "the human" by revolutionary biomedical and information technologies
Michael Bess, University of Virginia, History
Author of Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II

A few events of interest are listed below. For a complete list of upcoming events and to register, click here.

New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)
1216 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street)

October 19, 2009
5:30-7:30pm
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, CHES
NYAM Author Night Series: Women's Global Health and Human Rights
Serves as an overview of the challenges faced by women in different regions of the world. Ideal as a tool for both professionals and students, this book discusses the similarities and differences in health and human rights challenges that are faced by women globally. Best practices and success stories are also included in this timely and important text.

October 26, 2009
5:30-7:30pm
Mark W. Kline, MD, J.S. Abercrombie Professor and Chairman Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief Texas Children's Hospital
The Millie & Richard Brock Lecture and Award: Pediatric AIDS: Worlds Apart

November 2, 2009
5:30-7:30pm
Libby Cataldi
NYAM Author Night Series: Stay Close: A Mother's Story of her Son's Addiction

Wednesdays from 4:00-5:30pm
Website and Registration: www.sp2.upenn.edu/colloquium or itay@sp2.upenn.edu.

October 21, 2009
Richard Berk, Department of Statistics & Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
The Role of Race in Forecasts of Violent Crime

November 4, 2009
Arthur Brooks, American Enterprise Institute
Does Money Buy Happiness?

November 18, 2009
Hans-Uwe Otto, Center for Education & Capability Research, Bielefeld University, Germany
Evidence-Based Practice: Modernizing the Knowledge Base of Social Work?

December 2, 2009
Dennis Culhane, Center for Mental Health Policy & Services Research, University of Pennsylvania
A Prevention-Centered Approach to Homelessness: A Paradigm Shift?
The conceptual framework underlying the Obama Administration's new homelessness prevention intiative

January 27, 2010
Nancy Peter & Lisa Colby, The Out-Of-School-Time Resource Center, University of Pennsylvania
Evaluating Peer Networking Meetings and Participant Outcomes in Out-of-School Time: Overviews and Findings

February 10, 2010
Katherina Rosqueta & CHIP Team, The Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania
Housing, Health & Hunger: Addressing the Immediate Suffering Caused by the Current Economic Downturn

February 24, 2010
Richard Estes & Mary Zhou, School of Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania
The World Social Situation: Dilemnas in Development at the Outset of a New Century

March 10, 2010
Ernie Lightman, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Canada's Health Care System: Fact and Fiction

March 24, 2010
Amy Watson, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
Police Interventions and Mental Illness

April 7, 2010
Micha de Winter, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Title TBA

Workshops & Seminars on Data and Methods

Monday, October 12 , 2009
12:40-1:45pm
Room 1109

Performing Economic Analyses of Clinical Trials
Gary Zarkin, Director of Behavioral Health and Justice Research Division, RTI International
Dr. Zarkin will discuss various economic analyses that can be performed in a clinical trial, present a specific example of a cost-effectiveness analysis, and discuss how to successfully collaborate with economists.


Wednesday, October 21, 2009
1:00-2:00pm
Room 1109
Power and Sample Size for Multiple Regression
Prakash Gorroochurn, Mailman School of Public Health


Monday, October 26, 2009
12:40-1:45pm
Room 1109
India-U.S. Collaboration to Prevent Adolescent HIV Infection: Focus Group Findings on the Feasibility of a Family-based HIV-prevention intervention for rural Indian youth
Denise Burnette, CUSSW


Monday, November 9, 2009
12:40-1:45pm
Room 1109
Missing Data
Jennifer Hill, New York University


Monday, November 16, 2009
12:40-1:45pm
Room 1109
Improving the Measurement of Poverty in the U.S.
Irv Garfinkel, CUSSW & Nathan Hutto, Doctoral Student, CUSSW


Wednesday, November 18, 2009
1:00-2:00pm
Room 1109
Effect Sizes in Research
Prakash Gorroochurn, Mailman School of Public Health


Wednesday, December 2, 2009
1:00-2:00pm
Room 1109
Statistical Methods for Weighted Survey Data
Prakash Gorroochurn, Mailman School of Public Health


Monday, December 7, 2009
12:40-1:45pm
Room 1109
The Columbia Population Research Center
Irv Garfinkel, CUSSW

October 16
10:30am to 12:30 pm
EDS, 215 Lehaman Library
GIS—Geocoding Using ArcGIS
A hands-on introduction to geocoding using ArcGIS software.

The DSSC also runs workshops on Endnote and Bloomberg. A full schedule can be found here.

February 6-10, 2010
San Jose, CA
Deadline: November 18, 2009
Institute Website

Community-based Participatory Research Approaches to Sustaining Health Families and Multicultural Communities

The University of Rochester’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, in partnership with San José State University, is pleased to announce the Third Annual Training Institute on community-partnered research. This year’s Institute, Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches to Sustaining Healthy Families and Multicultural Communities, will be held on February 6-10, 2010 in San José, California.

The training institute is designed for research teams comprised of academic and community member investigators. Community-academic partners seeking to advance their collaborative public health and preventive research are welcome to apply.

Research projects focusing on behavioral, social, and environmental factors promoting health and preventing adverse health outcomes among people whose lifestyles represent the cultural mosaic of communities are encouraged. Lifestyle, family turmoil, community violence, psychological and personal distress, and adverse life events are a few examples of factors that could be a research focus for attending teams. Innovative health services and interventions research topics, for instance, to evaluate effectiveness of known interventions with ethnic populations or to enhance the capacity for interventions research in new settings, will also be considered. This forum is designed to support related National Institutes of Health (NIH) research priorities.

The program will develop knowledge about effective collaborative teams and skills in writing peer-reviewed grants to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other comparable funding agencies, to advance community-integrated and community-led research programs addressing their priority areas.

Junior investigators with completed doctorates, or experienced researchers and community members seeking to expand their expertise in conducting community-based participatory research, are eligible to apply.

Wednesday, November 11 - Friday, November 13, 2009
Washington, DC
Deadline for applications: September 28, 2009
Seminar Website
ECLS Website

The National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences will sponsor an advanced studies seminar on the use of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) database. The ECLS-B is designed to support research on a wide range of topics pertaining to young children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development and their health status across multiple contexts (e.g., home, child care, and kindergarten).

This seminar is open to advanced graduate students and faculty members from colleges and universities nationwide and to researchers, education practitioners, and policy analysts from federal, state, and local education and human services agencies and professional associations. There is no fee to attend this seminar. Training materials as well as computers for the hands-on practice will be provided. Transportation, hotel, accommodations, and a fixed per diem for meals and incidental expenses during the training seminar will also be provided.

Seminar Dates & Locations:

• Population Aging & the Generational Economy (Honolulu, June 6-19, 2010)
• Health-Care Financing & Insurance Systems (Honolulu, May 29-June 18 then Manila, June 19-26, 2010)
• Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health (Honolulu, May 29-June 19, 2010)

When: June 14-18, 2010
Where: Ithaca, NY
Deadline: January 29, 2010
Institute Website

NDACAN will sponsor its 18th Summer Research Institute (SRI) for child maltreatment researchers on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York on June 14 - 18, 2010. The Institute will be an intensive experience in secondary data analysis that combines colloquia with hands-on computing time. Participants are selected on a competitive basis from a variety of disciplines including psychology, social work, and medicine. The primary goal of the Institute is to facilitate secondary analysis projects from which researchers can publish their findings. In addition, the Institute will provide child maltreatment researchers an invaluable opportunity for networking and collaboration.

Archived Seminars

Students may access audio and video recordings of previous School of Social Work guest lectures at the following site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/ocit/media/

Webcast archived at: http://videocast.nih.gov
Podcast archived at: http://videocast.nih.gov/podcasting

"Leap into the Community"

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an applied approach that enables community residents to more actively participate in the full spectrum of research with a goal of influencing change in community health, systems, programs or policies. Researchers partner with the community to develop models and approaches to building communication, trust and capacity, with the final goal of increasing community participation in the research process. This collaborative approach involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings.

Videocast Web Link

"Person-to-Person Spread of Health Behaviors in a Large Social Network"

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, Mt. Auburn Hospital.

Thisi lecture is an installment of the BSSR Lecture Series sponsored by the NIH OBSSR and organized by the NIH BSSR Research Coordinating Committee. The lecture covers the work done by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH that has involved the quantitative investigation of whether and how various health-related phenomena might spread from person to person. For example, it explores the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity.

March 19, 2008
1:00 p.m. EST
Conference Website
Note: This website contains an archived broadcast of the web conference.

Almost 25 million children in the U.S. are growing up in families without a father present, a number roughly two-and-a-times higher than four decades ago. This web conference will analyze fatherhood research and programming as part of a broader movement to strengthen families. Panelists will also discuss promising strategies that some states are implementing to increase father involvement, and the potential for expanding and improving programs as new and continuing funding sources become available. The web conference is free and space is limited.

March 19, 2008
1:00-3:30 p.m. EST
Broadcast Website
An archived recording of the broadcast can be found via the link above.

The purpose of this satellite broadcast is to conduct a discussion of the difficulties faced by rural family caregivers and how to support them in areas with limited provider agencies, manpower shortages, and transportation challenges. With assistance from USDA/CREES and other organizations, this session will highlight creative responses to rural family caregiving such as consumer directed care. This broadcast will feature family caregivers who have applied innovative means to be effective caregivers in rural areas.

http://phrp.nihtraining.com/user/login.php

On March 1, 2008, the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) on-line tutorial Protecting Human Research Participants replaced the NCI Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams course. The NCI course will no longer be available as of March 1, 2008. Like the previous course, the OER tutorial is a free, web-based course that presents information about protections for himan participants in research. The tutorial is designed for those involved in the design and/or conduct of research involving human participants. It satisfies the NIH human subjects training requirement for obtaining NIH awards, but it is not the only way to satisfy this requirement. Information on satisfying the requirement and answers to commonly asked questions about the education requirement may be found on OER's FAQs on the Requirement for Education on the Protection of Human Subjects ().

URL: http://drugabuse.gov/about/organization/Genetics/geneticsepigenetics/index.html

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is pleased to announce a Short Course on the Genetics and Epigenetics of Addiction is now on the web to provide comprehensive and hands-on training in genetics and epigenetic methodology. Topics covered: behavioral genetics, genetic epiedemiology, twin and adoption studies, statistical genetic concepts and approaches for mapping complex traits, haplotype based approaches for association mapping, genome-wide scans for addictive disorders, application of linkage for mapping genes and genetic loci for addictive disorders, pharmacogenomics of treatment of addictive disorders, pharmacogenomics of treatment of addictive disorders, Bayesian Methods for identifying gene-gene interactions, analysis of copy number variation, practical use of genetic databases, mapping of complex traits in mice, methods for analyzing gene expression, and methods for doing epigenetic analysis.

April 17, 2008
1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
Conference Call Website

"Providing Early Childhood Mental Health Services that Meet the Needs of Young Children and their Caregivers: Building the Evidence Base"

This call is among a series of calls sponsored by the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health. Services to young children must be delivered in homes, child care programs and other natural settings to be most effective. Since greater emphasis is being given to evidence-based practices, presenters will share some current programs and practices that are being used across the country. They will share strategies for collecting and using data to evaluate outcomes.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Webinar Link

A team from the National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health at Georgetown University along with other partners have been working in partnership with SAMHSA’s Child Adolescent and Family Branch (CAFB) and the Prevention Initiatives and Priority Program Development Branch (PIPPD) to develop a monograph that synthesizes existing work on a public health approach to mental health and proposes a new conceptual framework to guide this work in the future. This conference call will continue a series of conversations of critical elements of the new framework and its underlying values and principles, and link the array of systems of environmental supports, services and interventions that support the mental health of all children. This is an exciting opportunity to discuss how partners, stakeholders and consumers might use the framework in their communities and identify strategies to encourage diverse participation.

This 90 minute discussion will focus on a new monograph being written and will allow participants input into the ways in which the monograph will be organized and disseminated. Due to the tremendous interest in the call, you may not be able to listen via the conference call line. The call will be recorded and posted on the Georgetown website (http://gucchd.georgetown.edu).

October 7, 2008
2:00-3:00 pm EDT
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The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, in partnership with Casey Family Programs, is pleased to announce the first in a series of web casts related to safely reducing the number of children in foster care. The first web cast will bring together experts to discuss permanency for older youth and what states can do to so that all youth receive the appropriate level of supports and services needed to achieve permanency.