🚨Yesterday was a good day: Thrilled to receive both the FORTE and the RJ project grants🥳🥳🥳for studying the role of social networks in shaping health and demographic behaviors. Details of the project and research team 👇👇👇
Our study provides evidence that higher cigarette taxes can reduce child mortality and even narrow survival gaps between rich and poor in LMICs, supporting WHO's call to raise taxes to ≥75% of retail price.
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Quoting a fellow demographer: "It's here, it's here!" (IYKYK)
The 16th Conference of #YoungDemographers is coming up and it will be amazing as always. So share the good news with everyone and send your best papers by 28 October!
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We must realise that health does not start in hospitals or clinics, but in homes, schools, streets, markets, workplaces and our environment – in the air people breathe, the food they eat, and the conditions in which they live and work.
Wow, time flew by! Just finished my 4-month research visit at @mcgillu. So grateful for the opportunity and support from everyone, especially Sam Harper (@sbh4th) and the 3PO research group. Learned so much! #Research#McGill
SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. More information here: https://t.co/m1t0aYdOxY
We are recruiting assistant professors; up to 3 positions in epidemiology and 1 position in biostatistics. Deadline: March 4. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
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Exciting postdoc opportunity working with Dr Agnieszka Butwicka at @karolinskainst on psychiatric epidemiology (extended deadline to 28 Feb) https://t.co/U97EF5iWgH
We are looking for three postdocs at the Center for Collective Leaning. These are two and a half years EU funded appointments at Corvinus University working with two rising stars: @Orsi_Vasarhelyi, head of the Computational Inequality group, and @Johannes_Wachs working on social computing and the digital economy. Orsi is looking for two postdocs and Johannes for one. You will be part of a vibrant and growing international research community on the banks of the Danube. Please help us spread the word.
To apply, visit:
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📢We are hiring a PhD student to work on social networks and health behaviors. Deadline: Jan 17. Please re-tweet 🙏 DM me or email me if interested. (PI: me @karolinskainst; Co-PI: Karoly Takacs @IAS_LiU , Catarina Almqvist, Paul Lichtenstein) https://t.co/rZlr5pi5Mo
Thrilled to share that I finally got my first grant!! It is a two-year postdoc fellowship @karolinskainst supported by The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation! This will enable me to further explore the associations between ADHD and Ischemic heart disease @TIMESPAN_H2020
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The 2024 Nordic Sociological Association Conference (14-16 Aug) is now accepting session proposals (deadline: 1st Dec). Check https://t.co/QE3OtOVyB6 for more info.
The conference will be hosted by the IAS in beautiful Norrköping 🇸🇪.
Our paper about the impact of social networks on socio-economic inequalities in health behaviors is now published: https://t.co/jI4AicgWSJ Worth checking out; we received the Highest-Scoring Abstract Award at the European Public Health Conference #EPH2023 for this paper.