Elevate your data science work through the fifth annual Injury and Violence Prevention Data Science Demonstration Project. Run by APHA and the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, this initiative aims to enhance public health capacity by supporting organizations engaged in data science practice. Applications are due February 28th.
Academy Health is hosting an upcoming Health Equity Webinar Series titled "Centering Community Based Organizations to Advance Latinx Health Equity Research and Practice." See the speaker list and register here.
Here is a nice resource which shows relevant conferences using 3 different useful approaches (upcoming, spreadsheet, calendar).
Happy birthday to Dr. Jeanie Santaularia and other FIPRP February birthdays! If you'd like to have your birthday celebrated in the newsletter, please add it here.
Job Postings
The Ballmer Group seeks a proactive, collaborative, and emotionally intelligent Portfolio Manager (PM) for its national work in Public Safety, which includes investments in Community Violence Intervention (CVI), Gun Violence Prevention more broadly, Alternative Crisis Response, and other related efforts that contribute to community safety. The PM will be a critical member of a small, nimble, action-oriented team, reporting to the Executive Director, Los Angeles, who also leads Ballmer Group’s national work in Public Safety. Read more about this opportunity here.
Bonterra is seeking a Senior Data Consultant to work with Bonterra/CAPS to develop a technological tool aimed at supporting local CVI ecosystems. Learn more here.
Looking Ahead
FIPRP Weekly
February 19, 9:30-10 am PST Facilitators: Erika Marts & Sam Banks Title: "Creating a Data Request Resource"
February 21, 10-11 am PST
Speaker: Dr. Alesha Durfee
Title: "Analyzing Domestic Violence and Firearms Using Institutional, Contextual, and Geographical Data: A Meso-Level Perspective"
Providing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods consultation services
Creating, compiling, and presenting methods resources to FIPRP members
Facilitating trainings on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, research procedures, and research ethics
REMINDERS
Please reach out to Sam Banks (sbanks94@uw.edu) if you have any new firearm-related publications and/or conversations with the media, reporters, community partners, or policymakers in an article so it can be listed on the FIPRP website.
FIPRP has a SharePoint that we are hoping will help facilitate the sharing of resources. We currently have a methods folder which includes resources and guidance on topics like data visualization, qualitative methods, and survey methods among other resources for FIPRP outreach. If you would like access or would like to contribute resources, please email Sam Banks atsbanks94@uw.edu.
