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• Microsoft Word (.docx) .DOCX
• PDF Document (.pdf) .PDF
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• Performs basic statistical data analysis
• Presents at research laboratory meetings and contributes to writing of manuscripts
• Works under supervision and may perform some assignments independently as discussed and approved by Principal Investigator
• Organizes and maintains laboratory
• Maintains mouse colony including record keeping, husbandry, and genotyping
• Performs and supports laboratory research including solution preparation, stereotaxic surgeries, immunohistochemistry, and mouse behavior
• Assists the research team in developing a culturally competent evaluation protocol
• Meets with community leaders to identify opportunities and barriers for implementing protocol
• Develops a social network page for the project and maintains content to keep the page active
• Attends community events to recruit members to the social network
• Familiarity with HIPAA, PHI/PII compliance, is highly desired
• Skills should include a foundational and theoretical understanding of general scientific principles
• Experience working with RNA plant viruses
• Cloning experience
• 3-5 years experience in Medical Device Clinical Affairs or Product Development, in a fast paced environment
• Master’s Degree in the Sciences / Public Health / Management required
• Conduct interviews with subject matter experts
• Perform web-based literature reviews
• Design and create electronic surveys
• Perform qualitative and quantitative data analysis
• Create summary reports of data collection activities
• Attend and provide support at subject-matter expert meetings (some travel required)
• Manage project schedule
• To undertake a research project, in discussion with the grant-holders and other collaborators, including participation in regular planning meetings
• To recruit participants to the study from a database of eligible patients and meet targets for recruitment and study completion
• To perform MEG and MRI scanning, whilst ensuring good quality MRI data is collected using test objects (phantoms) on a regular basis
• Highly organized with the ability to multitask and work under time pressure
• Highly motivated and quantitative-oriented college graduate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail, good multi-tasking and problem solving skills, and demonstrated ability to comply with strict deadlines
• Passing CFA exams
• Experience at a financial services company with knowledge of fixed income or equity instruments
• The investigation of a new redesigned chlorination sensor that utilizes colorimetry
• Order and organize lab supplies and equipment, keep records and maintain databases
• Provide clean, sterile glassware and supplies to labs
• Ensure that labs have designated supplies including sterile water
• Train part time/temporary employees on glassware work to be performed
• Responsible for calling in service when needed and communications to team and labs when equipment is in need of repair
• Update lab documentation to ensure glassware labeling is accurate and that services performed are documented for specific labs
• Actively ensure a safe working environment for yourself and teammates
• Transport bagged Bio-Hazard waste via cart and/or truck
• Decontaminate bagged Bio-Hazard waste
• Provide coverage for teammates when needed and participate in building and maintaining a strong team working environment
• 6 months research experience in a biological science or neurobiological science field is required
• High degree of attention to detail and organizational skills is required
• Experience with molecular biology approaches through academic coursework and molecular biology lab experience
• Experience in animal models of traumatic brain injury, including histologic and behavioral outcome measures
• A bachelor’s degree in a field relevant to life science or medical research such as molecular biology, genetics, or biology or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of one year of progressively responsible experience in a research environment is required
• Participate in laboratory meeting and seminars
• Prepare materials for reports and grant applications
• Perform general laboratory maintenance
• Requisition supplies, specimens and materials
• Organize work areas and care of equipment and maintain inventories of general supplies
• Interact with and help train graduate and undergraduate students
• Work with or train other laboratory personnel or students in research techniques or procedures
• Seek opportunities to enhance one’s own professional knowledge, skills and abilities as they relate to the position
• Perform experiments on mouse vision including surgical induction of elevated intraocular pressure
• Perform histochemical and immunohistochemical evaluation of ocular tissue
• Experience enrolling human participants in research studies
• Must be willing to commute to UW Tacoma campus weekly and data collection sites when needed
• Able to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds
• Experience developing content to distribute via online social networks
• Experience conducting outreach or recruitment
• Robust understanding of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms
• Actively surveys the scientific / technical literature in his/her area of expertise
• Help to set up test fixtures for mechanical and electrical experiments
• Carry out analyses and interpretation of results
• Participate in other R&D experiments if/as needed
• Analyze satellite data and relate them to health
• Ensure all materials necessary for conducting laboratory or field experiments are prepared properly and promptly
• Assist with tasks such as cleaning, handling, packaging and storing field or laboratory material
• Assist with various other tasks as requested from your work group
• Plan and implement corn nurseries activities with accuracy in close supervision with the Corn-RA
• Give training, develop and supervise temporary employees in field activities, and ensure that the work is performed in safe and efficient manner
• Self-motivated and able to work successfully alone or as a member of a team
• Some knowledge of practical farm operations and the ability to withstand prolonged exposure to various weather conditions are a must
• Must be able to carry out routine oral and written instructions with limited supervision
• Ability to lift up to 75 pounds on a routine and continual basis
• One growing season of related farm or agricultural research support experienced preferred
• General understanding of social psychological, marketing, or organizational behavior scientific theory and methods

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6-month Research Assistant: Forest Assessment of Needs

The Forestry Program at Southern Illinois is accepting applications for a 6-month research assistant to update Illinois’ Forest Assessment of Needs document describing current forest conditions across the state. Primary tasks include analyzing the most recent US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) dataset to amend the previous Assessment of Needs document. The research assistant will be tasked with analyzing and summarizing the Illinois FIA data in tables and figures as well as updating written descriptions of the state’s resources. The expected product of this 6-month position is a completely updated state Assessment of Needs document.

The individual must have excellent organizational and communication skills, and be extremely proficient in Excel or another database management software. The individual must be able to work independently.

The position is expected to last 6 months with potential to extend. The individual will be expected to work 20 hours per week, but the length of employment and weekly hours may be negotiated to meet the individual’s needs (e.g., 3 months at 40 hours per week). The position is based in Carbondale, Illinois at Southern Illinois University with an option to work remotely. The research assistant’s performance will be reviewed monthly. The expected hourly rate is between $15-$25, depending on qualifications.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and Resume/CV to Dr. Brent Pease ([email protected]) by November 10th. The cover letter should outline how the applicant’s skillset aligns with the position, especially noting experience with the FIA dataset. The email subject should be “AON Research Assistant”. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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March 1983​​-2023

​​Vacancies​​

Research assistant (2 positions) – six months contract, introduction, responsibilities.

• Organize all aspects of data extraction from Medical Records
• Code extracted data and provided regular reports 
• Ensure that data collection materials and accessories are safeguarded
• Track and maintain relevant systems to ensure study timelines are met
• These are initial responsibilities and deliverables may evolve during study implementation hence other related responsibilities may be assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant health discipline, Public Health, Psychology, Sociology, Biology, Nursing, Social work or equivalent. 
• At least one years’ experience in research data collection/extraction preferably in university/research Institution setting
• Educational or experiential knowledge of data cleaning and analysis
• Knowledge and skills of handling quantitative and qualitative data including Medical Records
• Certificate in Protection of Human Research Subjects and Good Clinical Practice will be an added advantage
• Excellent inter-personal relationship with ability to work well with colleagues and full spectrum of academic staff from trainees to senior faculty members and researchers, located in different geographic zones

​Application letter together with detailed Curriculum Vitae, names of three referees, should be sent to the Manager, Talent Acquisition, Aga Khan University, via the email: [email protected] 

Please quote the position title on the email subject.  Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Applications should be submitted latest by February 3, 2023

PPIS – Research Assistant (6-months Contract)

Women play important roles in our society. As they strive to achieve their aspirations and careers, while caring for their families – we need to advocate for women empowerment so that they will lead fulfilling lives.

PPIS, a women association in Singapore, aims to support women empowerment through the various programmes and services we are offering in our organisation. In line with our goals as a women association, we also aim to empower children and families through child care support and counselling services. With these efforts, we hope to make Singapore a better ground for gender equality.

Data Analysis/ Market Research 

Collate and analyse performance data for marketing campaigns and website traffic 

• Initiate market research and surveys to finetune product positioning
• Assist in developing proposals for new marketing initiatives Observe & analyse trends to regularly provide insightful and actionable data
• Review and analyse sites, conduct basic competitive analyses, keyword research, organic ranking, tracking, and web monitoring 

Develop Marketing Management 

• Involvement in end to end campaign/project management from planning, monitoring progress to execution, to achieve end results. 
• Assist in copywriting and developing design briefs (to be passed to designer) to ensure successful implementation of campaigns
• Research on upcoming trends and recommend ways to implement trend for PPIS’s social media 

Skills and experience required 

• Prior experience in creating social media posts, reels, stories is useful as is prior exposure to CRM tools Proficient in MS Office 365 and Google e.g., Excel Sheets, Word Documents & PowerPoint Presentations 
• Able to create relevant, engaging, and effective content and/or editing for websites, services, meta page descriptions, blogs, etc. are advantageous Basic analytical understanding and data visualization techniques Teachable, a problem solver, and able to handle multiple priorities 

Key Takeaways for You: 

• Learn how to create compelling collaterals and content for social media 
• Work with leading education providers and learn how to effectively onboard and thereafter manage supply-side players in a marketplace 
• Build capabilities in managing CRM tools 
• Past Interns have been tremendously positive about their internship experience with our organization 

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• Profession: Advertising / Media
• Industry: Social Services
• Location: Geylang

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What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later

The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.

By Sarah Mervosh ,  Claire Cain Miller and Francesca Paris

Four years ago this month, schools nationwide began to shut down, igniting one of the most polarizing and partisan debates of the pandemic.

Some schools, often in Republican-led states and rural areas, reopened by fall 2020. Others, typically in large cities and states led by Democrats, would not fully reopen for another year.

A variety of data — about children’s academic outcomes and about the spread of Covid-19 — has accumulated in the time since. Today, there is broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts that extended school closures did not significantly stop the spread of Covid, while the academic harms for children have been large and long-lasting.

While poverty and other factors also played a role, remote learning was a key driver of academic declines during the pandemic, research shows — a finding that held true across income levels.

Source: Fahle, Kane, Patterson, Reardon, Staiger and Stuart, “ School District and Community Factors Associated With Learning Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic .” Score changes are measured from 2019 to 2022. In-person means a district offered traditional in-person learning, even if not all students were in-person.

“There’s fairly good consensus that, in general, as a society, we probably kept kids out of school longer than we should have,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, a pediatric infectious disease specialist who helped write guidance for the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommended in June 2020 that schools reopen with safety measures in place.

There were no easy decisions at the time. Officials had to weigh the risks of an emerging virus against the academic and mental health consequences of closing schools. And even schools that reopened quickly, by the fall of 2020, have seen lasting effects.

But as experts plan for the next public health emergency, whatever it may be, a growing body of research shows that pandemic school closures came at a steep cost to students.

The longer schools were closed, the more students fell behind.

At the state level, more time spent in remote or hybrid instruction in the 2020-21 school year was associated with larger drops in test scores, according to a New York Times analysis of school closure data and results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress , an authoritative exam administered to a national sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students.

At the school district level, that finding also holds, according to an analysis of test scores from third through eighth grade in thousands of U.S. districts, led by researchers at Stanford and Harvard. In districts where students spent most of the 2020-21 school year learning remotely, they fell more than half a grade behind in math on average, while in districts that spent most of the year in person they lost just over a third of a grade.

( A separate study of nearly 10,000 schools found similar results.)

Such losses can be hard to overcome, without significant interventions. The most recent test scores, from spring 2023, show that students, overall, are not caught up from their pandemic losses , with larger gaps remaining among students that lost the most ground to begin with. Students in districts that were remote or hybrid the longest — at least 90 percent of the 2020-21 school year — still had almost double the ground to make up compared with students in districts that allowed students back for most of the year.

Some time in person was better than no time.

As districts shifted toward in-person learning as the year went on, students that were offered a hybrid schedule (a few hours or days a week in person, with the rest online) did better, on average, than those in places where school was fully remote, but worse than those in places that had school fully in person.

Students in hybrid or remote learning, 2020-21

80% of students

Some schools return online, as Covid-19 cases surge. Vaccinations start for high-priority groups.

Teachers are eligible for the Covid vaccine in more than half of states.

Most districts end the year in-person or hybrid.

Source: Burbio audit of more than 1,200 school districts representing 47 percent of U.S. K-12 enrollment. Note: Learning mode was defined based on the most in-person option available to students.

Income and family background also made a big difference.

A second factor associated with academic declines during the pandemic was a community’s poverty level. Comparing districts with similar remote learning policies, poorer districts had steeper losses.

But in-person learning still mattered: Looking at districts with similar poverty levels, remote learning was associated with greater declines.

A community’s poverty rate and the length of school closures had a “roughly equal” effect on student outcomes, said Sean F. Reardon, a professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford, who led a district-level analysis with Thomas J. Kane, an economist at Harvard.

Score changes are measured from 2019 to 2022. Poorest and richest are the top and bottom 20% of districts by percent of students on free/reduced lunch. Mostly in-person and mostly remote are districts that offered traditional in-person learning for more than 90 percent or less than 10 percent of the 2020-21 year.

But the combination — poverty and remote learning — was particularly harmful. For each week spent remote, students in poor districts experienced steeper losses in math than peers in richer districts.

That is notable, because poor districts were also more likely to stay remote for longer .

Some of the country’s largest poor districts are in Democratic-leaning cities that took a more cautious approach to the virus. Poor areas, and Black and Hispanic communities , also suffered higher Covid death rates, making many families and teachers in those districts hesitant to return.

“We wanted to survive,” said Sarah Carpenter, the executive director of Memphis Lift, a parent advocacy group in Memphis, where schools were closed until spring 2021 .

“But I also think, man, looking back, I wish our kids could have gone back to school much quicker,” she added, citing the academic effects.

Other things were also associated with worse student outcomes, including increased anxiety and depression among adults in children’s lives, and the overall restriction of social activity in a community, according to the Stanford and Harvard research .

Even short closures had long-term consequences for children.

While being in school was on average better for academic outcomes, it wasn’t a guarantee. Some districts that opened early, like those in Cherokee County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, and Hanover County, Va., lost significant learning and remain behind.

At the same time, many schools are seeing more anxiety and behavioral outbursts among students. And chronic absenteeism from school has surged across demographic groups .

These are signs, experts say, that even short-term closures, and the pandemic more broadly, had lasting effects on the culture of education.

“There was almost, in the Covid era, a sense of, ‘We give up, we’re just trying to keep body and soul together,’ and I think that was corrosive to the higher expectations of schools,” said Margaret Spellings, an education secretary under President George W. Bush who is now chief executive of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Closing schools did not appear to significantly slow Covid’s spread.

Perhaps the biggest question that hung over school reopenings: Was it safe?

That was largely unknown in the spring of 2020, when schools first shut down. But several experts said that had changed by the fall of 2020, when there were initial signs that children were less likely to become seriously ill, and growing evidence from Europe and parts of the United States that opening schools, with safety measures, did not lead to significantly more transmission.

“Infectious disease leaders have generally agreed that school closures were not an important strategy in stemming the spread of Covid,” said Dr. Jeanne Noble, who directed the Covid response at the U.C.S.F. Parnassus emergency department.

Politically, though, there remains some disagreement about when, exactly, it was safe to reopen school.

Republican governors who pushed to open schools sooner have claimed credit for their approach, while Democrats and teachers’ unions have emphasized their commitment to safety and their investment in helping students recover.

“I do believe it was the right decision,” said Jerry T. Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which resisted returning to school in person over concerns about the availability of vaccines and poor ventilation in school buildings. Philadelphia schools waited to partially reopen until the spring of 2021 , a decision Mr. Jordan believes saved lives.

“It doesn’t matter what is going on in the building and how much people are learning if people are getting the virus and running the potential of dying,” he said.

Pandemic school closures offer lessons for the future.

Though the next health crisis may have different particulars, with different risk calculations, the consequences of closing schools are now well established, experts say.

In the future, infectious disease experts said, they hoped decisions would be guided more by epidemiological data as it emerged, taking into account the trade-offs.

“Could we have used data to better guide our decision making? Yes,” said Dr. Uzma N. Hasan, division chief of pediatric infectious diseases at RWJBarnabas Health in Livingston, N.J. “Fear should not guide our decision making.”

Source: Fahle, Kane, Patterson, Reardon, Staiger and Stuart, “ School District and Community Factors Associated With Learning Loss During the Covid-19 Pandemic. ”

The study used estimates of learning loss from the Stanford Education Data Archive . For closure lengths, the study averaged district-level estimates of time spent in remote and hybrid learning compiled by the Covid-19 School Data Hub (C.S.D.H.) and American Enterprise Institute (A.E.I.) . The A.E.I. data defines remote status by whether there was an in-person or hybrid option, even if some students chose to remain virtual. In the C.S.D.H. data set, districts are defined as remote if “all or most” students were virtual.

An earlier version of this article misstated a job description of Dr. Jeanne Noble. She directed the Covid response at the U.C.S.F. Parnassus emergency department. She did not direct the Covid response for the University of California, San Francisco health system.

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Sarah Mervosh covers education for The Times, focusing on K-12 schools. More about Sarah Mervosh

Claire Cain Miller writes about gender, families and the future of work for The Upshot. She joined The Times in 2008 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. More about Claire Cain Miller

Francesca Paris is a Times reporter working with data and graphics for The Upshot. More about Francesca Paris

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Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services Encourages Consumers to Read Their Insurance Policies and Shop Around During Reading Month

March 25, 2024

Media Contact: Laura Hall , 517-290-3779, [email protected] Consumer Hotline: 877-999-6442, Michigan.gov/DIFScomplaints

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2024

(LANSING, MICH) March is Reading Month, and the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) is encouraging Michiganders to carefully review and understand their existing auto and home insurance policies and to shop around to ensure they have the coverage that best meets their families’ needs and budgets.

“Insurance rates are highly individualized and can vary from insurer to insurer, so shopping around is the best way to save and ensure that you have the right coverage for yourself, your family, and your budget situation,” said DIFS Director Anita Fox . “We encourage Michiganders to read their existing insurance policies, shop around for savings, and to talk to an insurance company or licensed agent about how to get the coverage they need. If you have questions about your policies that you cannot resolve with your insurance company or agent, contact DIFS Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 877-999-6442.”

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Despite bans in some states, more than a million abortions were provided in 2023

Selena Simmons-Duffin

More than a million abortions were provided in the U.S. in 2023. That's a major finding from a report published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports access to abortion.

To be precise, researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023. "That's the highest number in over a decade, [and] the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S. formal health care system since 2012," explains Isaac Maddow-Zimet , a data scientist with Guttmacher.

The Guttmacher report also found that medication abortions rose to 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 53% in 2020. The research was conducted by surveying all in-person and virtual abortion providers in the country and adding up their abortion counts. Guttmacher has been doing this research since 1974.

The findings do not surprise Dr. Anitra Beasley , an OB-GYN and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who was not involved in the study. She says the trend was suggested by earlier research – and in fact she thinks the true number is even higher than what was measured in the report.

"This is probably an undercount because they are not looking at abortions that happen outside of the formal health care system," she explains. Uncounted abortions include those that happen when someone gets abortion medication from a friend or over-the-counter at a pharmacy in Mexico, for example.

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She says those "self-managed" abortions are certainly happening, but it's extremely hard to measure them in national counts.

The fact that the number of abortions continues to rise may be counterintuitive given the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Access to abortion has been severely restricted in more than a dozen states since the last time Guttmacher published a comprehensive national count. In 2020, Guttmacher reported that there were 930,160 abortions in the U.S.

The share of abortions that are performed with medication alone (a combination of mifepristone and misoprosotol) increased between 2020 and 2023. Rachel Woolf/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption

The share of abortions that are performed with medication alone (a combination of mifepristone and misoprosotol) increased between 2020 and 2023.

"Certainly the increase in availability of medication abortion through telemedicine is a big part of this story – that's something that really wasn't largely available in much of 2020 and is much more available now," Maddow-Zimet says. "But we also saw increases in the proportion of abortions provided through medication abortion at brick-and-mortar facilities as well."

Under current FDA prescribing rules, medication can be used to end a pregnancy until 10 weeks of pregnancy, and it can be prescribed through a virtual appointment without affecting the medication's safety or efficacy.

Those rules are the focus of another Supreme Court case scheduled to be argued next week. A group of anti-abortion rights plaintiffs will argue that FDA incorrectly decided to simplify access to mifepristone, one of two medicines used in medication abortions. The high court's decision, expected this summer, could upend access to mifepristone for abortion and miscarriage care.

"We don't know what the Supreme Court will decide, and we don't know exactly what the impact will be, except that it will create potentially more of that confusion and difficulty for people both providing care and needing to access care," Maddow-Zimet says.

He adds that although tens of thousands of people living in states where abortion is banned have been able to travel to receive abortions, and clinics and abortion funds have scaled up to meet the demand of traveling patients, it's unclear if that can continue long term.

Beasley agrees. "It's really important to realize that the increase in abortion access [despite restrictions] is not an accident," she says. "It's a lot of people working really, really, really hard in order to make sure that abortion is still accessible to people who need it. So even though the top line number is higher, it does not mean that access is overall better."

When it comes to the landscape of reproductive health access after the fall of Roe v. Wade , Maddow-Zimet says, "we don't know what normal looks like in this context – policies keep changing, we keep seeing really big changes in access."

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