A consultant health economist sought to assist the TB Monitoring and Evaluation (TME) unit of the Global TB Programme at the World Health Organization, starting January 2020 - March 2020, and the deadline to apply is November 7th, 2019.
 
The link for more details and how to apply can be accessed below. 
https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/99182
 

On 21-22 January 2020, Queen's University Belfast, co-hosted by Imperial College London, are offering a FREE 1.5 day event to bring together economists, statisticians, and R users.
 
The Practical Workshop will begin at 1pm on Tuesday 21st January ending with a dinner at the stunning Riddel Hall in Queen's University Belfast. The Data Dive will begin at 9am on Wednesday 22nd January and end at 5pm.
 
This Practical Workshop and Data Dive will involve small group project work as well as training in related data science skills. 
 
Please note the event is free to attend by participants of all levels of R. There is financial support for travel and over-night accommodation available to those that qualify. 
 
Places are limited - please see further detail and book online at https://n8thangreen.wixsite.com/r-hack-belfast
 
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Dr Felicity Lamrock Lecturer in Data Analytics (Mathematical Science Research Centre QUB)

The 2019 CHaRMS Annual Workshop will take place on Tuesday June 18th at Riddel Hall. The theme of this year's programme is "Health costs of war and trauma", and will feature sessions on conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland, the legacy of war, and long-run effects of adversity. James Smith (RAND) will deliver the keynote talk.

Further details, including the programme and registration, are available here. The conference is free and open to all.

Thursday 7th March 2019, 1200-1300, Newark Room, Lanyon Building
 
Professor Agnes Nairn (Chair of Marketing, School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol)
 
https://www.agnesnairn.co.uk/

“Everybody Wants to Change the World!”

We want our research to make a difference but working out how to do this isn’t always easy.  Balancing the theoretical demands of journals with the practical demands of governments, charities, businesses and policy advocates can be tricky and frustrating.  In her talk, Agnes Nairn will discuss some of the multi-stakeholder projects she’s got herself involved with in various countries and will share some of things she’s learned (often the hard way) about trying to do the kind of research we hope might just make things a bit better for some.

"Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Child Mortality: Pooled Evidence from 43 Low- and Middle-Income Countries"
 
All welcome, but you are asked to email m.mcgovern@qub.ac.uk if you would like to register as places may be limited. Tea/coffee and lunch will be served, please advise if you are attending and have any dietary restrictions.

The abstract is below.

January 10th 2019, 1300-1430, Lecture Theatre, Riddel Hall
 
Abstract
 
Many low- and middle-income countries are experiencing high and increasing ambient fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5). The effect of PM2.5 on mortality is usually modelled using concentration response curves extrapolated from studies conducted in settings with low ambient air pollution. We directly estimate the association between child mortality and exposure to PM2.5, both overall and by PM2.5 source. We pool data of over 500 000 children from 69 nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys that were conducted in 43 low- and middle-income countries between 1998 and 2014, and we calculate in-utero exposure to ambient PM2.5 using high resolution satellite data that is matched to the child’s place of residence. We estimate the association between early childhood PM2.5 exposure and the odds of child mortality, adjusting for child level, parent-level, and household-level characteristics. We find that exposure in utero an the first month of life to overall PM2.5 above 12.3 µg/m³ is associated with a higher odds of child mortality, particularly neonatal mortality. Exposure to dust and sea-salt has little effect, while exposure to other (mainly anthropogenic, carbonaceous) particulates is associated with increased odds of neonatal mortality even at levels as low as 3.4 µg/m, with exposure above the median level raising the odds of neonatal mortality by over one third. While our results are consistent with the current World Health Organization guideline of limiting the overall ambient PM2.5 level at less than 10 µg/m³, they suggest the need for a much lower limit for harmful, carbonaceous PM2.5.

Registration and further details here. There will be sessions on employment, population studies, and health and wellbeing, with a keynote from Professor Liam Delaney on "Self-Control, Health, & Public Policy". 

CHaRMS Working Paper 18/01:

S. Rokicki, J. Cohen, G. Fink, J. Salomon,  M. B. Landrum "Inference with difference-in-differences with a small number of groups"

https://ideas.repec.org/p/qub/charms/1801.html

Published Version

Professor Carol Newman (TCD), 1430-1600, BDO Library, Riddel Hall

"So fresh and so clean: urban community engagement to improve the sustainability of drainage infrastructure"

Abstract

Schedule and registration details here:

http://www.qucharms.co.uk/events.html

Available here: http://www.qucharms.co.uk/annual-workshop.html