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Mobile health (mHealth) provides unprecedented opportunities to measure dynamic changes in health state and the key physical, biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease risk. In the last decade a significant number of mHealth technologies have been developed and applied to advance health research. They include wearable and mobile sensors for data collection; discovery and validation of novel mHealth biomarkers; software platforms for large-scale participant enrollment and data collection; big data software for data analysis, visualization, and discovery, and mobile apps for self-monitoring and intervention.

An mHealth Technology Showcase will bring together technology developers and health researchers on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The goal for the meeting is to discuss how these communities can work together to improve the specificity, reliability, and validity of health indicators identified from data collected from wearable and mobile sensors, in the context of rapidly evolving and increasingly complex and diverse technologies. It will be held 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. June 4 in the Natcher Auditorium.

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University of Washington seeks research professor

The Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine has an opening for a full-time, 12-month service period appointment, at the Assistant or Associate Professor level without tenure.

The BRiTE Center focuses on the development and implementation of technology-based interventions for mental illness and behavioral health problems. The center emphasizes interdisciplinary team science approaches and proactively partners with technologists, healthcare delivery systems, and technology industry in pursuit of its goals.

Speakers announced for 2018 mHealth Technology Showcase

The speakers for the 2018 mHealth Technology Showcase, slated for June 4 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), include several thought leaders in the field of mobile health (mHealth) research.

The day will begin with a keynote address by William (Bill) Riley, Ph.D., Director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), followed by presentations by:

• Santosh Kumar, Ph.D., director of the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) at the University of Memphis;
• Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS, Director of Clinical Research, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco; 

Young investigators competition is part of ISMB 2018; deadline is 4-5-18

A competition for young investigators associated with the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative will be held in conjunction with the the 26th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2018), to be held July 6-10 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference is sponsored by the International Society for Computational Biology.

ISMB 2018 is expected to include several sessions featuring talks from officials of the National Institutes of Health on biomedical data science, projects under the Big Data-to-Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative and training programs. The conference brings together scientists from computer science, molecular biology, mathematics, statistics and related fields. Its principal focus is on the development and application of advanced computational methods for biological problems.

2018 mHealth Technology Showcase - Call for Applications

Mobile health (mHealth) provides unprecedented opportunities to measure dynamic changes in health state and the key physical, biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease risk. In the last decade, a significant number of mHealth technologies have been developed and applied to advance health research. They include wearable and mobile sensors for data collection; discovery and validation of novel mHealth biomarkers; software platforms for large-scale participant enrollment and data collection; big data software for data analysis, visualization, and discovery, and mobile apps for self-monitoring and intervention.

The mHealth Technology Showcase will bring together technology developers, health researchers, and federal program staff on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

NIH's Bill Riley to keynote 2018 mHealth Technology Showcase

William (Bill) Riley, Ph.D., Director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 mHealth Technology Showcase, which will bring together technology developers, health researchers, and federal program staff on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting will be held 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 4 in the Natcher Auditorium at NIH, with a grant-writing workshop from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

The goal for the meeting is to discuss how the mobile health (mHealth) research community can work together to improve the specificity, reliability, and validity of health indicators extracted from data collected from wearable and mobile sensors, in the context of rapidly evolving and increasingly complex and diverse technologies. 

Penn State seeks director for new Center for Individualized Health Research and Intervention

Pennsylvania State University's College of Health and Human Development is seeking applicants for the position of Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Individualized Health Research and Intervention (CIHRI). 

According to the job posting, the new center will be focused on improving public health by advancing research that leverages new and emerging technologies, methods, and data sources to establish, promote, and sustain health and positive health behaviors through novel data capture and intervention strategies.

Columbia University has opening for postdoctoral research scientist

The department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, New York City has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research scientist.

This opening is sponsored by a couple of NIH funded research projects for analyzing large-scale electronic data, including electronic health records data, public clinical trial data, and PubMed Literature for phenotype knowledge discovery and integration. The ideal applicant is expected to work closely with the principal investigator Dr. Chunhua Weng to develop and disseminate impactful informatics methods and systems through quality publications and open-source software. There will be opportunities to collaborate with open science consortiums such as OHDSI (www.ohdsi.org), eMERGE, and All of Us.

UC-Davis Nursing School seeks faculty member

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis is accepting applications for a full-time academic position at the assistant, associate or full professor rank in the regular series (tenure-track).

In 2017, UC Davis launched the Healthy Aging in the Digital World Institute with a vision to bring person-centered choice through technology and connectedness to older adults and people living with multiple chronic conditions as well as their care partners. The institute will advance health care delivery to include models that support the goals of individuals while also creating better networks of care.

University of Alabama seeks computer engineering faculty

The The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama is seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in the computer engineering focus.

For consideration at the Associate Professor level, applicants must demonstrate a strong external funding record, publication record, and Ph.D. graduation rate commensurate with this level of appointment. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in electrical or computer engineering or a closely related field by the date of appointment and must show the potential to establish a quality research program, collaborate effectively with other faculty, and excel in teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Candidates with the ability to participate, and potentially provide leadership, in the University’s Integrative Center for Athletic and Sport Technology (I-CAST) are particularly sought.

Participants sought for workshop on aging populations in Smart and Connected Communities

Registration is open for "Challenges and Solutions for Involving the Aging Population in Smart and Connected Communities," a workshop to be held April 19-20, at the Hilton Garden Inn at Stony Brook (New York) University.

The workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program, Stony Brook University’s Department of Civil Engineering and School of Social Welfare and will focus on the potential of S&CC to benefit the aging population and anticipated challenges. The goal of the S&CC program is “to accelerate the creation of the scientific and engineering foundations that will enable smart and connected communities to bring about new levels of economic opportunity and growth, safety and security, health and wellness, and overall quality of life."

Webinar to focus on GPS, GIS and Geospatial applications

A webinar on "Recent Developments in GPS, GIS, and geospatial applications in measuring environment as related to health," will be presented 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 30, by Marta Jankowska, Ph.D., of the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California, San Diego.

About the webinar: 
Spatial technologies are playing a key role in research studies aiming to consider contextual and environmental aspects connected with health. A recent development is the combined use of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to better measure patterns of access to and engagement with the environment. These combined technologies give more specific and accurate measurements of access and exposure than the use of GIS alone.

Application process open for 2018 mHealth Training Institute

Applications for the 2018 mHealth Training Institute or mHTI (July 29 – August 3, 2018) at the University of California, Los Angeles) are now being accepted. Building on the success of past mHTIs, the week-long immersion program uses a blended learning environment to provide selected scholars with a core grounding in latest mHealth methodologies and develops their capacity to successfully contribute to team science. Through reflective and active learning guided by faculty mentors, scholars will apply the gained knowledge to developing transdisciplinary mHealth solutions for real-world health problems, while building an interdisciplinary learning community and a dense scientific network.

Applicants sought for senior statistician for USAID project

DevTech is looking for a senior staistician for an upcoming USAID data and information project. Applications for the position are currently being accepted. The purpose of the Analytics, Data, Visualization and Information Services (ADVISE) project is to improve the usage of USAID data and information so that the agency's development outcomes continue to be supported by evidence.

The successful candidate for the position of senior statistician will have the following attributes:

  • Familiarity with regulations, policies, norms, and values surrounding access, privacy, retention, repurposing, and manipulation of digital information. 

NYU seeks candidates with background in statistical machine learning, data mining

New York University is accepting applications for Ph.D. and postdoctoral research positions in the Chunara Lab, a research group focused on developing methods to use unstructured data, like that collected by mobile phones or social media, to better understand population-level health. The lab is headed by Dr. Rumi Chunara, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU.

*Our group's work has impact on critical societal issues that also demand development of novel statistical and computational methodologies," Chunara said. *Our focus is on personally-generated data (e.g. mobile-collected, social media), which offer new opportunities in public health."

University of Memphis seeks computer science faculty

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Memphis is seeking candidates for multiple Assistant Professor positions beginning in Fall 2018. Exceptionally qualified candidates in all areas of computer science are invited while candidates with core expertise in systems, architecture, data science, security & privacy, and software engineering and an interest in emerging and interdisciplinary applications such as smart health, smart cities, smart transportation, smart energy, and CS education are particularly encouraged to apply. Successful candidates are expected to develop externally sponsored research programs, teach both undergraduate and graduate courses and provide academic advising to students at all levels.

UNC-Chapel Hill has openings in its Computer Science Department

The Computer Science Department at the  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring several faculty positions. 

There are several tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the department that will begin in July 2018; a Teaching Assistant Professorship that will also open in July 2018, and a Professor of Practice in software engineering for mobile/web applications that will being in Fall 2018.

Founded by Turing Award winner Fred Brooks, the department has an outstanding research tradition as one of the oldest computer science departments in the country.

3 positions open at Northwestern's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies

Northwestern University's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) has three openings. The center works to develop scientific methods to study Behavioral Intervention Technologies from development to implementation. 

The openings are for a postdoctoral fellow in digital mental health, assistant research professor in digital mental health, and assistant associate professor in eHealth/mHealth.