Applications open for 2019 mHealth Training Institute @UCLA

Applications are now being accepted for the 2019 mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles from July 28 – August 2, 2019. The week-long, immersion program blends “deep dives” into the latest mHealth methodologies with team-science projects to provide the selected scholars with the transdisciplinary competencies and collaborations required to tackle “wicked” healthcare problems.

MD2K publishes novel ways to monitor conversation and TV watching

Researchers at the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) recently published two papers that showcase new capabilities of wearable sensors to automatically monitor conversation and TV watching. Both of these are frequent daily behaviors that have a major impact on social well-being and physical and mental health.

rConverse: Moment by Moment Conversation Detection Using a Mobile Respiration Sensor (citation below) presented a new way for researchers to passively monitor speaking and listening states in a conversation by analyzing breathing patterns captured by a wearable respiration sensor. Researchers showed that they can detect conversation with a similar accuracy as that from widely used audio recordings.

Submissions open for Remote Pregnancy Monitoring Challenge

The Remote Pregnancy Monitoring Challenge will award $375,000 in prizes to support the creation of ways to help prenatal care providers remotely monitor the health and wellbeing of pregnant women. Submissions are due by 5 p.m. ET on November 27, 2018. The challenge is sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health  Bureau of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.

Many low-income women in both rural and urban areas have difficulty accessing prenatal care, and these barriers can continue after childbirth. A variety of issues can make it difficult for pregnant women to attend prenatal and postpart care appointments. 

Stanford search for new research faculty member

The Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University seeks research faculty to join the Center as Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor in the University Tenure Line (UTL) or the Medical Center line (MCL). We are seeking dynamic individuals to bring intellectual leadership and rigorous scholarship within the Center’s research focus.

The Center’s focus is the discovery of scalable methods of high-quality healthcare delivery that lower population-wide health spending. Please visit CERC’s website for further background. We especially encourage candidates who examine how information technology tools enable higher-value care at scale via applications such as decision support, workflow support, information exchange, and emerging forms of artificial intelligence.

U of Washington seeks postdoctoral fellow in clinical psychology

The Mobile Health (mHealth) for Mental Health Program (www.mh4mh.org) at the University Of Washington in Seattle is seeking applicants for a full-time postdoctoral clinical psychology fellowship. The program is affiliated with UW’s Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRITE) Center within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Program director Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev will be the primary mentor for this position. The postdoctoral fellow will dedicate approximately half of their time to the development of an independent program of research within the area of mHealth for mental health. Specific activities may involve a combination of pilot studies, secondary data analysis, manuscript preparation, drafting and submitting new grant proposals, as well supporting and participating in ongoing mH4MH research activities.

Postdoctoral scholar in biostatistics sought at UCSD

The University of California at San Diego has an opening for a postdoctoral research scholar in biostatistics. The research fellow will work on the development and application of statistical methods for high dimensional data. These involve 'omics data as well as time-series sensor data as obtained from accelerometers, actigraphs or GPS devices.

Candidates with methodological research interests in 'omics prognostic and network modeling, functional and spatial data analysis, and multivariate longtitudinal data are sought. Scientific areas include physical activity and sleep studies, intervention trials, metabolomics and kidney disease, and public health.