We are thrilled to announce that SN&H ’25 will be live and in-person this year from May 13-16 on Duke’s campus in Durham NC and we are now accepting applications for SN&H ’25 Fellowships. (General registration site will be announced shortly).
The NICHD Sponsored Social Networks and Health methods workshop is a week-long workshop aimed at introducing attendees to topics in social network analysis and how they can be applied to research on health and health policy. We alternate foundational and advanced topics annually; this is an “advanced topics” year, so we assume basic knowledge of networks and network methods. The advanced workshop is intended to push the boundaries of what we know and how we do network analysis in support of health research. As such, we leave a lot of time open for questions, discussions & substantive break-outs.
The workshop topics include:
- Network data collection
- Large-scale implementations
- Respondent-driven sampling (RDS)
- Ego-network data collection methods
- Ethical/IRB considerations for network data collection
- Network interventions
- Design & effectiveness considerations
- Experiments
- Diffusion models
- Disease diffusion models
- Peer influence
- Statistical modeling of networks
- Exponential random graph models (ERGM)
- Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models (SAOM, or Siena models)
- Simulations
- Network measures and description
- Community detection
- Block Models
- Network Visualization & publication/review
- And more!
Thanks to generous support from the NICHD and DNAC, we offer this training at significantly subsidized cost; registration is $100 for the week and covers lunch & coffee each day. We will send information for general registration shortly.
We have funding to cover a limited number “SN&H Fellows.” Fellowships cover the full cost of attending the workshop, including registration, travel to/from the workshop, and hotel stay for the week. In addition, pending funding continuation, we provide support for Fellows throughout the year to help guide research projects, including limited support for additional training and working with mentors.
To apply for a fellowship, please send a CV along with a short (~1 page) summary of your research project and why the workshop would be valuable by email to jmoody77@duke.edu with the subject line “SN&H 25 Fellowship” by April 4. Priority will be given to junior scholars (graduate students, post-docs, and assistant professors) and those with NIH-supported training grants (K-awards and similar), our funding source limits us to funding only US Citizens and domestic travel.
For those interested in online guided tutorials, please check out our catalog of free training videos on the DNAC training site.