Lead by Dr. José Miguel Cabezas, researchers from CISS (Director Esteban Calvo and professors Álvaro Castillo, Antonia Díaz-Valdés, Teresita Rocha, Sergio Peña and Nicolás Montalva), the team will work on a proyect, which was awarded a grant from the Columbia Global Center, Santiago. The aim of the project is to analize how the poliitcal measures adopted by the chilean gobernment have inlfuenced the evolution of the pandemic. For more details: https://www.diariomayor.cl/investigacion/ciencia/1791-investigacion-centro-ciss-se-adjudica-fondo-para-analizar-la-relacion-entre-politica-y-la-evolucion-de-la-pandemia
Doctor Alvaro Castillo Carniglia and Doctor Esteban Calvo from the Society and Research Center (CISS) — in collaboration with Columbia University at New York and Universidad Católica of Uruguay— Published an article titled "Trends in marijuana use in two Latin‐American countries: an age, period, and cohort study". EThis article was publish in one of the most important jorunals about substance use in the world: Addiction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.15058
Dr. Peña presented about "Climate Change and Threats to Biodiversity: Adverse Effects of Climate Change, Concept, and Prevention of Problems for Solutions on Current Effects on Biodiversity" at the annual online "Climate 2020" conference on March 24.
This past March 12th Dr. Montalva, professor at CISS, gave a presentation titled "The colective property and the comunity: genetics, family and inequality in agricultural comunities located at Norte Chico". This conference was organized by the Antropology Department of the University of Tarapacá in Chile.
Mobility and migration have been associated with positive factors, such as development, increased agency, and improved socioeconomic status, as well as with health consequences, such as infectious disease transmission (e.g., HIV) and mental health problems. However, little research has been done considering more dynamic processes and comprehensive migration and mobility patterns and how they impact vulnerable populations’ health. In my doctoral dissertation, I analyzed if complex migration experiences such as deportation and international travel to engage in sex work were associated with mental health and sexual health status among vulnerable populations at Mexico’s North and South borders. In this talk, I will share some of my dissertation doctoral findings as well as my experience as a researcher at the United States-Mexico and Mexico-Guatemala borders. I will also talk about how such experiences shaped my academic career and the next steps conducting research with migrants in Chile.
This free course is coordinated by Dr. Álvaro Castillo and dictated by Andrés González, Mg. The topics of the course are: installation. advantages and disadvantages of the software, interphase, installation of statistical packages, data importation, types of variables, objects, online resources, descriptive statistic, and data configuration. You will need a personal laptop. Inscription and questions: ciss@umayor.cl
The paper titled "The Consequences of Electoral Reform: Partisan Bias and Coalition Incentives in Chile" authored by Eduardo Aleman (University of Houston), Jose M. Cabezas (Universidad Mayor) and Ernesto F. Calvo (University of Maryland-College Park ), examines the consequences of electoral reform for political parties and constituent representation in Chile’s Congress. The analysis focuses on the bias inherent in the rules, the implications of vote concentration within districts, and the incentives for coalition formation. We argue that prior to the 2015 reform, the largest bias favored the strongest party in the list coming second in the district, whereas after the reform the largest bias favors junior partners within lists. Contrary to the prediction that the reform would eliminate incentives for coalition formation, we show that such motivations are also present under the new rule. However, we also show that the 2015 reform ended up promoting greater fragmentation in Congress, as some of its critics predicted. The paper expands our understanding of open list proportional representation and how incentives and party bias change as district magnitude increases. The Midwest Political Science Association is the largest PS Conference in the US and it´s held in Chicago every April
Research lead by Dr. Esteban Calvo, director of the Society and Health research Center, with regards to the effect of stress on salivary telomere length was awarded a very prestigious award at the Alpine Population Conference on January 21st. The article titled "Stress and salivary telomere length in the second half of life: A comparison of life-course models" was chosen for the "2019 Advances in Life Course Research Young Scholar Award". The authors of this work are as follows: Margaret Willis (Columbia University), Ursula Staudinger (Columbia University), Pam Factor-Litvak (Columbia University) and Esteban Calvo (Columbia University and Universidad Mayor). Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.02.001
Dr. Peña Neira has been ratified as judge in the national competitions of the Phillip C. Jessup Competition in 2020, mantaining this position since 2012 - ad honorem and representing the Society and Health Research Center and the Law school at Universidad Mayor (Chile).
Dr. Peña Neira was awarded the course "Derecho" at the military school Libertador Bernardo O`Higgins, for the next three years. He designed the course and its material
