Past Webinars
Description
Learn more about the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS), other research happening at the Institute for Social and Environmental Research – Nepal (ISER-N), and data creation for global and comparative population research. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).
Past webinars in this series
Click the webinars below to watch previously hosted webinars.
Training | September 15, 2021
Intro to the CVFS
This webinar will explain the purpose of the CVFS and give an overview of data collection from study launch to present day.
Training | September 29, 2021
Measures of Mental Health
This webinar will describe the work to create a Nepal-specific Composite International Diagnostic Interview and…
Training | October 13, 2021
Linking CVFS Data
This webinar will give an overview of how to link observations across CVFS files, link individuals to households and…
Training | October 27, 2021
Collecting Migrant Data
This webinar will provide an overview of CVFS design for tracking migrants and innovation in collecting migrant data along…
Training | November 10, 2021
Health Policy Research
The webinar is targeted to doctoral students and junior researchers in development economics/health economics…
Training | December 1, 2021
Genetic Study Design
Training | December 15, 2021
High Impact Topics
This webinar will feature investigators discussing high priority topics for new global population health research..
Training | January 12, 2022
Child Health Data
This webinar will give an overview of previous data collections of child health measures, child health outcomes among…
Training | January 26, 2022
COVID-19 2021 Pilot
This webinar will review the methods and primary findings from the COVID-19 CVFS Pilot Study implemented in the first…
Training | February 9, 2022
Women’s Work History Calendars
This webinar will describe the process of developing the seasonal work history calendars used to study women’s…
Training | February 23, 2022
New Data on the Transition to Adulthood
During the 2021-2022 year CVFS is launching two innovative approaches to measurement of key experiences in the…
Training | March 9, 2022
Polygenic Scores
This webinar will provide an overview of the methodology around the construction of polygenic scores and…
Training | March 23, 2022
Egalitarian Beliefs
This webinar will present a study of how individual egalitarian beliefs about caste and gender correlate with…
Training | April 20, 2022
Migration and School Choice
This webinar will explore findings related to the extent to which a father’s migration abroad influences the school choice and…
Training | May 4, 2022
New Ideas
This webinar will feature students presenting new ideas for research using CVFS data.
Training | May 18, 2022
Maternal Depression
Drawing on multiple CVFS datasets, this research presentation explores the intergenerational link between mental disorders…
Training | September 27, 2023
Parental Mental Health and Children
This webinar describes new CVFS research using the 2016-2018 lifetime mental health history data…
Training | October 25, 2023
Improving Learning
This webinar focuses on the findings from the research project entitled Improving Learning: Developing…
Training | December 6, 2023
Aging in Nepal
The goals of the webinar are to 1) discuss the current needs and challenges in the neuropsychological…
Training | January 24, 2024
Applying Polygenic Scores
This webinar will update the use of polygenic scores in the CVFS. This includes novel techniques of…
Training | February 21, 2024
Young Adult Panel Study
This webinar will introduce CVFS data users to the new young adult panel study. By the time…
Training | March 20, 2024
Linking CVFS Families
This webinar will instruct users on how to use CVFS relationship grids to link family members…
Training | April 10, 2024
Climate Risk Survey
This webinar focuses on preliminary findings from the Climate Risk Perceptions survey…
Training | October 16, 2024
Young Adult Study (YAS)
Join us for the first webinar of the academic year, which will commence with a brief overview of the CVFS…
Training | December 11, 2024
CVFS Migration Data
This webinar will provide an overview of the various migration-related measures across CVFS datasets…
Training | January 15, 2025
Genetics & Demographic Behavior
This webinar will provide an overview of the methods for constructing and analyses of polygenic…
Training | February 12, 2025
Courtship Processes
This webinar will provide an overview of dramatic changes in courtship processes, spouse choice and…
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