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Current Research Projects

• UW Beyond High School

• Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Economics
• Network Study on Quality of Education in Latin American and the Caribbean. Case Study of Paraguay
• An Efficacy Study of the Think Time Strategy for Schools

• Mothers and Workers? Women
• Women
• CIHR Team Grant on Reducing Health Disparities among People Working in the Sex Industry
• Do Street-Involved Youth become Street-Involved Adults?
• Adolescent Females, Obesity, and Asthma: An Inflammatory State
• A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing Interdisciplinary Science for HIV Prevention.
• Street Youth's Transitions to Adulthood

• Raising Healthy Children in Bedford, PA
• Reducing Risk and Enhancing Protective Factors in Children
• Longitudinal Study of Exposure to Family Violence
• Social Development and Psychopathology into Adulthood
• Science-based Prevention: Testing Communities That Care
• Long Term Follow-up of Focus on Families
• Substance Use and the Consolidation of Adult Roles

• Urban Systems and Economic Development in China,

• Design and Implementation of MIPopLab DSS Data Management System
• Assessing Uncertainty in Population Projection Models via Bayesian Melding
• Predicting Impacts of Infectious Disease on Structure and Dynamics of Populations
• Design and Implementation of MIPopLab DSS Data Management System
• Partnership for Social Science AIDS Research in South Africa's Era of ART Rollout
• Extending Access to Data from Demographic Surveillance System Sites in Africa.
• Estimating HIV Prevalence in Africa by Applying Bayesian Melding to a Cohort Component Projection Model

• Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Effects
• Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Migration
• Resources and Opportunities for Neighborhood Attainment
• Exploring Micro-level Processes of Environmental Inequality

• Alcohol, Risky Behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
• Ethnicity and Social Network Effects on Teen Drinking
• Partner Interaction and Conflict in Dating, Cohabiting, and Married Couples

• Reciprocal Influences of Family Work and Enployment

• Migration & Social Dynamics - Unpacking The Black Box Of Cumulative Causation
• Comparing Spiritual and Other Forms of Social Capital: Lessons from the Immigrant
• Mapping and Empowering Public Health Networks in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia
• Global Health Fellows Program

• The Mixed-Race Household in Residential Space: Neighborhood Context, Segregation, and Multiracial Identities, 1990-2000

• Transforming the Politics of Place -- GIS - Knowledge Production and Community-Based Organizations in Urban Governance
• Mapping Global Studies into Geography: A Proposal to Improve Learning in the Major

• Overlapping Generations Models of Age-Group Societies and Preston Curve

• Kuril Biocomplexity Project (off campus portion)
• Human and Environmental Dynamics at Cape Krusenstern National Monument

• Psychometric and Genetic Assessments of Substance Use
• Contract to support RFA and course on tobacco related health disparities
• Measurement and Smoking Patterns in National Data

• Mapping and Empowering Public Health Networks in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia

• Tandem Risk: Outcomes for Children of Teen Mothers

• Transmission Behavior across Networks of Newly HIV Infected Southern Californians

• Couple Decisions about Contraception
• Contraceptive Decision Making Among Dating Couples
• Contraceptive Decision Making Among Dating Couples
• The Multidimensional Nature of Consistency of Contraceptive Use

• Working Group on Race, Radicalism, and Labor

• Biodemographic Tools for Investigating Postpartum Amenorrhea

• HIV and STIs in Young Adult Networks
• Modeling HIV and STD in Drug User and Social Networks
• Quantifying HIV Transmission Risk in Sex/Drug Networks
• HIV and STIs in Young Adult Networks
• Emergent Patterns of Urban Landscapes. Biocomplexity Program
• Population Data on Births and Family

• Investigating the Adjustment of Cambodian Deportees

• A Comparative Study of Chinese Local Society in Historical Perspective
• Effects of Migration and industrialization on Health and Families in Panzhihua, China

• Emergence:Co-occurring Depression/Externalizing Problems
• Does Neighborhood Context Matter? Evaluating the Impact of Local Context on Substance Abuse among Youth
• The Middle School to High School Transition Project
• Preventing Suicide Risk Behaviors: Long Term Change

• Explaining Race and Ethnic Inequality in the Transition from High School to College in Washington State: The Impact of I-200 and Beyond
• UW Beyond High School
• Vietnam Demography and Society Research Projects
• Concepts and Measures of Race and Ethnic Identities

• Biodemographic Models of Reproductive Aging (BIMORA)
• Kuril Biocomplexity Project (off campus portion)
• Analyzing Density-Dependent Birth and Death Rates in Rural Bangladesh
• Biodemographic Tools for Investigating Postpartum Amenorrhea
• AOC: International Adoption of Environmentally Friendly Technology in Residential Construction Industries

• A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing Interdisciplinary Science for HIV Prevention.
• Street Youth's Transitions to Adulthood
• University of Victoria Small Internal Grant Support program
• Population change and lifecourse

• Depression in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
• Outcomes of Harborview Medical Center Emergency Department Patients Who Received Brief Interventions for Substance Use Disorders
• Early Combined Intervention after Traumatic Injury
• Brief Intervention in Primary Care for Problem Drug Use and Abuse

• Alcohol, Risky Behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe: Community Intervention to Reduce HV/STD Risk (ZiCHIRe Project)
• Psychosocial Support to HIV/Aids Affected Children in Zimbabwe
• Psychosocial Support to HIV/AIDS Affected Children in Zimbabwe
• Evaluation of an Intervention to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Clinics
• Zimbabwe: Community Intervention to Reduce HIV/STD Risk (ZiCHIRe Project)

• Diversities in Health Disparities: The Impact of Sexual Orientation, Race, Ethnicity, Income, and Age

• Innovation and Entrenchment among Public Housing Authorities: Housing of the Poorest of the Poor in the Pacific Northwest
• White Center and Annexation: Diversity and Representation
• Community Vitality Project

• Marc Lindenberg Center International Mobility Grant

• Visceral Adiposity and Mortality in Japanese Americans

• The Implications of High School Course Availability and Course-Taking for Achievement, Graduation, and Postsecondary Enrollment

• Evolutionary Studies of Marriage and Parenting
• Give and Take: Child Agency in Resource Allocation
• Give and Take: Child Agency in Resource Allocation
• Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
• Population Research Training

• Life Course Trajectories of Substance Use and Crime
• Life Course Trajectories of Substance Use and Crime

• New Faces of Poverty in Ghana
• Washington State Pharmacy Study

• West Coast Poverty Center
• Review of WorkFirst Sanction Policies

• Evaluation of an intervention to increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Clinics
• Survey of Physicians' Practices Regarding Prostate Cancer Screening
• Implement a Follow-up Study of HPV Testing Among Women Undergoing Routine Cervical Screening

• HIV and STIs in Young Adult Networks
• Modeling HIV and STD in Drug User and Social Networks
• Quantifying HIV Transmission Risk in Sex/Drug Networks
• Sexual Networks and HIV: Data, Models and Intervention
• From Local to Global: Frameworks in Global Health
• STD/AIDS Research Training Grant (University of Washington)
• Center for AIDS Research (University of Washington)
• A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing Interdisciplinary Science for HIV Prevention.

• Tandem Risk: Outcomes for Children of Teen Mothers
• Alcohol and Women's Cognitive Mediation of HIV Risk Taking
• Adolescent Challenges and Strengths in HIV Prevention
• Heterosexual Men's Perspectives on Sexual Behavior and Sexual Risk Taking

• Biodemographic Models of Reproductive Aging (BIMORA)
• Pesticide Exposure and Cortisol Increase among Mexican Immigrant Farmworkers: A Biocultural Study
• Biodemographic Tools for Investigating Postpartum Amenorrhea
• Milk consumption and prepubertal hormone levels
• Genetics of Reproductive Senescence
• Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) for Jane Shofer, Biostatistician
• Validation of Molimina by Questionnaire as an Indicator of Ovulation for Population-based Studies

• HIV, Household Behavior and Economic Development
• The Demand for Sex Selective Abortion
• Hurricanes, Hoarding and Replacement: Estimating the Eect of Mortality on Fertility

• Institutionalizing Inequality: Gender, Work and Family in Comparative Perspective

• Reproductive Health Leadership 21
• Effect of Childlessness on the Economic Well-being and Health Status of Elders
• Population Leadership for the 21st Century
• The impacts of tolling on low-income populations in Washington State

• Modeling Uncertainty in Land Use and Transportation Policy Impacts: Statistical Methods, Computational Algorithms, and Stakeholder Interaction
• Bayesian Model Averaging for Prediction Using Gene Expression Data
• Assessing Uncertainty in Population Projection Models via Bayesian Melding
• Modeling Uncertainty in Land Use and Transportation Policy Impacts: Statistical Methods Computational Algoithms and Stakeholder

• Punished by Progressivity: Do High Effective Marginal Tax Rates Trap Low-Income Workers?
• Give and Take: Child Agency in Resource Allocation
• Financial asset-building strategies and the well-being of children and youth in poverty.
• How much does work pay? New data on combined marginal tax rates

• Patterns and Meanings of Condom Use Among Ariaal of Northern Kenya
• Social Epidemiology of Commercial Sex in Northern Kenya: Core Groups and Bridge Populations
• Narrowing the gap between men who have sex with men aware and unaware of their HIV positive status: The need for enhanced prevention for persons with acute infection
• A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing Interdisciplinary Science for HIV Prevention.
• Street Youth's Transitions to Adulthood

• Evaluation of Low Dietary Iron as a Nutritional Adaption to Infectious Disease
• Contingency and Change in the Practice of FGC: Dynamics of Decision Making in the Senegambia
• Women's autonomy and its effect on child health in The Gambia
• An Evolutionary Perspective on Mother-Offspring Vitamin A Transfer
• Evolutionary Perspectives on Mother-Offspring Vitamin A Transfer
• Pilot Work: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mother-Offspring Vitamin A Transfer (PSPGH)
• Phase 2 - Dynamics and Decision Making in Senegambia
• Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mother-Offspring Vitamin A Transfer
• A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing Interdisciplinary Science for HIV Prevention.
• Norms and Norm Shifts: the Case of female genital cutting

• Methodological Training in Agent-Based Models and Evolutionary Game Theory
• Agent Based Models and Evolutionary Game Theory: Analyzing Collective Action and Sociopolitical Inequality in Small-Scale Societies
• The Ecology of Production, Reproduction, and Cooperation Among the Mardu
• IGERT: Model-based approaches to biological and cultural evolution.
• Dissertation Research: Food Sharing in Lamalera Indonesia -- Tests of Adaptive Hypotheses

• Social Norms: Stigma and Tobacco Control
• A Path Toward Fairness: The Consequences of Preferential Association on Behavior in the Ultimatum Game
• Doctoral Dissertation Research: Preferential Association and Allocation Decisions

• Education and Health Among Racial Groups
• Family Research Consortium IV

• Factors Associated with the Variation in Cesarean Rates
• Depression in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
• Sexual Concurrence Patterns in the US

• Stimulating Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research in Population and Health.
• Military Service and Patterns of Marriage, Cohabitation, and Union Dissolution

• UW Beyond High School
• African Americans and Immigrants in Northern Cities: A Long View
• Family Patterns of Southern Migrants to Northern Cities, 1920-1990
• Collaborative Research: Black Migration to the West, 1930-2000
• A New Database for the Study of Southern Lynchings
• Linking Census Records to Study the Great Migration: An exploratory Study

• Integrating Land Use, Transportation and Air Quality Modeling
• Emergent Patterns of Urban Landscapes. Biocomplexity Program
• Modeling Uncertainty in Land Use and Transportation Policy Impacts: Statistical Methods Computational Algoithms and Stakeholder
• Phase IV: Operational Implementation of UrbanSim in the Central Puget Sound
• Discrete Choice Networks -- An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Modeling Dynamic Travel Behavior
• Development of the AZ_SMART land use model system for the Maricopa Association of Governments (Phoenix) and the Pima Association of Governments (Tucson), Phase I

• Impact of Migration on Women in Dual-Earner Families: A Longitudinal and Geographic Assessment of Family Migration Theory

• Study of regional variations in non-marital cohabitation in Canada
• Housing cost-burdens of immigrant families in British Columbia.
• Fertility intentions in Canada
• Population Change and Life Course
• Social support and healthy aging among the oldest old