CSDE recently received news that its T32 Training in Advanced Data Analytics (TADA) application was renewed!  The CSDE Data Science and Demography Training (DSDT) program is a 12-month fellowship for graduate students interested in pursuing a population research career or population health research career that applies advanced data science analytics.  The program description is attached for your reference or more information is available here.  The fellowship program will begin September 16, 2025 and is available to U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.

Please share widely and encourage your students to apply.

Last month, the Washington State Academy of Sciences announced 36 new elected members in recognition of their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement and willingness to assist the Academy in providing the best available scientific information and technical understanding to inform complex policy decisions in Washington. CSDE UW Affiliates Cynthia Chen (Civil & Environmental Engineering) and Donald Chi (Health Systems and Population Health) and CSDE External Affiliate Butch de Castro (Seattle University) are three out of the 36 individuals who were elected to WSAS. Dr. Chen was elected for pioneering work in human mobility analysis and infrastructure resilience, which have transformed transportation systems in terms of both demand and supply, and shaped the future directions of transportation systems research on community-based solutions and disaster resilience. Dr. Chi was elected for leadership in understanding and addressing children’s oral health inequities through community-based sociobehavioral interventions and evidence-based policies. Dr. de Castro was elected for contributions to health research addressing workplace conditions, culture, race, and structural inequalities, advancing understanding and solutions for health disparities. The WSAS also announced the election of six WSAS members for new terms on its Board of Directors, which included new board member and CSDE UW Affiliate David Takeuchi (Social Work). Dr. Takeuchi, who was elected to WSAS in 2012, is a sociologist who has written extensively on issues related to health disparities in society. Dr. Takeuchi has received numerous honors and awards over the years, which can be viewed here. To view the other 33 new WSAS elected members and the 5 other WSAS members on the Board of Directors, visit the links.

Each summer, CSDE and the Population Health Initiative collaborate with CSDE External Affiliate Rebeccah Maskin (King County Demographer) to offer the interdisciplinary Applied Research Fellowship Program for UW undergraduates and graduate students. This summer, the Applied Research Fellowship team is working with stakeholders at King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks to assess accessibility of parks in urban unincorporated areas.  

The team, led by CSDE Research Scientist Jessica Godwin includes 3 graduate students and 2 undergraduates: 

• Xinyuan Hao (MPH student, Epidemiology),  
• Mark Nepf (PhD student, Evans School and CSDE Trainee),  
• Annie Xu (PhD student, Psychology), 
• Sarah Desai (Anthropology, Environmental Studies), and 
• Nupur Gorkar (Human Centered Design & Engineering). 

They will present their findings to King County stakeholders this Friday, August 15 from 10:30am-12:00pm. The presentation will be hybrid with in-person activities in Hans Rosling Center Room 101 and online attendance on Zoom.

Last week, CSDE Affiliate David Takeuchi (Social Work) participated in a panel as a moderator titled “State of the Sociological Union” at the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2025 Annual Meeting on August 8th. The plenary featured sociologists from a variety of different organizations and positions—nonprofits, teaching track, liberal arts college, and working in and outside of academia—to consider the broad state of the discipline. What are the biggest challenges and issues facing sociologists today? Where do they find unity, and where is there dissent? What does the future hold for the sociology field? 

CSDE Affiliate Kris Pui Kwan Ma (Family Medicine) recently published a research article in PLOS One titled, “Participant engagement in a national longitudinal study of COVID-19: Insights from the INSPIRE study.” In this article, Dr. Ma and co-authors detail how public and patient engagement is an important practice in public health research that helps inform interventions and policies to improve people’s lives, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of Long COVID have presented both challenges and opportunities for strengthening participant engagement in research. The objective of this research article is to examine participants’ motivations and their experiences throughout a decentralized, longitudinal COVID-19 study in the U.S. To read more about Dr. Ma and her co-authors’ findings and results, visit this link.

CSDE External Affiliate Arni Rao recently published an article in Taylor and Francis’ Mathematical Population Studies journal titled, “Geometrical constructions and analysis in population cohorts.” In this article, fundamental results on the formation of population capture cohorts using analysis, probability, and geometric arguments are derived. Dr. Rao introduces original ideas by connecting the geometry of paths of cohort formations with methods of data analysis, probability, and mathematical analysis. One of the reviewers of the article commented, “this seminal paper presents a novel geometric perspective on cohort formation, where the latter is defined in its strict demographic sense. The examples are elegant, as are the derivations and proofs.” To read the full article, visit this link.

CSDE Director Sara Curran was recently quoted in a KNKX NPR article titled, “It’s not just you: What data shows about Seattle’s transplants.” Over the past decade, the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro population has grown by almost 11% due to tech job growth, outdoor access, and other draws that have pulled in waves of movers to the Seattle area. According to Census Bureau data, transplants now take up a higher share of the Seattle metro area than Washington locals, with 40% of King County residents being born in Washington state and Snohomish and Pierce counties are at about 50/50. Seattle is also among the fastest growing metros for international migration. Dr. Curran is quoted discussing migration research relating to how Asia drives international migration to the Puget Sound area. To read the full article and view the data, visit this link.

CSDE recently received news that its T32 Training in Advanced Data Analytics (TADA) application was renewed!  The CSDE Data Science and Demography Training (DSDT) program is a 12-month fellowship for graduate students interested in pursuing a population research career or population health research career that applies advanced data science analytics.  The program description is attached for your reference or more information is available here.  The fellowship program will begin September 16, 2025 and is available to U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.

Please share widely and encourage your students to apply.

Dewey Data is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including foot traffic, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation.

University of Washington faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and must register an individual account. Follow this link to learn about how to register.

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on the intersections of climate, health, and equity. The May 2026 issue will feature approximately 20 peer-reviewed articles, including new empirical research, analyses, perspectives from community leaders, and policy proposals for multi-scalar responses to climate threats. They invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration for this issue. Deadline: August 11, 2025

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Date & Time: August 14, 2025, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Location: Wright Auditorium, Seattle Children’s Hospital and via Webex

Abstract: This UW Pediatrics Grand Rounds event will feature Dr. Deb Hendrickson, author of The Air They Breathe.  Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about how climate change and wildfire smoke impact children’s health and participate in a meet and greet reception with Hendrickson.

The deadline to submit to the Fall Data Science and AI Accelerator is now extended to August 14th. This program pairs eScience Institute data scientists with researchers from any field of study to work on focused, collaborative projects. Collaborations may center on analysis of an existing dataset to answer a specific research question, an implementation of software for processing or analyzing data, data visualization tools, or tools for data interpretation. We strongly recommend that anyone planning to submit a proposal for an Accelerator consult with one of our Data Scientists during their Office Hours for guidance and also check out the Accelerator FAQs on our website. Learn more here.

Ready to contribute to global climate action? UN Climate Change is looking for passionate experts to fill 12 open positions! Join their diverse team from over 90 countries to accelerate progress on the Paris Agreement and support governments and communities in creating a more sustainable, climate-resilient future.

Deadlines: ranging from August 3, 2025 – August 18, 2025

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2025 Immigrant Integration Convening

September 14, 2025 01:00 PM (ET) – September 16, 2025 01:00 PM (ET)

Supporting Migrants and Refugees: Finding Hope in a Time of Peril

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) and Fordham University will host the 2025 Immigrant Integration Convening, Supporting Migrants and Refugees: Finding Hope in a Time of Peril. The 3 day convening will focus on the immigration challenges of today and how the Catholic community can support migrants and refugees to advance human dignity and the common good. Attendees will include Catholic policy experts, advocates, service providers, parishes, students, and others.

Register for tickets here

CSDE and its partners at CUNY, CU Boulder, El Collegio, and University of Minnesota, invites you to participate and contribute.  Here are two new data updates:

• Code linking SHELDUS with ACS Data
• Analysis Using the Household Pulse Survey – Disaster Displacement
• Add your code to others’ code or explore more….

The CACHE team would like to hear about what you are reading… submit a post here or see posts about what others are reading.

There are many more resources on the CACHE website including links to research matchmaking, workshop recordings, employment opportunities, grant opportunities and much more.

Pipeline Grants Competition

Organization: Russell Sage Foundation

Award amount: $50,000

Deadline: 10/1/2025

Description: This initiative will support early-career scholars and promote diversity in the social sciences, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Pipeline grantees are paired with mentors who offer advice on their projects and career development. The competition funds innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. We are particularly interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. Early-career faculty who have not previously received research grants (not counting a dissertation grant) or a visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply.

Berlin Demography Days 2025: Demography and Democracy

Save the date: 27 and 28 October 2025

The electoral successes of anti-democratic movements cannot be explained solely by the demographic or socio-economic characteristics of individual groups. More decisive are local perceptions of problems and narratives of loss in the context of demographic change. These manifest in a perceived political overload, blame and the supposed failure of ‘established’ politics.

Together with experts from academia, political foundations, and governments, we analyse these demographic trends and discuss practical solutions at the regional and local level.

Register here

The purpose of this Notice is to highlight interest in addressing the role of violence in health outcomes and integrating violence-related screening and interventions into health care settings. This Notice is to encourage intervention research focused on addressing exposure to violence – including but not limited to child maltreatment, intimate partner violence/teen dating violence, elder mistreatment, peer violence/bullying, and community violence – to improve individual-level health processes and outcomes. Read more here.

Discover Global Society (Springer Nature) is currently welcoming submissions of original research to the “The Permutations of “Caring”: On the Individual, Family, and Societies” Collection, Guest Edited by Prof. JosAnn Cutajar (University of Malta, Malta).

Discover Global Society was launched by Springer Nature in 2023 and indexed in SCOPUS (CiteScore 0.4 [2024]). Discover Global Society is a fully open-access journal, which means that its contents are freely available and can be used by a world audience.

If you are interested in preparing a manuscript for consideration at Discover Global Society as part of this Collection, submissions will be welcomed at any point up until 31 December 2025, but if you are unable to submit a manuscript before this date, please let us know as we may be able to be flexible. To submit your manuscript for consideration at Discover Global Society as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page.

Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles.

The Population Association of America (PAA) has updated the form used to collect details, on an ongoing basis, from members who have been adversely affected by actions taken by the Administration, including federal grant terminations and data restrictions. The revised form provides guidance and encourages individuals to share their stories, which will be featured in a regular newsletter designed to educate policymakers and the public about the consequences of these federal actions.

Please feel free to share this form with your colleagues.

The challenges of data access during federal administrative transitions can happen every four years. What follows are some resources that might be useful. We will continue to update this blog post with new information. If you have any links that could be helpful, please send csde@uw.edu your updated and helpful information. We know that what follows may not provide you with the exact data you need, so let us know what you need and what’s missing and we can try to find where it is located.

The research community is facing a period of rapid change and uncertainty in the federal funding landscape. The university is closely monitoring changes and their potential impacts to the UW research enterprise. Information on the Office of Research’s Guidance on Federal Administration Research Policy page is updated frequently. If you are a researcher and interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to PI Federal communications (you’ll need UWNETID). The Provost’s office is also maintaining a site for all Federal Policy Updates.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers, and through them can offer you or your colleagues the opportunity to have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, APC and PRB may be able to help. To learn how, visit their website and take a look at recent research policy briefs.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers and through them can offer you and your colleagues access to their preprint publishing platform. Research Scientists, Postdoctoral affiliates and faculty are invited to submit to the APCA Working Paper Series which gathers and disseminates original population science research papers. These working papers are authored or coauthored by scholars who are faculty or postdoctoral affiliates of the Association of Population Centers (APC) population centers.

The Bradley Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that honors the principles and example of its namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, by pursuing a mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. The foundation has a rolling proposal process around grants for its Constitutional Order and Informed Citizens initiatives. Projects should have budgets between $25,000 and $200,000.

We invite early career faculty affiliates to join our new mailing list, csde_earlycareer. Among other things, this is the way to find out info about our quarterly Early Career Affiliate happy hours, and you won’t want to miss those! These will be a great way to meet up with other junior scholars in a fun and casual atmosphere over snacks and drinks. Who counts as early career, you ask? Typically we mean folks who are pre-promotion (i.e. assistant professor or equivalent), but we're not strict! Join the list here (Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!)