Following the holiday, we will host Gina Ziervogel, Associate Professor of Environmental and Geographical Science at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Ziervogel will present on a transdisciplinary project undertaken by academics, an NGO and a social movement, aimed at finding a way to integrate community-generated data on the City of Cape Town's water services and infrastructure into the government's Water Strategy.

You can register for the seminar HERE, and check out all the upcoming topics and register for future seminars on our website.

This seminar is co-sponsored with Urban@UW, the Population Health Initiative and the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE).

Throughout the year, CSDE reviews applications from demographers working at other universities, as well as those working in the private and public sectors. These affiliates are keen to engage with CSDE’s scholarly community. As external affiliates they are able to access our computing resources (including data and software) and online seminars or workshops, consults with our scientific staff, and collaborate easily with CSDE’s UW faculty on research projects. Non-UW demographers interested in affiliating with CSDE can click here to apply. This quarter, we welcome five new external affiliates:

• D. Mark Anderson—Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University. Dr. Anderson's fields of study include applied microeconomics, health economics, economic history.
• Michael Esposito—Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Esposito investigates how broad, racialized social systems – and their constituent institutions – are configured in ways that layer privileges on white populations and hazards on BIPOC populations. His research ultimately seeks to understand how these systematically-distributed privileges and penalties arrive on population health.
• Dennis Hogan—Professor Emeritus of Population Studies and Sociology, Brown University. Dr. Hogan served as Director of the Population Studies and Training Center until 2000. He is interested in the life course of American adolescents and the ways opportunities in local environments and resources of parents are converted into successful transitions to adult life.
• Jennifer Laird—Associate Professor of Sociology, City University of New York. Dr. Laird’s research focuses on poverty and inequality. As a quantitative sociologist, Dr. Laird conducts her research using data visualization, modeling, and microsimulation methods. She has published articles that investigate the sources of poverty differences across U.S. states, employment inequality in the public sector, and unemployment among Mexican immigrants.
• Claire Rothschild—Senior Technical Advisor in Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategic Evidence and Learning at Population Services International (PSI). Dr. Rothschild's research interests include sexual and reproductive health, contraceptive dynamics, person-centered quality of care, and reproductive justice.

CSDE External Affiliate Claus Pörtner's recent article has just been released on Demography's website in advance of publication. This research spans four decades of data. Since the advent of prenatal sex-determination technologies in the mid-1980s, India has experienced an increasingly male-biased sex ratio at birth, presumably from sex-selective abortions. Abortions lengthen birth intervals, and this paper shows that, although the overall length of birth intervals increased from 1970 to the mid-2010s, well-educated women with no sons had the most substantial lengthening, as well as the most male-biased sex ratios.

CSDE Affiliate Katarina Guttmannova has recently published two new articles with a number of co-authors in the journals Health Promotion International and Addictive Behaviors. The first article, available in full HERE, examines whether community prevention coalitions in Chile and Colombia perceive reports of risk and protective factors—based on the results of the Communities That Care Youth Survey—to be understandable, valid, useful, and worth disseminating. The second article, available in advance of publication HERE, explores potential prevention targets among young adults who use both alcohol and marijuana.

CSDE Affiliate and Executive Committee Member Ali Rowhani-Rahbar and several co-authors recently published this study in Injury Epidemiology. The paper discusses barriers to recruitment, retention, and intervention delivery in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of patients presenting with firearm injuries to a Level 1 trauma center. This study is one of the first RCTs of a hospital- and community-based intervention provided solely among patients with firearm injuries.

CSDE Trainee Matthew Fowle and CSDE Affiliate Rachel Fyall's research on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income housing security is cited in a recent New York Times article on the impending eviction crisis in many U.S. cities. Fowle and Fyall's report, available in full HERE, uses interview and survey data from low-income tenants to understand the effects of eviction moratoria on housing security.

We want to again highlight several outstanding grant opportunities that may be of particular interest to our public health research community:

• Strengthening Data Science Capacity and the Ecosystem: Enable Data-Centered Public Health Interventions (**now open for applications**)
• Building Malaria Modeling Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Digital Health Services for Pregnant Women to Support Antenatal Risk Stratification in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Innovations in Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing to Detect, Identify, and Characterize Pathogens

If CSDE's teams can be of help with your research planning or an application, please let us know. You can submit your interest and plans to the proposal planning form or contact Steve Goodreau with a request for advice (goodreau@uw.edu).

The week following Thanksgiving, CSDE's Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) will be hosting CSDE Affiliate Abraham Flaxman. Dr. Flaxman will present on a new project he's initiated to build tools for matching individuals in two or more databases. He will talk about the background of this project, it's utility for demographic research, and will open the discussion up to questions and potential directions for this work.

Join this meeting on Wednesday, 12/1/2021, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM PT via THIS Zoom link.

CDWG meets via Zoom; its calendar of events can be found here.