Last but not least, please join me in thanking Katherine Cheng (the person behind csde@uw.edu) for her excellent work in preparing and publishing e-News.  Maddie Farris, CSDE’s Program Coordinator, will be taking over for the summer.  This invaluable work wouldn’t be possible without support from the Evans School.  E-News is a resource that many affiliates greatly appreciate and we thank the Evans School for this support.  

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CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley (Epidemiology) and CSDE Affiliate Emily Godfrey (Family Medicine) released research with co-authors in JAMA Network Open, titled “Abortion Provision and Delays to Care in a Clinic Network in Washington State After Dobbs“. The Supreme Court decision Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs) overturned federal protections to abortion care and altered the reproductive health care landscape. Thus far, aggregated state-level data reveal increases in the number of abortions in states where abortion is still legal, but there is limited information on delays to care and changes in the characteristics of people accessing abortion in these states after Dobbs. This study sought to examine changes in abortion provision and delays to care in Washington after Dobbs using an interrupted time series design. Findings reveal more in-state and out-of-state people are receiving abortion care after Dobbs, but are doing so approximately a week later in gestation on average.

Zack W. Almquist, Associate Professor of Sociology and CSDE Training Core PI, was voted to be the chair-elect (Vice Chair) starting in Fall 2024 for the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s Caucus on Homelessness and will assume the role as the Chair for the APHA Caucus on Homelessness in Fall 2025. The APHA Caucus on Homelessness (Est. 1990) is designed to provide a forum for professionals working on homelessness and health issues. The Caucus develops program content that explores various aspects of homelessness, from its causes to health care needs and its impact on families.

CSDE Affiliates Avanti Adhia (Nursing), Michelle Shin (Nursing), and Teresa Ward (Nursing) released an article with colleagues in Nursing Outlook, titled “Experiences of recruitment and retention in academia: A collaborative autoethnography of early-career faculty members of color“. The article was lead-authored by Omeid Heidari (Nursing) and included additional co-authors, Kaboni Gondwe (Nursing) and Daniel Suárez-Baquero (Nursing). Recruitment and retention of diverse faculty in schools of nursing continues to be an important challenge, but little has been written from the perspectives of early-career faculty of color on their decision to join academia and their retention. Authors aimed to understand the perspectives of a cluster hire of early-career faculty of color on their recruitment, mentorship and support received, and resources needed for long-term retention. Findings suggest strategies (e.g., targeted resources, diverse cluster hires, building community) to inform recruitment and retention of early-career faculty of color. 

CSDE Affiliates Gregg Colburn (Real Estate), Author Acolin (Real Estate), and Rebecca Walter (Real Estate) authored new research in Housing and Policy Debate, titled “Subsidy Overlaps in Federal Housing Policy“. There is limited and incomplete empirical evidence that documents the extent of overlap, or layering, between federal housing programs, including supply-side subsidies, such as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), and demand-side rental assistance. Importantly, we know little about how the overlap varies by time, by geography, and in different housing market conditions. This project uses administrative data collected by federal agencies and public housing authorities to describe over time, at the national level, (a) the percentage of rental assistance recipients that reside in LIHTC units, (b) the percentage of LIHTC units that house a tenant who receives rental assistance, and (c) the number of LIHTC developments that include at least one recipient of rental assistance.

CSDE Affiliate Jack DeWaard (The Population Council) co-authored new research in Demography, titled “Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery“. Despite the persistence of relationships between historical racist violence and contemporary Black–White inequality, research indicates, in broad strokes, that the slavery–inequality relationship in the United States has changed over time. Identifying the timing of such change across states can offer insights into the underlying processes that generate Black–White inequality. In this study, authors use integrated nested Laplace approximation models to simultaneously account for spatial and temporal features of panel data for Southern counties during the period spanning 1900 to 2018, in combination with data on the concentration of enslaved people from the 1860 census. 

Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) is accepting applications to its Graduate Certificate Program in Demographic Methods for the Autumn enrollment in the 2024-2025 Trainee Cohort. Students looking to gain demographic skills and population research experience may choose to apply to the Certificate Program, which is the academic pathway at UW to advanced interdisciplinary training in demography and population research. Upon completion, certificate students will receive official recognition of the Demographic Methods certificate on their transcript.

The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at UW’s eScience Institute will be hosting a beta demo of their hands on tutorial: Generative AI Copilot for Scientific Software – a RAG-Based Approach, teaching attendees how to leverage open language models for scientific exploration with diverse input data, both public and private. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 18th from 12:30-4:30pm in rooms 102 and 108 of Kincaid Hall. Learn more on their event page!

The National Center for Education Research released a funding announcement for a fiscal year 2025 grant competition in education research. Letters of intent (optional but encouraged) are due June 27, 2024, and the application deadline is September 12, 2024. This program seeks to expand the understanding of what works for whom, in what context, and why to provide reliable information about how to improve education outcomes for learners at all levels, including early childhood, elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and adult education. Learn more in the full story and on the grants page.

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program is seeking input on new data streams to link within its Researcher Workbench. By linking additional types of data to the already-robust dataset, the program intends to help researchers examine diverse factors that influence health and advance tailored approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The Request for Information will inform the next phase of data linkages curated through the program’s Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data (CLAD). Responses are requested by June 28, 2024. Read the full announcement here.

Population Research Planning Grants (PRPGs) are designed to provide in-kind support and/or funds of up to $25k* to support a wide array of activity types throughout the development of a research project. As part of our mission to complement rather than duplicate other campus opportunities such as the Population Health Initiative seed grants, we will consider funding a variety of activities. See a list of example activities in the full story!  

CSDE Matching Support includes in-kind or monetary support to accompany a submission to other on-campus funding mechanism, such as PHI, EarthLab, or Urban@UW. All projects must have a CSDE affiliate who is UW faculty and is listed as a PI or co-PI, with any number of other collaborators. Note that we require (PRPGs) or strongly suggest (matching funds) contacting either Development Core Director (Steven Goodreau) or CSDE Director (Sara Curran) to discuss possibilities for your specific proposal before submission.