We are very proud to announce CSDE Affiliate Rawan Arar as the Chair of CSDE’s upcoming Seminar Series season! We are filling out the year’s schedule and drawing upon your suggestions and ideas. If you would like to present during our Friday seminar from 12:30-1:30pm, we’d love to hear from you. If you have an idea for an outside speaker, a panel of speakers discussing different dimensions of research on a topic, or an author-meets-critic book event, don't hesitate to reach out. Our seminar is a vital and exiciting opportunity to learn about the latest in population-related research and to share research ideas with each other. 

Rawan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California San Diego. Her research program begins with the refugee as a central figure of analysis. Refugee displacement is the manifestation of the breakdown of borders and citizenship rights while refugee status, as a legal construct, is delimited by the principle of sovereignty. Refugees' lives and life chances are inextricably tied to national and global policies, which create or impede access to basic needs, education, rights, and mobility. 

There are still speaking slots available for this upcoming season! If you want to share your research with a thoughtful community of scholars, don't hesitate to reach out to Rawan (arar@uw.edu) - we would love to showcase your work!

CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates.

Tsu-Hsin Karen Chen joins CSDE and the College of Built Environments from a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. Alison Fohner joins CSDE and the Department of Epidemiology with a specialization in biomarker research and a K01 award from NIA. Kristian Jones joins CSDE and the School of Social Work with a specialization in black youth well being and the role of community-based youth mentoring programs in improving marginalized youth outcomes. Julianne Meisner joins CSDE and the School of Public Health with research that examines the human health risks at the human-animal-environmental interface.

CSDE Affiliate Rawan Arar recently published an article in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies entitled “Contrasting Trajectories of Incorporation: Refugee Integration and the Global South” which examines how the challenges of making a home in a foreign country are not unique to refugees in the Global South, their trajectories of integration in Southern host states often diverge from descriptions in the canonical literature on immigrant integration. 

CSDE External Affiliates Amy Bailey and Ryan Gabriel, along with Co-authors, have published a new article in Demography examining the relationship between the lynching of African Americans in the southern United States and subsequent county out-migration of the victims’ surviving family members across 5 decades. In the article entitled, “The Migration of Lynch Victims’ Families, 1880–1930”, they use U.S. census records and machine learning methods to identify the place of residence for family members of Black individuals who were killed by lynch mobs between 1882 and 1929 in the U.S.

CSDE staff Jessica Godwin and Tiffany Pan, along with Co-authors, recently released new research in Child Abuse & Neglect entitled “Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment and Physiological Dysregulation in Adulthood: Methodological Decisions and Implications”. Using multiple dimension reduction approaches to quantify physiological dysregulation from multiple biomarker outcomes and different measures of exposure to childhood maltreatment, they discover that the significance and magnitude of effects varied by both dimension reduction method and measure of maltreatment.

An Evans School team led by Vance Larsen including CSDE Affiliate Crystal Hall and CSDE Alum Hilary Wething recently authored “Behavioral Consequences of Income and Expense Shocks” in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. The paper explores the behavioral consequences of income and expense shocks, finding that one-time income shocks evoked a larger number of coping strategies and were more difficult to manage than one-time expense shocks.

CSDE Affiliate Yuan Hsiao (Communications) and CSDE alum John Laverso (Whitman College) recently published “The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street: Multiplex Networks of Gang Online-Offline Conflict Dynamics in the Digital Age” in the American Sociological Reviews. The paper takes an abductive approach through integration of Facebook, police records, and maps of gang territory to gain insight on the systematic patterns of conflict, which otherwise might appear to be randomly occurring without such an integrated approach.

CSDE Director Sara Curran, along with co-authors, penned a letter in Science entitled, “Abandoned land: Overestimated potential”. As a response to “Abandoning land transforms biodiversity” (12 May, p. 581), G. N. Daskalova and J. Kamp, they counter that rewilding projects on “abandoned” land are unlikely to succeed without considering landholding status and associated livelihoods. Successfully planning land uses to simultaneously support biodiversity conservation and human livelihoods must start by understanding the social systems and processes that lead to land-use change.

CSDE Affiliate Engi Attia co-authored a recent article in CHEST entitled “What Can Big Data Teach Us About Air Pollution and Pneumonia?” that provides confirmatory evidence that higher pollutant concentrations are associated with an increased risk of pneumonia hospitalization. Although the link between air pollution and lower respiratory tract infections is not a novel finding, most prior epidemiologic studies have focused on short-term pollutant exposures in the days or week before disease manifestation.

Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Social Work, was recently quoted in Everyday Health on “What It’s Like to Come Out as Trans in Your 50s or Later”, penned by Sarah Prager. Using her research on aging in the LGBTQ+ population, Karen aids in shining light as to why there are large generational differences in how long older and younger adults took to start their transitions despite there being no statistical difference between older and young adults when it came to onset of reported gender dysphoria. 

CSDE would love to wish a bittersweet farewell to our outstanding Grants Manager Belinda Sachs who has departed CSDE for a new role in the Department of Psychiatry. Belinda’s attention-to-detail and expertise has been invaluable to CSDE and we can’t express our appreciation enough! As we begin our search for a new Grants Manager to join our team, we’d like to share this job link. Please pass it along to anyone you feel may be the right fit as the expert on grants and contracts administration with substantial responsibility for managing the unit’s grants and contracts program.

Applications are now open for the Fall 2023 round of the UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program.

The “Royalty” in RRF is the royalty and licensing fee income generated by the University’s technology transfer program. These funds are awarded as small grants to advance new directions in research, particularly:

• In disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or
• For faculty who are junior in rank, and/or
• In cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding.

The National Center for Education Research and the National Center for Special Education Research released funding announcements for three fiscal year 2024 grant competitions.

• Application packages became available on July 20, 2023.
• Letters of intent (optional but encouraged) are due August 10, 2023.
• The application deadline is September 21, 2023.

The 2023 IAPHS Conference is fast-approaching. Early bird registration has ended, but you have until 09/26/23 to late-register! The conference theme is “Gender, Sexuality, and Health Across the Life Course: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health and Health Equity” and will take place in Baltimore, Maryland from October 2-5, 2023. For more conference information, click here. Current members of IAPHS receive deeply discounted rates to attend the conference. Click here to learn more about IAPHS membership.

International Migration Review is celebrating a 60th anniversary and inviting submissions that will recognize that accomplishment and scientific impact.

For six decades, International Migration Review (IMR) has been internationally regarded as the principal journal in the field facilitating the study of human migration, ethnic group relations, and refugee movements.

The CO2 Foundation is excited to announce its second funding opportunity: Extreme weather and what to do about it.

As climate change introduces new risks to all sectors at all scales, societal stability faces emergent threats. Social, economic, and cultural stability requires both long-term investment in whole-of-society emissions reduction and short-term effective responses to extreme weather threats.

CSDE Affiliates Nathalie Williams and Sarfraz Khan will be hosting a workshop focused on Migration & Health: Perspectives from South Asia on October 12-13, 2023 on the UW campus (co-sponsored by CSDE and the South Asia Center).

Human migration is a defining issue of our time and is increasingly recognized as a global public health priority. 

If you’d like to keep up with the new ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) and what’s happening in the domain of federal funding for health innovation, here is the link for signing up for their regular newsletter – Vitals. ARPA-H says that Vitals is the one way to stay updated on ARPA-H, learn about opportunities, and to send queries about challenges and solutions.

The Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA have issued an interim rule for federal contracts that prohibits the presence or use of ByteDance applications or services, including the social networking service TikTok, by federal contractors. This interim rule applies to federal contracts awarded or modified on or after June 2, 2023.

The University of Minnesota’s IPUMS team has newly-released health data from two sources. The IPUMS MEPS (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data for Social, Economic, and Health Research) now includes over 70 new variables from the Prescribed Medicines file from 1996 to the present. These variables include information on medication type, drug name, amounts paid per medication fill, and more.