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CSDE Research Affiliate

Sara Curran

Professor, International Studies; Professor, Public Policy & Governance; Director, CSDE
University of Washington
Tel: 206-543-6479
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CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Chair and Training Committee Member

CSDE Research Areas:

  • Demographic Measurements and Methods
  • Environments and Populations
  • Health of People and Populations
  • Migration and Settlement
  • Wellbeing of Families and Households

In the News:

Sara Curran is director of the UW’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology.  Recently, Sara was selected to join the Executive Council of UW President Ana Mari Cauce’s new Population Health Initiative.  This exciting endeavor provides an outstanding opportunity to amplify UW’s substantial health research, training, and applications across the entire campus on behalf of local and global healthy outcomes. She investigates how social contexts, social categories and social structures of power and hierarchies shape human behavior and how human behavior and human interactions reshape social contexts, social categories and social structures.  Sara focus these general investigations around migration, gender, family, demographics and ecological well-being in developing country settings, primarily in Southeast Asia and the U.S.  Her methodological approaches include quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, and program evaluation.