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*New* Share Your Story: Federal Grant Terminations and Data Restrictions

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. If you have questions, please contact Mary Jo Mitchell, PAA/APC Government Affairs Director.

 

*New* Survey on Federal Data Use and Repositories

Recently, the Office of Research sponsored a panel and discussion on the challenges surrounding the loss of data, including data that is removed from publicly available sites, national surveys that are canceled, and standard survey measures or data changed for non-scientific reasons. In addition, the UW Libraries has been actively engaged in helping researchers find and preserve data. This survey, created jointly by the UW Faculty Council on Research (FCR), the UW Libraries, and the Office of Research, seeks to learn more about your research needs in this domain of concerns and challenges. FCR, the Office of Research, and the UW Libraries will summarize the results from this survey over the summer and present to the Faculty Senate in AUT 2025. We will use the survey results to inform efforts to safeguard data needed for research and to educate the UW community on alternative locations for accessing and securely storing data.

Data Resource: Dewey Data

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.

CSDE’s Summer Schedule – E-News, Summer Grant Writing Workshop, and Planning

Summer has launched at CSDE. E-News moves to a biweekly schedule.  Please continue sending your news items to csde@uw.edu.  We’ll look forward to hearing from you!

 Steve Goodreau is leading CSDE’s 2025 Summer Grant Writing Workshop with the largest cohort of participants to date!  

 The CSDE team will be spending the summer cleaning house and planning for next year. We’ll be sending invitations to you and outside speakers to deliver a talk during our seminar series.  If you’d like to speak or have an idea for an outside speaker, please send your ideas to Professor Rawan Arar (arar@uw.edu).  We’d love to hear from you!  We welcome thematic panels, speakers that address research around our research themes (migration, mortality, population growth, population and environment, fertility, settlements and housing, health disparities, and population health), and ideas that would bring multiple groups together from across the three campuses.

The rest of CSDE will be working on updating our websites, lists, preparing reports, and planning for next year!  It’ll be a busy summer.

Last but not least, please join me in thanking Will von Geldern (the person behind csde@uw.edu) for his 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.  

Sharygin, Shah and Co-Authors Conceptualize Hazard Gentrification in New Report

In response to hazards and disasters in some locations, inhabitants are replaced by wealthier residents in a distinct form of gentrification. In a recent report published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, a team of scholars including CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Sharygin (Portland State University) and Affiliate Sameer Shah (Environmental and Forest Sciences) define this phenomenon as “hazard gentrification” and discuss the implications and trade-offs for municipalities, environmental sustainability, and housing equity. This project was partially supported by the CSDE Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research infrastructure grant (P2C HD042828) and originated through the 2024 D4 Hack Week: Disasters, Demography, Disparities, and Decisions workshop supported by CSDE, the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES), and the UW eScience Institute. Read the report here.

*New* ​Call for Manuscripts – Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work Social Work at the Intersection of Physical and Behavioral Health: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions (6/15/25)

Social Work at the Intersection of Physical and Behavioral Health: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions

The integration of mental and physical healthcare is a critical priority for improving health and wellness outcomes. Amid persistent and long-standing gaps in the U.S. health and social care systems, the need for programs and policies supporting this integration are urgent. Addressing these challenges requires innovative approaches in program design, policy development, care delivery, and practice methods that embrace holistic, person-centered models of health and wellness. Social work research is uniquely positioned to lead this conversation, identifying barriers, exploring solutions, and informing policy to advance integrated care. This special issue seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners to share cutting-edge research and practice insights at the intersection of physical and behavioral health. We aim to foster a deeper understanding of how integrated care can evolve to meet the needs of diverse populations and sociopolitical contexts.

Key questions for consideration include: What systemic and organizational barriers hinder the advancement of integrated physical and behavioral healthcare programs and policies? How can social workers address social determinants of health to improve outcomes in integrated care systems? What does the future of integrated care look like, particularly considering current sociopolitical challenges and their impact on marginalized communities?

Learn more here.