When: Friday, May 2, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

1-on-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)

We are looking forward to hosting Christy Erving from National Taiwan University on Friday, May 2 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

Recently, scholars have attempted to bring voice to Black women’s interpersonal experiences with gendered racism by developing measures that capture their intersectional oppression. Missing from this small, but growing, literature is the nuance of life course dynamics which suggest that Black women’s gendered-racialized discriminatory encounters could differ in content and frequency at different points in their life course. Moreover, the strategies Black women employ to cope with gendered racism are potentially differentiated by their age and birth cohort. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this presentation will examine the various strategies Black women deploy to cope with gendered racism and the psychological health impacts of gendered racism across the life course.

Dr. Christy L. Erving is a sociologist and interdisciplinary health equity scholar. She is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology, a faculty associate of the Population Research Center, and an affiliate of the Center for Aging and Population Sciences as well as the Humanities, Health & Medicine Program at the University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Erving’s program of research draws from theories, concepts, and perspectives across various disciplines to clarify and explain distinctions in mental and physical health by race, gender, ethnic, nativity, and socioeconomic status. Her most recent projects investigate the psychosocial determinants of Black women’s health across the life course, spanning early adulthood through later life. Her work integrates sociological theoretical perspectives with insights from other disciplines to ascertain how Black women’s gendered and racialized life experiences both negatively and positively influence psychological and physiological health. She received a B.A. in Sociology and Hispanic Studies at Rice University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, with a minor in Social Science Approaches to Health and Healing Systems. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic may have affected young adults’ use of cannabis and other drugs, more research is needed to precisely estimate these effects. In a recent study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) Focus, Charles Fleming and CSDE Affiliates Griselda Martinez and Katarina Guttmannova (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) and colleagues analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic affected substance use among young adults in Washington State using data collected annually from 2016 to 2021. Cannabis use steadily increased over time, with no major shifts during the pandemic, while the use of alcohol, cigarettes, and nonprescribed pain relievers declined, with cigarette and e-cigarette use dropping more sharply after the pandemic began. These trends suggest that while cannabis use remained resilient, public health measures and risk perceptions during COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to reduced nicotine use. Read the full article here.

More Than Citations: Leveraging Author Profiles & Altmetrics for Greater Engagement

Wednesday, May 14: 1:00-2:00pm on zoom

Understanding your research impact goes beyond traditional citations. In this workshop, we’ll explore how author profiles help showcase your publications and how altmetrics provide real-time insights into the broader reach of your work. Learn how to track online engagement, connect your research to global conversations, and enhance your visibility using tools like ORCID, Dimensions author profiles, and the Altmetric Bookmarklet. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your online presence or demonstrate impact for funding and career opportunities, this session will provide practical strategies to make your research stand out. Sign up here.

The College of Built Environments invites you to the second annual Community of Practice: Climate Solutions Symposium — an evening of conversation, connection, and celebration of the work CBE faculty and students are doing to advance climate solutions.

Enjoy a light reception and explore posters showcasing climate-related research, teaching and learning from across the college.

Ways to participate

• RSVP to attend the event
• Submit a poster: Share your work and engage with the community. Six posters will be selected for featured discussion, and two will receive $250 awards.

Key dates

• Poster submission deadline: Monday, April 28 at 11:59 p.m.
• Selected presenters notified: Friday, May 9

Let’s come together to share ideas and drive climate action!

On April 30th from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST, CDWG will host Julie Kim for a research talk. Julie Sojin Kim is a demographer and population health researcher currently pursuing a PhD in Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington, where she is affiliated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Her research focuses on small-area estimation using Bayesian statistical methods and the development and application of demographic forecasting techniques.

Title: Estimating Subnational Fertility, Mortality, and Migration Across Social and Spatial Intersections

Traditional demographic estimates, typically reported at the national or first-administrative level, often obscure important subnational variation that reflects socioeconomic and geographic dimensions of inequality. This study aims to develop and apply small-area estimation and Bayesian statistical techniques to produce high-resolution estimates of fertility, mortality, and internal migration across socially and spatially stratified populations. Using two large and diverse countries, the United States and India, as case studies, this work models population dynamics disaggregated by combinations of education, race/ethnicity, gender, residence, and geography. Across all components, the study foregrounds intersectionality and addresses the challenges of estimating demographic indicators for smaller populations. Ultimately, I aim to develop statistical models that can help accurate measurement of uneven distribution of demographic components by place and social position and offer tools to generate evidence that can inform equitable policy and planning in diverse national contexts.

Julie holds a Master of Science degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. During her PhD, she was affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) through the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program and with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) through the Young Scientists Summer Program. Her work aims to generate timely, disaggregated population estimates that inform health and social policy in both national and subnational contexts. For her dissertation, she is estimating fertility, mortality, and migration across policy-relevant subpopulations, including geographic, educational, and racial-ethnic groups in India and the United States.

CDWG will be hybrid in the Spring Quarter of 2025. During this talk, Julie will join us in person at Raitt 223.

Zoom Registration is here.

Room: Raitt 223 – The Demography lab

Our own Matt Weatherford was recommended for membership to the University of Washington Computing Directors Group. The purpose of the Computing Directors Group is to facilitate communication and collaboration between central UW-IT teams and those at the college and unit level (distributed IT). The aim is to collaboratively specify, design, and develop central IT solutions and ensure that those solutions work not only for central campus IT teams, but also all represented entities. Matt’s teams at CSDE and the UW Data Collaborative have a focus on research and students, as well as including an IT compliance and security focus that enables his team to host regulated research data including Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

The Office of the Provost’s Research Resilience series will host a panel discussion, “Disappearing Data Panel & Discussion: Recoveries, Repositories, and Resiliencies,” on Monday, May 19^th from 9:30am to 11am that will be facilitated by CSDE Director Sara Curran. This panel presentation will provide an overview of 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. The panelists will discuss the current status of these challenges, approaches for recovering and restoring data, and possible strategies for resilience. Click here to learn more and register.

Understanding the needs of youth eligible for extended foster care is an essential component of effective service provision for these young people. In a recent study published in the Journal of Public Child Welfare, CSDE Affiliates Kristian Jones and Emiko Tajima and Trainee Jon Torres (Social Work) examine this issue through analysis of focus group and interview data from conversations with service providers working with eligible youth. This study, entitled “Meeting them where they’re at: service provider perspectives on the needs of extended foster care participants” highlights a range of unmet service needs and suggests specific changes in the field of extended foster care. Read the full study here.