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CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Member and Training Committee Member

CSDE Research Areas:

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

In the News:

• Affiliate Zack Almquist Co-authors Study on COVID-19 Timing and Severity (9/15/2020)
• Celebrate the Launch of the UW Data Science Minor (11/16/2020)
• CSDE Awarded NIH Training Grant for Advanced Data Analytics, Demography & Population Health (10/19/2020)
• CSDE Welcome Four More Faculty and Regional Affiliates! (3/2/2021)
• CSDE’s Spring Quarter Seminar Series Finalized! (3/23/2021)
• New Article Published by CSDE Affiliate Almquist and Regional Affiliate Ha (2/15/2021)
• Panel: New Methodologies in the Study of Migrations & Settlements (2/1/2021)
• Partnering with a Global Platform to inform Research and Public Policy-making: What needs to be in place to make a Global COVID-19 Survey work? (3/30/2021)
• Zack Almquist’s Study on COVID-19 Makes News! (11/2/2020)
• Congratulations to Zack Almquist! (1/14/2022)
• New Publication from Almquist and Co-Authors Relates the Geography of Social Cohesion and COVID-19 Infection Rates (3/16/2022)
• CSDE Affiliates Awarded Tier 1 and Tier 2 Population Health Initiative Pilot Grants (4/15/2022)
• Almquist receives NSF CAREER Award (4/29/2022)
• UW Today Highlights Almquist and Colleagues’ Research on Social Cohesion and COVID Transmission (5/27/2022)
• Almquist Quoted in Seattle Times Article About Counting the Homeless Population (7/4/2022)
• Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Autumn 2022 Schedule (10/2/2022)
• Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Autumn 2022 Schedule (10/3/2022)
• Almquist, Holland Jones, and Yang Present at PAA 2023 and Awarded Best Poster Award! (4/24/2023)

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Zack W. Almquist is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of Washington, where he also holds affiliation with CSDE and Urban@UW. From 2018-2020 he was a Research Scientist in the Demography and Survey Science team at Facebook, Inc; from 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University; and from 2013-2018 he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Minnesota. His research centers on the development and application of mathematical, computational, and statistical methodology to better understand the problems and theories of social networks analysis, demography, education, homelessness, and environmental action and governance. In the field of Demography Dr. Almquist’s research has been published in journals such as: Demographic Research, Mathematical Population Studies, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Geographic Analysis, and The Journal of Gerontology: Series B.