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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:

• 15 CSDE Affiliates Part of 9 Teams Receiving UW Population Health Initiative Awards (6/26/2020)
• 6 CSDE Affiliates Part of 4 Teams Receiving UW Population Health Initiative Pilot Research Grants! (3/23/2021)
• CSDE at PAA 2017 (4/18/2017)
• CSDE Director Sara Curran Discusses Census and COVID (10/19/2020)
• CSDE Director Sara Curran Discusses Census Count (11/23/2020)
• CSDE Director Sara Curran Will Join UW Graduate Public Lecture Series on September 24 for COVID 19: Stand Up and Be Counted (9/15/2020)
• CSDE Family Planning & Reproductive Health Working Group: Contraceptive Autonomy in the Context of Global Family Planning Programs (05/26/2021) (5/10/2021)
• CSDE Is Here to Help For Your RSF Pipeline Grants Competition Proposals (10/14/2019)
• CSDE Trainee Accepted at International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (10/14/2019)
• CSDE Trainee Spotlight: Callie Freitag (10/26/2020)
• Fussell, Curran, Dunbar, Babb, Meijer-Irons Collaborate for Weather and Populations Study (1/9/2017)
• Heather Hill Appointed to Population Health Initiative Executive Council (9/3/2019)
• Letter from the Director (12/9/2019)
• NSF RAPID: Collaborative Research: COVID-19 Disinformation Disparities (5/10/2020)
• Panel: Climate Migration (1/24/2021)
• Population Health Initiative and CSDE Collaborate on Successful Applied Research Project with Seattle-King County Public Health (10/20/2019)
• Population Health Initiative COVID-19 Grants Catalyzed UW Research Community (3/23/2021)
• Register for the IAPHS Webinar “Health Care – Population Health Science Partnerships: What Can And Can’t They Do” (8/31/2020)
• Sara Curran Addresses Challenges Involved in Avoiding Deportation (1/23/2018)
• Sara Curran Discusses the Implications of the 2020 Census Citizenship Question (4/24/2018)
• Sara Curran Discusses the Rohingya Refugee Crisis at the International Affairs Forum (4/3/2018)
• Sara Curran Elected Vice President of PAA (8/17/2018)
• Sara Curran, Emilio Zagheni, and Neal Marquez to Present at IMPRS-PHDS Academy (11/3/2019)
• Second Annual UW Multidisciplinary Family Planning Symposium (2/28/2020)
• Students and Trainees Checkout the Demography or Population-related Courses for Next Quarter (3/15/2021)
• Submissions Open for Special Issue of Social Sciences – Understanding Population, Development, and Environment Linkages in the Context of Global Climate Change (4/11/2017)
• The CSDE’s First Virtual Event Keeps Researchers Connected (3/21/2020)
• UWRA Lecture Series “The Future of Aging” (10/26/2020)
• Virtual PAA 2020 Continues with Demography of COVID-19 Panel on May 27 (10 am PDT) (5/17/2020)
• Curran and Colleagues Review Possibilities of Forest Restoration in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in New Publication (10/22/2021)
• UW is Selected as Next Editorial Home for Demography, 2022-2025 (11/12/2021)
• Curran Authors Chapter in First International Handbook on Population and Environment (2/11/2022)
• Curran and Co-Authors Redefine “Abandoned” Agricultural Land in New Publication (9/2/2022)
• CSDE Affiliates and Colleagues Pen Opinion on Social Connection and Well-Being (10/1/2022)
• Curran Quoted in Seattle Times on Proposed Race and Ethnicity Categories Under Consideration by Federal Government (3/26/2023)
• Yu, Ševčíková, Raftery, and Curran Publish Research on Probabilistic County-Level Population Projections (5/26/2023)
• 3 CSDE Affiliates Elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) and Bostrom Re-elected to WSAS Board (7/19/2023)
• Curran Co-authors Letter on the Overestimated Potential of Abandoned Land (7/28/2023)

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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.