Almquist, McCormick, Hagopian, Yang, and Colleagues Receive a Tier 3 PHI Grant
Posted: 6/12/2024 (CSDE Research)
CSDE affiliates Zack Almquist (Sociology), Tyler McCormick (Sociology), Amy Hagopian (Health Systems and Population Health), and Juhne Yang (CSDE, eScience Institute) along with Paul Hebert (Health Systems and Population Health, VA Health Services) and KCRHA community members, received a Population Health Initiative Tier 3 grant to extend a novel method they introduced for counting unsheltered people experiencing homelessness through a social network (peer-referral) method, respondent-driven sampling (RDS), which allows for creating a population-representative survey for understanding the needs, demographics, and size of the unsheltered population in King County. This team of researchers and community partners proposed in the PHI grant to extend this RDS method to allow quarterly surveying of this vulnerable population. Quarterly surveys will provide an entirely novel seasonal enumeration of the unsheltered population and facilitate the timely collection of new survey instruments relevant to changing conditions in the community.