CSDE Awards Population Research Planning Grants to Five Affiliates and Colleagues

Posted: 4/8/2023 (CSDE Awards)

CSDE has awarded five Population Research Planning Grants so far! CSDE Affiliates Drs. Gregg Colburn and Rebecca Walter were awarded matching funds to help with finishing their current book project on Affordable Housing. They describe the book project as “the first comprehensive affordable housing text that is relevant for both teaching and community partners”.  CSDE Affiliate Dr. Chiyoung Lee was awarded funds to cover publication fees in her work on biomarkers of depression in the 20-year long prospective cohort study Heart and Soul. CSDE Affiliate Dr. Gregory Bratman was awarded funds to organize a major workshop on the causal pathways of nature and population health via olfaction. This understudied area of population health has many implications, as Bratman describes “In addition to the inequitable distribution of environmental hazards (e.g. fuel refineries, transportation corridors, and wildfire smoke), the health benefits provided by access to nature are topics of critical concern for environmental justice.” CSDE Affiliate Dr. Jennie Romich and CSDE Trainee Callie Freitag were awarded funds to convene a meeting of Washington Merged Longitudinal Administrative Dataset (WMLAD) stakeholders, building on the interest expressed by Washington State Senator Manka Dhingra in identifying state funds to support and grow this resource.  If you’d like to join that meeting, visit this page to indicate your interest.