CSDE and Population Health Initiative Announces Summer 2022 Applied Research Fellows
Posted: 5/27/2022 (CSDE Research)
CSDE and the Population Health Initiative announced the selection of four graduate students and one undergraduate student as members of the 2022 cohort of the Applied Research Fellowship. Launched in 2019, the Applied Research Fellowship is a joint effort between PHI and CSDE. The program’s goal is to offer students data analysis, critical thinking and team science skills that will help them solve complex population health challenges on their way to becoming future leaders in the field.
This year’s team will be working King County’s Demographer and be directed by Dr. Jessica Godwin CSDE Research Scientist. The team will be developing data and tools for employing the county’s assessor data to inform models of housing capacity. The cohort of students selected for this year’s fellowship program are Oliver Tjalve (Sociology and Statistics), Chris Govella (Real Estate), Jenna Castillo (Sociology), Maxine Wright (Sociology), and Mary Jewell (Epidemiology).
These students will spend 10 weeks over the summer working collaboratively with King County’s demographer and Public Health – Seattle & King County’s Assessment, Policy Development and Evaluation Unit with the support of the Population Health Applied Research Fellowships. They will estimate trends in household size and household characteristics across the county to build on the efforts of the 2021 cohort of applied research fellows.
This work is particularly relevant for policymakers and future resource allocators, as it helps them understand indicator trends across time and space, and how these trends vary across age, race and space. The dramatic changes in size, geographic distribution and demographic makeup of King County also contribute to the significance of this work.
The opportunity for students to work on a real-world, client-driven project as part of a multidisciplinary team will benefit their understanding how to integrate their disciplinary expertise into a team-oriented, problem-solving approach that develops interdisciplinary solutions to population health challenges.
Learn more about this fellowship program by visiting its web page.