The University of Washington REACH Center is hosting the next session of its Implementation Science in Extreme Weather and Health Webinar Series on Tuesday, October 27, from 10-11 am Pacific Time. Jeremy Hess, CHanGE Director, professor at the University of Washington, and CSDE Affiliate, will present his team’s work on using implementation science to assess intervention effectiveness and to evaluate a decision support tool delivery platform for local health departments. The webinars are designed for health practitioners and researchers interested in implementation science and extreme weather and health adaptation.

When: Friday, 10/30/2026 @ 12:30-1:30 PM PT
Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

Follow this link to sign up for a 1:1 meeting with Dr. Jadhav during their visit on October 30th.

We are looking forward to hosting Apoorva Jadhav (Demographic Futures Lead at the William H. Gates Sr. Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health) on Friday,

The Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed rule changes to the 2030 Census that are extraordinary and unprecedented, requiring comment and feedback. Those can be made until November 2 in the Federal Register where you can also read the full text of the proposed changes. Comments can be made by both individuals and organizations.

BACKGROUND: Notice of Proposed Rule Modification: Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Regulations for Demographic Questions (15 CFR 60 and 15 CFR 70) would:

• Change the defined enumeration date of April 1 to an enumeration period from January 3 to April 1 of each decennial year.

When: Friday, 10/23/2026 @ 12:30-1:30 PM PT
Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

We are looking forward to hosting Joan Casey (Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington) on Friday, Oct. 23rd in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

Wildfires are increasing in frequency and severity,

CSDE affiliate Melanie Martin (Associate Professor, Anthropology) and colleagues published new research in Nature showing that many gut microbes travelled with humans as they migrated out of Africa and into the Americas, and that industrialized populations are now losing these microbes. The team sequenced gut microbiomes from Tsimane forager-horticulturalists in Bolivia and compared them with those of Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. Although the ancestors of these two groups separated tens of thousands of years ago,