Fifty researchers from across the country will gather Sept. 9-13 at the University of Washington to tackle the challenge of providing timely, integrated information about community responses to severe climate-related events. The goal of the Disasters, Demography, Data Science & Decisions (D4) Hack Week, funded by NOAA and NIH support from a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research infrastructure grant (P2C HD042828), is to provide policymakers with better models and integrated data for anticipating communities’ needs before,

CSDE Affiliate Nathalie Williams recently received an Ethical and Responsible Research Grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). There is much research and data collection on population health in areas and territories that are affected by conflict. Different countries and institutions have different practices and guidelines when it comes to conducting this research, which can cause challenges like data quality and access, risks of re-traumatizing research subjects, and the politicization of data and research findings.

About the project: We are working on a project for the National Center on Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), a principal statistical agency within the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Our project aims to investigate how—and to what extent— various federal data assets like data files, tables, and tools are created and used in academic research, state program evaluations, data journalism, and other contexts. As part of this effort, we will be developing a prototype Data Usage Platform (DUP) to better understand the uses of federal data.

The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites you to Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction: Improving the Lives of Individuals, Families and Communities in the Pacific Northwest on September 30 from 9 AM – 4 PM in the University of Washington’s HUB Ballroom.

Please join for this one-day event showcasing the department’s efforts to tackle our region’s challenges with addiction and substance use disorders. Attendees will interact with addiction researchers,

NSF GRFP PERSONAL STATEMENT PEER REVIEW WORKSHOP, Wednesday, October 02, 4:30-6:00 pm PST. Register for the 10/02/2023 workshop.