Collaborate with the Center for Aging, Health & Environment (CACHE) to highlight your emerging work and ideas on disaster and weather-related health impacts on older adult! The “What Am I Reading Series?” features short reviews of emerging frameworks and literature on topics such as: climate and brain health, wildfire smoke exposure, housing and health, indoor air pollution​​​, disasters and aging in place​​ and more! If you’re interested in contributing a post,

Two posters by CSDE Trainees and Affiliates received awards at PAA 2026!

CSDE Trainee Julie Kim (Global Health) was recognized in the Family Demography theme for her poster, “Racial-Ethnic and Gender Inequalities in U.S. Internal Migration.” Kim developed high-resolution estimates of interstate migration by age, sex, race-ethnicity, and state in the United States from 2000–2022 using harmonized survey data within a Bayesian hierarchical framework. The results reveal substantial diversity in migration regimes across racial-ethnic groups,

UW Postdoc Liutao Chen (Urban Design & Planning) led a paper published in Environmental Research Letters, with CSDE Affiliates Joan Casey (EOHS) and Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen (Urban Design & Planning; EOHS) and co-authors TC Chakraborty and Ching-Hsuan Huang. The team demonstrated how the choice of heat metric and definition of extreme heat days fundamentally alters estimates of population heat exposure and inequality. Using summer 2022 data across the Mediterranean,

CSDE Affiliate and Executive Committee Member Rawan Arar (Law, Societies, and Justice) contributed to a new entry to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies on “Refugee Systems.” A refugee system is both (a) a social phenomenon made up of those connections, and (b) an analytical approach toward understanding displacement that builds upon systems theories, most notably Akin Mabogunje’s elaboration of a migration system. Arar juxtaposes a systems approach with siloed approaches to demonstrate its value for knowledge generation and its implications for uncovering reality and inequalities.

In a recent article in Environmental Sociology, CSDE Affiliate Patrick Greiner (Sociology) and co-authors explore the relationship between financialization and the material footprint of nations — a measure of the raw material requirements needed to sustain a population’s consumption. Using panel regression and comparative analyses of affluent nations, the study finds that financialization helps uphold unsustainable consumption patterns, and that high-consuming nations tend to exhibit lower rates of economic growth and higher rates of financialization relative to lower-consuming nations in the sample.

CSDE is thrilled to announce the Charles and Josephine Hirschman Award for student research. CSDE students may apply for up to $2,000 in funds to directly support a research project. Funds may support activities such as the cost of conducting fieldwork, data purchases, the hiring of a translator or transcriber, or participant rewards in surveys. Be creative! All funds must be spent during the 2026-27 academic year and may not be used to pay tuition or your own salary.

CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology) has been named a recipient of the 2026 UW Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, This award. recognizes a faculty member who excels at the intense one-on-one teaching that is the hallmark of graduate study. First bestowed in 1999, the award honors the memory of Marsha L. Landolt, who served as dean of the Graduate School from 1996 to 2004. Congratulations, Dr. Hajat!

UW jointly awarded Sarah Collier (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences), CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Otten (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences), CSDE Affiliate Marie Spiker (Epidemiology), the university’s 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award. The Collier-Otten-Spiker Food Systems Teaching Team was recognized for their reflective teaching practice with experimentation and refinement over time; commitment to inclusive teaching and mentoring; and dedication to creating deep and transformative learning experiences. You can read more about the team’s teaching approach here.

CSDE Affiliate Kemi M. Doll (Obstetrics & Gynecology) joined an episode of the Science Friday podcast focused on understanding the gynecological health crisis facing Black women. During the episode, Doll discussed her new book, A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing, which explores how systemic racism and the normalization of Black women’s pain lead to later diagnoses of uterine cancer and poorer health outcomes for a range of gynecologic conditions including fibroids,

In a recent publication in JAMA Network Open, CSDE Affiliate Edwin Wong (Health Services) and co-authors examined whether the proportion of primary care delivered via telehealth was associated with differences in care quality among 744,599 veterans in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) between 2022 and 2023. Veterans with low or intermediate telehealth use had clinical and quality-of-care outcomes comparable to those receiving only in-person care across most measures, particularly cardiovascular and behavioral health measures.