CSDE Trainee Hana Brown (Sociology) and CSDE Affiliate Patricia Louie (Sociology) recently published an article in Sleep Health that analyzed the relationship between skin color and on self-reported sleep duration. Brown and Louie used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, a nationally representative sample of adults residing in the US in 2016-2018. Individuals with dark and to a lesser extent medium skin are at higher odds of short sleep (≤6 hours) than those with light skin.

CSDE External Affiliate and Trainee Alum Amy Spring (Georgia State University) recently published an article titled “Internal migration following local environmental disasters: the intersection of race, socioeconomic status, and local family ties” in Population and Environment. Spring integrated longitudinal household and family network data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with county-level disaster data from the Spatial Hazards Events and Losses Database for the United States. The findings reveal that regardless of socioeconomic status,

In a recent article published in American Psychologist, CSDE External Affiliate Rachel Wilbur (Washington State University) argues that addressing American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) behavioral health inequity must center Indigenous ways of knowing, emphasizing continued presence achieved through active resistance. Wilbur and her co-author contend that the concept of health survivance better meets the needs of AI/AN communities than the Eurocentric construct of resilience.

CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery (Statistics & Sociology) just published an article in Demography titled, “Bayesian Projection of Extant Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations.” Raftery and his co-author propose a modeling pipeline based on Bayesian hierarchical time-series modeling for projecting refugee population official statistics by country of origin using data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Growth and decline phases, separated by a peak, are modeled by logistic growth and decline through an interrupted logistic process model.

CSDE Affiliate Gregory Bratman (Environmental and Forest Sciences) recently published an article titled, “Why Nature Contact is Good for Us” in Trends in Cognitive Science. Bratman and his co-author James Gross (Stanford) summarize evidence that nature contact has impacts on negative and positive affective functioning, and discuss recent insights into explanatory pathways, including emotion regulation, psychoneuroimmunology, microbiome, sleep, and physical activity. The authors propose that nature contact is linked to affective functioning via these five interacting pathways at a variety of levels and argue that these pathways are not mutually exclusive.

A new blog from EPAR, which is led by CSDE Affiliate Leigh Anderson, introduces a new web-based tool for exploring agricultural, geospatial, and climate data from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Developed by EPAR Postdoctoral Scholar Joaquin Mayorga and Research Assistant Professor Didier Alia under the Center on Risk and Inclusion in Food Systems (CRIFS), the Ag GeoSpatial Data Explorer (AgGeo) processes public data on-demand and delivers results through a web interface.

CSDE Affiliate Sarah Elwood (Geography) published a new article in Digital Geography and Society, titled, “Computational urbanisms & insurgent mediations of the city: Stop the Sweeps.” Elwood theorizes municipal systems of tent encampment removal as a form of administrative-algorithmic governance structured around the logics and practices of computation urbanism and trace their entanglements with liberal poverty governance. Through a close reading of the City of Seattle’s encampment removal system,

CSDE Trainee Tess Abrahamson-Richards (Social Work), former CSDE Trainee Elizabeth Pelletier, CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Romich (Social Work), and co-author Kilohana Haitsuka recently published an article titled, “Perinatal Wage Equity, Parental Leave Access, and Reproductive Justice Among American Indian and Alaska Native Working Mothers in Washington State,” in Social Service Review. The authors used mixed methods and grounded their analysis in an Indigenous theoretical framework.

CSDE Affiliate Kemi M. Doll (Obstetrics & Gynecology) was quoted in Scientific American in coverage of a decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to remove the black box warning on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications for menopause. Estrogen-only therapies, however, will still carry labels that share the risk of endometrial or uterine cancer. Doll emphasized that people who have a uterus should be aware of the risks of these treatments.

CSDE Affiliate Marie Spiker (Epidemiology) was recently quoted in The Seattle Times emphasizing the strong evidence base on the negative health consequences of food insecurity. Spiker was interviewed for an article on how the federal government shutdown threw the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into uncertainty, leaving 930,000 people in Washington at risk of food insecurity. This feature was also highlighted in UW News. Read more.