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!

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,

CSDE Affiliate Leah Marcotte (Medicine) and co-authors, in partnership with Cierra Sisters, recently published an article in Frontiers in Digital Health reporting on a randomized factorial experiment evaluating chatbot designs for breast cancer screening (BCS) outreach. The study tested four conditions with a Black woman persona presented as either a primary care doctor or a breast cancer survivor who used either a direct versus polite communication styles.

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.

Have you recently finished a project or published a paper that integrates social and health science data with disaster, climate or environmental data? Would you like to share your code on CACHE? Code can be in any language and will be reviewed and run by peers (CACHE post-docs and staff) before making it public. CACHE welcomes code that uses single data sets of interests (e.g., social or health data that ask about disasters or environmental,

CSDE Affiliates Kamryn Morris (Social Work) and Kristian Jones (Social Work) published a new study exploring how teachers support racial and/or cultural minority students’ sense of mattering through extracurricular participation. In semi-structured interviews, teachers described a wide range of activity offerings (e.g. sports, cultural clubs) and characterized their own involvement as ranging from supportive to active participation. Teachers emphasized that extracurriculars enhance students’ sense of mattering by fostering belonging and promoting long-term skills,

In a new publication in Demography, CSDE Research Scientist Hana Ševčíková, CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery (Statistics and Sociology), and Nathan Welch develop a method for forecasting international migration that takes a country’s age structure into account. Drawing on migration data from 1990 to 2020 across the 200 most populous countries, the authors build a statistical model that projects migration rates through 2100. To develop their forecast,

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers (APC). Each year the APC publishes a resource guide about all member centers. You might check it out and see what is happening elsewhere!

In a new article in Quaternary Environments and Humans, CSDE Affiliate Jade d’Alpoim Guedes (Anthropology) investigates the spread of Sino-Tibetan languages to the eastern Tibetan Plateau, combining evidence from multiple scientific disciplines, applying data from linguistics, palaeoclimate and archaeology. The study focuses on the interaction among different groups of people, zooming into the contact and cultural dynamics of the eastern plateau between ca. 3300 BC to 846 AD.