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,

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,

In a recent article published in PLOS Climate, CSDE Affiliate Jessica Acolin (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) and co-authors present a framework for addressing adolescent and young adult mental health and distress related to climate change. The framework was developed through qualitative focus groups with experts who offered disciplinary perspectives across public health, epidemiology, community-based organizations, and clinical mental health practice. Three interdisciplinary themes emerged: Knowledge Generation (increasing scientific knowledge about the causes,

In a new article in Royal Society Open Science, CSDE External Affiliate Aja Sutton (Population Research Center at Portland State University) with co-authors Adam Z. Reynolds (University of New Mexico), Matthew A. Turner (Stanford University), and James Holland Jones (Stanford University) examine how (digital) social influencers can modify epidemics by affecting social learning of health-protective behaviors in group-structured populations. Using agent-based models that incorporate both small protective and anti-protective nudges from social influencers into an epidemic scenario,

CSDE Affiliate Leigh Anderson (Director of EPAR, Public Policy) and the Evans Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR) have launched a new series on “Choices with Consequences.” The series of blogs and technical briefs illustrate the implications of alternative cleaning and variable construction decisions when constructing agricultural indicators, though applicable to other topics using household survey data. You can read the first brief on treating outliers, which also features a visualization tool to understand the implications of different identifying,

CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UC Riverside) authored a piece in NW Citizen analyzing racial disparities in Washington State Patrol (WSP) traffic stops from 2022–2024, using odds ratios applied to WSP Traffic Stop Demographic Report data. Black drivers faced roughly twice the odds of being stopped compared to White drivers in total traffic contacts across all three years, with considerably higher odds for criminal felony contacts and low-discretion searches.

In May, the Data Science and Demography Training (DSDT) fellows travelled to Little Rock, Arkansas for the NIH Training in Advanced Data Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (TADA-BSSR) Trainee Summit hosted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. This was the first time in more than two years that trainees from the different sites were able to meet in person.

This year’s meeting focused on leveraging our in-person meeting to “do the things we cannot do virtually,” with the overall goal of increasing awareness of activities at all TADA-BSSR sites and to enhance cross-site networking.

CSDE Affiliates Gregg Colburn (Real Estate), Vince Wang (Real Estate), Sara Curran (Director, CSDE), and CSDE External Affiliate Tim Thomas (UC Berkeley), along with Pelle Tracey (iSchool), have been invited to join the Eviction Data Research Network. Their project will advance statewide data collection around housing eviction. They will be joined by Washington State’s Attorney General’s office and additional UW colleagues and CSDE Affiliates Drew Messamore (Sociology),

In a new article in Aging & Mental Health, CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology, CSDE Development Core Director) and co-authors used data from the Health and Retirement Study (1992–2022) to examine how the mental health benefits of education vary by race, gender, and precarious employment (PE) among older adults. While high school education was generally associated with lower depressive symptoms, Black and Hispanic women with a high school education did not have lower depressive symptoms than non-Hispanic white men without one.

The Population Reference Bureau recently highlighted research by CSDE Affiliates Nicole Eisenberg (Social Work), Leo Morales (Medicine/Latino Center for Health), Griselda Martinez (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences), and Katarina Guttmannova (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) on how Latino Youth in rural America navigate the path to adulthood. At the end of their survey of Latino young people (surveyed at age 21 and 26) from two rural Midwestern towns,