CSDE external affiliate and former CSDE T32 Fellow Delaney Glass (University of Toronto) and co-authors developed a Qualitative Framework for Operationalizing Respondent Sampling (Q-FORS), featured in Social Science and Medicine. Q-FORS focuses on data adequacy as the pivotal concept for determining a qualitative sample, especially with interviews and focus groups. It is a practical framework applicable across the spectrum of the research life cycle—from proposal writing and data collection to reporting—and is geared towards any researchers using qualitive methods,

SDE Affiliate Jing Xu (Anthropology) authored a chapter in a new book titled, Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History. In this chapter, Xu draws on ethnographic records on Chinese children and childhood in the mid twentieth century that reflect three layers of marginality: social margins – ordinary, rural, working-class families in Hong Kong and Taiwan; historiographical margins – ethnographic materials are outside the conventional scope of ‘archival’ history on Chinese childhood;

CSDE Affiliate Susan M. Graham (Medicine and Global Health) and co-authors recently published a study of depressive symptoms, HIV vulnerability and oral PrEP use and adherence among adolescent girls and young women in Western Kenya in BMJ Open. Graham and co-authors surveyed 300 females aged 19-24 who attended follow-up visits in a randomized controlled trial of a single-dose HPV vaccine. Moderate to severe depressive symptoms were reported by 14%. Factors associated with depressive symptoms included medium HIV risk perception and engaging in transactional sex.

UW Today recently featured a profile of CSDE Affiliate Magali Blanco (Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences). Originally posted on DEOHS’s blog, the profile highlights Blanco’s research on how air pollution affects the brain, including her work on a mobile monitoring campaign to gather air pollution data around Seattle using a car outfitted with monitoring instruments and her contributions to a long-running study called Adult Changes in Thought that involves examining biomarkers of cognitive deficit in brains donated after end of life.

CSDE Affiliates Vince Wang (Real Estate), Arthur Acolin (Real Estate), Rebecca Walter (Real Estate) examined employment status and wage trajectories of recipients of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program from 2005 to 2018 in a recent article in Housing Policy Debate. Drawing on a national dataset containing 22.5 million householder-year observations, the study shows most housing voucher recipients did not work while in the program,

CSDE Affiliate Patricia Louie (Sociology) examined the implications of multiracial status for health by examining specific multiracial groups (Black-White, Black-Asian, and Asian-White adults) versus their monoracial counterparts in an article published in Race and Social Problems. Louie and her co-author draw on an 11-year pooled sample of the nationally representative Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (2002–2012) and find that different hypotheses fit the health risk status of different multiracial groups.

CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Raker (University of British Columbia) and co-authors recently published an article in Demography on “Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States”. The authors merged 1991 – 2017 county-month data on singleton births with block-group-level monthly data on the paths of severe tornadoes and block-group data on the distribution of the population at risk of a birth, and then estimated difference-in-differences models in which the treatment variable is equal to the percentage of the population at risk of a birth affected by the tornado.

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.