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.

In a new article in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, CSDE Affiliate Vince Wang (Real Estate) explores whether community land trusts (CLTs) can systematically enable equitable climate action. Wang and co-author Jason Simpson Spicer surveyed all CLTs in Canada and the United States. A majority of CLTs engage in climate action, with mitigation efforts more prevalent than adaptation, and their rate of action cannot be explained by climate hazard exposure alone.

CSDE Affiliate Jeanie Santaularia Gomez (Epidemiology), former CSDE Trainee Maryam Tanveer (Epidemiology) and co-authors published new work in the Journal of Urban Health that used hospital discharge data and two-way fixed effects models to examine how temporal community-level exposure to police-involved shootings influenced mental health diagnosis rates across ZIP code areas in Minneapolis They find a nonlinear relationship: as cumulative shootings increase, their effect on mental health diagnosis rates rises to a peak before diminishing — a pattern consistent across racial groups and suggestive of sensitization followed by desensitization.

CSDE External Affiliate Daiki Hiramori (Hosei University) received the Award for Science and Technology (Research Category) as part of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan for FY2026. This award recognizes Hiramori’s contributions to the demography of sexual orientation and gender identity and is awarded jointly with Dr. Saori Kamano of Waseda University. The President of Hosei University’s Research Notes commended Hiramori’s work for affirming the relevance of sexuality in the field of demography and enabling the systematic examination of findings accumulated in small-scale ethnographic studies as well as in large-scale surveys that may be affected by self-selection bias.

The Population Association of America recognized the contributions of CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UC Riverside) through the Mindel C. Sheps Award at PAA 2026. Jointly sponsored by PAA and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, this award is given biennially for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography or demographic methodology. Individuals may be nominated on the basis of important contributions to knowledge either in the form of a single piece of work or a continuing record of high accomplishment.

External Affiliate Jamaica Corker (Independent Researcher) recently authored three publications that examine the often-overlooked role of traditional contraceptive methods in contemporary family planning, highlighting both persistent use and important gaps in how these methods are measured and understood. Drawing on new multi-country data from sub-Saharan Africa and global trend analyses, the studies show that traditional methods remain an important part of pregnancy prevention for many women and couples and that current survey approaches may substantially underestimate their use—particularly when traditional and modern methods are used concurrently.

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,