CSDE Affiliate Avanti Adhia (Nursing, Epidemiology), CSDE Affiliate Heather Hill (Evans School of Public Policy and Governance), and CSDE Trainee Ann Richey (Epidemiology), along with Krista Neumann, authored a “Current Issues” piece in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine outlining three state policy tools — paid family and medical leave, sick leave, and victim leave — that provide workers time off to address domestic violence (DV)-related legal,

CSDE External Affiliate Elizabeth Hirsh (University of British Columbia) published a study in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with collaborator, Erica Mildner (PhD student, University of British Columbia), examining individual support for government-provided childcare across 26 countries, using data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). Household-level dynamics, particularly the “dual load” of both partners working full-time or overtime, are key predictors of support for government childcare.

The Prevent Cancer Foundation has awarded funds (donated by Awesome Games Done Quick) to CSDE Affiliate Michelle Shin (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing), to develop a care model to increase cervical cancer screening in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). This study aims to better understand the barriers to cervical cancer screening from the perspectives of patients and community leaders through process mapping and key informant interviews to develop a culturally responsive care model to increase screening uptake in underserved communities.

CSDE External Affiliate Jack DeWaard (Saint Martin’s University) and colleagues recently published the paper, “Climate-induced internal migration in India: Looking into the past to understand the present,” in Regional Environmental Change. In addition to the research itself, this paper was lead-authored by Rimjhim Bajpai, an early career researcher who recently started her PhD in Demography at the University of Vienna and works as a Researcher on the project,

CSDE Affiliates Kenneth Sherr (Global Health), Brian P. Flaherty (Psychology), and Bradley Wagenaar (Global Health) published in The Lancet Psychiatry results of a randomized trial that tested the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach for Mental Health (SAIA-MH) to improve outpatient care for mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in Mozambique in The Lancet Psychiatry. SAIA-MH combines external facilitation, clinical consultation, and provider team meetings with systems-engineering tools in a continuous quality improvement framework.

Qiuju Guo is an Associate Professor in the School of Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, joining the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) at the University of Washington as a visiting scholar for a one-year stay.

Dedicated to gerontological research, Dr. Guo’s core research interests include family and old-age support, aging health and well-being, and older migrants. She has published a series of peer-reviewed papers in both Chinese and English on sociological issues related to older adults.

In a new article in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, CSDE Affiliate Katarina Guttmannova (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) and co-authors used machine learning to predict impaired driving among young adults in Washington. Data came from annual cross-sectional surveys of 18- to 25-year-olds participating in the Washington Young Adult Health Survey (2015–2022). For likelihood of alcohol-impaired driving, top predictors included alcohol use frequency, participants’ age, peak drinking quantity, age of alcohol initiation,

CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall (Sociology) published an article in PNAS on the heightened risk to American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) peoples of fatal police violence in and around reservations in the United States, and UW News posted an accompanying writeup. Rocha Beardall, along with co-authors Gabriel L. Schwartz and Jaquelyn L.

UW Anthropology and CSDE Affiliate Melanie Martin (Anthropology) hosted the 9th Northwest Evolution, Ecology, and Human Behavior (NWEEHB) Symposium at the UW Pack Forest Conference Center on February 27-March 1. This was the first time UW has served as host for this biennial, interdisciplinary gathering of regional human evolution and ecology researchers. The event drew 45 attendees from seven universities across the Pacific Northwest and Canada, including 26 graduate and undergraduate students. The symposium included workshops on computational methods and pedagogy,

CSDE Affiliates Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology, CSDE Development Core Director) and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar (Epidemiology), along with first author and UW Epidemiology PhD Graduate Julia Schleimer who led this work as part of her dissertation, published a retrospective cohort study of the intergeneration association between early childhood education and interpersonal violence in Injury Epidemiology. Schleimer, Hajat, Rowhani-Rahbar and co-authors used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and intergenerationally linked Child and Young Adult Cohort (NLSCYA).