With support from the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) and funding from NICHD, CSDE has launched a six month program to forge and strengthen partnerships between public-serving organizations in Washington and UW researchers. The initiative begins with a call for applications from public-serving organizations in Washington due February 15. Please visit our landing page to learn more. If you are a UW researcher who has connections to public-serving organizations,

CSDE Trainee Will von Geldern (Public Policy) published an opinion piece in the Seattle Times that draws on findings from his dissertation research and work with CSDE Affiliates Rachel Fyall (Public Policy) and Karin Martin (Public Policy). The op-ed addresses the “right to counsel” law in Washington, which was intended to ensure legal representation for tenants who receive public assistance or who have very low incomes.

The Journal of Adolescent Health (JAH) recognized recent research by CSDE Affiliate and Executive Committee Member Steven Goodreau (Anthropology), CSDE Senior Research Scientist Deven Hamilton, and UW Graduate Student and first author Kendall A. Lawley. Their 2025 article, “Trends in sex of sex partners and sexual identity among US adolescents, 2015-2021” has been named to JAH’s Distinguish Dozen. This initiative amplifies particularly important contributions to the field published in JAH in 2025.

CSDE Affiliate Alison Fohner (Epidemiology) and co-authors published a study in Alzheimer’s & Dementia that quantified the contribution of dementia risk factors in midlife (45-64 years) and late life (≥ 65 years) in the United States. The team used nationally representative data from six community-based cohorts in the Dementia Risk Prediction Project (DRPP). Fohner and co-authors observed that midlife and late-life risk factors contributed to 22.7% and 16.5% of dementia cases,

CSDE Affiliate Susan M. Graham (Medicine and Global Health) and co-authors recently published the pilot results of the Shauriana Intervention for young Kenyan gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in AIDS Behavior. In close collaboration with GBMSM community leaders, Graham and coauthors developed a theory-based, culturally-tailored HIV prevention intervention that integrates sexual health and mental health support. The research team conducted a randomized trial comparing the pilot intervention to standard care.

IPUMS announces the release of the latest ACS 5-year summary file data from IPUMS NHGIS, a new tool to help researchers understand linking counts between the ATUS and CPS, and even more geography variables from IPUMS USA.

IPUMS USA has added geography variables, including a new consistent PUMA variable, CPUMA1020, which creates consistent geographic boundaries across 2010 and 2020 PUMA definitions, spanning the 2012–2024 samples. Users can also find new Migration and Place-of-Work variables based on 2023 metropolitan statistical area (MSA) definitions.

CSDE Trainee Natalie Turner (Social Work), CSDE Affiliate Tracy Mroz (Rehabilitation Medicine), and Amber Sabbatini (Emergency Medicine) recently published an article titled, “Characteristics Associated With Home Health Care Referral After Discharge From Hospital.” This study used data on Medicare beneficiaries to examine individual, hospital, and community characteristics associated with institutional post-acute care vs. home health care (HHC), which is often preferred by older adults. Older age, longer length of stay,

CSDE Affiliate Jing Xu (Anthropology) and co-authors recently published an article in the Journal of Adolescent Research, titled “Exploring Facilitators and Disruptors of Polarization During Adolescence Within Contested Settings: A Case Study of Catholic and Protestant Youth in Northern Ireland.” Xu and her collaborators draw on interview data to identify key socializing actors and settings within established theoretical frameworks: Ecological Systems Theory, Social Identity,

CSDE Affiliate Cynthia Chen (Civil & Environmental Engineering) published two studies that show untapped capacity for community resilience through place-based peer-to-peer (P2P) resource sharing. Both studies use data from two socioeconomically different communities in Seattle. First, in an article in Nature Cities, Chen demonstrated that under a 5-day isolation scenario, place-based P2P sharing can reduce a community’s resilience loss by 13.4–100%; on average, 22–44 social ties per household support an 80% sharing rate of surplus resources.

CSDE Affiliate Trevor Peckham (DEOHS/King County) recently published an article in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine that explored how transitions between types of employment quality impact health in the United States. Peckham and co-authors Vanessa Oddo and Eric W. Lundstrom used the U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from 2008 to 2022 to identify unique employment quality types for men and women. Respondents transitioning to or from precarious employment or unemployment reported poor/fair self-rated health (SRH) and self-rated mental health (SRMH) more frequently relative to those with Standard Employment Relationships.