CSDE Affiliates Elena A. Erosheva (Statistics and Social Work) and Carole J. Lee (Philosophy) recently co-authored a research article in PLOS ONE titled, “Causal Decomposition of Black-White Disparities in NIH’s Selection of Proposals for Panel Discussion.” Earlier research on NIH R01 peer review found that selection of proposals for panel discussion was the decision point contributing most to Black-white funding disparities. The authors used a causal decomposition framework to examine which factors help explain these disparities,

CSDE External Affiliate Salene Jones (Associate Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) and co-authors recently published a research article in Psycho-Oncology titled, “Moderating Role of Social Support Between Financial Hardship and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors.” Financial hardship is common among cancer survivors, but little is known about how it relates to social support, quality of life, and mental health. The authors analyzed survey data from 598 breast cancer survivors who were diagnosed within the previous two years and identified through a cancer registry.

CSDE Affiliate Emily Godfrey (Family Medicine) and co-authors recently published a research article in JAMA Network Open titled, “Telehealth vs In-Clinic Medication Abortion Provision.” In states that restrict abortion, residents rely on telehealth medication abortion or travel out of state for in-clinic care, but little is known about how patients using these two options differ. Using electronic medical record data from February to June 2024, the authors compared Kansas and Texas residents who received medication abortion through a telehealth service (12,823 patients) with those who received care at an abortion facility in Kansas (725 patients).

CSDE Affiliate Dafeng Xu (Evans School of Public Policy and Governance) recently published a research article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research titled, “Social Networks and Transportation Efficiency: Ethnic Concentration and Carpool Commutes Among Hispanic Workers in the United States.” Hispanic workers are more likely than non-Hispanic white workers to carpool, a commuting mode that is more affordable but also more time-consuming than driving alone. Using 2019 five-year American Community Survey data,

CSDE Affiliate Nicole Errett (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences) coauthored an article in Environmental Research Communications titled, “Developing an Action and Research Agenda to Address Extreme Heat in the Pacific Northwest.” The article, led by DEOHS postdoctoral scholar Ashley Moore and DEOHS Assistant Teaching Professor and project PI Resham Patel, reports on a three-hour virtual workshop hosted by the Collaborative on Extreme Heat Events, a group of public health practitioners from Seattle,

CSDE External Affiliate David A. Swanson (Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of California, Riverside) and co-authors Jeff Tayman and Tom Bryan recently published a research article in the Journal of Economic and Social Measurement titled, “Broadband Access and Census Internet Self-Response Rates: A Case Study of Four States and Their 270 Counties.” The Census Bureau found that Mississippi, which has the lowest broadband access in the nation (76.3%), was undercounted by 4.11% in the 2020 census,

IPUMS has announced a series of data updates across its projects. IPUMS NHGIS has released a new version of its GIS boundary files for 1970 census blocks, with wide-ranging improvements to the block definitions for 10 metro areas, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Francisco. IPUMS DHS and IHGIS now offer variables and crosswalks that link IHGIS census tables to IPUMS DHS records for geographic units finer than the second administrative level,

The NIH’s Development of Collaborative Research Facilities or Research-Resource Facilities program (PAR-26-106) supports the construction or modernization of shared-use research facilities that benefit broad research communities, through two tracks: the Biomedical Research Facilities (BRF) program, funding $2–8 million for facilities advancing basic, translational, clinical, or behavioral science research, and the HIV/AIDS Research Facilities (HRF) program, funding $2–4 million for facilities aligned with NIH Office of AIDS Research priorities. Because UW may submit only one application to this opportunity,

The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) is pleased to invite submissions for a special issue on the theme of “Artificial Intelligence for Population Data Science.” Submissions have been extended until December 11, 2026. The Call for Papers (CfP) for this Special Issue is here.