CSDE Affiliate Kristian Jones recently co-authored an article with UW Department of Epidemiology Doctoral Candidate Julia Schleimer in the Seattle Times titled, “Violence Intervention Programs Need Time to Demonstrate Impact.” Dr. Jones and Schleimer are also a part of the UW Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program where they research recent investments in community violence intervention. The article contextualizes questions about whether rates of violence have changed as a result of investing in these interventions and whether it is reasonable to expect immediate changes.

Summer 2024 has seen high temperatures and heat waves across the country. Sunday to Tuesday of the week of July 21st were the three hottest days on record. According to the New York Times Article, Heat-Related Emergencies Are Soaring in the U.S. Can Hospitals Keep Up?, these high temperatures caused heat-related emergencies. Preliminary estimates indicate the deaths of more than 100 people in western U.S. states, a number that will increase as death certificates become available.

CSDE Affiliate Ariel Rokem was recently awarded the Education in Neuroimaging Award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. The Education in Neuroimaging Award is given to an OHBM member who has made significant contributions to education and training in the field of neuroimaging. Dr. Rokem is a Research Associate Professor with the Department of Psychology and is a Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute. He has made many contributions to education in neuroimaging including creating a summer school called Neurohackademy,

Over the last few weeks, Hurricane Beryl has impacted many residents of the southern coast of the U.S. and various Central American and Caribbean countries. Future Hurricanes Could Stress Power Grids of U.S. Cities and the risk of hurricane-induced power outages, “could become 50 percent higher in some areas because of climate change in the coming decades.” A new analysis was created by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Electric Power Research Institute to map how hurricanes will impact power grids and allow residents of typical hurricane impacted areas to check how vulnerable their area is.

CSDE affiliates Ann Bostrom, Sara Curran, and Sameer Shah are collaborating on an upcoming UW-hosted 2024 D4 Hack Week: Disasters, Demography, Disparities, and Decisions (September 9-13). This week-long hack-a-thon is supported by a partnership between CSDE, the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES), and the UW’s eScience Institute.

CSDE Affiliates Michael Brown and Larry Knopp were recently quoted in the Seattle Times article, “How Capitol Hill became Seattle’s gayborhood.” The article includes various people’s experiences coming to Capitol Hill over the past decades. Capitol Hill became a center for members of the LGBTQ+ community and many began to move into the various neighborhoods surrounding the area. Dr. Brown and Dr. Knopp share their expertise and research as geographers on the events and other key points that built up Capitol Hill as a hub for different communities,

CSDE Affiliate Dr. Kemi Doll was recently quoted in an article by HealthDay talking about how Ultrasounds May Be Unreliable in Spotting Endometrial Cancer in Black Women. According to studies, ultrasounds are not reliable to screen for endometrial cancer in Black women, due to the standards set for the procedure. Gynecologic Oncologist Dr. Doll details how certain protocols, specifically ultrasound protocols, do not accurately screen accurately and are not safe to employ as a strategy to determine endometrial cancer diagnoses for Black women,

CSDE Affiliate Amy Bailey, Visiting Scholar at UW CSDE & Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Chicago Illinois, will be speaking at the National Institute of Health’s UNITE initiative virtual Structural Racism Workshop. This workshop is a two day event from July 18-19, 2024, and Dr. Bailey will be speaking on July 18th from 11:35 am-12:15 pm EST (8:35 am-9:15 am PST) in Session 1: History of Race,

CSDE Affiliate Min Hee Kim (Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF) published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology, titled “Mediating pathways between neighborhood disadvantage and cardiovascular risk: Quasi-experimental evidence from a Danish refugee dispersal policy.” While the neighborhood disadvantage is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk, it is unclear which mechanistic pathways mediate this association, Leveraging a natural experiment in which refugees to Denmark were quasi-randomly assigned to neighborhoods across the country during 1986-1998 and using 30 years of follow-up data from population and health registers,

CSDE Affiliate Annie T. Chen (Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education) co-authored a new article in the Journal of Pain, entitled “Mobile App Use among Persons with Fibromyalgia: A Cross-Sectional Survey“. Persons with fibromyalgia experience a diverse set of symptoms. Recommendations for management generally focus on multidisciplinary approaches involving multiple modalities. Mobile apps can be an essential component for self-management, yet little is known about how persons with fibromyalgia use mobile apps for health-related purposes.