ARPA-H Hits the Ground Running with Sprint for Women’s Health (Proposers day on 3/6/24, Funding opportunities to be announced)
Eisenberg Quoted in the New Scientist About a New Study on the Origins of ADHD
CSDE Affiliate and Science Core PI Dan Eisenberg (Anthropology) was quoted in an article by Chen Ly in the New Scientist, commenting on a new study that suggests ADHD evolved in hunter-gatherer societies to improve humans’ foraging ability. Eisenberg says “determining exactly how behaviours associated with ADHD may have been adaptive within past environments is difficult, and these results are compelling in that they demonstrate measurable differences in the foraging strategies employed by individuals with and without ADHD”. Read more in the full article here.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts David Coomes on Examining the Role of Migration in the Rural Mortality Penalty
CSSS Seminar with Roy Burstein: What is driving low rates of childhood vaccination in DRC?
Williams and Colleagues Evaluate VA’s Intervention to Improve Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
CSDE Affiliate Emily Williams (Health Systems and Population Health) published an article with co-authors in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, titled “‘The Only Reason I Am Willing to Do It at All’: Evaluation of VA’s SUpporting Primary care Providers in Opioid Risk reduction and Treatment (SUPPORT) Center“. Medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is effective and recommended for outpatient settings. Researchers implemented and evaluated the SUpporting Primary care Providers in Opioid Risk reduction and Treatment (SUPPORT) Center—a quality improvement partnership to implement stepped care for MOUD in 2 Veterans Health Administration (VA) primary care (PC) clinics.
CSDE Winter 2024 Lightning Talk & Poster Session
Please join CSDE and the Population Health Initiative for short talks and a poster session featuring research from our CSDE Trainees and Fellows! The session will take place in-person in Green A of the Research Commons in Allen Library South from 12:30-1:30 PM on Friday, March 8th. This year’s event features the work of several students:
- Hana Brown (Sociology): Evaluating the Influence of Colorism on the Risk of Pregnancy Loss Among American Women
- Courtney Allen (Sociology): Reforestation and Population Age Structure
- June Yang (Sociology): Gender Differences in Perceptions of Cohabitation in China: A Method Experiment
- Ihsan Kahveci (Sociology): Mode and Instrument Comparison of Surveys on Homelessness with Respondent-Driven Sampling