Add Health is now accepting abstracts for the 2024 Add Health Users Conference on Monday, June 17th, and Tuesday June 18th 2024. Any papers using Add Health data are welcome, including those with substantive or methodological topics. Abstracts must be submitted by Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Please use the abstract submission form on the conference website to submit your abstract. For more information, view the full
Call for Papers.
We strongly encourage abstracts that:
- Use Wave V data
- Examine health disparities and/or focus on racial/ethnic minority populations
- Study genetic and environmental influences on health and behavior
- Use biomarker data
- Use longitudinal social, behavioral, and environmental data
- Use cognitive data
- Study life course trajectories of health, family, education, and labor force participation
- Use data from the Add Health Parent Study
The Michigan Institute for Data Science is accepting applications for the 2024 cohort of their “Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility” program. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, a multi-university team offers a nationwide program to equip faculty and technical staff in biomedical sciences with the skills needed to improve the rigor and reproducibility of their research, and help them transfer such skills to their trainees. Session 1 will take place at the University of Michigan from June 17-22 and session 2 will take place at Jackson State University from July 28-Aug 2. Applications are due Thursday, February 29th. Learn more here.
CSDE is pleased to introduce two of our new External Research Affiliates. Rachel E. Wilbur, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Research Professor in the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) at Washington State University. Her research focus is on the role of cultural engagement and revitalization in promoting wellbeing for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and she is particularly invested in community- and strengths-based research. Taylor Okonek is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at Macalestar College. In 2023, she completed her PhD in Biostatistics at UW. Her current line of research involves developing new statistical methods for estimating child mortality in low- and middle-income countries with complex survey data. Read more about Wilbur and Okonek in the full story!
Rachel Wilbur – Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University) Rachel E. Wilbur, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Research Professor with IREACH in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is descendant Tolowa and Chetco. Her research focus is on the role of cultural engagement and revitalization in promoting wellbeing for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and she is particularly invested in community- and strengths-based research. She received both her MPH in health behavior and her PhD in biological anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before continuing her training as a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous Community Wellbeing at Harvard Medical School, where she was also a scholar with the Harvard University Native American Program. She currently serves as a member of the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Indigenous Research Working Group.
Taylor Okonek – Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Macalester College. Taylor Okonek is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Macalester College, and completed her Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington (UW) under the supervision of Jon Wakefield (a CSDE Affiliate) in Summer 2023. Her current line of research involves developing new statistical methods for estimating child mortality in low- and middle-income countries with complex survey data. She is currently working towards involving undergraduates at Macalester College in research projects related to age heaping and official statistics production for the United Nations. Her new lines of research is actively pursuing research with collaborators at Macalester related to ecological interactions in communities that live in close contact with large mammals, and the impact these interactions have on human and animal populations.
These affiliates bring a wealth of knowledge and unique approaches that enhance our community of demographers and collectively advances population science. We look forward to supporting each of them as they pursue their research. You can learn more about their individual research interests by visiting their affiliate pages, linked above.
If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or you know of someone who should become one, you can invite them to do so by directing them to this page. Affiliate applications are reviewed quarterly, by CSDE’s Executive Committee.
CSDE and co-sponsor The Population Health Initiative invites you to a seminar with James Raymer on Friday, Feb. 23rd from 12:30-1:30pm in PAR 360 and on Zoom (register here). Raymer is a Professor of Demography at the Australian National University and a visiting scholar with CSDE. His research focuses on developing innovative methodologies and analytical frameworks to study demographic processes. He is especially interested in understanding migration in situations where data are inadequate or missing, and has engaged in many interdisciplinary and international research collaborations on topics ranging from statistical estimation of migration flows to population estimation and forecasting.
Abstract: Flows of international migration are needed around the world to understand the patterns and corresponding effects on demographic, social and economic change across sending and receiving countries. A major challenge to this understanding is that nearly all of the countries in the world do not gather or produce reliable statistics on flows of international migration. The only information that are widely available represent immigrant population stocks measured at specific points in time – but these represent poor proxies for annual movements. In this talk, I discuss the issues and methodology I have developed for indirectly estimating annual flows of international migration using examples from recent work on Asia-Pacific migration and with the United Nations Population Division to infer age and sex patterns of net international migration.
CSDE Affiliate Jody O. Early (Nursing and Health Studies) published research with colleagues in Pedagogy in Health Promotion, titled “Pedagogy and Propaganda in the Post-Truth Era: Examining Effective Approaches to Teaching About Mis/DisInformation“. The proliferation of false or misleading health information poses a significant threat to public health, eroding trust in evidence-based practices and potentially leading to adverse health outcomes. In this post-truth era, it is crucial to equip students and those working in health occupations with the knowledge and skills that enhance their media literacy and ability to discern credible from suspect information. However, we must go further to help students critically examine mis/disinformation from an ecological perspective to understand the historical and socio-political factors that lead to its spread and their vulnerability to it. In this paper, authors offer a rationale for focusing on pedagogy to prevent and to mitigate the spread of mis/disinformation in health promotion, and provide examples of evidence-based approaches for doing so.