*New* Survey Statistician
Urban@UW Requests Applications for the Research to Action Collaboratory
CSDE Seminar: Modelling Migration to Understand Demographic Change
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.
Early and Co-authors Examine Approaches to Teaching About Mis/DisInformation
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.
NIH Funding: Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Call for Applications: Time Use Data for Health and Well-Being Workshop
*New* CSSS Seminar – Homogenizing the High Street: the Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination
Riley and Colleagues Discuss the Link Between Organized Abandonment and Public Health
CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley (Epidemiology) released research with co-authors in Social Science & Medicine, titled “Organized abandonment under racial capitalism: Measuring accountable actors of structural racism for public health research and action“. Understanding the shifting nature of structural racism historically and across institutions is vital for effective action towards racial health equity. While public health research on structural racism is rapidly increasing, most studies are missing the interdependence of policies and institutional practices over time that shape power imbalances and lead to entrenched health inequities. Here, authors discuss Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s concept of organized abandonment — the intentional disinvestment in communities which, in turn, creates opportunities for extraction, revenue generation, and carceral enforcement to fill the cracks of a compromised social infrastructure — to encourage action-oriented public health research that is grounded in history and an understanding of racial capitalism. They present a case example using publicly-available data on redlining, gentrification and policing in Seattle, Washington.