Join CSDE Training Core PI Audrey Dorélien and CSDE Training Director Jessica Godwin during our PAA 2025 Data Viz Office Hours to get feedback and consultation to improve the figures in your oral presentations or posters. Both faculty and students are welcome!!
Consults will be drop-in style, from 1:00-3:00PM on March 31st in Raitt 221 or on Zoom.
The Retirement Research Foundation (RRF) funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network. Of particular interest are:
A required LOI is due to the sponsor 5/1/2025. If invited by the sponsor to submit a full proposal, the deadline is 8/5/2025.
Check this space for new activities and events leading up to PAA 2025. We will update it regularly as the conference approaches:
Join the Network on Education, Biosocial Pathways, and Dementia across Diverse Populations (EdDem) at PAA 2025 for coffee, breakfast, and casual networking! We will meet at A Baked Joint (420 K St NW, Washington, DC 20001) on Friday, April 11th from 8:30 – 10:30am. We hope to see you there!
The Psychosocial Workshop is a two-day gathering of social scientists, public health researchers, and related professionals working on sexual and reproductive health issues, particularly those related to abortion, contraception, fertility, and sexually transmitted diseases. The signature format of the workshop is its dynamic series of five-minute presentations, where each speaker discusses current work or new ideas, that allows for peer feedback and dialogue in a collegial environment. Always held prior to the PAA Annual Meeting, this year the workshop will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, 2025 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington DC or virtually online. Learn more and register here.
The Center for Aging, Climate and Health (CACHE) also recently announced a 1-day mini-conference with the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) ahead of the PAA Annual Conference. The mini-conference will feature research presentations and discussion on data resources and gaps at the intersection of aging, climate, and health. Led by INRPHA and CACHE, this session will bring together researchers to explore pressing challenges and opportunities in the field.
The ownership and staffing of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have been closely watched by regulators in recent years. In a recent article published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, CSDE Affiliates Rachel Prusynski, Tracy Mroz (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine) and colleagues examine whether changes in SNF ownership were linked to shifts in staffing levels for nurses, non-nurses, administrators, and contract workers. The findings indicate that SNF ownership changes were associated with declines in overall patient care staffing, driven by nurse staffing declines. Read more here.
Congratulations to all our poster presenters for their very good work! Extra kudos to CSDE Trainee and T32 Fellow David Coomes (Epidemiology) for winning the best poster award during CSDE’s Winter 2025 Lightning Talks & Poster Session. David’s presentation, titled “The Role of Migration in the Rural-Mortality Penalty” concluded that rurality and out-migration are both associated with increased mortality at the county-level. The association is strongest among small urban counties (population 2,500 – 20,000). He will be presenting at PAA this Spring in Washington, D.C.
Many thanks to our other speakers, Elizabeth Nova (Sociology),“Needs Assessment of People Living in Vehicles in King County, WA”; Aryaa Rajouria (Sociology),”Migrating Narratives: A Text Analysis of Global News Coverage”; and Aidan Andronicos (Sociology), “Cancer Death Disparities and Uranium Mine Waste on Indian Reservations”. Thank you to our CSDE Program Coordinator Maddie Farris, CSDE Training Director Jessica Godwin, CSDE Certificate Program Advisor, Jill Fulmore and our student coordinator Desiree Salais for another great CSDE Lightning Talks & Poster Session. Finally, we want to thank everyone who attended and, especially, our wonderful CSDE Faculty Affiliates Panel of poster judges: Kyle Crowder, Audrey Dorelien, Pat Louie, Drew Messamore and Peter Catron.
Scholars and policymakers disagree about the causes of the dramatic racial inequalities in child welfare system outcomes such as child protection (CPS) investigations and child maltreatment. In a recent essay in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, CSDE External Affiliate Frank Edwards (Rutgers University) attempts to bridge the divide and argues that researchers and practitioners should emphasize analytical approaches that recognize the complex impacts of structural racism. Read the essay here.
The minimum quality standards (MQSs) for milk adopted by most major American cities around the turn of the 20th century present a valuable case study in public health history. In a recent article, CSDE External Affiliate D. Mark Anderson (Montana State University) and colleagues present the results of a study that estimates the effect of milk inspectors, who were tasked with enforcing MQSs, on deaths due to diarrhea and typhoid. Read the full study here.