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Berridge and Team Members Awarded Grant from the Massachusetts General Hospital Roybal Center for Dyadic Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

CSDE Affiliate Clara Berridge (Social Work) has been awarded a $777,488 grant to conduct a two-year pilot through the new Massachusetts General Hospital Roybal Center for Behavioral Dyadic Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, supported by NIA. Berridge, David Huh (Social Work), and other members of the study team at the Clinical Informatics Research Group will conduct an RCT to test mechanisms and outcomes of Let’s Talk Tech, the first tool to help care partners and people living with dementia understand and make decisions about digital health technologies. A goal of this dyadic intervention is to enable families to identify and discuss preferences about technology use held by people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment and to prepare their care partners to make informed, person-centered decisions in the future. This research will continue to advance scientific knowledge about how to enable empowered shared decision making about digital health technologies in the context of an expanding field of AI-integrated devices.

Swanson to Present at 47th Fulbright Association Annual Meeting

CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson (UC Riverside) will present a paper entitled Population Aging in the Western Hemisphere: 2020 to 2050 in the virtual track of the annual meeting of the Fulbright Association on November 8. The paper finds that the Western Hemisphere is facing a significant increase in the population aged 65 years and over, which is expected to more than double between 2020 and 2050. In addition to the findings about upcoming demographic changes, the paper discusses policy implications of these changes for the Western Hemisphere and its multiple regions. Learn more about the conference here.

Audrey Dorélien Joins CSDE as the New Training Core PI

Professor Audrey Dorélien has joined CSDE’s leadership team as the new Training Core PI! Dr. Dorélien is a new faculty member in the Sociology Department at UW and is a CSDE Research Affiliate as well. She previously taught at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs for 10 years. Her research agenda strives to elucidate how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with environmental conditions to affect health. Her recent work analyzes the effects of early life exposures (especially seasonal factors) on child health in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. Another current strand of research describes and analyzes contact patterns (age pattern of social contacts, and age-specific contact matrices showing whom interacts with whom) in the United States. The latter has important implications for the study and control of infectious diseases, such as influenza, measles, and COVID-19. She also has conducted research on spatial demography/ urbanization with a focus on implications for health and climate change vulnerability. Her research has appeared in Population Development Review, Demography, Journal of Urban Health, Population Health Metrics, Demographic Research, Biodemography and Social Biology, Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Affective Disorders, and PLoS ONE. Reach out to Dr. Dorélien for about our T32 fellowship and other opportunities for trainees. 

Will von Geldern is the New CSDE RA for the 24-25 Academic Year, Welcome (back) to CSDE!

CSDE is happy to have Will von Geldern as our new Research Assistant for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Will is a PhD student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He is also a former CSDE Trainee! His dissertation research focuses on the individual and structural barriers that low-income tenants face when trying to access eviction-related legal aid. He will now be taking over the CSDE newsletter for the academic year and will also be assisting during our CSDE Seminar Series! Please continue to send your news stories and research to csde@uw.edu. If you have any program related questions, reach out to our Program Coordinator, Maddie Farris, at csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. If you have any computing questions, email csde_help@uw.edu. We are excited for Will to join the CSDE team this year!

Welcome back to CSDE! Enjoy Lunch and Catch Up with Colleagues on Friday 9/27 @12:30pm!

Please join CSDE in celebrating the start of the 2024-2025 Academic Year and Fall Quarter on Friday (9/27) at 12:30pm (Location: Between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall)! Catch up with your colleagues, meet new affiliates, staff members, fellows, and trainees, and find out what is new and upcoming at CSDE. You’ll have a chance to pick up your own Autumn Qtr Seminar Series Poster (download link here) and enjoy food and refreshments.

For those of you who are new to CSDE, be sure to sign up for our calendar of events  and our weekly e-news.  The former includes our workshops and weekly seminar series and the latter includes a host of updates about CSDE affiliates’ accomplishments and opportunities for grants, conferences, publications, new research resources, etc.  Don’t forget to send your news to csde@uw.edu!

The autumn quarter seminar series is completely full and includes a wide range of presentations from UW colleagues and visitors.  The seminar is held @12:30pm in 360 Barrington Hall.  On October 4 CSDE hosts Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (University of Wisconsin – Madison) who will be speaking about re-orienting family planning measurements.  On October 11 Dr. Nora Kenworthy (UW Bothell) will take part in an author meets critics session about her new book Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare.  Dr. Erin McElroy (Geography) will also take part in an author meets critic session about her book Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times on October 18.  We will welcome new CSDE affiliate Dr. Ispista Day (Comparative History of Ideas) on October 25 for her talk about plantation legacies in Fiji.  On November 1 we will welcome new affiliate Dr. Audrey Dorelien (Sociology) who will present research on partisanship, health behaviors, and COVID-19 disease spread.  Dr. Hyojung Lee (Seoul National University) will join us on November 8 for a presentation on gentrification in small metropolitan places and suburbs.  Dr. Josh Wilde (Oxford University and Co-editor of Population and Development Review) will present their research on climate change and fertility on November 15.  Then, on November 22, Dr. Sasha Johfre (CSSS and Sociology) will present their research on conceptualizing age and predicting inequality.

There are several great workshops for developing your research toolkit coming up.  Check them out here: https://csde.washington.edu/training/demographic-training-resources/workshops/

Plus, there is a great list of speakers for the Computational Demography Working Group (Wednesdays at 9am).  Check them out here: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/

But, first, let’s celebrate the start of the new academic quarter on this Friday!

Where: Between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall

Date: Friday, Sept. 27th, 20234

Time: 12:30-1:30 PM

We are meeting at the usual 12:30 PM seminar time, but please note the special location for the reception: Outdoors between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall.