Assistant or Associate Professor, Demography / Population Science, University of Colorado – Boulder (10/18/24)
Curran to Deliver Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture (10/17/24)
While the idea of “to be counted is to be seen”, is often taken for granted as foundational for democracy, who is counted and why has changed numerous times in our nation’s history. These changes have impacts big and small and implications on politics and policymaking. In this lecture, Dr. Sara Curran will discuss past and present ways in which demographic diversity has been measured and why, and also the intersectional complexities of measuring demographic diversity. Learn more and register here.
Awar to Co-host Evening of Reflection on the Life and Activism of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi (10/25/24)
On Friday, October 25th, CSDE Seminar Series Chair and Faculty Council Member of the Middle East Center Dr. Rawan Arar and Dr. Aria Fani (Middle East Center Faculty Council member) will host an event entitled “An evening of reflection on the life and activism of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.” Late this summer, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed while protesting in the West Bank. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was a recent graduate of the UW.
The evening will include a musical performance and poetry readings, as well as a conversation with Cindy and Craig Corrie. Their daughter, Rachel Corrie, was also a human rights activist from WA who was killed while protesting in Palestine in 2003. Aysenur’s family will be in attendance as well. We hope that this solemn event will be a meaningful recognition of our students’ loss. Learn more about the event and how to attend at this link.
Open Rank Faculty, Educator: SOPH Population Health Science (Open until filled)
Postdoc, Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (Open until filled)
CSSS Fall 2024 Seminar Series (10/2/24 – 12/4/24)
The CSSS Seminar features local and visiting scholars presenting current research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences. Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30 pm in room SAV 409 during an academic year. Seminars are available to anyone interested and are being presented in a hybrid format. To attend a seminar virtually, please register here. An email with login information will be sent to you upon registration. Graduate students pursuing a CSSS track may receive credit by enrolling in CS&SS 590. Questions? Contact CSSS (csss@uw.edu).
Upcoming Seminar:
Wednesday, October 16th, 12:30pm-1:30pm
NOTE: This seminar will be offered as a remote ZOOM session only. Find the Zoom link here.
Mayana Pereira, Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab
Opening Microsoft Data for Social Good: privacy-preserving technologies unlocking powerful social insights
In this talk you will learn how privacy preserving data disclosure technologies can unlock powerful social insights. The talk will cover two of Microsoft’s differentially private data releases: the broadband data and the digital literacy data. These data sets, created using Microsoft’s private data, bring powerful insights to the current state digital divide in the United States.
Mayana is a Data Scientist at Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab – a philanthropic team of data scientists and researchers dedicated to using AI, Machine Learning and statistical modeling to tackle some of humanity’s greatest challenges. Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab partners with leading nonprofits, research institutions, NGOs, and governments to accelerate work across the AI for Good program portfolio—Earth, Accessibility, Humanitarian Action, Cultural Heritage, Health—as well as other pressing issues such as affordable housing, broadband access, digital skills, justice reform, legal compliance, etc.
Mayana’s research is currently focused on the intersection of digital safety/cybersecurity/software security and artificial intelligence, as well as the impacts of privacy-preserving techniques in machine learning deployment scenarios. Mayana is an active collaborator of OpenDP, an open-source project for the differential privacy community to develop general-purpose, vetted, usable, and scalable tools for differential privacy.
Intro to R II: Working With Data
Join CSDE Statistical Demographer & Training Director Jessica Godwin for a 75 minute introduction to data manipulation in R. This workshop, the second in a series of 3, will cover reading and writing data, summarizing data, creating new variables, and moving between long and wide data formats. This workshop will be followed by Intro to R III: Data Visualization.
The workshop will be hybrid with in-person attendance in Savery 121 and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration. Learn more and register here.
Author Meets Critics – Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare – Dr. Nora Kenworthy
- When: Friday, Oct 11, 2024 (12:30-1:30PM)
- Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)
We are looking forward to hosting Nora Kenworthy (School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Washington Bothell) on Friday, Oct. 11 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.
Join UW Bothell Professor and CSDE Affiliate Nora Kenworthy for an author-meets-critics discussion of her recent book, Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Health Care (MIT Press). Crowded Out draws on nearly a decade of research on crowdfunding for health care costs in the US and around the globe, showing how this now ubiquitous form of charitable assistance is fueled by, and further reinforces, the financial and moral “toxicities” of market-based health systems. Using ethnographic and quantitative data, the book examines how charitable crowdfunding so quickly overtook public life, and who gets left behind by these new platformed economies. Dr. Kenworthy will be joined by Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology, UW) and Amy Hagopian (Health Systems and Population Health, UW).
Author:
Nora Kenworthy is a Professor of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. She is also adjunct faculty in the Departments of Global Health and Anthropology at UW Seattle. Broadly speaking, her work examines how politics, technology, and inequality affect health. She is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare (MIT Press, 2024), and of the award-winning ethnography, Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017). She received her PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.
Critics:
Dr. Anjum Hajat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Her research seeks to understand how social and environmental determinants of health contribute to poor health and health disparities. Specifically, her environmental health research has examined environmental injustice and health disparities caused by environmental factors. In terms of social factors, she has a large body of work around the health impacts of precarious employment and other forms of social inequity. She strives to engage with communities most impacted by injustice and disparities while also answering questions to guide policy and action.
Dr. Amy Hagopian is professor emeritus in public health at the University of Washington. She conducts academic work on how the maldistribution of power and wealth undermines health. She taught a class on war and health for 9 years at UW, and led a team to measure war-related mortality in Iraq in 2011. She’s currently involved in research projects to improve methods to count the number of people living homeless, deprived of the human right to housing. She taught a class on homelessness, with an emphasis on causes and consequences of living unsheltered. She serves as chair of the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health and received the APHA’s Sidel-Levy award for Peace in 2018. She is incoming chair of APHA’s International Health Section, active in APHA’s Peace Caucus, Caucus on Homelessness, and a leader in the Global Alliance on War, Conflict and Health.
*New* Intro to R II: Working With Data (10/8/24)
Join CSDE Statistical Demographer & Training Director Jessica Godwin for a 75 minute introduction to data manipulation in R. This workshop, the second in a series of 3, will cover reading and writing data, summarizing data, creating new variables, and moving between long and wide data formats. This workshop will be followed by Intro to R III: Data Visualization.
The workshop will be hybrid with in-person attendance in Savery 121 and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration. Learn more and register here.