CSDE Affiliate Katarina Guttmanova and co-authors recently examined the extent to which young adults with a history of substance abuse were impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic. In their article “Young adults with a history of substance use disorder experienced more negative mental health, social and economic outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic period,” published in the journal Addictions, they find that pandemic-related disruptions were especially consequential for young adults with a history of substance use disorder (SUD).
CSDE Affiliate Tajima Publishes Article in Children and Youth Services Review
CSDE Affiliate Emiko Tajima and colleagues recently published research on how the STRIVE intervention affected parenting approaches among families involved with child welfare systems. In a pilot study of a randomized treatment intervention that emphasized supervised parent – child time, the authors find that the intervention increased parenting skills, greater parental engagement, and higher quality interactions than the control group. You can read about the study in Children and Youth Services Review: “Strive to enhance supervised family time visits for children in foster care: Outcomes from a pilot study with randomization.”
*New* Center for Addiction Science, Policy, and Research Hiring COO/Strategy Director (Open until filled)
*New* Journal of Population and Sustainability (JP&S) Latest Issue – Volume 8, Number 2 Available Online
The Journal of Population and Sustainability (JP&S) is an Open Access interdisciplinary journal published by The White Horse Press, exploring all aspects of the relationship between human numbers and environmental issues. The journal publishes both peer reviewed and invited material. It is intended that the JP&S act as an interdisciplinary hub facilitating collaboration and furthering the development of the field. The JP&S is editorially independent and welcomes contributions from scholars with a variety of perspectives on the role of population in environmental problems. The views and opinions expressed by authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the editor, the editorial board or publisher.
JP&S invites contributions from the social sciences, humanities, environmental and natural sciences including those concerned with family planning and reproductive health. They also invite contributions from those working for NGOs with interests in population and environmental issues. They are interested in publishing original research papers, reviews of already published research, commentary, opinion pieces, book reviews and praxis articles outlining practical interventions in the field.
View Volume 8, Number 2 here
Administrative Coordinator, Department of Sociology (Open Until Filled) University of Pennsylvania
Senior Manager, Evaluation and Impact (Open until filled)
UW Disasters, Demography, Data Science & Decisions (D4) Hack Week to Provide NOAA with Insights on Managing Weather Challenges
Fifty researchers from across the country will gather Sept. 9-13 at the University of Washington to tackle the challenge of providing timely, integrated information about community responses to severe climate-related events. The goal of the Disasters, Demography, Data Science & Decisions (D4) Hack Week, funded by NOAA and NIH support from a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research infrastructure grant (P2C HD042828), is to provide policymakers with better models and integrated data for anticipating communities’ needs before, during and after natural disasters.
Specifically, the effort seeks to understand the disparate impacts across populations, and the decisions that need to be made related to severe weather events like flooding, hurricanes and wildfire. Beside addressing data integration challenges, the teams will also develop AI tools for data integration and new approaches to managing uncertainties.
Researchers have formed seven teams tackling improvements in understanding the impacts of severe weather events including flooding from atmospheric rivers, wildfire, and tropical cyclones. Teams will present progress on their projects 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 and these can be viewed via livestream on the UW Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE) YouTube channel.
The week-long hackathon — a type of hands-on, multi-day collaborative workshop bringing together a wide range of experts – is hosted by the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES) (AI2ES), the UW Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE), and the UW eScience Institute. The event will identify new types of data and ways for NOAA’s Societal Data Insights to integrate datasets, including advancements in AI and machine learning; and lessons learned to improve future weather communications tools. During the hack-a-thon, researchers will showcase examples of how people and communities react before, during and after events.
The seven teams include projects such as:
- A UW-led team exploring data on wildfires, household FEMA claims and demographics in California, to better understand federal disaster assistance after wildfires
- A team from AI2ES and its partners (including members from NSF NCAR, Stanford, University of Oklahoma, and the UW), looking at surveys of individuals before, during and after a spring 2024 atmospheric river flooding event (an event with heavy rainfall over a sustained time) in Southern California to understand how people adapt their driving behavior to such extreme weather events
- A multi-institutional team exploring how tropical cyclones affect human migration, focusing on locations and demographics, by combining county-level migration with data on tropical cyclones, wildfires, floods and other sources
- A team exploring how current flood management tools might deal with future climate scenarios, using data from FEMA, the National Flood Insurance Program and other sources
The event is funded through a major NOAA initiative to improve risk communication during weather emergencies and by NIH support from a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research infrastructure grant (P2C HD042828). Participants are from Arizona State University, Brown University, Colorado State University, Columbia University, CUNY, Florida State University, MIT, the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Pennsylvania State University, the Population Council, Portland State University, Princeton University, The Weather Company, the University of Colorado, the University of Miami, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Wisconsin and the UW. Teams include experts in climate science, atmospheric sciences, weather data and models, demography, psychology, risk analysis and communication, geography, sociology, ecology, forest sciences, agriculture, and environmental policy.
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For more information about the event, contact: d4hackweek@uw.edu.
*New* Biomarker Working Group: DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Clocks (8/1/24)
Date: Thursday, August 1, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Raitt 223 and https://washington.zoom.us/j/91571954774
Please join the CSDE Biomarker Working Group for an upcoming discussion on DNA methylation and epigenetic clocks as biomarkers of aging! Special guest, Dr. Calen Ryan (Associate Research Scientist and Senior Data Scientist, Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University) will present an overview of how epigenetic clocks are used in research on biological aging. Following the presentation, there will be time for questions and discussions of how DNA methylation data and methods might be applied to your research interests. From some background reading, please check out this review paper by Dr. Ryan.
The Biomarker Working Group meets on the first Thursday of each month. Please contact Tiffany Pan (tpan@uw.edu) for more information.
Jones and Schleimer Co-Author Story in the Seattle Times on Violence Intervention Programs
CSDE Affiliate Kristian Jones recently co-authored an article with UW Department of Epidemiology Doctoral Candidate Julia Schleimer in the Seattle Times titled, “Violence Intervention Programs Need Time to Demonstrate Impact.” Dr. Jones and Schleimer are also a part of the UW Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program where they research recent investments in community violence intervention. The article contextualizes questions about whether rates of violence have changed as a result of investing in these interventions and whether it is reasonable to expect immediate changes. Following the many events that occurred during the pandemic, governments began to invest in a different kind of public safety strategy, called community violence intervention. This strategy, “supports individuals at highest risk for interpersonal violence.” Dr. Jones and Schleimer state that while all programs are working towards preventing violence, it is a longer-term goal that will likely take years to see because community violence intervention programs are working against deeply rooted systems. Read the rest of the article to learn more about these intervention programs and other important information.
*New* CSDE Scholars Please Link your Publication to CSDE’s Center Grant
We need your help! Please link your research publications via PubMed to CSDE’s center grant, if you have benefitted from CSDE’s infrastructure. CSDE’s center grant infrastructure (staff, computing, seminars, seed funding, matches, mock reviews, working groups, travel funds, e-news announcements, etc.) wouldn’t be possible without NIH support. It’s easy to link your publications and it shows our sponsors what great work we are doing, which means we can better support you!
Acknowledgements in the acknowledgements section of your paper are also very much appreciated. Here is a link to language for acknowledging CSDE’s support in your work (presentations and publications).