IPUMS PMA recently released Phase 3 data from Performance Monitoring for Action’s longitudinal panel of childbearing women, which are primarily designed for analyzing contraceptive and fertility dynamics over time. Join us on October 24th to learn how to download a dataset with panel data and how to analyze these new data.

Urban@UW is hosting a seminar by Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware), who will speak on technology use by disabled people. How do disabled people use their technologies to draw attention to, rather than hide, their disability? The disabled gaze is an autonomous claiming of identity that rejects typical perceptions of disability as objectifying or exploitative. It offers a way to examines how disabled people, past and present, asserted themselves—through art, for instance—or challenged medical assumptions about their bodies.  What happens when we center the disabled gaze in our creations of the future? In this talk, Dr. Jaipreet Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the ways people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost.  The lecture will be accompanied by an ASL interpreter and will include CART captioning.

Jaipreet Virdi is a scholar activist and Associate Professor in the Department of History at University of Delaware. Her first book, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Psyche, The Wellcome Collection, and the New Internationalist. She is on Twitter as @jaivirdi 

On October 25 @11am, NICHD Director Dr. Diana Bianchi will be hosting a webinar in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to explore what is working well and what challenges remain within the research ecosystem in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists from both countries will discuss research on social determinants of health and the pandemic’s impact on children and adolescents in underserved communities, among other topics.

The event will be simulcast in French, with English closed captioning and sign language interpretation also available.
 
Register at https://bit.ly/48iBHF2 .

UW’s College of the Environment invites you to join them for an evening with Dr. Heather Tallis to explore how weaving nature more deliberately into the fabric of our urban communities can improve our quality of life. From urban parks to sustainable infrastructure, integrating nature into our cities makes us healthier, happier, smarter and safer.

Dr. Tallis, Assistant Director for Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, leads cross-agency work on nature-based solutions, connects nature to economics, and initiated the National Nature Assessment. Additionally, she serves as a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, and as a board member for NSERC ResNet, a Canadian research network promoting resilient ecosystems. She brings her expertise from The Nature Conservancy, the Natural Capital Project, and global platforms like the World Economic Forum. Her influence extends to vital projects including the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. She received her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Please join CSDE in welcoming Rebbeca Tesfai (Temple University) along with co-sponsors, the Population Health Initiative and the Horn of Africa Initiative. Dr. Tesfai’s seminar will take place from 12:30-1:30PM on Friday, Oct. 207th in 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom.  Dr. Tesfai will also be available for 1-1 meetings throughout the day. Sign up here if you would like to meet!

The United States has always prided itself as providing safe haven to those who are persecuted. Yet, the United States did not develop policy for admitting and resettling refugees until 1980. Unlike Asians and Europeans, African refugees in the 1980s were chosen primarily based on skill, but no research thus far examines whether this strategy led to greater long-term economic success for African refugees. This paper examines racial differences in refugees’ likelihood of living in poverty, receiving welfare income, engaging in full-time employment and wages between 1990 and 2019. Dr. Tesfai finds that refugees show improvement in all four outcomes. African refugees, however, earn less than nearly all other groups in all time periods suggesting blocked mobility, particularly among men. Analyses focus on the 1982–1987 entry cohort of refugees who had access to more assistance than future cohorts. Consequently, these findings likely show the best-case scenario for refugees’ long-term economic outcomes.

Rebbeca Tesfai is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple University. Her research provides a comprehensive account of Black immigrants’ economic, political, and residential incorporation over time and across place. As a social demographer, she uses these analyses to re-examine our theoretical understanding of both immigrant incorporation and racial stratification. Her work has been published in race/ethnicity, urban, and immigration journals including International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and the Journal of Refugee Studies.

After the seminar, CSDE Trainee Courtney Allen will facilitate a graduate student discussion with Dr. Tesfai from 1:30-2:15 in Raitt 221. Students will have the opportunity to discuss research collaborations, professional development, academic publishing, and interdisciplinary research, among other topics. Please email Courtney (ckallen@uw.edu) by 12pm Wednesday to meet.