CSDE Welcomes 4 New Faculty Affiliates
CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates:
- Liane Sheppard – Rohm & Haas Endowed Professor, Biostatistics and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. Liane is principal investigator of a NIH-funded training grant called Biostatistics, Epidemiologic & Bioinformatics Training in Environmental Health, and she oversees the SURE-EH training program, a project to promote diversity in the environmental health sciences. She is also co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded Adult Changes in Thought Air Pollution study and of a Health Effects Institute study to better understand the role of exposure assessment design and modeling in inference about air pollution health effects. She is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In 2021, she was named chair of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, and currently serves on the National Research Council Committee for the Review of EPA’s 2021 Formaldehyde Assessment, as well as the Environmental Sciences Review Panel of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
- Erin (Abu-Rish) Blakeney – Research Assistant Professor, UW School of Nursing; Team Science Core Co-Director, UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences. Erin has nearly 15 years of experience as a health professions and health services researcher in developing, implementing, and testing team-based approaches to interprofessional education, healthcare, and research. Her past and current work focus on changing the social, cultural, and historic systems that create and
perpetuate inequalities in health research, training, care and outcomes. - Kemi M. Doll – Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology. Kemi is a gynecologic oncologist with training in epidemiology and clinical research, which she uses to apply health equity frameworks to long-standing racial inequities in endometrial cancer (EC). She has expertise in population-level analyses, community-engaged research, and patient-reported outcomes. She has pursued a bold and broad research agenda to eliminate the Black-White mortality gap in EC, securing several peer-reviewed, competitive grants from the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Network (NCCN), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparity (NIMHD).
- Steven Bourassa – Professor and Chair, Runstad Department of Real Estate; Director, Washington Center for Real Estate Research. Steven’s research focuses on urban housing and land markets and policy, covering a range of topics including housing tenure, residential property valuation, property taxation, housing affordability, low-income housing policy, community land trusts, and public land leasehold. He has published his research in numerous real estate and related journals, is on the editorial boards of eight real estate journals and received the Research Achievement Award from the International Real Estate Society, of which he is a past President.
These affiliates bring a wealth of knowledge and unique approaches that enhance our community of demographers and collectively advances population science. We look forward to supporting each of them as they pursue their research. You can learn more about their individual research interests by visiting their affiliate pages, linked above.
If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or you know of someone who should become one, you can invite them to do so by directing them to this page. Affiliate applications are reviewed quarterly, by CSDE’s Executive Committee.
Call for Papers: Williams and Colleagues to Host Migration & Health Workshop October 12-13, 2023
CSDE Affiliates Nathalie Williams and Visiting Fulbright Scholar Dr. Sarfraz Khan will be hosting a workshop focused on Migration & Health: Perspectives from South Asia on October 12-13, 2023 on the UW campus (co-sponsored by CSDE and the South Asia Center). Send your proposed paper for the workshop by July 31, 2023 to southasiamig@uw.edu. Accepted papers and authors will be informed by August 16, 2023.
Workshop on Migration & Health: Perspectives from South Asia
October 12 – 13, 2023
Seattle, Washington
Brief description:
Human migration is a defining issue of our time and is increasingly recognized as a global public health priority. Migration has long been linked to the transmission of diseases and health risks, especially in the era of epidemics which do not respect international borders. Scholarship on health and migration has examined the social, political, and economic production of diseases and their interaction with processes of migration, transit, legal status, and migrants’ incorporation into the places to which they migrate, over time – as well as their effects on the places of origin.
The South Asian region is home to billions of people, as well as the source and destination of a substantial proportion of migrants globally. There are many similarities between the migration patterns and health vulnerabilities of the different countries in this region. While there are numerous country case studies about migration throughout the region, few efforts have integrated knowledge across the region. Understanding the similarities that combine to create a regional migration system and the differences between countries and micro-regions within countries can advance academic and policy-relevant research far more than research on each country in isolation.
The University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and the South Asia Center invite you to submit extended abstracts for a workshop that showcases emerging work on the causes and types of migration and the health consequences of migration across the countries of South Asia. For participants, this workshop seeks to catalyze relationships among academics around the world to create opportunities for future collaborations.
Submission guidelines:
We encourage scholarly work based on quantitative, qualitative and ethnographic analyses of the thematic areas listed below or other topics related to health and migration, more broadly. Work on any individual country within the region or comparative studies across countries is welcome. We will accept extended abstracts of 2-3 pages that include research objectives, methodology, research gap or significance, and major findings- either tables, graphs, or descriptions.
1) Labour migration; health screening and deportation, segmented labour markets, conjugated oppression and its health effects, invisible health risks.
2) Epidemics and migration; border controls, ‘healthy carriers’ and vectors of disease; the violence of transit.
3) Gender, migration, and health; reproduction; sexuality
4) Transnationalism and, social remittances; transnational migrant and diaspora investment in health
5) Diaspora and disease; identity claims and health care resources, multicultural accommodation
6) Health workforce and migration; brain drain and assimilation in health systems, return migrants.
7) Undocumented migration; human trafficking, sex work, domestic labour; abuse, embodied vulnerability and health-related undeservingness
8) Refugee’s; asylum seeking, and biolegitimacy
To submit a paper to the workshop, please send your extended abstract, name, title, and institution to southasiamig@uw.edu by July 31, 2023. We will inform you if your paper is selected for presentation by August 16, 2023.
A limited number of travel grants are available for graduate students and scholars from low- and middl-income countries. Please indicate in your email whether you wish to be considered for a travel grant.
Workshop Organizing Committee:
Drs. Sarfraz Khan and Nathalie Williams
Department of Sociology, Jackson School of International Studies, & South Asia Center
University of Washington, Seattle USA
Register to Attend the Fall Interdisciplinary Team Science, Community Engaged Research Workshop
Join the University of Washington Health Sciences Schools, College of Engineering and the Population Health Initiative this fall for an appointment, promotion and tenure (APT) workshop. The workshop will take place on Monday, September 25, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (Room 155).
The aim of this workshop is to introduce the APT toolkit for early career faculty and pre- and post-docs who conduct interdisciplinary team science research or interdisciplinary community engaged research. As part of the workshop, they will have participant-driven discussions to identify additional support systems that are needed for the APT process.
The workshop will also include:
- A panel of interdisciplinary researchers speaking on what has made their community engaged research successful;
- Overview of the Faculty Senate’s Class A Legislation and Class C Resolution on Community Engaged Research;
- Institute of Translational Health Sciences APT Toolkit and Team Science Certificate Program;
- Exercises to generate ideas and feedback, enhance support and spark collaboration; and,
- Information on interdisciplinary grant opportunities at the UW and beyond.
Please register here to participate.
Guest Presenters Needed for the UW Data Science Seminar
Sign up now to give a presentation as part of eScience Institute’s UW Data Science Seminar Series. The annual series will resume in person for the Fall 2023 Quarter on Tuesday, October 4th in the PAA Auditorium 102. The series showcases a variety of data science methods and tools and how they’re utilized in domain science fields, regional partners, governmental agencies, and industry. The eScience Institute welcomes researchers at any stage in their career, from postdoctoral scholars and beyond. They are looking to host scholars for presentations between October 2023 and May 2024. Seminar dates are filled on a first come, first served basis – sign up here.
MPI 20th Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference
The Migration Policy Institute is co-organizing its annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference. The conference will feature fresh, thoughtful policy and legal analysis, and discussion of some of the top immigration issues by leading experts, including government officials, policymakers, attorneys, and advocates.
- Registration will be $30 for online attendance and $85 for in-person attendance.
- More information on registration, agenda, and speakers to follow soon.
- Please save the date for this conference & remember it will be at Georgetown’s Main Campus!
- Email training@cliniclegal.org with any questions.
More to come soon! Save the date info can be found here.
Universita di Trento in Italy Seeking an Assistant Professor in General Sociology
Applications for Horowitz Foundation 2024 Awards Now Open (Deadline: 12/1/2023)
Patwardhan Publishes New Research on Maternal Cash Transfer in India
CSDE Affiliate Vedavati Patwardhan has released new research in Health Economics entitled “The Impact of the Mamata Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Child Nutrition in Odisha, India”. Using data from the National Family Health Survey, she evaluates the impact of the program on child nutrition and finds heterogeneities in the positive effects by wealth. Fantastic work, Dr. Patwardhan!