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Kenworthy Announced as 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently announced CSDE Affiliate Nora Kenworthy as a member of the 2025 class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program. At a highly polarized time for many health issues, Kenworthy’s project, “Public Health in Polarized Times: Finding “Islands of Solidarity” for Effective Digital Public Health Campaigns in the U.S.” aims to identify, broaden, and deepen “islands of solidarity” around core public health values and messages. Her project will identify where Americans find common ground and purpose when it comes to their health, and work with institutional partners to develop, test, and refine digital messaging strategies to decrease polarization and build common cause in the realm of population health. Read more about the project and Dr. Kenworthy’s work here.

*New* Registration Open for the 2025 Natural Hazards Workshop (5/2/25)

This year’s Workshop will focus on the theme of The Next 50 Years: Charting a Course for the Hazards and Disaster Field. You can visit this page to learn more about registration for the Natural Hazards Workshop, which will be held July 13 to 16. Workshop registration is capped at 750 attendees, and you can also register for the Researchers Meeting that follows from July 16 to 17, or the Practitioners Meeting on July 17.
Accommodations
The Workshop, Researchers Meeting, and Practitioners Meeting will be held in person at theOmni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado. Please visit the accommodations section of our website for information about meals, transportation, and nearby attractions. This is also where you can access special hotel rates and learn about other nearby lodging options.

Updates or Questions

Please share this email with others who might want to attend and encourage them to visit our sign-up page. You can also get Workshop updates from our NHC LinkedIn and Bluesky accounts. If you are unable to register without approval from your agency or organization, or if you have other questions, please email us at: hazards.workshop@colorado.edu.

*New* Nicolai Wohns to present at the CSDE Biomarker Working Group Meeting (5/1/2025)

On 5/1 from 12:00-1:00 pm, Dr. Nicolai Wohns will be presenting at the monthly CSDE Biomarker Working Group meeting. The Biomarker Working Group is a forum for discussing practical and theoretical issues related to collecting and using biomarker data in population research. This event takes a hybrid format, meeting in Raitt 223 and on Zoom.
Nicolai Wohns is a physician and PhD candidate in philosophy at UW, studying the philosophy of aging, with particular interest in ethical and epistemic implications of geroscience. Dr. Wohns will present a talk entitled “The Ethics of Age Estimators.”
 
Age estimators have been shown to predict chronological age, onset of aging-related diseases, all-cause mortality, and disease-specific mortality, as well as other variables, such as income level, physical exercise, and vegetable intake. While their potential as diagnostic and prognostic instruments is considerable, these technologies also raise pressing ethical concerns—both within clinical settings and across society more broadly. In this work-in-progress talk, I examine the concept of biological age and explore a range of ethical challenges posed by the use of biological clocks.