Recent work by CSDE Affiliate Steven Goodreau entitled “Impacts of COVID-19 on sexual behaviors, HIV prevention and care among men who have sex with men: A comparison of New York City and Metropolitan Atlanta” was published in PLOS ONE. This paper considers changes in sexual behavior, HIV testing, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use and antiretroviral therapy (ART) use among men who have sex with men (MSM) over the first year of the COVID-19 epidemic, comparing the Atlanta metropolitan area and New York City (NYC). The authors assess changes over time utilizing three continuous datasets to compare results within and across cities.
CSDE Affiliates and Trainees Represented at the Population Association of America
If you couldn’t attend the PAA, you missed a good time and we missed you! CSDE had a good showing at the event with affiliates, alumni, trainees, and scientists presenting their work, discussing others’ work, and networking at every turn. Here is a pdf displaying PAA participation among those we knew about. If you were there and we missed you, please let Sara know (scurran@uw.edu)!
Elizabeth Nova presenting her paper during a Saturday morning session at PAA.
Crystal Yu presenting her poster on Friday afternoon at PAA.
UW Symposium on Contracting Freedom and Latinx History
The UW Harry Bridges Center, Department of History, Latin American Studies, and American Ethnic Studies are collaborating on a special event marking the release of historian Maria Quintana’s new book Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). The book is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guest worker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean. Quintana’s book offers an expansive interpretation of those government-sponsored programs and draws historical connections between enslaved labor, Japanese American incarceration, Caribbean decolonization, New Deal programs, and Black freedom struggles. The program will take place in the Allen Library at 3:30pm and will include the author and several scholars who will reflect on the book’s relevance.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group Hosts Yan Zhang on Parenthood and Older Adults’ Cognitive Health (4/19/23)
On April 19 from 3-4pm Dr. Yan Zhang (U of Wisconsin) will join CDWG to discuss her novel statistical approach to understanding the linkage between parenthood and cognitive health with NHATS data which has not been explored in-depth in the United States. Dr. Zhang is postdoc research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Demography of Health and Aging. Her research agenda focuses on family demography, population health, aging & life course, and gender & sexuality. She is particularly interested in examining how family relationships influence health outcomes among aging population. Currently her research investigates the association between parenthood (i.e., parental status, parent-child relationship, and fertility history) and older adults’ risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Harry Bridges Center Virtual Workshop on Using Public Records Requests and the Freedom of Information Act in Research
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Please join the Harry Bridges Center on Wednesday, April 19th from 12:30 – 2 pm to discuss the role of public record requests and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in labor research and beyond. We will discuss Washington State’s Public Record Act and the FOIA, specifically what these acts allow and how they support researchers and anyone interested in accessing materials that are within the purview of the acts. This panel will include Joyce Sinakhone, a union researcher at SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, Phil Neff, a Research Coordinator at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, and Trevor Griffey, a Labor Historian at UC Irvine, and the co-founder of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. In addition to receiving information, advice, and examples of public record requests, workshop participants will have a chance to receive support in submitting any public record request they are working on! Please reach out to Rachel Erstad (rerstad@uw.edu), Research Coordinator of the Harry Bridges Center with any questions.
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Washington Center for Equitable Growth in a New Virtual Event
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth would like to invite you to a virtual event, “Getting on the GRID: Accessing and using statistics from the Global Repository of Income Dynamics,” on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT.
The webinar will delve into the data available at the Global Repository of Income Dynamics, a research project that assembles comparable cross-country statistics on income inequality and other income dynamics. Millions of estimates have already been released by the team, which is directed by Fatih Guvenen of the University of Minnesota, Luigi Pistaferri of Stanford University, and Gianluca Violante of Princeton University and currently composed of 51 economists working in 13 different countries.
CSDE Seminar: Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees
Join us for a talk by Dr. Asad Islam (Monash University) about “Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees.” This talk will present findings from a recent study by Dr. Islam utilizing a cluster randomized controlled trial on 3,500 Rohingya mother-child dyads in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Participants were given weekly psychosocial support for 44 weeks through peer volunteers, which includes psychoeducation and parenting support for mothers and play activities for both mothers and children. The intervention was largely successful and led to: (i) reductions in the psychological trauma and depression severity of mothers and children, (ii) improvements in communication, gross-motor, and problem-solving skills of children, and (iii) reductions in stunting and severe stunting. The intervention cost about $1 per dyad per week and is currently being scaled up in refugee camps in Bangladesh, where about seventeen thousand mother-child pairs now benefit from it.
*New* CSDE Workshop: Agent Based Modeling in R (4/27/23)
Make sure to check out the next CSDE Workshop entitled “Agent Based Modeling in R.”, providing a basic introduction into Agent-Based Modeling. The workshop will be divided into three sections. During the first third of the course we will review and discuss the basic elements of ABMs and their application in a variety of fields including demography, sociology, anthropology, political science and public health. In the second section of the course we will work through 1 or two seminal example of an ABM and reproduce the models in base R. Due to the limited time available, the R code to build these models will be provided to participants in advance. Finally, we will walk through an example of a complex ABM using the statnet and EpiModel R packages. Students will not require these packages to complete the workshop.
By the end of the workshop participants will be able to describe the unique features of ABM that make them distinct from other modeling approaches, write R functions to produce a simple ABM, and be familiar with additional R packages that provide functionality for ABM.
CSDE Seminar: Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees
Join us for a talk by Dr. Asad Islam (Monash University) about “Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees.” This talk will present findings from a recent study by Dr. Islam utilizing a cluster randomized controlled trial on 3,500 Rohingya mother-child dyads in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Participants were given weekly psychosocial support for 44 weeks through peer volunteers, which includes psychoeducation and parenting support for mothers and play activities for both mothers and children. The intervention was largely successful and led to: (i) reductions in the psychological trauma and depression severity of mothers and children, (ii) improvements in communication, gross-motor, and problem-solving skills of children, and (iii) reductions in stunting and severe stunting. The intervention cost about $1 per dyad per week and is currently being scaled up in refugee camps in Bangladesh, where about seventeen thousand mother-child pairs now benefit from it.
New Research from Chi Develops a Conceptual Model on Hesitancy of Topical Fluoride for Children
CSDE Affiliate Donald Chi and colleagues examine the determinants of topical fluoride hesitancy for caregivers of dependent children in a new paper published in PLOS ONE. The article utilizes qualitative methods, interviewing 56 fluoride-hesitant caregivers to develop an inductive conceptual model of reasons why caregivers are hesitant despite extensive evidence that topical fluoride is safe and prevents tooth decay. Very interesting research and congrats Dr. Chi!