The Population Association of America’s annual meeting is the premier conference of demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad. Here demographers at all career stages are afforded the opportunity to present their research in oral and poster sessions, hear others’ findings, and network with their peers.
Since PAA’s first conference in 1932, much important research has been presented on topics ranging from migration to reproductive health to race and gender issues.
CSDE Affiliate Erin Casey recently published a new article in Violence Against Women entitled, “Patterns of Gender Equitable Attitudes and Behaviors Among Young Men: Relationships With Violence Perpetration and Masculinity Ideologies“. This paper utilizes latent profile analysis with data from 481 U.S. men to examine patterns of men’s attitudes toward gender equity and their engagement in gender-equitable (GE) behaviors. Five resulting profiles included groups with (a) high endorsement of both GE attitudes and behaviors, (b) low endorsement of both, (c) mid-range endorsement of both, (d) strong endorsement of GE attitudes, but low engagement in action, and (e) low endorsement of GE attitudes but high participation in GE behavior.
CSDE Affiliates Bradley Wagenaar and Kenneth Sherr collaborated with several researchers to publish “The Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach: specifying core components of an implementation strategy to optimize care cascades in public health” in Implementation Science Communications. This paper seeks to extend the growing body of research on the Systems Analysis Improvement Approach (SAIA) by defining the core elements of SAIA using established specification approaches and thus improve reproducibility, guide future adaptations, and lay the groundwork to define its mechanisms of action.
In their latest article, “Stress and Resilience among Sexual and Gender Diverse Caregivers“, CSDE Affiliate Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen examines perceived stress among a sample of 754 sexual and gender diverse caregivers using regressions on background and caregiving characteristics and risk and protective factors. Utilizing data from Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS) this project contributes to emergent research on caregiving in diverse populations and provides some very important findings!
CSDE Affiliates Steve Pfaff and Yuan Hsaio published a new article “Competing Social Influence in Contested Diffusion: Luther, Erasmus and the Spread of the Protestant Reformation” in Economic Science Institute. The authors study two influential intellectuals of hte 16th century, Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus and their influence of reform on Protestant Reformation. Using newly digitalized data on both leaders’ correspondence networks, their travels, the dispersion of their followers, and parallel processes of exchange among places through trade routes, they employ econometric tests and network simulations to test their theoretical model.
Earlier this quarter, CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat organized a panel for the CSDE seminar that focused on post-Dobbs implications and featured Dr. McLemore. If you’d like to hear more from Dr. McLemore, they are presenting their vision for reproductive justice to NIH during an OBSSR Director’s Webinar on March 28. Visit this link to learn more.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) have issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) addressing Research on Gender Measurement (Administrative Supplement). These administrative supplements will support research on the use of gender terminology (e.g., woman, man, nonbinary) for measuring current gender identity as part of the two-step method of data collection (sex assigned at birth and current gender identity) within the original scope of the parent grant.
This opportunity is co-funded by the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) in partnership with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Library of Medicine, the National Cancer Institute, and the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office.
Please reach out to Dr. Ronna Popkin at NICHD (ronna.popkin@nih.gov) or Dr. Elizabeth Barr at ORWH (elizabeth.barr@nih.gov) with any questions.
The Population Health Initiative is partnering with the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology for the fifth consecutive summer to offer the Population Health Applied Research Fellowship program. Applications for this summer’s cohort will be accepted until March 28, 2023 from undergraduate and graduate students across all UW schools and colleges on all three UW campuses.
This paid fellowship program will offer a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students training in data analysis techniques as well as in research and presentation skills while they develop a work product for an external partner.
The Summer 2023 Population Health Applied Research Fellowship team will work closely with the King County Demographer and an epidemiologist at the Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation Unit at Public Health – Seattle & King County to explore individual- and aggregate-level data and quantify the timing, volume and location of internal migration within the county. Students will dive into housing, household size, reasons for migration and displacement and quantifying uncertainty via probabilistic models to help for future prediction planning and management at King County.
Ultimately, the team plans to build on the work of previous fellows to explore housing supply changes, changes in population by demographic variables, and changes in the distribution of renter-occupied and owner-occupied households of different sizes over this period of unprecedented growth.
Three graduate students and two undergraduate students will compose the fellowship team. They will be supervised by faculty and staff from the Population Health Initiative and the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology.
Visit the program’s webpage for more information and details regarding the application process.
The University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC) and the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at the University of Colorado Boulder are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in demography, quantitative spatial analysis, and population health, for a two-year appointment, to begin during the summer of 2023.
The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
In a large partnership CSDE Affiliates Jane Simoni and Grace John-Stewart along with co-authors publish their newest article “Fertility Desire and Associations with Condomless Sex, Antiretroviral Adherence, and Transmission Potential in a Cohort of Kenyan Women Living with HIV in Sero-discordant Relationships: A Mixed Methods Study“, in Aids and Behavior. This study utilizes mixed methods to study a cohort of 148 Kenyan women in serodiscordant relationships. The authors find that prostate specific antigen (PSA) in vaginal secretions, a marker for recent condomless sex, was lowest in women with fertility desire and highest in women with fertility intent. Detectable viral load followed a similar pattern. Risk of HIV transmission, when condomless sex and PSA detection occurred concurrently, was three to fourfold higher at visits with fertility intent compared to visits with fertility desire. Qualitative interviews underscored the importance women place on childbearing and suggested that they had limited information about the role of antiretroviral therapy in reducing sexual HIV transmission.