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.
Administrative Supplement Grants to Improve Gender Measurement, NIH Notice of Special Interest
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.
Research Fellowship – University of Washington, Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology
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.
Post-Doctoral Associate – University of Colorado Boulder
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.
Simoni and Co-Authors Utilized Mixed Methods to Study Fertility Desire and Associations with Condomless Sex, Antiretroviral Adherence, and Transmission Potential in Kenya
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.
Seto Discusses Development of New National Transportation Exposure Map in New Article
In their most recent article “The National Transportation and Exposure Map“, CSDE Affiliate Edmund Seto describes the development and public availability of the National Transportation Noise Exposure Map. The goal of the authors was to estimate population exposures to various noise levels at the census tract level in the United States by utilizing a map created by overlaying the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ National Transportation Map with 5-year block group population estimates from the American Community Survey, and aggregating exposed population estimates to the census tract level. The availability of this new exposure map will facilitate the integration of noise exposures into a variety of studies, including regional and national health impact assessments, epidemiologic, and environmental justice studies.
LaShawnda Pittman’s Book Published! Grandmothering While Black (UC Press)
Check out CSDE Affiliate Lashawnda Pittman’s new book “Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival“. In this book Lashawnda explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth interviews and ethnographic research at various sites—doctor’s visits, welfare offices, school and day care center appointments, caseworker meetings, and more. Through careful examination, she explores the various forces that compel, constrain, and support Black grandmothers’ caregiving. Let’s congratulate Dr. Pittman on this awesome achievement!
Casey Publishes on Sexual Assault, Harassment Victimization and Help Seeking Among Undergraduates
CSDE Affiliate Erin Casey recently published an article in the Journal of American College Health entitled “Sexual assault and harassment victimization and post-assault help-seeking among undergraduate students: Comparing residential and nonresidential campuses“. Using data from a Web-based campus climate survey, this study explores sexual assault and sexual harassment victimization rates, victimization characteristics, and post-assault help-seeking across nonresidential and residential students in a campus system that contains both residential and nonresidential campuses. This analysis highlights that sexual victimization rates, characteristics, and post-assault help-seeking patterns vary by campus type.
CSDE Workshop: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics – Inference (3/2/2023 @10AM)
Register for the CSDE Workshop on Bayesian Statistics on March 2nd, 2023 from 10:00AM-12:00 PM! This workshop is going to be hosted by our very own CSDE Training Director Jessica Godwin and won’t be something you want to miss!
Learn About the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) from Dr. Bob Hummer (PI) and Dr. Luciana Hebert (PLUS How to Access Add Health via the UWDC)
CSDE’s Seminar will feature Dr. Bob Hummer (UNC Chapel Hill) PI of the innovative Add Health Survey Data, Dr. Lucy Hebert (WSU) and her research using those data, and Dr. Phil Hurvitz (CSDE) explaining how to access Add Health through the UW Data Collaborative (UWDC). The Add Health Study is an exciting and innovative data collection project that can only be accessed through a secure computing environment. For over 25 years, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) project has provided the scientific community with innovative data to understand the health and social life of a nationally representative cohort of Americans who were in grades 7-12 in 1994-95. The expert panel will introduce the Add Health Data and the fascinating, exciting and innovative data that are available when you can access the secure data files housed within the CSDE’s UW Data Collaborative.