The United States has a long history of genocide against Native Peoples which is still felt today. One critical aspect of this violence is the forced removal of Native children to federal Indian boarding schools and the use of assimilationist land policies to fracture essential Indigenous kinship networks. In a recent article published in Genealogy, CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall (Sociology) critiques the colonial apparatus of contemporary state child welfare institutions and conceptualizes a “Third Space” in an effort to prevent the continued obscuring of Indigenous governance in the effort to build collective futures. Read the full article here.

While some research has shown that racial disparities in childhood vaccination persist in both Canada and the U.S., data limitations prevent a comprehensive analysis of these inequities. In a recent study published in Vaccine, CSDE Affiliates Carmen Gonzalez (Communication) and Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences, Epidemiology) with lead author and Population Health Initiative Research Scientist Frances Gellert use mixed methods including vaccine coverage data review, ecological analysis, and informant interviews to examine resilient interventions that promote racial equity in vaccine uptake across both Canada and the United States. Results suggest that effective interventions focused on building trust, reducing barriers, engaging communities, and strengthening data systems, and highlight the need for collaborative and culturally relevant approaches. Read the full article here.

Many students completed their Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods, including Omolara Akingba (PhD Candidate, Epidemiology), Emma Anastasi (PhD Student, Anthropology), Haley Birdoes (MPH Student, Epidemiology), Sarah Kilpatrick, (MS Student, Data Science), Keith Leung (PhD Candidate, Urban Design & Planning), Mingze Li (PhD Student, Sociology), Tom Lindman (PhD Candidate, Public Policy & Management), Sidnee Moyer (PhD Student, Sociology), Mark Nepf (PhD Student, Public Policy & Management), Todd Nobles, (PhD Candidate, Sociology), Larisa Ozeryansky, (PhD Candidate, Individual PhD), Adam Visokay, (PhD Student, Sociology), Jiayuan Wang, (PhD Student, Public Policy & Management), and Yuying Xie (PhD Candidate, Geography) . The certificate equips these students with valuable skills and we are excited to keep working with them throughout their graduate training and beyond.

A few CSDE Trainees and fellows are also graduating and moving onto exciting positions! Jane Dai (PhD, Health Services) will be starting a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Food Systems Planning, University at Buffalo. Tom Lindman (PhD, Public Policy & Management) will be starting a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Larisa Ozeryansky (PhD, Individual PhD) will be finishing her Fulbright at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. We are so impressed with all that these graduates have accomplished, and we hope to stay in touch with them as they continue their journey.

Many students also completed their master’s degrees, including Haley Birdoes (Epidemiology), Adrian Andronicos (Sociology), Sarah Kilpatrick (Data Science), and Jiayuan Wang (Public Policy & Management).

CSDE has always been proud to offer several fellowships, including the NIH T32 DSDT Fellowship and the IMPRS-PHD Fellowship (International Max Planck Research School, Population Health Data Science). This year, we celebrate the students who are completing their NIH T32 Fellowships, including David Coomes, Jane Dai, and Tom Lindman. Continuing in the NIH T32 Fellowship is Courtney Allen, Elizabeth Nova, and Katie Paulson. Adam Visokay is completing the IMPRS-PHD Fellowship. As part of their fellowships, all of these students have received valuable mentorship from CSDE Affiliates.

CSDE is thrilled to announce the inaugural Charles and Josephine Hirschman Award for student research.  The Charles and Josephine Hirschman Award supports research costs for CSDE graduate students. This award is made possible by former CSDE Director and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, Charles Hirschman, and his wife, Josephine. This year the award went to Todd Nobles (PhD Candidate, Sociology), and Aryaa Rajouria (PhD Candidate, Sociology).

CSDE hosted a 75th & Counting Anniversary Celebration in May and celebrated more than 75 years of demographic research and training at the UW! We were joined by alumni, colleagues, faculty, friends, staff, and students for two days of community building, learning, and refreshments to share reflections and insights about CSDE’S histories, CSDE’s impact on research and training, and CSDE’s future contributions in the next 75 years. CSDE Trainees and Fellows were invited to share their research during a Poster Session and with presentations by Tom Lindman, Adam Visokay, Mark Nepf, David Coomes, Courtney Allen, Aryaa Rajouria, Lauren Woyczynski, Sarah Kilpatrick, Crystal Yu, Jane Dai, Aidan Andronicos, and Ihsan Kahveci. CSDE trainees, affiliates and alumni voted on the posters with Courtney Allen taking 3^rd Place, Mark Nepf receiving 2^nd Place and Aryaa Rajouria being awarded 1^st Place.

In 2025, CSDE will co-sponsor the Applied Research Fellowship Program, alongside The Population Health Initiative, Seattle & King County Public Health, and King County Parks. This program involves a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students to tackle population health challenges. Participating students include Sarah Desai, Nupur Gorkar, Xinyuan Hao, Mark Nepf, and Annie Xu.  They will be working on a project to identify and map the array of park accessibility concerns across the city and county.

Members of our CSDE community had an impactful presence at population health events throughout the year! At the 2025 PAA (Population Association of America) meeting, trainees and fellows were selected for oral presentations, including Courtney Allen, David Coomes, Elizabeth Nova, Katie Paulson, Crystal Yu, Adam Visokay, Jessica Warren, and Zoe Pleasure. Several also attended as poster presenters, including Hana Brown, David Coomes, Ihsan Kahveci, and Aryaa Rajouria.

CSDE Trainee, Ihsan Kahveci along with UW faculty Nathalie Williams, Paul Hebert, Amy Hagopian, Zack Almquist, and from Berkeley, Tim Thomas really stood out when it came to PAA’s poster awards. They were awarded the PAA Best Poster Award in the Neighborhoods, Environment, Spatial Demography, and Data and Methods Category for their poster titled: The Relationship Between Eviction, Substance Use, and Health Among People Experiencing Homelessness in King County, WA.

Last but not least, we are grateful for all who participated in this year’s autumn and winter Lightning talks, organized by Desiree Salais. Isaac Sederbaum was the autumn winner for his research, “’I deadnamed myself until my documents matched’ Trans People & the Psychological Costs of Accessing the Safety Net.” David Coomes was the winter winner for his research, “The Role of Migration in the Rural-Mortality Penalty”. Lightning talks are always a fun opportunity to bring our CSDE community together around the enlightening research of CSDE trainees. We are excited for all the years to come of this event!

In the lead-up to MR2025, the Columbia Climate School’s biannual conference on topics related to mobility, adaptation, and well being in a changing climate, the conference organizers will offer this webinar to examine the complexities around managed retreat in a diverse urban context affected by a major climate disaster.

Recent fires in California raise a number of critical questions in the context of mobility and climate resilience. Should communities be rebuilding in an area that is likely to see growing fire risks? What is the role of adaptation versus managed retreat? Would managed retreat in fact exacerbate wildfire risks for remaining communities as formerly developed areas reforest? As large private insurers pull out, will over-reliance on state insurance policies transfer risk to the taxpayers? Is the ability to rebuild (or retreat) equally accessible to all, regardless of income level?

Click here to watch on June 11th at 12:00pm ET.

• Jonathan Sury, MPH panelist and moderator, is a Senior Staff Associate at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP). At NCDP, he contributes to a broad disaster research portfolio, including hazards mapping, rural preparedness, mental health and psychosocial support, community coalition building, and child-focused community resilience. .

• Kristin Marcell, panelist, is director of the Climigration Network. She has more than 16 years of experience managing assistance programs that build the collaborative capacity for partners to innovate on technical, funding, outreach, leadership development, and decision-support challenges in the field of climate adaptation.

• Lily Bui, PhD, panelist, is Director of Climate & Disaster Preparedness and Resilience at SoCal Grantmakers and founding member of the L.A. Wildfire Recovery Funders Collaborative, an emergent cross-sector coalition of local recovery philanthropic fund managers, government agencies, academia, and nonprofit partners responding to the devastating January 2025 wildfires in Southern California.

• Lisa Dale, PhD, panelist, is the Director of the MA in Climate and Society program at the Columbia Climate School. Trained as a political scientist, her research on environmental policy focuses on climate change adaptation in two distinct settings: rural agricultural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, and wildfire risk zones across the American West.

The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence has a right to a minimum income enabling social participation, be it frugally and soberly, holds as a fundamental matter of social justice to most people. These questions have occupied social policy scholars for decades. Many of these issues still have open questions. Is there a viable way forward towards minimum income provisions that protect against poverty? What can the role be of public services and in-kind benefits? What can we expect from the breathtaking advances in timely administrative data, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in terms of reducing non-take-up and expediting benefit payments? What is the (remaining) role for social workers and how much discretionary power should they have? What is the impact of migration on minimum income schemes and political support for such schemes?

ESPAnet (European Network for Social Policy Analysis) and AIPRIL (the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality) are organizing a workshop to take stock where we stand in the field of minimum income support across the globe and how we can move forward. To apply, send an abstract of up to 500 words by 15 June 2025 to ninke.mussche@uantwerpen.be, mentioning ‘Espanet/ AIPRIL Workshop’ as the subject.

We are open to a wide range of papers relating to minimum income protection (also for workers). We particularly welcome contributions drawing on rigorous qualitative and/or quantitative evidence. We will not require finalized papers but a first draft is essential if we want to have a substantive and fruitful discussion.

You will also have the chance of course to present your paper.

Two lunches and one dinner will be provided to presenters, but travel and accommodation are at your own expense.

Provisional schedule

	First day: Tuesday 16 September	Second day: Wednesday 17 September
9:00	Minimum income protection: where do we stand? (Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx, Julia Shu-Huah Wang)	Keynote: Kenneth Nelson (University of Oxford)
10:00		Session 4
11:00	Session 1
12:00		Wrap-up and general discussion
13:00	Lunch	Lunch
14:00	Keynote Marcello Natili (University of Milan)
15:00	Session 2
16:00
17:00	Session 3
18:00
19:00	Dinner
20:00

Despite growing recognition of homelessness as a human rights issue, including its formal recognition by the United Nations in 2021, demographic research on this vulnerable population remains limited. In a new article, CSDE Affiliates Zack W. Almquist (Sociology) and Amy Hagopian (Health Systems and Population Health), along with co-author Paul Hebert (Health Systems and Population Health), argue for greater demographic attention to the enumeration and measurement of people experiencing homelessness in the United States. Published in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research in a special issue on population inequality matters, the study highlights how core demographic tools and demographic outlets have been underutilized in understanding a crisis affecting millions of people worldwide, and over 770,000 individuals, on any given night, in the United States alone. Read the full study here.

Join us for CSDE’s annual closing reception on Friday, June 6th at 12:30PM; snacks and drinks provided! We’ll present Demographic Methods Certificates and celebrate the end of a successful academic year. Please join us in recognizing all of these accomplishments! Every member of the CSDE community plays an important role in our broader research network and training program.

Date: 06/06/2025

Time: 12:30-1:30 PM

Location: Parrington Hall, Room 320