Keeping Up With UW-Relevant Federal Policy Updates and Federal Administration Research Policy
The research community is facing a period of rapid change and uncertainty in the federal funding landscape. The university is closely monitoring changes and their potential impacts to the UW research enterprise. Information on the Office of Research’s Guidance on Federal Administration Research Policy page is updated frequently. If you are a researcher and interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to PI Federal communications (you’ll need UWNETID). The Provost’s office is also maintaining a site for all Federal Policy Updates.
Assistant, Associate, or full Professor, Population Health and Health Disparities – UT Medical Branch at Galveston School of Public and Population Health (Ongoing)
Part-Time Adjunct Faculty: Environmental Social Sciences – Evergreen State College (Ongoing)
UW’s Open Scholarship Commons Offer “Most Wanted” Seminars This Summer! Check it out!
Join us at the Open Scholarship Commons for the “Most Wanted” Researcher Summer Series! This set of workshops highlights tools and topics UW researchers are most curious about. In the coming months, workshops such as “Introduction to Text Mining” and “Publish & Protect Your Research: Build a Book Fast with Manifold” will offer practical skills for researchers across campus. Register here to reserve your spot.
Opportunities to Publish Research Policy Briefs with the Association of Population Centers
CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers, and through them can offer you or your colleagues the opportunity to have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, APC and PRB may be able to help. To learn how, visit their website and take a look at recent research policy briefs.
Executive Director – Research Scholar, Center for Policing Equity-Yale Lab (Ongoing)
Preprint Opportunities through Association of Population Centers
CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers and through them can offer you and your colleagues access to their preprint publishing platform. Research Scientists, Postdoctoral affiliates and faculty are invited to submit to the APCA Working Paper Series which gathers and disseminates original population science research papers. These working papers are authored or coauthored by scholars who are faculty or postdoctoral affiliates of the Association of Population Centers (APC) population centers. Working papers can also be authored by ABD student affiliates of APC population centers (CSDE Trainees that are ABD); faculty affiliates must submit the papers on student affiliates’ behalf. Papers in the series include works in progress and pre-publication versions of articles. Many of these papers will be subsequently published in journals or edited volumes.
Gates Foundation Grant Opportunity: RCTs on STIs and Reproductive Tract Sequelae in Non-Pregnant Women (7/7/25)
The Gates Foundation recently announced a Grand Challenges request for proposals for a Randomized Controlled Trial on Sexual Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Reproductive Tract Sequelae in Non-Pregnant Women. The goal is to support rigorous clinical research to evaluate the prevention, diagnosis, and management of STIs and their long-term reproductive consequences, such as pelvic inflammatory disease. The submission deadline is Monday, July 7, at 11:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
This Grand Challenge is part of our ongoing effort to address the problem of neglect in women’s health research and development, as highlighted by Anita Zaidi, the Gates Foundation’s President of Gender Equality Division, in her keynote speech on the second day of this year’s Grand Challenges Annual Meeting. The annual meeting was held virtually this week, and if you were unable to attend in real time, we encourage you to view videos from the plenary sessions focused on clinical research and trials, women’s health, and regulatory harmonization.
Please review the full details for this opportunity on our Grand Challenges website. We are planning a webinar to provide more information and answer your questions on June 17 from 7:00-8:00 AM Pacific Time. To participate, please register and submit your questions ahead of time.
We are eager to hear from experts around the world. Please forward this email to colleagues who may be interested in applying. If you were forwarded this message, please sign up on the Grand Challenges website to receive emails announcing grant opportunities.
As always, we invite you to read summaries of selected Grand Challenges grants. They are sortable by dropdown menus, so you can quickly find, for example, the 23 awards related to women’s health. You can also explore Grand Challenges projects using this interactive world map.