This week we are excited to host UW Professor of Social Work and Director of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Oceania Affairs at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI), Dr. Michael Spencer! Dr. Spencer’s lecture will focus on the impact and response of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities to COVID-19 in Washington state.

You can register for the seminar HERE, and check out all the upcoming topics and register for future seminars on our website.

This seminar is co-sponsored with the Population Health Initiative.

The UW Warren G. Magnuson Institute for Biomedical Research and Health Professions Training recently awarded CSDE Trainee & 2020 Population Health Applied Research Fellow Jessica Lapham the 2022-23 Magnuson Scholarship. Each year the institute funds one scholar from each of the six schools of health sciences. One of Jessica’s goals is to examine how social structures and policy contexts protect or worsen health, particularly for economically disadvantaged groups and desire to conduct social welfare research to promote health equity, making her well positioned to continue Senator Magnuson’s legacy of healthcare policy reform.

Shaozeng Zhang, with CSDE Affiliates Dafeng Xu and Bo Zhao recently published a new article in Methodological Innovations. First, the authors develop a methodological approach which guides the selection and processing of big data to make big data smaller and structured for analyses within social sciences conventional methods. Second, the authors apply this methodology to Google’s mobility dataset to conduct a difference-in-differences analysis of social distancing behavior.