CSDE collaborates with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in a doctoral training program called the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS). This program is based in Rostock, Germany, but includes 12 doctoral programs in the U.S. and Europe. CSDE has one IMPRS-PHDS fellowship application slot available to current CSDE Trainees. The fellowship funding will support a one quarter research stay at the MPIDR any time between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.
Information about the program, the faculty, and partner institutions can be found here.
Applications are due to CSDE by Friday, May 30. Apply here.
Ayda Apa Pomeshikov is a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies. Her research interests include forced migration, refugee and diaspora studies, comparative humanitarian studies, and gender in Muslim-majority contexts. She is writing her dissertation, ‘The Prophet Was a Refugee Too: Syrian Refugee Women’s Search for Belonging in Turkey,’ for which she conducted two years of ethnographic research as a United States Institute of Peace Fellow from 2019 to 2021.
Rawan Arar (Law, Societies, and Justice) will host a student lunch and discussion at 1:30pm following the talk on the topic of Job Market, Career Trajectories, and Professional Development. The lunch will take place in Raitt 221. RSVP to Jill Fulmore at fulmore@uw.edu.
Although wildfires have become increasingly common and devastating for communities in recent years, their long-term consequences for affected households remain unclear. In an article in Nature Communications that was recently featured by the Population Reference Bureau, CSDE External Affiliates Kathryn McConnell (University of British Columbia) and Jack DeWaard (The Population Council) and several colleagues use several sources of demographic data to examine migration patterns after wildfires. The authors’ analysis of combined data on wildfire-related structure loss and credit data shows that a small number of extreme wildfires account for most destruction and wildfire-induced migration. Read the full study here.
Idaho has one of the lowest rates of water fluoridation because of public concern about the practice. This concern has developed despite strong scientific convergence about the benefits of fluoride in public water supplies. In a recent article in the Idaho Statesman, CSDE Affiliate Donald Chi (Oral Health Sciences) describes his qualitative work on the subject and argues for the importance of flexible, open communication between dental patients and providers. Read the full article here.
Research has identified significant unmet mental health needs among youth in the US. In a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, CSDE Affiliate Anthony Bui (Pediatrics) and colleagues examine racial and ethnic disparities in foregone preventive mental healthcare, unmet mental health needs, and difficulty accessing mental healthcare among youth with common mental health problems. A cross-sectional analysis of data from the 2022 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) identified significant racial and ethnic disparities in forgone preventive care and unmet mental healthcare needs; Black youth have higher rates of foregone preventive care, while Asian youth have higher unmet mental healthcare needs compared to White youth. There was also evidence of widespread difficulty obtaining mental healthcare across all racial categories. Read the full study here.