Several CSDE affiliates have received Population Health Initiative Pilot Grant Funding. In the Tier 1 category the following affiliates were part of teams that received funding: Jane Simoni and colleagues for a project seeking to extend mHealth psychological interventions in China; Marieka Klawitter and colleagues for a project seeking to understand risk taking behavior and cryptocurrency trading among young adults; and, Melanie Martin, Zack Almquist, Amy Hagopian and colleagues for a project investing sleep health among the homeless. In the Tier 2 category the following affiliates were part of teams that received funding: Nicole Errett, Rebecca Walter, and colleagues for a project assessing public housing preparedness for disasters; Amy Hagopian, Bo Zhao, Zack Almquist, Adrian Dobra and colleagues for a project on innovating methods for better enumeration of the homeless people; Edmund Seto and colleagues on human health associated with exposure to airplane noise pollution; and Melissa Martinson, Rebecca Rebbe and colleagues for a project to build population data about child maltreatment from administrative records.
New York Times Quotes Wakefield in New Article on WHO’s COVID Death Toll Calculations
CSDE Affiliate and Executive Committee Member Jon Wakefield is cited in New York Times reporting that broke over the weekend. The article investigates the production and delays in the World Health Organization’s effort to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. Wakefield, who played a key role in building the model used for these estimates, is quoted highlighting the rigorous sensitivity tests the team has undertaken to ensure the accuracy of estimates.
Wagenaar, Sherr, & Co-Authors Explore the Risk Factors Involved in Road Traffic Injuries in New Study
In a new article published in PLOS Global Public Health, CSDE Affiliates Brad Wagenaar, Kenneth Sherr, and a number of colleagues use data from a central Mozambique survey to assess the risk factors involved in road traffic injuries (RTIs). The authors find that urban residence, motor bike ownership, and higher socioeconomic status were all associated with higher incidence in RTIs.
New Research from Jones-Smith and Co-Authors Assesses Impacts of Two Programs Supporting Meal Provision to School Children During Pandemic Closures
CSDE Affiliate Jessica Jones-Smith and several co-authors recently published an evaluation of two programs designed to replace missed meals for children from low-income families during pandemic school closures. The two programs are the ‘grab-and-go school meals’ and the ‘Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT).’ The nationwide study assessed the impact of the two programs in terms of how many eligible children they reached, the frequency of program receipt, and costs.
THIS WEEK: UW Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science Seminar
Join the UW Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science and CSDE for the third seminar in our ongoing series on homelessness. On April 20th Graham Pruss will present a talk titled “Vehicle Residency and the Nomadic Turn: How a UW Undergrad Project Drove National Research to Inform Public Policy, Social Services, and Legal Advocacy.”
DEADLINE THIS WEEK: CSDE’s T32 Fellowship Program
CSDE’s Data Science and Demography T32 Fellowship program is accepting applications for a 12-month fellowship for AY 2022-23. This training program is ideal for pre-doctoral candidates who have strong interests in gaining methodological training in data analytics and with research interests in the social determinants or social structural factors linked to population well-being, population health, or demography. The program provides mentoring and support for trainees pursuing scientific careers in relevant academia, government, or private sector organizations. Trainees should be keenly interested in producing scientific knowledge for improving population health and well-being or improving knowledge about population dynamics. Learn more about the program and the application here. You can view a zoom recording of our most recent information session.
Computational Demography Working Group Meeting 4/20!
Join CSDE’s Computational Demography Working Group on Wednesday, 4/20/2022, to hear from Anna Maguire, Senior Research Scientist at Amazon. Anna earned their PhD in Sociology at Vanderbilt 2017. Their research interests are focused on good and bad jobs, work’s impact on health, and the labor movement. You can join the meeting in-person in Raitt 223 or virtually via Zoom.
Summer Network Modeling for Epidemics Workshop: Applications Open for 2022!
Network Modeling for Epidemics (NME) is a 5-day short course at the University of Washington that provides training in stochastic network models for infectious disease transmission dynamics.
This is a ”hands-on” course, using the EpiModel software package in R (www.epimodel.org). EpiModel provides a unified framework for statistically based modeling of dynamic networks from empirical data, and simulation of epidemic dynamics on these networks. This course will touch on the deterministic and individual-based models, but its primary focus is on the theory, methods and application of network models. The course uses a mix of lectures, tutorials, and labs with students working in small groups.