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CSDE Affiliate Trotter’s New Book Receives Award!

CSDE Affiliate LaTonya Trotter receives an award from the British Sociological Association’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize.  The prize is awarded to the book for making the “most significant contribution to medical sociology/sociology of health and illness” in 2022. The prize announcement can be found here! Let’s congratulate Dr. Trotter on this amazing achievement!

CSDE Affiliate Berridge Publishes in Frontiers in Sociology

CSDE Affiliate Clara Berridge and co-author Alisa Grigorovich have published a new article in Frontiers of Sociology. The study focuses on the aging process partnered with critical disability, race and feminists studies to explore algorithmic harms of surveillance technologies on older adults and care workers within nursing homes in the U.S. and Canada. This paper illustrates specific ways in which important insights from critical race, disability and feminist studies helps us draw out the power of ageism as a rhetorical and analytical tool. The paper is available here!

Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Autumn 2022 Schedule

The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) at the University of Washington meets weekly to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions of digital and computational approaches to demographic research. The workshop features a range of paper presentations, methods demonstrations, software tutorials and professional development. The CDWG is sponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE), the eScience Institute and OBSSR T32 Grant #1T32HD101442-01. We welcome anyone with interest in computational demography (broadly defined).This Fall we will split CDWG between Brown Bag (sign up link above) with open sign up/proposal for research presentation, discussion topic or workshop and invited talks.

The CDWG is coordinated by Zack Almquist, Associate Professor of Sociology and CSDE Training Core PI. If you’d like to reach out or participate please utilize the links below!

Date/Time: 3:00-4:00PM Wednesdays

Location: Hybrid (Zoom) and Raitt 223 (Demography Lab)
Listserv: https://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/computational-demog

G-Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC1kZW1vZ3JAdXcuZWR1 [calendar.google.com]

Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAldOmgpzkiHta_dxLBCcpofTbXmzIScxav [washington.zoom.us]

Brown Bag Signup: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nWwI54NgpHqTxrhz9bTL_oHAJi4vFJLt4SPR1UdLO_c/edit?usp=sharing [docs.google.com]

Website: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group/

 

 

CSDE Science Core – Upcoming Workshops

Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. Over the coming academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops, some of which will be offered in person and others remotely via Zoom. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to register for our workshops and we welcome registrants from outside the University of Washington for our remote workshops as well.

 

You can find our workshop website and register for our Autumn 2022-2023 workshops in the links below. We will be filling in our schedule for Winter & Spring workshops soon, so stay tuned!

 

Please reach out to CSDE’s Training Director, Jessica Godwin (jlg0003@uw.edu), if you have additional workshops you would like to see offered in the future and we will do our best to accommodate those requests.

 

Autumn Workshops

 

Early Career Demographers Invited to Join FIELD Initiative

The James F. Holmes Future Inclusion and Equity Leadership Development (FIELD) Initiative (based at Georgetown University) is seeking early to mid career demographers who would be interested in having a more influential voice in shaping census data and approaches that can better reflect the diversity of the U.S. population. If you are interested in learning more about this initiative or know of someone who might be, please fill out this Google Form [docs.google.com].

The CQR Task Force is a learning community for research, education, and coordination around decennial census data quality and fitness for use for three primary use cases: congressional apportionment, redistricting, and the distribution of federal funds. The task force is non-partisan with a strong emphasis on supporting the integrity of the institution of the Census Bureau. The core task force includes NCoC, the Brennan Center for Justice, Georgetown’s Center on Poverty & Inequality, The Leadership Conference, NALEO, AAJC, and Data & Society, with data science support from Demographic Analytics Advisors, and larger working groups as-needed to dive into specific issues.

Census Bureau Accepting Comments on ACS Through Nov. 14

The PAA/APC Government and Public Affairs Committee wants interested members to know that the Census Bureau is currently accepting public comments regarding the American Community Survey (ACS). Specifically, through November 14, the Bureau is accepting comments regarding proposed revisions to information collection activities on both the ACS and the Puerto Rico Community Survey. The most significant revisions would add an internet self-response option to the group quarters data collection operation and allow for the use of administrative data to respond to questions regarding housing characteristics. See the Federal Register notice here. [paa.informz.net]

Panel: Climate and Health, Washington 2022 Report

When: October 7, 2022

12:30-1:30pm

Where: In-Person in 101 Hans Rosling Building

Virtually via zoom, register here

Join the editors of the Climate and Health/Washington 2022: A Special Report on Impacts and Solutions, Drs. Howard Frumkin, and Mark Vossler (Eds) and published by the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility for a discussion with Professor Jeremy Hess and moderated by Ann Bostrom and Peter Catron.
Panel Bios
Howard Frumkin is Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he served as Dean from 2010-2016. He is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist, who has worked in academia and public service. From 2005 to 2010 he held leadership roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, first as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and later as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. During his tenure NCEH/ATSDR created programs in Climate Change and in Healthy Community Design and launched training programs for college students, doctoral students, and post-docs, among other achievements. Dr. Frumkin co-edited the report the panel is discussing today.
Dr. Jeremy Hess is an emergency physician and director of the UW Center for Health and the Global Environment, or CHanGE. He is a professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and Global Health and an affiliate of CSDE. He practices clinically at Harborview and Montlake and his public health work focuses in particular on climate adaptation in the health sector
Dr. Mark Vossler is a cardiologist practicing at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland,  President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, and co-editor of the report. After Medical School at University of Rochester and Internal Medicine Residency at University of Vermont, he was a cardiology fellow and then on faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University in the heart transplant program. The recipient of a clinical investigator award from the National Institutes of Health for his work on the molecular biology of muscle cell differentiation, Dr. Vossler left OHSU to help Evergreen develop its heart failure treatment program and now serves as the chairman of the cardiology section there. He joined PSR in 1986 after completing a student research fellowship at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan and witnessing first hand the devastating effects of nuclear weapons. He and his wife Susan have been lifelong advocates for environmental and public health causes, and Mark makes an annual pilgrimage to Washington DC to plead with congress to take action on climate change.

UW Office of Global Affairs Launches New Opportunities for Working Group on Global Environmental Change

UW Office of Global Affairs is seeking faculty, staff and doctoral students interested in global environmental change through international treaty processes, committees, and organizations.

Come learn more about international processes, why they matter, how to engage with them, and how your research can support sustainable and resilient development. The goal of this new cross-disciplinary community is to empower UW faculty, staff and advanced graduate students to actively engage in global environmental change and to deepen ties and strengthen collaborations across the UW.  This community will meet 5 times during the academic year, commencing in October.

 

Questions?

Contact Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, Center for Health and the Global Environment (krisebi@uw.edu)  or Marci Burden (mburden@uw.edu)

 

Video from info session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN9gVJcCHTM