Join us for light refreshments and ’shout outs’, as we celebrate CSDE’s accomplished trainees! We’ll be awarding Demographic Methods Certificates, as well as congratulating soon-to-graduate trainees, trainees headed off for exciting summer activities, and other accomplishments. We’ll be sharing these accomplishments in-person in Room 101 of the Hans Rosling Center, but you may also join for the formal program online.

Room 101 is a large space where we will have the doors and windows wide open and there will be plenty of ventilation for our in-person attendees, along with recommended masks, affording safe interactions and good community building!

Last week, The Journals of Gerontology published a special issue: “Why Does Health in the US Continue to Lag Behind?” CSDE Affiliate Melissa Martinson, CSDE Trainees Jessica Lapham and Hazal Ercin-Swearinger, and co-authors Julien Teitler and Nancy Reichman contributed an article titled “Generational Shifts in Young Adult Cardiovascular Health? Millennials and Generation X in the United States and England.” The study finds that while Millennials generally fared worse than their Gen X counterparts in terms of obesity and diabetes risk, especially in the United States, they had lower rates of smoking and high cholesterol in both countries.

On May 23, UW Today highlighted CSDE Training Core PI & Executive Committee Member Zack Almquist and his colleagues for their continued work on heterogeneity of COVID transmission across communities. This like of Almquist’s work began with this 2020 article on spatial heterogeneity in infection timing and severity, highlighted in the CSDE newsletter here. More recently, Almquist and his co-authors published the article on the distribution of social cohesion across space, also featured in our newsletter.