UW Today featured new research from CSDE Affiliate Nora Kenworthy and UW Sociology student Mark Igra last week. The source article, published in the American Journal of Public Health, analyzes data from GoFundMe campaigns between 2016 and 2020. Augmenting this data with state- and county-level measures of income and medical debt, the authors explore the relationship between crowdfunding success and income inequality.
UW Data Science Seminar: “Understanding the streetscape and human well-being through spatial data science”
PhD student position (4 years): Qualitative analysis of acquaintanceship networks and their relation with social cohesion in European societies
PhD student position (4 years): Simulation of acquaintanceship networks and agent-based modeling of network influence on cohesive attitudes
PhD student position (4 years): Statistical analysis of network social cohesion in European societies
Postdoctoral Researcher (4 years)
Martin and Keith to Present Award-Winning Research at the NICHD
We are delighted to announce that as winners of a Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge, there will be a team presentation by CSDE Affiliates Monica Keith and Melanie Martin at a virtual Winner’s Webinar on March 16, 2022 from 11am – 1pm PST, sponsored by NICHD. This webinar will be an opportunity for all winners of the Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge to highlight their “solutions” via a PowerPoint presentation to the extramural community and the general public at large. The NICHD Director and Deputy Director will be attending this webinar to hear the winners’ solutions and offer welcoming comments.
CSSS Seminar: Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences seminar this week will feature Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a demographer at the Minnesota Population Center and Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wrigley-Field will present her research on the uniformly small racial disparities during the 1918 pandemic and potential explanations. You can register for this Zoom event HERE.
Swanson Featured in 60th Anniversary Issue of Population Review
The 60th Volume of Population Review, a peer-reviewed journal of social demography first published in 1957, recently came to press featuring the 10 most-downloaded articles since the journal has been digitally available. One of these top-ten articles is co-authored by CSDE Affiliate David Swanson with his colleagues Mary McGehee and Nazrul Hoque. Their 2009 paper, “Socio-Economic Status and Life Expectancy in the United States, 1970–1990,” interrogates the connection between social inequality and population health outcomes. Congratulations, David!
Raftery Delivers Fields Institute’s Keyfitz Lecture in Mathematics and the Social Sciences
On February 3, 2022, the University of Toronto’s Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences recognized Adrian Raftery’s scientific contributions with an invitation to deliver the Keyfitz Lecture in Mathematics and the Social Sciences. Keyfitz was a Canadian demographer and pioneer in the field of mathematical demography. It was Keyfitz’s 1972 article ‘On Future of Population’ in the Journal of the American Statistical Association that first proposed probabilistic forecasting approaches in estimating future populations. Thus, it was a fitting that 50 years later Raftery be invited to give this endowed lecture on the subject of Bayesian approaches to very long term population forecasts. To see more details about the lecture you can visit the Fields Institute’s announcement about the lecture and watch the lecture on YouTube. Congratulations Adrian! We at the UW feel very lucky to count you in our midsts!