CSDE Affiliate, UW Chief Strategy Officer for Population Health, and Professor of Health Metrics Sciences Ali Mokdad was recently given in a spotlight in UW Today. The article covered the arc of Mokdad’s career at the CDC, what drew him to UW, the connections across his work experiences in public health, and how that has informed his role and led to projects such as the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation COVID-19 projections which are regularly cited by news outlets.

CSDE Fellow Neal Marquez and co-authors from the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project recently published a new paper in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, available in full HERE. The article presents an analysis of mortality records from the Florida State Department of Corrections prison system in 2019 and 2020, comparing these records to the overall Florida population. The authors find that COVID-19 decreased life expectancy of the prison population by four years.

On June 17th and 18th, 2022, the University of Utah’s Asia Center will host a conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, for scholars researching population, health and migration in contexts of Asia affected by armed conflict and organized violence. The purpose of this conference is to support, discuss, disseminate and elevate the profile of scholarship on armed conflict, population and health, and to demonstrate the significance of PHAC globally and especially within Asia. There is no registration fee, and conference sponsors will cover participants’ airfare (up to $500), ground transportation, meals during the conference, and two-three nights of accommodation. Applications are due March 1, 2022.