On May 1, 2025, CSDE Affiliate Erin McElroy and colleagues are hosting a conference with the Simpson Center for the Humanities on “Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below”. This conference will focus on software and countermaps primarily designed for political action with social, environmental, and land justice movements. The intent of this conference is to bring together organizers, researchers, educators, and technologists questioning the interdependencies between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures. For information, visit this link or the event website.

This five-day workshop from June 16-20 in Ann Arbor, MI will orient participants to the content and structure of the core PSID interview, its special topics modules, and its supplemental studies, including the Child Development Supplement (CDS), the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS), and the 2013 Rosters and Transfers Module. In addition we will discuss topics including the genomics data collected from children and adults as well as new data files which explain family relationships and demographic characteristics over time.

The workshop is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and research professionals. Participants should be familiar with Stata, SAS or R, but all examples used in the workshop will be in Stata. R code will be available for each lab as well. Learn more and apply here.

Applications from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows must include a letter of recommendation from a faculty advisor, project manager, or department chair.

Fee: $100 for those accepted into the workshop. Travel stipends will be available for those who need financial assistance.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship team will be hosting an info session for UW students on 4/22/25 at 12:00-1:00pm PT. Register to attend here.

The Soros Fellowship provides up to $90,000 in funding for graduate study to immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States. Hear directly from staff at the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships about the application process, eligibility requirements, and tips for crafting a strong application.

With the 2026 Fellowship application launching in mid-April and due in the fall of 2025, this is the perfect time to get started. There will also be time for Q&A, so bring your questions!

Who Should Attend: University of Washington students, undergraduate and graduate, and alumni who are New Americans and planning to pursue graduate school, or are in their first year of the graduate school and will be attending in the fall of 2026 and spring of 2027.

CSDE collaborates with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in a doctoral training program called the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS). This program is based in Rostock, Germany, but includes 12 doctoral programs in the U.S. and Europe. IMPRS-PHDS students engage with each other through either in-person or virtual workshops in Germany and around the world. Faculty mentors include members of the student’s own committee in their home institution, as well as MPIDR faculty and possible faculty from partner institutions.

Information about the program, the faculty, and partner institutions can be found here.

Successful applicants will be supported by CSDE for one quarter while they travel to Rostock, Germany to work with an MPIDR faculty member. The funding may be used any time between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. This opportunity is only open to current CSDE Trainees (enrolled in our certificate program or NIH fellowship program).

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Foundation welcomes programmatic proposals from nonprofit organizations and research proposals from individual researchers working at nonprofits or institutions that advance gynecologic care and increase health equity and access. Full proposals are due to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 6/13/2025 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/4/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.

The ACOG Foundation welcomes proposals that address the following topics:

Topic Area 1: Programmatic Submissions

The ACOG Foundation will accept proposals from nonprofit organizations that implement projects designed to:

• Reduce preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity
• Transform the culture of the obstetrics and gynecology profession to advance health equity
• Increase data-driven understanding of ob-gyns in order to meet patient needs
• Advance public education initiatives in a post-Dobbs environment

Topic Area 2: Research Submissions

The ACOG Foundation will accept proposals from individual researchers working at nonprofit organizations or institutions that advance gynecologic care and increase health equity and access. The Foundation is interested in seeding clinical research projects, given that ob-gyn health research remains underfunded, and therefore invites research studies that integrate clinical and population-based approaches, focus on quality of life, and contribute to the field of implementation science. Basic research projects are not the focus of this request for proposals. The research will be funded over a two-year period. Proposals that address the following conditions will be prioritized:

• Endometriosis
• PCOS
• Uterine Fibroids
• Menopause

Pre-Proposal Instructions:

Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 6/13/2025 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/4/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee. Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the limited submissions review committee review and selection process, are here:http://depts.washington.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions. Please feel free to email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page. If you are interested in other private funding opportunities, visit the Corporate and Foundation funding opportunities page.

Submissions are now open for research to be featured at the 2025 APPAM Fall Research Conference. This year’s conference theme is “Forging Collaborations for Transformative and Resilient Policy Solutions.” Submissions are being solicited from the following policy areas (sample included below):

• Education
• Employment and Training Programs
• Health Policy
• Innovations in Science and Technology
• Poverty and Income Policy
• Social Equity and Race

On 4/16 from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST, CDWG will host Dr. Jordan Klein for a research talk. Jordan Klein is a demographer, social epidemiologist, and quantitative and computational social scientist working as a research scientist in the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research’s Department of Digital and Computational Demography, joint appointed in the laboratories of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Wellbeing, and Migration and Mobility. He earned his PhD from Princeton University’s Office of Population Research, specializing in international comparative epidemiology and computational demography. His current work focuses on understanding the drivers of the spatio-temporal evolution of mortality disparities, especially in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

Title: Must whatever goes up come down? Social gradients in the emergence of Covid-19

Disentangling the roles of disease-specific interventions and disease-agnostic pre-existing inequities in the production of COVID-19 mortality gradients remains an empirical challenge due to the lack of counterfactual evidence from a scenario in which no interventions were implemented in response to the pandemic. To address this knowledge gap, I create a mechanistic epidemiological model simulating the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the first model of its type incorporating novel theoretical frameworks of the pathways that contribute to social gradients in emerging infectious disease mortality and the first of the spatiotemporal dynamics of COVID-19 mortality gradients in Brazil that is geospatially explicit, on a national scale, and uses real-world data-informed parameters. I incorporate pre-existing inequities in living conditions and in health status and healthcare access/quality, and examine the potential roles of two types of interventions: vaccination and social distancing, using different sources of digital trace data to parameterize reductions in mobility. I consider counterfactual scenarios of intervention adoption, comparing different prioritization strategies with respect to socioeconomic status to real-world adoption patterns. I find that strategies which prioritize lower socioeconomic status geographies, especially for vaccination, could have successfully counteracted the effects of pre-existing inequities in living conditions and in health status and healthcare access/quality, even with a limited supply of vaccines. These findings have crucial implications for informing policy responses to prevent mortality disparities in future emerging infectious disease epidemics and pandemics.

CDWG Will be Hybrid in the Spring Quarter of 2025. During this talk, Dr. Klein will join us via zoom with the UW group meeting in Raitt 223.

Zoom Registration is here.

Room: Raitt 223 – The Demography lab

CSDE is thrilled to announce the inaugural Charles and Josephine Hirschman Award for student research. CSDE students may apply for up to $2,000 in funds to directly support a research project. Funds may support activities such as the cost of conducting fieldwork, data purchases, the hiring of a translator or transcriber, or participant rewards in surveys. Be creative! All funds must be spent during the 2025-26 academic year and may not be used to pay tuition or your own salary. See details on eligibility and review criteria below.

Each applicant must provide

• a 1-2 page research proposal,

• a budget from the provided template, and

• their CV.

Apply here. A faculty advisor must approve of your application via this form.

Applications are due Friday, April 18, 2025.

Eligibility: Applicants must by UW graduate students who are affiliated with CSDE in at least one of the following ways:

1) are a current or former CSDE T32 fellow,

2) are currently enrolled at the UW and in the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods,

3) are currently enrolled at the UW and have completed the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods, or

4) are currently enrolled at the UW and have taken at least one of the following courses: of CSDE 513 or CSDE 533.

Applications will not be accepted without approval from a faculty mentor.

If awarded, funding is contingent upon proof of IRB approval or proof that the project is deemed not human subjects research.

Review Criteria: The Award Committee will review applications according to the NIH’s review criteria of significance, approach, innovation, investigators, and environment, as well as the impact of the award on your own personal research and professional goals. Our rubric contains more information.

When: Friday, April 18, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

1-on-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)

We are looking forward to hosting Daniel Parker from the University of California – Irvine on Friday, April 18 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. In addition, there are opportunities to meet 1-1 with Dr. Parker throughout the day. Sign up here!

Quantifying armed conflict is challenging, as traditional conflict data often rely on incomplete reporting and typically focus on metrics like the number of airstrikes. However, these measures overlook critical factors such as infrastructure destruction, population displacement, and recovery. In this talk, I’ll discuss how my group has been using satellite-based nighttime lights (NTL) data as a scalable tool for tracking conflict intensity and its downstream effects on public health. Using case studies from Yemen and Ukraine, I’ll show that airstrikes lead to significant declines in NTL, with notable geographic and temporal variation in post-attack recovery. In Yemen, I’ll further demonstrate how NTL can help assess the impact of armed conflict on cholera incidence, providing a means to quantify associations between conflict intensity, infrastructure disruption, and disease risk. The analysis highlights how both the magnitude of conflict and the pace of recovery shape cholera incidence. This approach provides an objective, real-time method for evaluating the cascading effects of conflict on infrastructure and health, with critical implications for humanitarian response and global public health.

Dr. Daniel M. Parker is trained in anthropology and demography and considers himself a spatial epidemiologist and medical geographer. He works on infectious diseases, human movement and travel patterns, and spatial interventions, particularly in under-resourced and conflict-affected regions. His research integrates geographic information systems (GIS), Earth observation data, molecular epidemiology, and statistical modeling to examine disease transmission and barriers to healthcare. He has led large-scale geographic reconnaissance efforts for malaria interventions in Eastern Myanmar; worked on vector-borne disease ecology in Asia, East Africa, and the U.S.A.; and conducted research on displaced populations’ access to healthcare. Through collaborations with NGOs, governments, and academic institutions, his work directly informs scalable public health interventions, using geospatial technologies to analyze mobility patterns, model disease distributions across space and time, and improve healthcare delivery in vulnerable populations.