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When the Safety Net is a Nurse: Organizational Care Work in the Context of State Retrenchment

This week, we will be hosting CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, LaTonya Trotter. Dr. Trotter will present her research on the work expected of nurse practitioners, relative to that of physicians, and the implications of this broader responsibility load for both patients and providers.

You can register for this seminar HERE. To check out all the upcoming topics and register for future seminars, visit our website.

This even is co-sponsored with the Population Health Initiative.

CSDE Welcomes Four New External Affiliates!

Throughout the year, CSDE reviews applications from demographers working at other universities, as well as those working in the private and public sectors. These affiliates are keen to engage with CSDE’s scholarly community. As external affiliates they are able to access our computing resources (including data and software) and online seminars or workshops, consults with our scientific staff, and collaborate easily with CSDE’s UW faculty on research projects. Non-UW demographers interested in a affiliating with CSDE can click here to apply. This quarter, we welcome four new external affiliates:

  • Rob Kemp – Senior Forecast Analyst at the Washington State Office of Financial Management. Dr. Kemp’s research interests include demography measurements and methods as well as migration and settlement.
  • Tiffany Pan – Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California – Santa Barbara. Dr. Pan earned her PhD in Biocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2019, and is an alumna of the CSDE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program. Her research is centered around the health of people and populations.
  • Deleena Patton – Research Manager at the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. Dr. Patton’s research areas include child and family well-being, maternal/child health, public assistance, child welfare, and early childhood development. She provides research and evaluation services to DSHS, other state agencies, and policymakers using integrated administrative data in order to improve the lives of Washingtonians.
  • Bryan Sykes – Chancellor’s Fellow, the Director of Graduate Studies, and an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, & Society at the University of California – Irvine. Dr. Sykes’ research focuses on demography (fertility and mortality), criminology, population health, mass imprisonment, social inequality, and research methodology.

Raftery and Co-Author Extend Probabilistic Population Forecasting in Recent Publication

In early October, CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery and UW Colleague Hana Ševčíková published an article in the International Journal of Forecasting, available in full HERE. Their research sought to extend the UN probabilistic population forecasting model into the very-long-term by combining this statistical approach with expert review and elicitation. Their projections suggests that world population growth will not stabilize until the 22nd century.

Darroch and Colleagues Release Estimated Effects of Cuts to Family Planning Funding on Fertility Outcomes

CSDE Affiliate Jacqueline Darroch and her colleagues at the Guttmacher Institute have recently released estimates of the effects of a policy change in the UK that sharply reduced funding for international development. In this report, available in full HERE, the authors estimate impacts of the cuts for family planning on funding levels, contraceptive use, unintended pregnancies, unplanned births, abortions and maternal deaths. They find that the potential impacts are quite large.

The estimates were also published alongside a description of the estimation sources and methodology.  This is part of a larger body of work under Guttmacher’s Adding It Up (AIU) project.  In addition to total and regional estimates of needs and impacts of investment in sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries, data for 132 countries are also now available.