Congratulations to CSDE Affiliate Dr. Maria Bleil, Research Assistant Professor in Nursing, who recently received a NIH/NHLBI R01 Grant to study the effect of postnatal parenting support in primary care on cardiometabolic health in early childhood among at-risk families. The study aims to determine whether benefits of a Promoting First Relationships (PFR intervention), originally designed to impact parent-child behavioral and relationship outcomes in infancy extend to the child’s cardiometabolic health in early childhood. NIH funding will support the return of 214 mother-child dyads (85% of 252 total families) who participated in the original RCT. CSDE will provide support for the biomarker data collection, including assistance in developing protocols and training the study staff to conduct on-site point-of-care blood testing, and to collect biospecimens. CSDE’s Biodemography Lab will assay the resulting specimens for biomarkers that may be related to cardiometabolic health. Once the data are collected, CSDE will be supporting Bleil’s statistical analyses.
Barrington Appointed Director of ARCH – Center for Anti-Racism in Community Health
Congratulations to CSDE Affiliate Wendy Barrington for her new position at the School of Public Health as the inaugural Director of the Center for Anti-Racism in Community Health (ARCH). This important and extraordinary initiative at the School of Public Health will be well-served by Dr. Barrington’s vision for, and practice of, dismantling racism and racist institutions impacting population health.
In this new role, she will hold joint appointments in Health Services, Epidemiology, and Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing, contingent upon approval by several review bodies, including the SPH Faculty Council and the UW Board of Regents. A hallmark of Wendy’s approach is to co-create, co-design, and co-operate to realize a shared strategy to maximize anti-racist impact for community health promotion and a research agenda to support its implementation. In that spirit, please look forward to a series of listening sessions and opportunities for engagement to inform the ARCH Center priorities and structure starting Fall 2021.
CSDE 2020-21 Workshop Recordings Available on Website!
Have you ever missed a CSDE workshop and wished that you could have attended? Good news! CSDE now has all of its 2020-2021 workshop recordings available on YouTube. You can find the workshop recordings by going to CSDE’s Workshop Webpage and clicking on the specific workshop that you would like to watch. You will find the link to the recording on that workshop’s webpage. The following workshops have recordings available:
- Options for Biomarker Data Collection from a Distance
- Introduction to Visualization with ggplot in R
- Microsoft Word for the Social Sciences
- Micronutrient Malnutrition and Population Health
- Introduction to Survey Data Sources
- Agent Based Modeling in R
- Preventing and Identifying Fraud in Survey Data Collection
- UW CISO Briefing: Preventing and Identifying Fraud in Survey Data Collection
- Lunch and Learn: Methods for Sampling Hard to Reach Populations
- Understanding Lab Methods and Data
- Reproducible GIS Analysis with R
We hope to offer even more workshop recordings in the future! For questions about workshops or to suggest a future workshop, please email Christine Leibbrand (cleibb@uw.edu).
*New* UW Royalty Research Fund Grants [Due September 27, 2021]
Applications are open for the Fall 2021 round of the UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. Proposals are due Monday, September 27, by 5:00 PM. This program aims to support new directions in research, particularly in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, for faculty who are junior in rank, or in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome, with budgets up to $40,000. Application instructions can be found at the Office of Research website. Acting, temporary (including limited duration), or postdoctoral appointments are ineligible to apply for the RRF program as PI or co-PI, but may be included in the budget for the project team. Please see the updated instructions here. Contact the RRF administrative staff with questions about the program; new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@uw.edu, 206-685-9316.
Attend Add Health 2021 Virtual Workshop [7/26/2021]
Looking for Data? IPUMS CPS May Be Of Interest
IPUMS CPS has released data from the April 2021 Basic Monthly Survey as well as COVID-19 supplement variables from March 2021. Voter and Veterans Supplement data are now available for 2020. May 2021 and the disability supplement as well as new samples for the child support and public arts supplements will be available soon. For more information, see the IPUMS website.
Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at The Ohio State Announces American Population Panel
CSDE Welcomes New Graduate Certificate Trainees!
CSDE is excited to welcome its newest cohort of Trainees! Taylor Riley (Epidemiology), Aryaa
Rajouria (Sociology), Maitreyi Sahu (Health Metrics Sciences), Daniel Cockson (Epidemiology),
Aminah Mabruk (Sociology), Mary Bridge Waters (Epidemiology), Larissa Caldeira
(Sociology), Esteban Valencia (Epidemiology), and Hiwot Zewdie (Epidemiology) will be
joining the 2021-2022 Cohort. Welcome to our new students and we look forward to meeting
you on campus in the Fall!
While CSDE’s 2020-2021 cohort of Trainees joined CSDE in January, we look forward to
finally meeting them in person next year as well! For those of you who have not met our 2020-
2021 Trainees, we encourage you to reach out to and learn about their amazing research and
community involvement. They include Izzy Sederbaum (Evan School of Public Policy), June
Yang (Sociology), David Coomes (Epidemiology), Will von Geldern (Evans School of Public
Policy), Diane Xue (Public Health Genetics), Ihsan Kahveci (Sociology), Ellie Terry (Evans
School of Public Policy), Postyn Smith (Geography), Colin Baynes (Global Health), Haley
Comfort (IHME), Callie Freitag (Evans School of Public Policy), Maxine Wright (Sociology),
Thomas Lindman (Evans School of Public Policy), Natalie Vaughan-Wynn (Geography),
Elizabeth Pelletier (Evans School of Public Policy), Courtney Allen (Sociology), Breon Haskett
(Sociology), and Horacio Chacon-Torrico (Global Health). CSDE is grateful to have such a
wonderful community of students!
Message from CSDE Director, Sara Curran
Congratulations to everyone upon the completion of this very long academic year! All of us at CSDE are sending a loud and cheerful shout-out of great appreciation to our entire community of affiliates, staff, and students. Our weekly seminars on Zoom have reassured all of us, in a small way, just by knowing that you’re still doing okay and able to participate in that vital aspect of scientific communality.
We have a few departures to mention. Our CSDE Evans School RA, Veda Patwardhan, is moving onwards to a wonderful postdoctoral position with CSDE Affiliate Emmanuela Gakidou and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. CSDE Affiliate Maria Bleil is stepping down from chairing CSDE’s seminar program, because she has wonderful new grants that were just awarded. Thank you to you both!
We welcome a few new people to the CSDE team, including Katy Bachman who is serving as CSDE’s Graduate Certificate Advisor. Dr. Jessica Beyer will be joining our Research Science staff and to provide consultations on qualitative methods. Jessica Godwin will be joining our science team and leading this summer’s Population Health Initiative Applied Research Program. Professor David Takeuchi will be joining CSDE’s Executive Committee. Tyler McCormick will be joining as the Science Core PI. Among other initiatives, Tyler will be growing our ‘lunch and learn’ program, which aims to link UW’s innovative methodologists with other scientists seeking to learn and collaborate. Tyler hosted this week’s very informative pilot program focused on sampling hard to reach populations. Welcome to all of you!
Additionally, let me take a bit more space to acknowledge a few people and organizations without whom this year really would not have been as functional as it was. Thank you to Scott Kelly, Belinda Sachs, Angie Thai and Gianna Cannataro – they are CSDE’s Administrative team and they are masters of a most amazing juggling act of responsibilities and activities. From grant submissions to grants award management, budget reconciliation and projections, endless amounts of hiring, many events and programs, website updates and quality communications, evaluations and assessments, development and management of organization and information systems, etc… – you name it, they do it with grace and kindness!
Thank you to our computing core team – Matt Weatherford, Alan Li, Moris Vrachovski, and Emily Lust who have accomplished so much this year from remote locations including all of the help desk services to re-hauling and upgrading our systems, renewing licenses, bringing our computing environment up to the highest grade of security, building new virtual servers, and more! 90% of CSDE’s research community depends on the high-quality services they provide and we are extraordinarily grateful for their cutting-edge and reliable systems. Thank you to our amazing scientific staff (Matt Dunbar, Ellie Brindle, Deven Hamilton, Phil Hurvitz, and Christine Leibbrand) who provide top-flight consulting, research services, and infrastructure support (such as our workshops and the UW Data Collaborative).
Thank you to our stalwart faculty leadership team. This begins with Steve Goodreau who ably manages a highly productive summer grants program, an early career investigator year-long workshop, and our seed grant program. This year, we’ve benefitted greatly from Zack Almquist’s thoughtful leadership as the Training Core PI. With Ellie Brindle, Melanie Martin’s co-direction of the Biodemography Lab has transformed that resource and forged new ties across campus. Huge thank you to Maria Bleil for her leadership of the seminar series this year! It was a flawless program and reached hundreds of researchers. We are indebted to the service of the Primary Research Area Chairs who organized panels and supported working groups, they include Ann Bostrom, Anjum Hajat, Heather Hill, Nathalie Williams and Mark Ellis, and Zack Almquist and Adrian Raftery. Additionally, members of our Executive Committee always seem to be there for us and we’re so grateful; they include Kyle Crowder, India Ornelas, Jon Wakefield, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Melissa Martinson, Sarah Stone, Tyler McCormick, and Thaisa Way. None of our communication would be possible without the great, great work of CSDE’s Evans School RA – Veda Patwardhan! Thank you, Veda!
CSDE’s capacity to support your research requires important resources, including valuable center grant support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research infrastructure grant, P2C HD042828. This support is complemented by invaluable resources from UW’s College of Arts & Sciences, College of Built Environment, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, School of Public Health, School of Social Work, the Population Health Initiative, eSciences Institute, Urban@UW, and the Office of Research. Our trainees have benefitted greatly from the resources associated with a Schmidt Endowment, a Shanahan Endowment Fellowship and a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development training grant, T32 HD101442-01.
Finally, none of this could happen without all of you – the members of the CSDE community who are pursuing great ideas and answering important research questions with innovative methods and data! Thank you!
On behalf of us all, I wish you a very good and restorative summer!
~ Sara Curran, Director
P.S. keep the news coming throughout the summer to csde@uw.edu – please don’t forget to share newly, or soon to be, published research, any mentions in the news media, new grant awards, reports, honors, and other accomplishments – not only do we want to know, but so do your colleagues!
P.P.S. BTW, CSDE e-news will move to a bi-weekly schedule for the summer.