Although planners and researchers have paid increasing attention to healthy and sustainable buildings in recent years, sub-standard development continues to be a problem in some settings and a common definition of healthy urban development remains elusive. In a recent article, CSDE Affiliate Helen Pineo (Urban Design & Planning) and colleagues argue that case studies focused on healthy development have a unique value when shared in a manner that encourages critical examination and discussion. This study, published in Planning Practice & Research, leverages a narrative synthesis and critical analysis of published cases. Read the full article here.

CSDE will be hosting its annual “PAA 2025 Practice Talks” during the CDWG time on Wednesday, April 2^nd from 10:00-11:00 AM in Raitt 223 as well as during the regular Seminar time on Friday, April 4th from 12:30-1:30 PM in PAR 360. The Wednesday Event is Hybrid, you are welcome to join in person or via Zoom.

We will feature 4 CSDE Trainees representing Sociology and Health Services giving Oral or Flash presentations this year.

• Courtney Allen, Sociology
• Zoe Pleasure, Health Services
• Adam Visokay, Sociology
• Elizabeth Nova, Sociology

4/2/2025

10:00-11:00 AM PT

223 Raitt Hall

The Friday event is an in-person only event. We will feature 3 CSDE Trainees representing Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Sociology giving Oral or Flash presentations this year.

• David Coomes, Epidemiology
• Katie Paulson, Biostatistics
• Jessica Warren, Sociology

04/04/2025
12:30-1:30 PM PT

360 Parrington Hall

Please come listen to their practice presentations and offer them your good feedback and wisdom. Your time and insights will be appreciated.

Environmental NGOs in the Arctic access, analyze, and share satellite imagery to track marine mammal migrations, map coastal inundations for Indigenous communities, pinpoint sources of pollution, and visualize the effects of climate change. While analysis of satellite data can support regional governance and environmental management, it risks distancing these organizations from the communities and ecologies for which they advocate unless attention is given to designing locally-informed rather than data-driven research. In a recent article published in Digital Geography & Society, CSDE Affiliate Mia Bennett (Geography) explores how these NGOs derive meaning and power from satellite imagery through analysis of interviews and correspondence with six Arctic environmental NGOs in 2024. Read the full study here.

The Human Mortality Database Project team invites contributions to the 7 th HMD Symposium. This year, the Symposium will be dedicated to investigating the main drivers and obstacles to longevity progress in the pre- and post-COVID eras. Contributions from demographers, epidemiologists, public health experts and researchers from related fields conducting analyses based on the cause-of-death series newly integrated into the Human Mortality Database (HMD) are particularly encouraged. The Symposium seeks to address major topics and challenges of substantive research as well as methodological and data issues. In addition to contributing to the scientific program, participants will be invited to provide feedback and suggestions on the currently available content of the database and on the methods used, as well as to propose future developments for the HMD Project in general and the Human Cause-of-Death series in particular. Learn more here.

Join CSDE Training Core PI Audrey Dorélien and CSDE Training Director Jessica Godwin during our PAA 2025 Data Viz Office Hours to get feedback and consultation to improve the figures in your oral presentations or posters. Both faculty and students are welcome!!

Consults will be drop-in style, from 1:00-3:00PM on March 31st in Raitt 221 or on Zoom.

The Retirement Research Foundation (RRF) funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network. Of particular interest are:

• Interventional trials; translational studies; and health services and policy research
• Projects that build on the investigator’s past studies
• Proposals that include robust dissemination plans, if appropriate, to assure that findings reach audiences positioned to act on them

A required LOI is due to the sponsor 5/1/2025. If invited by the sponsor to submit a full proposal, the deadline is 8/5/2025.