In a new article published last week, available in full HERE, CSDE Affiliate Emilio Zagheni and his co-authors expand the methodological toolkit for capturing cultural similarities driven by migration with the novel use of Facebook Ad data. In most countries, larger immigrant populations are associated with more similar food and drink preferences between their country of origin and the country of destination. The authors’ results suggest that immigrants contribute to bringing the culture of their home countries to new countries.

*** Rescheduled from 2/9 to 2/16*** The Computational Demography Working Group is meeting February 15th at 2-3PM on Zoom (register HERE) with CSDE Alumni and NIH T32 Data Science & Demography Fellow Emily Pollock (PhD Anthropology UW, 2021), PHAM/PE Fellow, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Emily’s dissertation focused on demographic effects on dynamic network model simulations as well as the pros and cons of expedited partner treatment as a prevention method for chlamydia transmission among young adults. Emily is currently a fellow in the Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship’s inaugural Public Health Analytics & Modeling track at the CDC, working in the Division of STD Prevention. She works on modeling projects related to a variety of disease dynamics to support and evaluate diagnostic and prevention activities. Emily is excited to come back and talk with her extended CSDE family!