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All It Takes Is One Block: The Legacy of Redlining in Lethally Surveilled Neighborhoods

We are excited to host Emory University Associate Professor Ali Sewell as our guest speaker for this week’s CSDE seminar. Drawing on historical data of state-implicated redlining, the research they will present considers the interlocking web of violence between communities and the people designated by the state to protect them.

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

After the seminar, CSDE Trainee Maxine Wright will facilitate a graduate student discussion with Dr. Sewell. Please RSVP to attend by emailing Maxine (mkw1208@uw.edu).

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

New Research from Kenworthy & Igra Explores Medical Crowdfunding and Income Inequality

UW Today featured new research from CSDE Affiliate Nora Kenworthy and UW Sociology student Mark Igra last week. The source article, published in the American Journal of Public Health, analyzes data from GoFundMe campaigns between 2016 and 2020. Augmenting this data with state- and county-level measures of income and medical debt, the authors explore the relationship between crowdfunding success and income inequality.

Martin and Keith to Present Award-Winning Research at the NICHD

We are delighted to announce that as winners of a Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge, there will be a team presentation by CSDE Affiliates Monica Keith and Melanie Martin at a virtual Winner’s Webinar on March 16, 2022 from 11am – 1pm PST, sponsored by NICHD.  This webinar will be an opportunity for all winners of the Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge to highlight their “solutions” via a PowerPoint presentation to the extramural community and the general public at large.  The NICHD Director and Deputy Director will be attending this webinar to hear the winners’ solutions and offer welcoming comments.

CSSS Seminar: Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities

The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences seminar this week will feature Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a demographer at the Minnesota Population Center and Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wrigley-Field will present her research on the uniformly small racial disparities during the 1918 pandemic and potential explanations. You can register for this Zoom event HERE.