Notice of Special Interest: Public Policy Effects on Alcohol-, Cannabis-, Tobacco-, and Other Drug-Related Behaviors and Outcomes
Call for Proposals: Special Issue of Journal of Refugee Studies
CSDE Seminar: Issues of Fraud in Research
CSSS End-of-Year Ceremony and 2021-2022 Course Overview
UW eScience Institute Data Then and Now Seminar Series: Indigenous Data Sovereignty
IAPHS Webinar: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research as a Spectrum
Join us for NICHD Population Dynamics Branch Funding Briefing! (05/26/2021)
On May 26 @8:30 am, Dr. Rosalind King, Population Dynamics Branch (PDB) Program Director, will join CSDE for an hour long briefing about funding opportunities through the branch and NICHD. After a brief presentation and overview of PDB’s priorities and mission, Dr. King will answer questions from participants. Dr. King is both a PDB Program Director and Associate Director for Prevention at NICHD. Additionally, Dr. King chairs the institute’s Reproductive Health Interest Group and serves as a project scientist for the Science of Behavior Change Program within the NIH Common Fund. Register for this event here and join us by Zoom for the webinar.
Wakefield on WHO Technical Advisory Group That Develops Model for Excess Mortality Estimation
CSDE Affiliate Jon Wakefield and Biostatistics PhD Student Serge Aleshin-Guendel are participating on the the WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment. As part of that effort, Wakefield, Aleshin-Guendel and the TAG have developed a new model for estimating excess mortality. To read more about their work visit their report at the WHO link. Those results were also recently reported on by the New York Times.
CSDE Affiliates Join in Penning Opinion on COVID-related Vulnerabilities Among Women of Color and Non-Binary Faculty
CSDE Affiliates Jane J. Lee, Anna Zamora-Kapoor and Karin D. Martin joined Dr. Ching-In Chen, Dr. Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamiño, Dr. Beatrice Wamuti, and Dr. Linh T. Nguyen in an opinion piece for the South Seattle Emerald in which they explain how women of color and non-binary faculty have also experienced the negative multiplier effects resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on those most vulnerable, even in the higher education sector. The authors of the opinion have been meeting regularly since 2019 as part of an early career women and non-binary faculty working group. Read their opinion here.