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CSDE Welcomes 3 New Research Affiliates

CSDE is pleased to introduce three new CSDE Affiliates! Leah Marcotte (Assistant Professor, Medicine) focuses on using community-engaged and implementation research methods in collaboration with community partners and health system leaders to sustainably improve equity and quality in cancer screening. Sana Khalil (Assistant Professor, Economics) integrates experimental and quasi-experimental techniques with qualitative surveys to explore issues in labor economics, behavioral economics, environmental resource management, and gender and development. Magali Blanco’s (Research Scientist, DEOHS) current research interests are around air pollution exposure assessment, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and social disparities. Learn more about each affiliate in the full story!

  • Leah Marcotte – Leah Marcotte is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW), a health services researcher, and a primary care physician. Her research is focused on using community-engaged and implementation research methods in collaboration with community partners and health system leaders to sustainably improve equity and quality in cancer screening. Prior to pursuing a career as a physician scientist, Dr. Marcotte worked in public policy and in health systems administration, most recently serving as Associate Medical Director for Population Health for the UW health system (2018-2020). In that role, she was exposed to a learning health system model with a focus in health equity in which we partnered with researchers to design and evaluate novel interventions for population health outreach. The experience of leveraging research methods to inform health systems interventions with the goal of improving quality and equity in care motivated me toward a career as a physician scientist. She pursued and was awarded a K12 learning health systems research grant to transition to a career in research. Having not had formal research methods training, she completed a Master of Science degree in Health Services at UW School of Public Health in 2022. She is currently working on a K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award proposal focused on addressing breast cancer screening inequities to submit to the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

 

  • Sana Khalil -Sana Khalil is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Dr. Khalil obtained her doctoral degree in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September 2022, where she was a US Fulbright doctoral fellow and received the 2018 Solomon Barkin Award for best research on improving the conditions of the working class. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics and econometrics, centered on exploring social and economic inequalities. In her research, she integrates experimental and quasi-experimental techniques with qualitative surveys to explore issues in labor economics, behavioral economics, environmental resource management, and gender and development. Her current research spans three interconnected strands: (1) Household water insecurities in Pakistan; (2) Cousin marriage, intrahousehold dynamics, and their impact on women’s paid work, and (3) labor market inequalities and employers’ hiring practices.

 

  • Magali Blanco – Magali Blanco is an environmental exposure scientist with additional training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and data science. Her current research interests are around air pollution exposure assessment, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and social disparities. The focus of her recently funded diversity MOSAIC K99/R00 is to better understand the mechanisms by which air pollution may impact Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) neuropathologies. This research will leverage her training and interests in air pollution monitoring design, quantitative exposure assessment, environmental health, ADRD, exposure mixtures, and advanced epidemiology.

Magarati and Colleagues Receive NIH/NIDA Grant from the Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Initiative

CSDE Affiliate Maya Magarati, along with Myra Parker and the UW Seven Directions Center for Indigenous Public Health team, were recently awarded a $3 million grant through the NIH N CREW Initiative for Growing a Tribal Healing Effort through Research (GATHER). With this new grant, the UW Seven Directions team will serve as one of four core technical assistance and training hubs supporting the documentation and monitoring of tribal research grants focused on substance use, mental health, and pain management. Learn more about this project and other funded initiatives here.

Sign Up for the Qualitative Demography Network from the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) (Due 10/15/24)

Qualitative methods in demography enable us to study the reasoning, motivations, processes and mechanisms underlying observed demographic behaviour and trends. However, as the demographic discipline predominantly uses quantitative methods, qualitative researchers can sometimes feel marginal. We would like to initiate a qualitative demography network, in which qualitative demographers and population studies researchers can exchange ideas, inspire each other, and brainstorm about the future role of qualitative research in demography.

If you are interested in joining our network, which aims to organise two thinkery sessions before the end of the year, please fill in the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/2T37Nqv5Yt

To join in time for the first thinkery session, please make sure to sign up by 15 October 2024.

Call for Papers: Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas – Canadian Studies in Population (10/15/24)

Special issue of Canadian Studies in Population on “Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas”

  • Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024 

This special issue of Canadian Studies in Population will spotlight key demographic concerns facing the Americas, including migration, mortality and morbidity, fertility, and family dynamics, and provide a forward-looking introduction that sets an agenda for a more integrated approach to understanding demographic change in the region. We seek papers that address demographic processes in the Americas, broadly defined, from Canada to Patagonia. Our issue is motivated by the following core questions about demography in the Americas:

  • What are the most important emerging demographic trends and processes in the Americas?
  • How do demographic processes in the Americas challenge or bring nuance to understanding of processes found elsewhere?
  • Are there regional demographic systems in the Americas? Are national demographic trends emblematic of regional trends? How heterogeneous is the demography of countries and regions?
  • Are similar demographic dynamics/mechanisms evident across places (i.e., changing mortality risks or fertility decline)?
  • How do national policies relate to unique demographic outcomes?

Papers may focus on a specific country or identify links and demographic systems between countries or regions. We invite papers that present novel empirical evidence, methodological insights or theoretical contributions. Empirical papers may include descriptive findings or center on identifying mechanisms. Authors are encouraged to situate their findings in regional context if they are not explicitly comparative in nature.

Please read the full Call for Papers online