Associate Professor in Demography, Danish Centre for Population Research
Join Demographers of Color Webinar on How To Navigate Mid-Career as DoC
On March 12th, Demographers of Color & Allies will conduct a virtual panel discussion “Navigating Mid-Career as DoC: A conversation with Demographers of Color“. This panel discussion features PhD demographers of color who will share about their career and life experiences and is hosted by the Demographers of Color & Allies Collective (organizers Asad L. Asad, Christina J. Cross, Nadia Flores, René D. Flores, Hedwig Lee, Mao-Mei Liu, Juan M. Pedroza, Fernando Riosmena, Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, Omari H. Swinton, Eddie Telles, Monique B. Williams). The panel is being organized in response to feedback gathered at the 1st ever member-organized Demographers of Color & Allies Reception in April 2020 and monthly events since. This event may include all-group and break-out components. Join for a sincere discussion of pivots, resilience, and hope. To register, click here.
CSDE Welcomes Four More Faculty Affiliates!
CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates:
- Avanti Adhia– Postdoctoral Scholar, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center (HIPRC), University of Washington. Adhia’s research centers on intimate partner violence (IPV) by understanding the causes and consequences of IPV in addition to the role of policies and interventions in preventing and reducing violence. She recently received a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NICHD to study the effectiveness of state IPV laws on school-based prevention and response in reducing the prevalence of adolescent IPV. Adhia joins CSDE as a faculty affiliate.
- Wendy Barrington– Associate Professor, Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology; Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Services
University of Washington. Barrington’s research evaluates to what degree social position, structures, and systems perpetuate cancer health disparities via stress, obesity, and related behaviors. Her research falls within two main schema: promoting healthy communities and racial disparities in clinical outcomes. Barrington joins CSDE as a faculty affiliate. - John Leverso – Assistant Professor, Sociology, Whitman College. Leverso’s research combines sociological and criminological perspectives to investigate street gang culture, specifically: gangs in online settings, interaction rituals, solidarity and hyper-surveillance, gangs in the life course, and the geographical correlates of street gangs. His research contributes to both knowledge about gangs and broader issues in criminology and criminal justice relating to gender and race/ethnicity. Leverso joins CSDE as a regional affiliate.
- Valentina Petrova– Qualitative Team Lead, VA Puget Sound. Petrova provides qualitative data analysis software consulting services to researchers at her consulting firm, QDA Consulting. She also works as a Qualitative Team Lead at VA Puget Sound Health Care System where she leads qualitative teams through research cycles including proposal writing, data collection, coding, analysis, and findings dissemination. Her work also includes training primary investigators and other research staff on data collection (grounded interviewing style) and analysis (various ATLAS.ti 8 topics). Petrova joins as a CSDE regional affiliate.
These affiliates bring a wealth of knowledge and unique approaches that enhances our community of demographers and collectively advances population science. We look forward to supporting each of them as they pursue their research. You can learn more about their individual research interests by visiting their affiliate pages, linked above.
If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or you know of someone who should become one, you can invite them to do so by directing them to this page. Affiliate applications are reviewed quarterly, by CSDE’s Executive Committee.
Join Johns Hopkins Webinar Debating Global Food Price Trends (03/10)
On March 10th, the Johns Hopkins University’s Population, Family, and Reproductive Health Program is sponsoring a webinar on a longstanding debate built on a wager about trends in global food prices between 2011-2020. Stan Becker (Johns Hopkins), John Bongaarts (The Population Council), David Lam (University of Michigan), Li Liu (Johns Hopkins), and Dana Sarnak (Johns Hopkins) lean in on the wager and whether their bets were wins or losses. Register for the webinar here.
Join TADA-BSSR Webinar – Translating Domain Knowledge into Mechanistic Process Models (3/18)
Join this upcoming webinar on March 18th, as part of CSDE’s partnership with the Training in Advanced Data Analysis for Behavioral and Social Sciences (TADA-BSSR) at NIH. The webinar will examine how with digital technologies, radically new possibilities have emerged for studying and developing new insights related to advancing both fundamental understanding of social and behavioral processes and, simultaneously, improving behavioral interventions built upon said knowledge. These new possibilities though force us to find more robust ways to translate domain knowledge about processes (e.g., insights from operant and classical learning, cognitive science, and affective learning) into robust process models that rigorously specify temporal understanding of the dynamics and context-dependencies of said processes. The possibilities and challenges are particularly evident when seeking to develop just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI), which seek to provide support during states when a person would have the opportunity to engage in a positive behavior, be receptive to receiving support, and, engagement would result in positive internalized adaptation towards engaging in the desired behavior, eventually, without the need for the JITAI. In this webinar the team will describe efforts to establish more robust approaches for translating domain knowledge about processes into computational models that account for theorized dynamics and to offer some initial steps to advance the field. To register, click here.
*NEW* Limited Submission Opportunity for Health Disparities Research (due to OSP 4/15/21)
Applications are open for the Cigna Foundation’s limited submission Health Disparities Grants. Despite steady improvement in overall health outcomes over the past decade, many under-resourced communities continue to experience substantial health disparities. Grants will support work on one or more of the following areas: increased access to health care, increased access to primary care, increased health literacy. The award amount is $375,000. Please submit a one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach and biosketch or CV of the PI to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021. Proposals are due to the sponsor 4/23/21, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 4/14/21 if given the go-ahead by the review committee. Please email research@uw.edu with questions. For other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the internal proposal review committee review and selection process outline, see here. CSDE is always happy to help you in the preparation of your applications – – whether that is with scientific consultations or pre-award proposal support, which includes budget preparation, all ancillary materials, management of submission, and experienced reviewers for providing feedback on your narrative. Contact Scott Kelly, Sara Curran, Steve Goodreau, or Belinda Sachs with any questions.