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Better Understanding Diet & Cardio-Metabolic Health in American Indians

At the CSDE seminar on April 16th, CSDE Affiliate Dr. Amanda Fretts will present “Better Understanding Diet & Cardio-Metabolic Health in American Indians”. CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat will moderate the discussion. Dr. Fretts will discuss major findings from the Strong Heart Study—the largest and longest on-going cohort study of cardiovascular health among American Indians in the United States. She will also describe an on-going clinical trial designed to test the effect of a cooking and nutrition intervention on diet quality and glycemic control in American Indian adults with Type 2 diabetes who reside in a rural reservation community. Dr. Fretts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Her research interests include nutrition, physical activity, fatty acids, diabetes, and American Indian health.

Register for Dr. Fretts’ Zoom seminar here. This quarter, CSDE is recording the seminar series and posting the links on its website. Visit our site here.

*New* Apply for CSDE’s Summer Grant Writing Program! (due 04/30/2021)

CSDE is inviting applications for its 4th annual Summer Grant Writing Program – a chance for you to learn more about NIH grant-writing and to workshop your proposal with other participants and with experienced senior faculty. Writing a grant in isolation can be mystifying—instead, we aim to create a group experience that is still hard work, but which will be supportive, fun, productive, and ultimately rewarding. All CSDE affiliates (local or regional) are eligible to apply. UW post-docs are eligible to apply only if they plan a training grant centered at UW. Applications from collaborative teams, anticipating a multiple PI arrangement, are also encouraged.  Applications are due Friday, April 30 at 6 pm PDT. For more information and to apply, visit this link. Please email CSDE Development Core Director Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu) with any questions!

In brief, participants will develop proposals over the course of the summer, with support and reviews from senior mentors, other participants, and the program coordinator Steve Goodreau. All applicants must include a letter from a relevant unit head (department/school/center/college/etc.) indicating that they support the application, and that the applicant holds a position that makes them eligible to receive external funding. Letters are also encouraged (but not required) to indicate some form of matching support (e.g. some summer salary, research expenses, or RA support, all paid directly from the unit to the participant).

 

 

 

 

Call for Applications for Summer ’21 PHI-CSDE Applied Research Fellowships (due 04/22/2021)

With support from the Population Health Initiative, CSDE is hosting a third summer applied research program for a team of undergraduate and graduate fellows to address critical demographic analyses of race, age, and households for King County and Public Health Seattle King County.  This summer’s program will build upon last summer’s development of tract level forecasts and add new data and new analyses of historic and contemporary demographic trends across neighborhoods, cities, and places in King County. With new data, the team will see how different kinds of ‘shocks’ to the county differentially influence population distributions. These analyses will provide valuable tools for local policymakers and stakeholders to better anticipate the needs of their citizens. To learn more about this opportunity, read here. CSDE affiliates please share this call widely with the undergraduate and graduate students who might be interested.

Snedker and Lanfear Research on Tent Cities Featured in Seattle Times

Research on the unhoused and tent cities conducted by CSDE Regional Affiliate Karen Snedker and CSDE Trainee Chuck Lanfear was featured this weekend in the Seattle Times.  The research finds that tents in Seattle increased by 50% since the COVID 19 pandemic.  You can read more about the story here.  You can also attend Snedker’s research seminar Friday, May 21st at 12:30pm via Zoom during CSDE’s seminar. Click here for more details.