Join applied demographers virtually February 10-12, 2026 for the PAA Applied Demography Conference. This conference provides applied demographers with a unique opportunity to participate in a conference designed to showcase applied demography, strengthen professional networks, and bring the applied demography community together. The program includes three half-days of virtual sessions and presentations. View the program and schedule.
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We look forward to welcoming CSDE Affiliates Avanti Adhia and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar from the University of Washington on Friday, January 16 at 12:30 PM in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. In this panel, Dr. Adhia and Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar will each present research related to gun violence.
Avanti Adhia (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. The goal of her interdisciplinary research is to prevent intimate partner and sexual violence by (1) understanding the causes and consequences and (2) evaluating the role of laws, policies, and interventions in reducing violence.
Ali Rowhani-Rahbar is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy & Governance, and Director of the Center for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Washington. His research evaluates community-based interventions, social programs, and public policies for their impact on multiple forms of violence, with particular emphasis on preventing firearm-related harm. In recognition of his contributions to firearm violence research, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 and Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2024.
CSDE Affiliates Vince Wang (Real Estate), Arthur Acolin (Real Estate), Rebecca Walter (Real Estate) examined employment status and wage trajectories of recipients of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program from 2005 to 2018 in a recent article in Housing Policy Debate. Drawing on a national dataset containing 22.5 million householder-year observations, the study shows most housing voucher recipients did not work while in the program, and those who did earned relatively low wages despite some growth. These results highlight that the Housing Choice Voucher program is primarily a housing stability policy for people outside the labor force. Efforts to encourage program exit should focus on the smaller group of recipients in the workforce, supporting their employment goals.
CSDE Affiliate Patricia Louie (Sociology) examined the implications of multiracial status for health by examining specific multiracial groups (Black-White, Black-Asian, and Asian-White adults) versus their monoracial counterparts in an article published in Race and Social Problems. Louie and her co-author draw on an 11-year pooled sample of the nationally representative Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (2002–2012) and find that different hypotheses fit the health risk status of different multiracial groups. The upward assimilation hypothesis applies to Asian-White adults (closer to White adults than Asian adults), the minority status hypothesis applies to Black-Asian adults (closer to Black adults than to Asian adults), and Black-White adults have profiles that differ depending on the outcome under study. The results provide insights into how specific combinations of multiracial status fit into the racialized social structure as well as the analytic benefits of disaggregating multiracial people into their component groups.