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Students and Trainees Checkout the Demography or Population-related Courses for Next Quarter

CSDE’s certificate in Demographic Methods and its training program in Data Science, Demography and Population Health is happy to highlight for students courses that may be of interesting in the upcoming quarter.  In spring quarter, the regularly offered Social Demography course (CSDE 513 and SOC 513) will be offered on Tuesdays (asynchronously) and Thursdays (synchronously, 4:30-6pm) by CSDE Director Sara Curran. Also offered in Spring quarter: Professor Mark Ellis’ course on Social & Population Geography, Professor Adrian Raftery’s course on Statistical Demography, and Professor Steve Goodreau’s course on Social Networks & Health. For a list of relevant spring quarter classes, read more here.
  • Barbara Baquero – EPI 547/HSERV 514 – Social Determinants of Population Health and Health Disparities
  • Stephen Bezruchka – GH 514 – Global Population Health
  • Sara Curran – SOC 513/CSDE 513 – Demography & Ecology
  • Mark Ellis – GEOG 542 – Social & Population Geography
  • Steve Goodreau – CS&SS 523 – Social Networks & Health: Biocultural Perspectives
  • Rachel Heath – ECON 593 – Microeconomics of Development
  • Adrian Raftery – CS&SS 5263/ SOC 563/ STAT 563 – Statistical Demography
  • Clarence Spigner – HSERV 579 – Racism and Public Health
  • Jon Wakefield – STAT/BIOSTAT/CSSS 529 – Sample Survey Techniques 
  • Stephen Wilson – SOC W 592 – Social Work Practice with African-American Families
  • Dafeng Xu – PUBPOL 562 – Immigration Policy

CSDE Welcomes Four More Faculty Affiliates!

CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates:

  • Anne Conway– Urban Child Institute Endowed Professor and Director of the Child and Youth Development Lab, College of Social Work, University of Tennessee. Conway studies the development of neurocognition (i.e., focusing attention and ignoring distractions) and self-regulation (i.e., self-management of emotion, behavior, sleep), and associations with child well-being, health, and educational outcomes. Her research has been published in leading journals including Child Development, Psychological Science, Journal of Affective Disorders, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, among others. Conway joins CSDE as a regional affiliate.
  • Jake Grumbach– Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Washington
    Grumbach’s research focuses broadly on the political economy of the United States. He is particularly interested in public policy, American federalism, racial capitalism, campaign finance, and statistical methods. His book project, based on his award-winning dissertation, investigates the causes and consequences of the nationalization of state politics since the 1970s. Grumbach joins CSDE as a faculty affiliate.
  • Elizabeth Harrington – Acting Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington. Harrington is a clinician and researcher with expertise in global reproductive health, family planning, and the social and behavioral influences on contraceptive decision-making. She is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist with subspecialty training in family planning, and her research aims at understanding women’s complex needs and desires around prevention of unintended pregnancy. Harrington joins CSDE as a faculty affiliate.
  • Darcy Rao– Acting Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, University of Washington. Rao is an infectious disease epidemiologist with training and experience in mathematical modeling of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and measurement of sexual behavior and healthcare utilization. Her research interests center on using mathematical models to bridge epidemiologic research and public health practice, with the goal of informing the design and implementation of effective programs and policies. Rao joins as a CSDE faculty 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.

CSDE Affiliate Berridge to speak at AARP & Future of Privacy Forum Event [03-18-2021]

CSDE Affiliate and UW Social Work Assistant Professor Clara Berridge is the keynote speaker for a joint AARP & Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) event on March 18, titled Adding Age to AI: The Importance of Representing Older Adults in Data and Design. The event is part of a collaboration between the Future of Privacy Forum and AARP to evaluate the risks and benefits for older adults in a digital world. Berridge will discuss elder care technologies as they relate to power and ethics, highlight common value tensions and risks of data intensive care technologies and suggest ways to mitigate these. For more information or to register, click here.

*New* Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience [due 04-15-2021]

Applications are open for the Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. This is a new, three-year post-doctoral fellowship program that aims to integrate data scientists in neuroscience research, challenge traditional approaches to neuroscience, provide multidisciplinary, multi-organizational co-mentorship, provide a network and community, and support career development in data science. The fellowship will be co-hosted by the Allen Institute and the University of Washington (through its eScience Institute and the Computational Neuroscience Center) and is directed by Dr. Christof Koch at the Allen Institute. Priority will be given to applicants who are not currently postdoctoral fellows or scientists at the University of Washington or the Allen Institute respectively. For full consideration, please submit your application by April 15, 2021. Learn more and apply on the Shanahan Fellowship Website. For questions, email shanahan.fellow@alleninstitute.org. 

During the three-year fellowship, fellows will identify a mentor, based either at the Allen Institute for Brain Science or in the MindScope Program, at the Allen Institute, where the fellows will be based. Fellows will select a co-mentor at the University of Washington who will provide additional guidance on a project designed by the fellow, focused on quantitative analysis of neuroscience data available through the Allen Institute’s vast data banks – ranging from molecular, genomic, transcriptional, physiological, morphological, anatomical and functional whole-brain level in the brains of mice, non-human primates and humans – or through ongoing laboratory work.

Fellows will participate in the postdoctoral career development program at the University’s e-Science Institute and the UW Institute of Neuroengineering (UWIN). The eSciences Institute offers regular workshops on key topics including cloud computing, python and reproducibility. New fellows will attend the annual Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain where they will learn how to apply data science skills to neuroscience data and questions. Throughout the three years, fellows will be supported in developing a network in the neuroscience field and sharing their progress with peers at conferences. Up to three fellows will be selected to begin in Fall 2021.

Join TADA-BSSR Webinar – Computational Analysis of Language and the Assessment of Suicide Risk [03-18-2021]

Join this upcoming webinar on March 18, as part of CSDE’s partnership with the Training in Advanced Data Analysis for Behavioral and Social Sciences (TADA-BSSR) at NIH. Dr. Philip Resnik will discuss computational linguistics research related to the problem of suicide, raising issues connected with computational research on mental health more generally and including not only the technological angle but also questions of data access, ethical considerations, and the role of computational technologies in the mental health ecosystem. This talk, to be given remotely in the middle of a pandemic, will be about a problem that already existed long prior to COVID-19 as a kind of international pandemic in its own right. Suicide has a worldwide death toll approaching 800,000 people per year worldwide, and in the U.S. in 2016 it became the second leading cause of death among those aged 10-34. Now compounding these existing problems is an “echo pandemic” of suicide and mental illness emerging in the wake of COVID-19, as people struggle with isolation, stress, and sustained disruptions of day to day life. To join through Videocast, click here.
 

The Journal of Population and Sustainability just launched

The CSDE community might be interested in a new journal launched by White Horse Press, which publishes a range of journals in the field of human-environment relations, – The Journal of Population and Sustainability – with editorial board members that include John Cleland and William Rees. read more… The JP&S welcomes submissions for peer review of articles from scholars engaged in research in any field of the population-environment nexus including: climate change and migration, population growth and energy demand, the consumption-population nexus, global food security, population, development and environmental justice, population ethics, population growth and biodiversity, population growth and local environmental change, population projections, sexual health and fertility. The journal also welcomes applications for membership of the editorial board.
The journal will continue to be an editorially independent, fully open access publication with articles published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0  licence. Importantly, submissions to the JP&S will continue to be free of article processing charges.  WHP will be assisting in the further development of the JP&S with a focus on greater indexing and wider dissemination.