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Eleanor Brindle Quoted in Reuters Article on Covid Immunity Research

In a recent Reuters article, CSDE Research Scientist and Biodemography Lab Director Eleanor Brindle provides insights on the difficulties of obtaining resources, including both funding and supplies, for research using anti-coronavirus antibody tests to understand the spread of COVID-19 in the US.  The article explains that the challenges in developing laboratory methods can slow progress on understanding how risk of transmission varies between population subgroups, and highlights the need for funding for these efforts.

 

 

Swanson Receives Emeritus Professor Award and Continues Applied Demography Research Agenda

CSDE Affiliate David Swanson recently received the Edward A. Dickson award from the University of California at Riverside, where he will hold the title “Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor” from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Swanson remains research active. Recently, Swanson and colleagues continue to analyze county-level COVID-19 data for Washington State. In a recent NW Citizen article, they show how political leanings at the county level are associated with per capita case rates.

*NEW* COVID-19 Population Health Equity Research Grants

Applications are open for the Population Health Initiative’s COVID-19 Population Health Equity Research Grants. The program aims at supporting University of Washington researchers to build partnerships with communities of color and develop COVID-19 research projects that address community-identified needs. Awards of a maximum of $20,000 each are available.  More information about the award can be found at this link.

COVID-19 Specific Survey Items on PhenX and the NIH Disaster Research Response (DR2) Platforms

A trans-NIH working group co-led by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) have made a survey repository with existing COVID-19 survey items and investigator contact information available. This effort intends to reduce the proliferation of one-off survey items, encourage comparisons across samples, and facilitate data integration and collaboration across researchers fielding new survey items to assess various COVID-19 specific domains.

Enjoy the Summer!

Thank you for another great year! As we wrap-up here at CSDE, we look forward to our Summer projects and partnerships, which we will share more about over the next few weeks. Enjoy the weather and we hope it is all that you would like it to be. Please stay safe and healthy and feel free to email us at csde@uw.edu should you have any questions or concerns.

Congratulations to the 2018-2019 Certificate in Demographic Methods Recipients

The following 6 CSDE students received the CSDE Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods at last week’s end-of-year celebration:

  • CSDE Predoctoral Fellow Jessica Godwin, who is a PhD student in Statistics.
  • CSDE Predoctoral  Trainee Min Hwangbo, who is a PhD Student in Education with a focus in Learning Science & Human Development and received a grant for Evidence-based Curriculum Training and Evaluation (2015-2020) BMGF. 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Jessica Lapham, who is a PhD student in Social Welfare and received the CSDE Population Health Applied Research Fellowship. 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Neal Marquez, who is a PhD student in Sociology. Neal will be an International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science Fellow. 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Veda Patwardhan, who is a PhD student in Public Policy & Management and received the Evans School Diversity Alliance Fellowship. 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Xiaxia Yang, who is a PhD student in Geography and received the Morrill Doctoral Fellowship from the UW Geography Department

And Congratulations to CSDE Graduates and Students for Numerous Honors

We would also like to recognize CSDE Fellows and Trainees who are graduating, accepting jobs, and being recognized with a number of honors and awards:

Recognition of Doctorates and Master’s Graduates:

  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Xinguang Fan will receive a PhD in Sociology in 2020. Xinguang accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Beijing University.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Alec Kennedy received a PhD in Public Policy & Management in 2019. He accepted a position as an Education Policy Analyst with San Francisco Public Schools.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Sarah Stansfield received a PhD in Biocultural Anthropology and an MPH in 2019. She will be a Postdoctoral Scholar-Fellow with the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Health Informatics Training Program.
  • CSDE Fellow Hilary Wething will received a PhD in Public Policy and Management in 2020. She will be an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Jackman-McCourtney Career Development of Pennsylvania State University. 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Baishakhi Basu will receive an MPH with a focus on Global Health in 2020 with a thesis on “Exploration of Attributes and Sources Of Population Health Awareness Among US College Seniors” 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Hitomi Kariya will receive an MPH with a focus on health services in 2020 with a thesis on “The Effect of Mailing HPV Self-sampling Kits to Women Underscreened for Cervical Cancer on Uptake of Preventive Health Services” 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Sumaya Mohamed will receive an MPH with a focus on health services in 2020. Sumaya is transitioning to start the PhD Program in Sociocultural Anthropology at UW. 
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Esteban Valencia will receive an MPH with a focus on Epidemiology-Maternal Child Health.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Hunter York will receive an MPH with a focus on Global Health. Hunter is transitioning to start the PhD Program in Sociology at Princeton University.

In addition to:

  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Michele Cadigan received an Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grant.
  • CSDE Trainee Erin Carll received the West Coast Poverty Center Dissertation Fellowship (Summer 2019) and the NSF Dissertation Improvement Award.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Lee Fiorio received the UW Presidential Dissertation Fellowship.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Callie Freitag received the UW Retirement Association and Patricia Dougherty Fellowship in Aging
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Delaney Glass was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) from the Middle East Center and the Dr. Adawia Alousi Muslim Women in STEM Scholarship Renewal from the Center for Arab American Philanthropy.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Charles Lanfear received the UW Excellence in Teaching Award.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Yuan Hsiao received the UW Presidential Dissertation Fellowship.
  • CSDE Predoctoral Trainee Claire Watt Rothschild received the NIH F31 Predoctoral Individual NRSA Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD grant and was awarded the Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the Fall 2019 CSDE Lightning Talks and Poster Session

*MANY* Grant Opportunities for CSDE Affiliates

Recently, COSSA (the Consortium of Social Science Associations) compiled its monthly update on available grant opportunities.  There are many on the list that speak to the research programs of CSDE affiliates and trainees.  Take a look at the list of calls from the Department of Education, HUD, NSF-SBE, and NIH – NCCIH, NIMHD, NIA, NIMH, NIDA, NIGMS, NHLBI, OBSSR.  CSDE is always happy to help you with the science and computing elements of your proposal (Science Core), expert review feedback on narrative (Development Core), or the grant submission, itself (Administrative Core).  If you’d like that support, send a note to csde_help@uw.edu for preliminary discussions about support from one or more of our staff.  Or, if you are planning a submission through CSDE, send a note to CSDE’s grant portal with your notification.