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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.

Postdoctoral Fellowship – Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI)

The Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI) at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship during the 2020-2021 academic year. The principal job of the postdoctoral fellow will be to help design and execute new studies, conduct rigorous quantitative analyses using advanced causal inference methods, and contribute to manuscripts. Studies will be focused on selected topics in international development, especially in migration and health-related topics. The postdoctoral fellow will be involved in all aspects of the research, including data analysis and writing (policy reports and academic papers).

Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants

Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants

The Vice President for Minority Affairs & Diversity and University Diversity Officer is pleased to offer Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants. These small grants support projects for institutional transformation across the University of Washington’s tri-campus community that align with the goals of the 2017-2021 UW Diversity Blueprint.

Call for Articles: Migration and Health

The Mexican National Population Council (CONAPO) and the Health Initiative of the Americas, from the University of California, Berkeley (HIA-UC), extend this invitation to experts in migration and health to participate in the Migration and Health annual publication. The objective of this publication is to provide policymakers, scholars, nonprofit organizations, and the public with current information pertaining to the health of the mobile populations that travel across Mexico, the United States, and Central America. Topics include COVID-19 and its health implications among mobile populations, mental health, violence from a public health perspective, and more.

Team Collaboration in the Field with Criminal Justice Researchers (6/15/2020)

Team Collaboration in the Field with Criminal Justice Researchers, June 15, 2020, 12 PM to 1 PM EDT. Register here: https://go.nvivobyqsr.com/collaboration-field. Fieldwork is a fluid process defined by seemingly never-ending negotiation of both the professional and personal expectations of what it takes to be an effective qualitative researcher.  The following webinar is a confessional tale by four dynamic criminal justice researchers with experience navigating collaborative qualitative research projects. These projects involve a range of participants from those who are incarcerated to hidden populations. This panel discussion will cover topics including challenges in recruiting people who use drugs for community public health surveillance projects, accessing & managing key informants and reciprocity, applied methods in criminal justice settings, and interdisciplinary collaborations for participatory research.
Panelists:
Wilson R. Palacios, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Master’s Program Director, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Amber Horning, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Rebecca Stone, PHD, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Suffolk University, Boston
Kimberly R. Kras, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University.