Hyun-Jun Kim’s primary research interests focus on the health and social inequities faced by disadvantaged older adults. His research examines the disparities in physical, mental and cognitive health and quality of life; the intersectionality of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity; and the role of social exclusion, social isolation and support networks as risk and protective factors. He aims to translate his findings into interventions designed to improve the health and well-being of historically and socially marginalized populations.
Kim has served as a project director and co-investigator on multiple landmark studies including Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study as well as Innovations in Dementia, Empowerment and Action (IDEA), both funded by National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging. He served as a multiple principal investigator on Care Network-IDEA, pilot-testing an intervention to improve the quality of life for LGBTQ older adults experiencing memory loss without a caregiver. Currently, he is researching variations in social isolation and social and kin relations among older adults by sexuality, gender, and race and ethnicity and how they are associated with cognitive health. He plans to investigate the interplay of social exclusion, stress and other health-promoting and adverse factors.
Kim is the director of the Health, Sexuality & Gender Research Center at the School of Social Work’s Goldsen Institute. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, where he has received recognition for his contributions on aging and health research. He received his BA in social work from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea; MSW from Arizona State University; and PhD from University of Washington’s School of Social Work.
Anthony L. Bui, MD, MPH (he/him) is a board-certified general pediatrician and acting assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. He teaches and practices general pediatrics at Harborview Medical Center and is an investigator at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development.
As a physician and health services researcher, Dr. Bui is dedicated to tackling mental health disparities among children from immigrant and refugee families. His current work as a physician-investigator aims to understand and address the mental and behavioral healthcare barriers experienced by Vietnamese children of immigrant families. He has also led research studies on children’s healthcare spending, injury prevention and community safety, and racial equity.
The son of Vietnamese refugees, Dr. Bui is committed to caring for patients and families who are socially vulnerable, including those who are racial and ethnic minorities, refugees and immigrants, low-income, and those who speak languages other than English.
Dr. Bui obtained his B.A. in Economics and Public Health from UC Berkeley as a first-generation college student. He concurrently completed his M.P.H. in Global Health Metrics from UW and his public health metrics research fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Dr. Bui earned his M.D. from the David Geffen Medical School at UCLA, where he was a Geffen Scholar and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He completed his pediatric residency and chief residency at UW and Seattle Children’s Hospital, during which he received the Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics and was a New Century Scholar through the Academic Pediatric Association. He is the recipient of the Abraham B. Bergman Prize for his exemplary care to pediatric patients and families at Harborview Medical Center and of the Richard P. Shugerman Award for his leadership abilities. He started his career as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte) working on healthcare and economic development projects in New York, Vietnam, and Kenya.
Alice Ellyson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. She is also a faculty investigator in the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program (FIPRP) at UW, and a faculty investigator in the Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. As a PhD trained economist, her research focuses on how policies, incentives, and infrastructure shape individual health and well-being. She primarily investigates patterns of interpersonal violence, especially gender-based violence, and health risk behaviors like alcohol and firearm use among youth and young adults. Her research lies at the intersection of health, incentives and decision-making, the law, and economic, social, and public policies. Much of her existing work studies structures of support for victim-survivors who experience gender-based violence (e.g., Title IX reporting structures at institutions of higher education and the civil legal system protection order process) and how health risk behaviors contribute to interpersonal harm. The goal of her research program is to limit the negative consequences of health risk behaviors and reduce violence by providing rigorous empirical research to inform both policy and practice.
Giovanni’s research is focused on racial income inequality in the United States. His work leverages the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics database in the Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center to analyze how firm wage premia and local labor market racial segregation contribute to the variation in income across racial groups. Giovanni will also soon be affiliated with the UW School of Public Health and the Veterans’ Affairs Administration as a Health Services Research and Development Postdoctoral Scholar. In his research at the VA, he is studying the impact of various programs that have been effective at dramatically reducing Veteran homelessness over the last decade.
Ethan Raker is a social demographer specializing in disasters. His research uses quantitative methods to examine how extreme weather affects population health and demographic processes, with a particular interest in racial and socioeconomic disparities. Currently, he is an assistant professor of sociology at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He joined the department in July 2021 after completing a PhD in sociology at Harvard University.
Ethan’s research agenda focuses on socio-spatial inequality, disasters, climate change, health, and neighbourhoods. He uses primarily quantitative methods to examine how extreme weather affects population health and demographic processes, with a particular interest in racial and socioeconomic disparities. Some of his recent work appears in Demography, PNAS, Social Forces, and Socius, among other outlets.
Ethan earned his BA in sociology at Columbia, and an AM and PhD in sociology at Harvard, under the supervision of Mary C. Waters. At UBC, he teaches courses on the sociology of health and the demography of disasters. His work has been generously supported by a Malcolm H. Wiener PhD scholarship in poverty and justice at the Harvard Kennedy School and by a Wall scholar faculty fellowship at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
Barbara Talkington is an Evaluation and Analytics Coordinator at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA). She leads data collection and analysis for critical initiatives. For instance, her and her team have been working with CSDE’s Dr. Zack Almquist on the Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, applying Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) methodology to conduct the unsheltered PIT. In addition to the
PIT, she is co-lead of KCRHA’s Community-Based Participatory Research division where they are mentoring, developing curriculum and training, and embedding members of the community who have
lived-expertise in homelessness into our research practices. She has also successfully managed a Data Management Team, supporting the work of transitioning individuals into permanent housing and
enhancing ongoing homeless response efforts in King County. Her current role has equipped her with indisposable skills and showcases my continual dedication as a population research practitioner.
In addition to her present position at the KCRHA and collaboration with CSDE faculty, she has additional experience with CSDE partnership projects. Previously, she worked as a Research Analyst with Dr. Martin from the Evans School studying monetary sanctions that resulted in “Pay or Display: Monetary Sanctions and the Performance of Accountability and Procedural Integrity in New York and Illinois Courts(2022)” being published by RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. Outside of projects related to CSDE, she has nearly a decade of work as a research practitioner and is offering extensive experience in data analysis and research to current and future collaborations. Her experience encompasses roles using data analysis and research to better our region within higher education institutions, nonprofits, and government organizations. This includes her work as a Research Analyst evaluating Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance, as an independent research consultant using research to create open access tools for non-profits, and as a research consultant studying K12 education and the impacts of COVID-19 on our education systems.
Claire Guilmette is a data-driven management professional focused on solving problems for social sector organizations. Her values of deliberate thought and action, empathy, and social justice guide her career and life. Her mission is to guide change makers in using data strategically and wholeheartedly to enhance their impact and improve lives.
Highly skilled evaluator and data practitioner with a decade of experience leading and contributing to data and research projects for the public good. Her mission is to provide innovative data-driven solutions to
end homelessness and improve lives.
As a social demographer, Laura Lindberg’s research career has focused on measuring trends, determinants, and consequences of sexual and reproductive health of the US population. After completing nearly two decades as a Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, she is now a Professor of Global-Urban Health at Rutgers School of Public Health, directing a new concentration in sexual and reproductive health and equity. She has been Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-I on nine NIH grants and numerous other research grants related to sexual and reproductive health.
Laura’s research spans a range of sexual and reproductive health topics. She has conducted influential policy-related research with work investigating contraception, abortion, and sex education as well as the role of public policy in influencing access to services, health behaviors, and outcomes. She has an extensive record of research on adolescent SRH, including their access and use of contraceptive services, their attitudes, knowledge, and perception of norms around contraceptive use, and their sexual behaviors. Currently, she is engaged in multiple research projects examining young people’s receipt of information about contraception and abortion, including from social media. She intentionally designs her work to contribute to a multidisciplinary and impactful knowledge base to support evidence-informed public health policy that promotes equity in access and outcomes.
Laura has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, monographs, reports, and book chapters. She has been invited multiple times in the past few years to present my research to federal staff at HHS and NIH as they seek to improve relevant federal data systems. Further reflecting my expertise in sexual and reproductive health, she has served on advisory committees for the National Center for Health Statistics, the Office of Population Affairs, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access (CECA), and the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine. Currently she serves as a technical research advisor to support improved data collection around contraceptive service availability and utilization for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the New Jersey Pregnancy Risk Monitory System (PRAMS) and serve on the Research Advisory Board for Power to Decide
Rachel E. Wilbur, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Research Professor with IREACH in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is descendant Tolowa and Chetco. Her research focus is on the role of cultural engagement and revitalization in promoting wellbeing for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and she is particularly invested in community- and strengths-based research. She received both her MPH in health behavior and her PhD in biological anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before continuing her training as a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous Community Wellbeing at Harvard Medical School, where she was also a scholar with the Harvard University Native American Program. She currently serves as a member of the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Indigenous Research Working Group.
Taylor is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Macalester College, and completed her Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington (UW) under the supervision of Jon Wakefield (a CSDE Affiliate) in Summer 2023. Her current line of research involves developing new statistical methods for estimating child mortality in low- and middle-income countries with complex survey data. She is currently working towards involving undergraduates at Macalester College in research projects related to age heaping and official statistics production for the United Nations. Her new lines of research is actively pursuing research with collaborators at Macalester related to ecological interactions in communities that live in close contact with large mammals, and the impact these interactions have on human and animal populations.