CSDE Affiliate Marie Spiker (Epidemiology) was recently quoted in The Seattle Times emphasizing the strong evidence base on the negative health consequences of food insecurity. Spiker was interviewed for an article on how the federal government shutdown threw the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into uncertainty, leaving 930,000 people in Washington at risk of food insecurity. This feature was also highlighted in UW News. Read more.
de Castro and Ward are co-authors on Rejto’s study on Nursing Work Schedules and Sleep Health
CSDE External Affiliate Butch de Castro (Seattle University) and CSDE Affiliate Teresa M Ward (Pediatrics), with primary author Natalie Rejto and co-authors Mayumi Willgerodt and Elaine Walsh, recently had an article published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research, titled “Nursing Work Schedules, Specialties, Sleep Hygiene, and the Impact on Sleep Health.” This research was part of Rejto’s PhD work and supervised by the other authors on the research team. The study examined whether sleep hygiene behaviors moderated the association between job characteristics and sleep health among nurse using cross-sectional data from the Nurses’ Health Study 3. Working 12-hour or longer shifts was not associated with decreased odds of healthy sleep compared with working <12-hour shifts on working days or work-free days. Working in schools and critical care was associated with 50% or higher odds of unhealthy sleep compared with working in the operating room and oncology. Findings suggest sleep hygiene behaviors cannot fully mitigate the effect of job characteristics on sleep health.
UW REACH Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship (11/28/25)
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Awards (12/01/25)
*New* Call for Abstracts: Webinar Series of the Sequence Analysis Association (11/30/25)
*New* Call for Papers: CPoP Workshop on “A Unified Perspective on Formation and Dissolution Processes in Demography” (12/19/25)
Assistant or Associate Professor of the Practice – International Migration and Refugees Program, Georgetown University (11/30/25)
Lucy G. Moses Distinguished Professor of Sociology – Lehigh University (11/30/25)
UW REACH Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship (11/28/25)
The University of Washington Research and Engagement on Adaptation for Climate and Health (REACH) Center is accepting applications to the Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship until November 28. The Fellowship provides teams of fellows with $60,000 of funding and training to conduct an implementation science project to evaluate or improve the uptake of a climate and health-related project or program.
Fellows apply and participate as teams of 2-3 public health or healthcare practitioners and researchers. Projects and practice partners must be based in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and/or Oregon. Learn more about the Fellowship, register for office hours, and access the application on the REACH website.