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*New* December 2024 Issue of Studies in Family Planning now available

The Population Council recently announced the December 2024 issue of Studies in Family Planning, a leading peer-reviewed journal publishing public health, social science, and biomedical research from around the world. This issue includes a wide range of articles covering diverse topics from sterilization to contraception and more. Read the new issue here.

CSDE Recommends Winter Quarter Graduate Demography Courses

CSDE Trainees are encouraged to select one of these courses as a Demographic Methods Certificate elective. CSDE Affiliates, please share these courses with your students:

CSDE Core Courses Winter 2025

SOC/CSSS/CSDE 533: Research Methods in Demography (3 or 5 credits)

  • Instructor: Jessica Godwin
  • Note: 5 credit version (B sections) includes an R lab and is required for completion of the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods

Recommended Electives Winter 2025

STAT/CSSS/SOC 534: Statistical Methods for Spatial Data (3 credits)

  • Instructor: Jon Wakefield 

EPI 548/HSERV 548: Research Methods for Social and Contextual Determinants of Health (3 credits)

  • Instructor: Anjum Hajat

G H/HSERV 544: Maternal and Child Health in Low and Middle Income Countries (3 credits)

  • Instructor: Donna Denno

EPI 521/HSERV 542: Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health Problems (3 credits)

  • Instructor: Daniel Enquobahrie

BIOST/EPI 537: Survival Data Analysis in Epidemiology (4 credits)

  • Instructor: Ting Ye

EPI 550/G H 552: Understanding Pandemics: When People, Pathogens, and a Changing Planet Collide (3 credits)

  • Instructor: Julianne Meisner

If you have any questions regarding these courses or the CSDE Certificate Program, please reach out to CSDE Certificate Program Advisor, Jill Fulmore (fulmore@uw.edu). You can view the CSDE Certificate Program details here.

Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Team Science Workshop 2025 (register by 1/7/25)

The Team Science Workshop is a free, interactive training intended for interdisciplinary research teams working on a translational research project/study or within a research center. Teams will learn the theory and practice of team science. This workshop will be offered virtually during four 2-hour sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays over a 2-week period. Each day, we will focus the first 90 minutes on team science education and training, and the final 30 minutes on team working sessions.

Training content will be tailored to address and solve specific challenges identified by the participating teams. By attending the Team Science Workshop, your team will build stronger relationships and acquire strategies and tools to help you become more efficient and effective in your work together. Learn more and register here.

Topics that may be covered include:

  • Teamwork and team processes
  • Awareness and adaptability of Social Styles and modes for addressing conflict
  • Lean Project Management (e.g., project organization, goal setting, planning)
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Effective meetings
  • Communication and listening skills
  • Leadership skill

IPUMS Health Surveys Data Update

The IPUMS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) recently announced a new data release. IPUMS now includes 2022 data released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) earlier this year. This initial release updates over 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files and adds variables about Long COVID. Learn more here.

An End-of-Year Message of Good Wishes for a New Year Filled with Exciting Population Research Results!

It’s been a busy year and much to appreciate.  CSDE graduate students continue to excel with recent graduates landing great jobs as population researchers in academia, think tanks, government agencies, companies, and the non-profit or philanthropic sector. Their research is finding its way into influential places, including informing policy, improving evidence bases for policy making, and changing how we think about population dynamics.  Similar impacts are made by CSDE scholars across the UW’s three campuses – books, articles, innovative data products, and advances in methodologies are garnering important attention among scholars and the public.  We document many of these outcomes in this weekly e-news (so don’t forget to share your news).
To celebrate the decades of contributions by the CSDE community, please save the date for our anniversary celebration during our “75 and Counting: Making Census of the World!” event on May 16, 2025!  Yes, indeed, CSDE was founded more than 75 years ago!  To learn more, contact csde@uw.edu.  We look forward to seeing you there!
As you turn towards 2025, consider donating a gift of appreciation to CSDE.  Your gift will support students and the center more broadly.  Thank you for considering an end-of-year gift!
Many best wishes to our entire community for a new year filled with important population research results!
~ Sara Curran, CSDE Director

Autumn Quarter CSDE Lightning Talks

CSDE’s seminar series closed out the autumn quarter with an excellent poster session, featuring CSDE Trainees and students Isaac Sederbaum (Doctoral Candidate, Evans School of Public Policy), Mingze Li (Doctoral Student, Sociology), Sarah Kilpatrick (MS Student, Data Science) and Man-Lin Chen (Doctoral Student, Sociology).

Isaac Sederbaum took home the prize with a poster and presentation entitled “’I Deadnamed Myself Until my Documents Matched’: Trans People and the Psychological Costs of Citizen-State Interactions in the US.” CSDE extends a special thank you to Desiree Salais, Jessica Godwin, Jill Fulmore and Maddie Farris for organizing the event and the CSDE Faculty Affiliate Feedback Panel: Audrey Dorelien, Rawan Arar, and Joan Casey. CSDE wishes everyone a happy holiday and appreciates all who helped make fall’s seminar series a success!

*New* IPUMS USA announces new data release

IPUMS USA has released the 2023 ACS and PRCS 1-year PUMS data, including updates to race variables that reflect changes first implemented in the 2020 questionnaire. This data also incorporates the 2022 industry codes in the IND and INDNAICS variables. Learn more here.