The
Latino Center for Health (LCH) at the University of Washington invites applications to the LCH’s
Small Grants Program, a $20,000 grant to fund research focused on Latinx health in Washington state. The theme for the 2026-2027 program is
Immigrant Health in a Changing Policy and Practice Landscape.
Applicants should include a partnership between a UW investigator and a community-based organization that serves Latinx individuals, families, or communities.
Applications are due on December 15, 2025.
LCH invites interested individuals affiliated with CSDE to apply or share with other UW faculty in your network who may be interested in applying for this grant.
Please feel free to direct any questions about LCH or our Small Grants Program to LCH’s co-directors
Gino Aisenberg (ginoa@uw.edu) and
Leo Morales (
lsm2010@uw.edu). You can also find more information about LCH on
our website and access the Request for Proposals
here.
The call for papers is now open for the upcoming conference “Kinship Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities,” which will take place on June 8-9, 2026 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. The event is organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities; MPIDR; NYU Abu Dhabi; Pennsylvania State University; and the National University of Singapore. Extended abstracts (maximum two pages, PDF) must be submitted via the conference website by January 12, 2026.
The conference will bring together researchers from across disciplines to examine how changing family and kinship systems shape social and economic inequalities in diverse contexts. The organizing committee invites submissions on a wide range of topics, including kin availability and inequality, caregiving and intergenerational transfers, bereavement, LGBTQ+ and chosen kinship, and innovative data and methods for studying kin relations within and outside the household.
The Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), is currently accepting applications to its 2026 program. The closing date is January 12, 2026 at midnight CET.
The program, which takes place from June to August, is designed for PhD students (ideally about 2 years prior to receiving their PhD) working on a topic compatible with ongoing research at IIASA and a wish to explore the policy implications of their work. Participants will be working under the direct mentorship of an experienced IIASA scientist in a unique interdisciplinary and international research environment. They will produce a paper (serving as first step towards a publishable journal article) and will get the opportunity to build up contacts for future collaboration within the institute’s worldwide network. YSSP particularly welcomes applications of candidates interested in human-centered and population-based approaches to understanding drivers of population change, sustainable development, and wellbeing.
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications from qualified and highly motivated students for a Summer Research Visit.
The goal of the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance. For a period of 3 months (June 8 – August 21, 2026) participating students will work in small teams, with support from experienced mentors, towards a common research goal.
Apply by January 14, 2026. More information can be obtained here.
The Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) and the Center for Policy Research (CPR) will host a conference on June 8 and 9, 2026 at Syracuse University to advance knowledge on the connections between policies and population health in a changing U.S. context. In conjunction with the CAPS-CPR conference, The Milbank Quarterly will publish a special issue in 2027. Authors intending to submit a paper to The Milbank Quarterly special issue are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract of the paper by January 15, 2026 for presentation at the CAPS-CPR conference.
The conference and special issue seek empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions on the topic. Of particular interest are papers that link changes and variation in policy contexts to health outcomes, identify mechanisms linking policies to outcomes, or propose new ways to measure and conceptualize policy contexts for health research.
Up to 15 papers will be selected for the conference. The goal of the conference is to significantly strengthen each paper before its submission to the special issue. The first author of each paper will be a 2026 CAPS-CPR Conference Fellow and receive (1) reimbursement of travel expenses up to $1500, (2) feedback and suggestions from an assigned discussant and other conference fellows, and (3) a detailed written review by a guest editor of the special issue (Pinka Chatterji, Shannon M. Monnat, and Jennifer Karas Montez). Presentation at the conference is not a requirement for submitting a paper to the special issue.
Abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2026 conference theme is Novel Data Linkages and Innovative Life Course Research. Enriching population data through data linkage creates novel data sources that can shed light on life course processes. Linking across time allows for the examination of transitions and trajectories and linking to contextual information situates the experiences of individuals and populations in their environments. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract.
We are inviting you to submit contributions to the Special Collection of Demographic Research on the “De/Re-institutionalization of Asian Families“, organized by Lake Lui, Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, and Adam Ka-lok Cheung. Submissions to this collection are possible from November 1, 2025 until February 28, 2026. Please find more information on the collection’s description and goals as well as on submission procedures here.