The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program is seeking input on new data streams to link within its Researcher Workbench. By linking additional types of data to the already-robust dataset, the program intends to help researchers examine diverse factors that influence health and advance tailored approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The Request for Information will inform the next phase of data linkages curated through the program’s Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data (CLAD). Responses are requested by June 28, 2024. Read the full announcement here.
DeWaard and Co-authors Study Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery-Inequality Relationship
CSDE Affiliate Jack DeWaard (The Population Council) co-authored new research in Demography, titled “Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery“. Despite the persistence of relationships between historical racist violence and contemporary Black–White inequality, research indicates, in broad strokes, that the slavery–inequality relationship in the United States has changed over time. Identifying the timing of such change across states can offer insights into the underlying processes that generate Black–White inequality. In this study, authors use integrated nested Laplace approximation models to simultaneously account for spatial and temporal features of panel data for Southern counties during the period spanning 1900 to 2018, in combination with data on the concentration of enslaved people from the 1860 census.
Join Us for a Celebration of LaShawnDa Pittman’s New Book on June 6th!
Join us for a celebration of LaShawnDa Pittman’s new book, “Grandmothering While Black“. Pittman is a sociologist and associate professor in UW’s department of American and Ethnic Studies. Her book explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their children in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). The discussion and book signing will happen between 4:30-6:00pm in CMU 120, followed by a reception from 6:00-7:00pm in CMU 202. Learn more in the event flyer here!
CSDE’s Summer Schedule – E-News, Summer Grant Writing Workshop, D4 Workshop, and Planning
Summer has launched at CSDE. E-News moves to a biweekly schedule. Please continue sending your news items to csde@uw.edu. We’ll look forward to hearing from you!
Steve Goodreau is leading CSDE’s 2024 Summer Grant Writing Workshop with the largest cohort of participants to date!
Now that CSDE is fully staffed, we’ll be spending the summer cleaning house and planning for next year. We’ll be sending invitations to you and outside speakers to deliver a talk during our seminar series. If you’d like to speak or have an idea for an outside speaker, please send your ideas to Professor Rawan Arar (arar@uw.edu). We’d love to hear from you! We welcome thematic panels, speakers that address research around our research themes (migration, mortality, population growth, population and environment, fertility, settlements and housing, health disparities, and population health), and ideas that would bring multiple groups together from across the three campuses.
Many at CSDE will be planning and hosting the D4 Hackathon on September 9-13: Disasters, Demography, Disparities and Decisions. This is an inaugural event in collaboration with AI2ES and NOAA.
The rest of CSDE will be working on updating our websites, lists, preparing reports, and planning for next year! It’ll be a busy summer.
Last but not least, please join me in thanking Katherine Cheng (the person behind csde@uw.edu) for her excellent work in preparing and publishing e-News. Maddie Farris, CSDE’s Program Coordinator, will be taking over for the summer. This invaluable work wouldn’t be possible without support from the Evans School. E-News is a resource that many affiliates greatly appreciate and we thank the Evans School for this support.
*New* Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Migration and Mobility Research in the Digital Era
NIH Funding for Research on Screening and Treatment for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (Due 3/8/27)
The NIH is seeking to fund research to test innovative approaches to implementing SBIRT/P for alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) use and misuse in adult populations that experience health disparities. SBIRT/P, (a term used for purposes of this funding announcement), involves screening individuals for risk of ATOD use and misuse, briefly intervening with a conversation about harmful substance use, and referring individuals for treatment or preventive services, as needed. Proposed research should include prospective tests of SBIRT/P and should leverage collaborations with healthcare and community partners Specific research interests of participating NIH ICOs are detailed within.
*New* Call for Proposals: Metropolis Americas 2024 – Migration Governance in the Americas (Due 8/20/24)
Metropolis Americas is organizing a conference titled “Migration Governance in the Americas: A Shared Vision” from December 12-13th in Washington D.C. Metropolis Americas invites policy-makers, researchers and civil society to submit proposals for workshops and round tables with a focus on the best means for fostering cooperation on migration across the Americas. Proposals are due August 20th.
Congratulations and Enjoy the Summer!
On Friday, May 31st, CSDE celebrated its many graduate students for their accomplishments. We enjoyed delicious nibbles, sharing updates, and reunions with alumni! If you’d like to see all those updates, view the slide presentation or visit the ‘read more’ link, below.
Thank you to all who attended and presented at CSDE’s spring series! CSDE will be pausing its seminar series until Autumn 2024. Stay tuned for upcoming events! Thank you to our seminar series team – Professor Rawan Arar, Maddie Farris, Jessica Godwin, Jill Fulmore, and Katherine Cheng! Thank to the Evans School for hosting us in Parrington Hall and supporting Katherine Cheng!
In the meantime, keep sending us your news. CSDE E-news will be shifting to a biweekly schedule over the summer.
Among key highlights this year, many students completed their Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods, including Jane Dai (PhD Candidate, Health Services), Sumaya Mohamed (PhD Student, Anthropology), Will Von Geldern (PhD Candidate, Evans School), Hanjie Wang, (PhD Candidate, Political Science), Neil Panlasigui (MPH Student, Epidemiology), Natalie Turner (PhD Student, Social Welfare), Zoe Pleasure (PhD Candidate, Health Services), Desiree Salais (PhD Candidate, Sociology), and Elizabeth Nova (PhD Candidate, Sociology). The certificate equips these students with valuable skills and we are excited to keep working with them throughout their graduate training and beyond.
Several CSDE Trainees and fellows are also graduating and moving onto exciting positions! Hanjie Wang (PhD, Political Science) will be starting a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University. Anwesha Pan (PhD, Anthropology) will be an Assistant Professor at Utah State University. Delaney Glass (PhD, Anthropology) will be joining the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor. Breon Haskett (PhD, Sociology) will be a Demographic Research Analyst at the University of Georgia. Aasli Nur (PhD, Sociology) will start a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. June Yang (PhD, Sociology) will be a Research Scientist at CSDE and eScience Institute. Lizzy Pelletier (PhD, Evans School) will be joining the U.S. Census Bureau as an Economist in the Income Statistics Branch. We are so impressed with all that these graduates have accomplished, and we hope to stay in touch with them as they continue their journey.
Many of the above students also completed their master’s degrees, including Neil Panlasigui (Epidemiology), Elizabeth Nova (Sociology), Hana Brown (Sociology), Aryaa Rajouria (Sociology), Will von Geldern (Public Policy & Management), and Bocheng Zhang (Economics).
CSDE has always been proud to offer several fellowships, including the NIH T32 Fellowship and the IMPRS-PHD Fellowship (International Max Planck Research School, Population Health Data Science). This year, we celebrate several of the above students who are simultaneously completing their NIH T32 Fellowships, including Delaney Glass, Breon Haskett, Lizzy Pelletier, and June Yang in addition to those who are completing their IMPRS-PHD Fellowship, Aasli Nur, Lauren Woyczynski (Sociology), and Aryaa Rajouria. As part of their fellowships, all of these students have received valuable mentorship from CSDE Affiliates.
In 2024, CSDE had the pleasure of co-sponsoring the Applied Research Fellowship Program, alongside The Population Health Initiative, Seattle & King County Public Health, and Data Axle. This program developed a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students to tackle population health challenges. Participating students included Carmen Choong (Sociology), Anoushka Manik (Public Health – Global Health), Sydney Pope (Community Health and Social Justice), Priyanka Shrestha (Global Health and Health Metrics Sciences), and Jenny Speelmon (Informatics and Psychology).
Members of our CSDE community had an impactful pressence at population health events throughout the year! At the 2024 PAA (Population Association of America) meeting, three trainees and fellows were selected for oral presentations, including Hana Brown, Nick Irons, and Zoe Pleasure. Several also attended as poster presenters, including Courtney Allen, Nick Irons, Ihsan Kahveci, Aasli Abdi Nur, Zoe Pleasure, June Yang, and Crystal Yu. Julie Kim, Lizzy Pelletier, and June Yang also gave flash presentations.
CSDE Affiliates and Trainees really shined when it came to PAA’s poster awards. Recipients included Courtney Allen and Sara Curran for their work, “Population Age Structure and Forest Growth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” in addition to Nicholas Irons and Adrian Raftery for their work “Evaluating and Optimizing Nonpharmaceutical Interventions to Combat Infectious Disease Transmission”. Aasli Abdi Nur and Michelle O’Brien also received a poster award for their work, “Contraceptive Method Skew and Women’s Reproductive Choice in Ethiopia”.
Last but not least, we are grateful for all who participated in this year’s autumn and winter Lightning talks, organized by Elizabeth Nova and Aryaa Rajouria. Julie Kim was the autumn winner for her research, “Global Improvements in the Representation of Women in Science Have Stalled”. Courtney Allen was the winter winner for her research, “Reforestation and
Age Structure in Low-and-Middle Income Countries”. Lightening talks are always a fun opportunity to bring our CSDE community together around the enlightening research of CSDE trainees. We are excited for all the years to come of this event!