CSDE recently received news that its T32 Training in Advanced Data Analytics (TADA) application was renewed!  The CSDE Data Science and Demography Training (DSDT) program is a 12-month fellowship for graduate students interested in pursuing a population research career or population health research career that applies advanced data science analytics.  The program description is attached for your reference or more information is available here.  The fellowship program will begin September 16, 2025 and is available to U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.

Please share widely and encourage your students to apply.

Each summer, CSDE and the Population Health Initiative collaborate with CSDE External Affiliate Rebeccah Maskin (King County Demographer) to offer the interdisciplinary Applied Research Fellowship Program for UW undergraduates and graduate students. This summer, the Applied Research Fellowship team is working with stakeholders at King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks to assess accessibility of parks in urban unincorporated areas.  

The team, led by CSDE Research Scientist Jessica Godwin includes 3 graduate students and 2 undergraduates: 

• Xinyuan Hao (MPH student, Epidemiology),  

• Mark Nepf (PhD student, Evans School and CSDE Trainee),  

•  Annie Xu (PhD student, Psychology), 

• Sarah Desai (Anthropology, Environmental Studies), and 

• Nupur Gorkar (Human Centered Design & Engineering). 

They will present their findings to King County stakeholders this Friday, August 15 from 10:30am-12:00pm. The presentation will be hybrid with in-person activities in Hans Rosling Center Room 101 and online attendance on Zoom. 

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on the intersections of climate, health, and equity. The May 2026 issue will feature approximately 20 peer-reviewed articles, including new empirical research, analyses, perspectives from community leaders, and policy proposals for multi-scalar responses to climate threats. They invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration for this issue.

Deadline: August 11, 2025

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Date & Time: August 14, 2025, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Location: Wright Auditorium, Seattle Children’s Hospital and via Webex

Abstract: This UW Pediatrics Grand Rounds event will feature Dr. Deb Hendrickson, author of The Air They Breathe.  Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about how climate change and wildfire smoke impact children’s health and participate in a meet and greet reception with Hendrickson.

Last week, CSDE Affiliate David Takeuchi (Social Work) participated in a panel as a moderator titled “State of the Sociological Union” at the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2025 Annual Meeting on August 8th. The plenary featured sociologists from a variety of different organizations and positions—nonprofits, teaching track, liberal arts college, and working in and outside of academia—to consider the broad state of the discipline. What are the biggest challenges and issues facing sociologists today? Where do they find unity, and where is there dissent? What does the future hold for the sociology field?

CSDE Affiliate Kris Pui Kwan Ma (Family Medicine) recently published a research article in PLOS One titled, “Participant engagement in a national longitudinal study of COVID-19: Insights from the INSPIRE study.” In this article, Dr. Ma and co-authors detail how public and patient engagement is an important practice in public health research that helps inform interventions and policies to improve people’s lives, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of Long COVID have presented both challenges and opportunities for strengthening participant engagement in research. The objective of this research article is to examine participants’ motivations and their experiences throughout a decentralized, longitudinal COVID-19 study in the U.S. To read more about Dr. Ma and her co-authors’ findings and results, visit this link.

The deadline to submit to the Fall Data Science and AI Accelerator is now extended to August 14th. This program pairs eScience Institute data scientists with researchers from any field of study to work on focused, collaborative projects. Collaborations may center on analysis of an existing dataset to answer a specific research question, an implementation of software for processing or analyzing data, data visualization tools, or tools for data interpretation. We strongly recommend that anyone planning to submit a proposal for an Accelerator consult with one of our Data Scientists during their Office Hours for guidance and also check out the Accelerator FAQs on our website. Learn more here.