CSDE Affiliates Ann Bostrom (Public Policy & Governance) and Nicole Errett (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) co-authored new research in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, titled “Coastal emergency managers’ risk perception and decision making for the Tonga distant tsunami“. This article was lead-authored by Ashley Moore, a PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences, and involved several other UW trainees including recent postdoctoral scholar Cassandra Jean (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) and master’s student Matias Korfmacher (Public Health, Urban Planning). This study looked at coastal emergency managers’ risk perception and communications surrounding the distant tsunami caused by the 2022 Tonga volcano eruption. While emergency managers perceived tsunami risk to be low, they took precautionary measures and alerted the public. Study findings show that their actions were driven by community characteristics and anticipated reactions, in addition to unique aspects of the tsunami risk.
*New* NIH Clinical Trial R01 for Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness on Health (Due 6/22/24)
This funding opportunity announcement invites research projects that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in human health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing. Types of projects submitted under this FOA include studies that prospectively assign human participants to conditions (i.e., experimentally manipulate independent variables) and that assess biomedical and/or behavioral outcomes in humans to understand fundamental aspects of phenomena related to social connectedness and isolation. NIH considers such studies as Basic Experimental Studies with Humans (BESH) that are prospective basic science studies involving human participants that meet the NIH definition of basic research and fall within the NIH definition of clinical trials (see, e.g., NOT-OD-19-024). Applications should not propose a goal of clinical outcomes or products.
The link to the call is here.
*New* Russell Sage Foundation Grant: Immigration and Immigrant Integration (Due 6/24/24)
The Russell Sage Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation seeks to support research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture, and public policy on outcomes for immigrants to the U.S. and for the U.S.-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. This initiative is part of RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program which invites proposals on a broader set of issues. Funds can support research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time. Letters of Inquiry are due on June 24th. See more details on the grant here.
New Research by Gonzalez Explores Community-identified Approaches to Improve Access to Telehealth in Rural Communities
CSDE Affiliate Carmen Gonzalez (Communication) co-authored an article in the Journal of Rural and Community Development, titled “Community-Identified Approaches to Improve Access to Telehealth in Rural Communities“. Despite a rapid growth in telehealth adoption in recent years, rural and remote communities still struggle with adoption. To address this issue, authors explored community-identified approaches to improving telehealth access in rural Washington State. Participants described a variety of solutions, prioritizing those that involved training/awareness efforts and healthcare systems engagement. The study’s findings provide insight into potential interventions to improve telehealth access in rural communities, considering their potential impact, feasibility, and cost.
Celebrate Trainees’ Accomplishments & Join End-of-Year Reception!
Join us for CSDE’s annual closing reception on Friday May 31st at 12:30PM! We’ll present Demographic Methods Certificates and celebrate the end of a successful academic year. Please join us in recognizing all of these accomplishments! Every member of the CSDE community plays an important role in our broader research network and training program.
We will also select winners of the punch-card raffle!
Applications Are Open for the Bulitt Prize $100,000 Springboard for Change Prize
CSSS Seminar: Deconvolution in Networks, with Applications to Worker-Firm Data
Call for papers: Managed Retreat in Response to Climate Hazards
Senior Data Governance and Operations Specialist
Buchanan and Fohner Use Electronic Health Records to Evaluate Community-Level Health Effects of Community-Based Participatory Research
CSDE Trainee Zeruiah Buchanan (Epidemiology) and CSDE Affiliate Alison Fohner (Epidemiology) released an article with colleagues in Public Health, titled “Electronic health record reveals community-level cardiometabolic health benefits associated with 10 years of community-based participatory research“. While a major goal of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is to improve community health, it is unclear how to measure longstanding success of CBPR. Authors sought to determine the impact of ongoing CBPR on cardiometabolic health in participating communities, including in people not directly participating in research. They used linear mixed-effects modelling with electronic medical records from 2002 to 2012 from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, which provides health care to all Alaska Native people in southwestern Alaska, to compare rates of change in cardiometabolic risk factors between communities that did and did not participate in ongoing CBPR beginning in 2003.