This workshop will cover some of R’s useful tools for data management and exploration. Most of class will be devoted to learning Hadley Wickham’s excellent “tidyr” and “dplyr” packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R/RStudio.
The Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education is pursuing a world free of gun violence, where impacted communities drive the meaningful change needed for a healthy and safe society. Coordinated in collaboration with Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI), the Center endeavors to transform the gun violence research and education field.
The Center seeks to meet these needs by broadening the field of research to include more researchers and organizations that focus explicitly on healthcare approaches to addressing gun violence and work closely with communities affected by gun violence. The 2025 Funding Opportunity aims to invest in efforts that advance evidence for healthcare interventions that reduce the incidence and impact of community gun violence and firearm suicide and promote well-being and healing where it is needed most.
Category 1: up to $100,000 across two years
Goal: Build capacity within the organization, institution, and/or clinical care setting to conduct research on healthcare approaches to addressing community gun violence or firearm suicide
Category 2: up to $300,000 across two years
Goal: Expand or initiate new research on evidence-informed healthcare practice or clinical care models that address community gun violence or firearm suicide
Eligible Activities include research that:
Advances evidence on effective strategies to reduce community gun violence or firearm suicide in a range of healthcare settings, including hospitals, FQHCs, or other community-based health centers.
Advances knowledge about effective strategies to identify individuals as highest risk of community gun violence or firearm suicide in healthcare settings
Advances understanding about clinical best practice to improve care for survivors of community gun violence or firearm suicide
Pre-Proposal Instructions:
Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:
to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 9/3/2025 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 8/22/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee. Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the limited submissions review committee review and selection process, are here: http://depts.washington.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions. Please feel free to email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page. If you are interested in other private funding opportunities, visit the Corporate and Foundation funding opportunities page.
Number of applications UW can put forward: 2 in any category or categories
OR internal deadline: 7/23/2025
OSP deadline: 8/22/2025
Sponsor deadline: 9/3/2025
Join us at the Open Scholarship Commons for the “Most Wanted” Researcher Summer Series! This set of workshops highlights tools and topics UW researchers are most curious about. In the coming months, workshops such as “Introduction to Text Mining” and “Publish & Protect Your Research: Build a Book Fast with Manifold” will offer practical skills for researchers across campus. Register here to reserve your spot.
For over a decade, the United Nations (UN) Population Division has been publishing demographic projections that are based on methodologies developed at the University of Washington. CSDE Senior Research Scientist Hana Sevcikova, PhD, is the lead collaborator in these efforts, along with CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery, Blumstein-Jordan Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Sociology (PI) and Patrick Gerland (United Nations). This work includes methods for probabilistic projections of fertility, mortality and population. In the most recent revision of the World Population Prospects (WPP), the WPP 2024 revision, probabilistic projections of migration have also been included for the first time.
The research is ongoing – not all challenges in this aim of producing fully probabilistic population projections have been solved. For example, Sevcikova, along with Raftery, Sara Curran, CSDE Director, and Crystal Yu, PhD candidate in Sociology and CSDE trainee, are working on expanding the framework from the national to the subnational level, while collaborating with CSDE External Affiliates Mike Morhman and Rob Kemp from the State of Washington’s Office of Financial Management (OFM) on its application to county-level projections.
If you’re interested in population projections, you can arrange a consultation appointment with Hana Sevcikova or any of CSDE’s scientific support staff, please use the CSDE Science Core Consultation Request form.
Another challenging task is to predict migration age profile into the future and Sevcikova, along with James Raymer (Australian National University) and Raftery, have developed a promising methodology (currently under peer-review).
Many of the methods that the UN has been using have been implemented in open-source software that Dr. Sevcikova developed and has been maintaining. It includes implementation of the statistical methodology as well as tools for data analysis and visualization. These efforts allow for any demographers, planners, researchers etc. to easily reproduce and analyze the UN work, as well as to apply it to their own circumstances. In addition to providing direct user support, Sevcikova and colleagues have been teaching the methodology and software in workshops throughout the world.
Description: This workshop aims to introduce basic tools and functions of R for reading, management and examining datasets. Attendees are assumed to have little to no experience with R.
In recent years, power outages have become more common oftentimes because of extreme weather. Extreme heat, wind, and precipitation have become more frequent and intense because of climate change. This combined with aging electrical grid components that have not been upgraded to withstand severe weather events caused US electrical customers to experience power outages for an average of 8 hours in 2020. This exposes vulnerable people to health risks, for example, those who use electricity-dependent medical equipment. Research on this health risk has been limited due to lack of exposure data, but new national power outage data has become available since 2020. Joan Casey and colleagues published a research article in Environmental Epidemiology titled, “Assessing bias in measuring power outage exposure with simulations,” discussing these new data and how best to estimate exposure to power outages for health research. To learn about Dr. Casey and her colleagues’ research, visit the link to read the full research article.
David Swanson and colleagues Jeff Tayman and Mike Cline, recently published a research article in Population Research and Policy Review titled, “A New Approach to Probabilistic County Population Forecasting with an Example Application to West Texas.” This paper shows how measures of uncertainty can be applied to existing subnational population forecasts using the 107 counties that make up West Texas as a case study. The measures of forecast uncertainty are relatively easy to calculate and meet several important criteria routinely applied by state and local demographers. The authors also report the results of two independent comparisons supporting the argument that this approach is valid. The paper concludes it is well-suited for developing probabilistic population forecasts in the United States and elsewhere. To learn more about this study, visit the link to read the full article.