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Friends of NCHS: FYI’s and Opportunities

  1. Please consider responding to the call for comments on NCHS collections to explain how you use the data and why they are important. With the current scrutiny, it’s important to take advantage of opportunities like these:
  2. If you have been affected by disappeared or altered federal data, please see this note from a reporter:
    • Hello – I’m Laura Santhanam, a reporter with PBS News who is working on a digital print article to help our audience understand the parameters of the crater made in the federal workforce, but especially as it has affected the collection and use of data, both in this present moment and how those changes are expected to radiate going forward. I am particularly interested in learning about specific examples of disappeared data or data that have been altered since late January. If you would like to share your story, I am here to listen. Please message me over Signal at 1-662-801-0334. Since things are moving so quickly, we are trying to gather these stories sooner rather than later. Any help is much appreciated.
  3.  The FY26 budget request for NCHS if for a $175 million, which is a reduction from the current level of $187 million. The proposal also calls for NCHS to be moved to the to-be-created HHS Office of Strategy. Please continue to push for NCHS to be well funded.

Swanson Named on Population Research and Policy Review Top Authors Lists and Presenting at FSCPE Research Committee Monthly Meeting

CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson was recently named as a top author ranked by citations and articles in Southern Demographic Association’s official journal, Population Research and Policy Review. Dr. Swanson ranked first in top authors by articles with 14 articles and ranked fourth in top authors by citations with 354 citations. Congratulations Dr. Swanson! To view the full list of top authors ranked by articles and citations, visit the links.

Dr. Swanson will also be joining the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates’ (FSCPE) research committee monthly meeting to discuss his work on a new approach to probabilistic population forecasting on Tuesday, July 15th from 10:30AM – 11:30AM Pacific Time / 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Central Time via Zoom. To provide more context for this presentation, you can reference Dr. Swanson’s work on this topic through his PowerPoint presentation and/or his research paper. To join this meeting via Zoom, click this link to join.

Rao Publishes Article in Sankhya B – Springer

CSDE External Affiliate Arni Rao (Medical College of Georgia) published an article in Sankhya B – Springer titled “Mathematical Demography” which spans 98 pages. This article provides a detailed account of recent advancements in the field of mathematical demography combined with classical theories of stationary and stable population dynamics. This article includes the Euler-Lotka equations and life tables as a foundation of modern population models, the classical Markov chain theory, birth-death processes, pure birth processes, and branching processes. To learn more about Dr. Rao’s research, visit the link.

CSSCR Workshop: Basics of STATA (7/15/25)

Description: This workshop will teach you how to get started using the statistical package Stata. The workshop will cover a) reading in data files from different sources, b) basic data manipulation, and c) some basic common statistical procedures. No previous Stata experience required.

  • Instructor: Biying Zheng, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
  • Time: 10:00am – 11:20am
  • Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • Register here.

Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Faculty Fellowship Program (7/15/25)

The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center is now accepting applications for its 2026 Faculty Fellowship Program, which supports research related to climate adaptation in Northwest natural and cultural resource management as well as training in the principles and practices of co-producing decision-relevant science. This is a “last-mile” program that funds activities aimed at enhancing the usability of existing research for natural resource managers. 

The NW CASC invites applications from faculty and non-faculty scientists with primary investigator status at University of Washington, as well as Boise State University, Northwest Indian College, Oregon State University, Portland State University, University of Montana, Washington State University and Western Washington University.

The NW CASC 2026 Faculty Fellowship Program funding will run from January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026. The deadline to submit applications is July 15, 2025. Learn more, see the RFP, and register for an info session on May 13 at 11 a.m. PT.

*New* CSSCR Workshop: Flow Maps in GIS: Visualization Migration Trade, and Networks – Part Two (7/21/25)

Flow maps are powerful tools for representing migration patterns, trade and shipping routes, disease spread, data and communication networks, and other measurable flows between locations. This workshop will build on the previous class, focusing on the principles and aesthetics of flow map visualization. We’ll continue using QGIS for beginners and ArcGIS for advanced users.

  • Instructor:  Yuying Xie, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Monday, July 21, 2025
  • TIme: 3:00pm – 4:20pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • Register here.

*New* CSSCR Workshop: Introduction to Python (7/23/25)

This introductory workshop is designed to introduce you to basic Python commands, including reading in datasets, basic data manipulation, and common statistical tests and procedures. This will also cover common Python IDEs and comparisons to other popular programming languages such as Stata and R. This class will be ideal for users who have little to no experience with Python.

  • Instructor:  Tynan Challenor, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
  • Time:  10:00am – 11:20am
  • Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • Register here.

*New* CSSCR Workshop: Data Wrangling in R (7/23/25)

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.

  • Instructor:  Victoria Sass, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Wednesday, July 23, 2025
  • Time: 1:30pm – 2:50pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • Register here.

Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education Program: 2025 Funding Opportunity (7/23/25)

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:

  1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
  2. If the final application requires a statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
  3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

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