Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

Social and ecological contexts simultaneously influence, and are shaped by, population health and population dynamics. Embracing this complexity and methodological challenge, CSDE scholars study human resilience and adaptation to climate change, the role of neighborhoods in conditioning human behavior, and policy and program interventions and their impact on population outcomes. CSDE’s research tools include quasi-experimental designs, sentinel studies, spatial analyses, and multi-level and longitudinal assessments. The Primary Research Area Chair for Environments and Populations is Ann Bostrom.

Research Area Affiliates


Clayton Page Aldern Managing Director

Kessie Alexandre Assistant Professor, Geography

Scott W. Allard Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

Zack W. Almquist Assistant Professor, Sociology

Leigh Anderson Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

Anirban Basu Professor, Health Economics; Professor, Health Services; Adjunct Professor, Economics

Luke Bergmann Associate Professor, Geography

Maria Bleil Clinical Assistant Professor, Child, Family and Population Health Nursing

Ann Bostrom Professor, Environmental Policy and Management

Gregory Bratman Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Director, Environment and Well-Being Lab

Dan Brown Director and Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Callie Burt Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology

Joseph Cook Associate Professor, School of Economic Sciences

Kyle Crowder Professor, Sociology

Robert Crutchfield Professor Emeritus, Sociology

Sara Curran Professor, International Studies; Professor, Public Policy & Governance; Director, CSDE

Butch de Castro Professor, Child, Family & Population Health Nursing; Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, School of Nursing

Jack Dewaard Scientific Director and Senior Associate, The Population Council

Dan Eisenberg Associate Professor, Anthropology

Nicole Errett Assistant Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Betsy Evans Associate Professor, Linguistics

Xinguang Fan Assistant Professor, Sociology

Benjamin Fitzhugh Professor, Anthropology

Amanda Fretts Associate Professor, Epidemiology

Karin Frey Research Associate Professor, College of Education

Mary Kay Gugerty Professor, Nonprofit Management, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

Katarina Guttmannova Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Anjum Hajat Associate Professor, Epidemiology

M. Elizabeth Halloran Professor, Biostatistics

Alexes Harris Professor, Sociology

Stephen Hawes Associate Professor, Epidemiology

Jerald Herting Professor, Sociology

Jeremy Hess Professor, Global Health; Professor, Emergency Medicine; Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Atmospheric Sciences

Donna Johnson Professor Emeritus, Health Services

Jessica Jones-Smith Associate Professor, Health Services & Epidemiology

Hyoshin Kim Senior Research Scientist

Michelle Lee Assistant Professor, Strategy and Organizations at Smith School of Business

John Leverso Assistant Professor, Sociology

Patricia Louie Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Maya Magarati Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Ross Matsueda Professor, Sociology

Susanne May Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Jacqueline Meijer-Irons User Researcher, Experiences and Devices Management

Katherine Nesse Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Urban Studies Program Director, Department of Sociology

Paula Nurius Professor & Associate Dean, School of Social Work

Roberto Orellana Professor, School of Social Work

Jennifer Otten Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Services

Vedavati Patwardhan Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Trevor Peckham Environmental Scientist, Hazardous Waste Management Program

Steve Pfaff Professor, Sociology

Kivan Polimis Principal Data Scientist

Gundula Proksch Associate Professor, Architecture

Adrian Raftery Professor, Statistics; Professor, Sociology

Natasha Rivers Program Manager | Sustainability & Measurement

Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Associate Professor, Epidemiology; Professor, Study and Prevention of Violence

Edmund Seto Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Ethan Sharygin Assistant Professor & Population Research Center Director

Karen Snedker Professor, Sociology

Sarah Stone Executive Director, eScience Institute

David Takeuchi Associate Dean, Office of Faculty Excellence and Research, School of Social Work

Tim Thomas Research Director, Urban Displacement Project

Peter Vitaliano Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Thaïsa Way Professor Landscape Architecture, Director Urban@UW

Yen-Chu Wang Lecturer, College of the Environment

Nathalie Williams Associate Professor, Sociology; Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies.

Dafeng Xu Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance