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
Steven Bourassa Professor and Chair, Runstad Department of Real Estate; Director, Washington Center for Real Estate Research
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 Emeritus, 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 Professor of Epidemiology; Bartley Dobb Professor for the 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
Aja Sutton Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
David Takeuchi Associate Dean, Office of Faculty Excellence and Research, School of Social Work
Tim Thomas Research Director, Urban Displacement Project
Jasmine Trang Ha Consultant
Peter Vitaliano Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Thaïsa Way Professor Emeritus, 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