CSDE is pleased to introduce three of our new External Research Affiliates as well as welcome back two of our former T32 trainees and fellows as External Research Affiliates! Kristine Joy Chua (Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame) utilizes methods from anthropology, biology, and public health to explore the social and biological factors that create and sustain peri- and postnatal inequities. CSDE Alumna April Fernandes (Associate Professor, University of Southern California) focuses on a range of outcomes, from physical and mental health, employment prospects and wage outcomes, as well as the impacts of monetary punishment from legal financial obligations and practices such as pay-to-stay, where states sue incarcerated people for the room and board costs of their incarceration. Dornell Pete (Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) is an epidemiologist who uses community-engaged approaches to study the factors influencing stomach cancer, including lifestyle, environmental, and pathogenic factors in Native American communities. CSDE Alumna Maria Rodriguez’s (Principal Research Scientist, University at Buffalo) research is at the intersection of applied demography, computational social science, and social policy, and her work explores systems of care across technology and human services. Muaza Alhaji Shamaki (Professor, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto) does research in human development demography and population health, health geography, and cultural anthropology. Learn more about each affiliate in the full story!

The University of Washington is home to the Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center (NWFSRDC), a secure space used to access federal microdata run by the Census Bureau in collaboration with CSDE. Researchers are able to submit projects for approval that make use of federal data and carry out their analysis within the RDC. One significant hurdle to carrying out data analysis in an FSRDC is the several month and paperwork-intensive process of researchers on the team receiving Special Sworn Status (SSS) from the Census Bureau which enables entrance to the RDC. 

CSDE Research Scientist Jessica Godwin, PhD, recently received SSS to work on a project led by Beth Fussell (Brown University) estimating migration flows between Puerto Rico and the mainland U.S. following the devastating Hurricane María in 2017. Godwin is providing statistical support for estimating these migration flows using decennial census and American Community Survey data linked to the Census’s master address file.

Both Godwin and CSDE Research Scientist and Director of the NWFSRDC, Sofia Ayala, PhD, have SSS and are available to aid CSDE Affiliate and Trainee research with restricted federal data. To arrange a consultation appointment with Jessica Godwin to discuss potential NWFSRDC research or any of CSDE’s scientific support staff, please use the CSDE Science Core Consultation Request form.

This past spring, the University of Washington Office for Nursing Research & Innovation were able to award $100,000 to four research projects from UW School of Nursing investigators. This award came from the Research Intramural Funding Program (RIFP) which is designed to enhance the research environment within the School of Nursing by providing faculty with seed funding to initiate innovative studies and collect pilot data that will lead to advancements in our understanding of clinically relevant issues. CSDE Affiliate Maria Bleil (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing) was one of the four recipients who received this award with her research study titled, “Does exposure to air pollution accelerate pubertal development in girls?” Congratulations Dr. Bleil! To learn more about this program and to view the other award recipients, visit this link. 

CSDE Affiliates Katarina Guttmanova (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) and Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology) recently published a paper with lead author Andrea Oliva (Seattle Children’s Research Institute) in Child & Youth Care Forum: Journal of Research and Practice in Children’s Services titled, “Depressive Symptoms Over the Course of Adolescence Among Latinx Children of Immigrants and White Youth From Small Towns in the United States.” Hispanic/Latinx make up 19% of the total population of the United States and are one of the fastest growing groups in the country. This growth has been notable among youth from rural and small-town communities and understanding mental health during adolescence in this population can have a significant impact on public health. In this paper, Oliva, Dr. Guttmanova, Dr. Hajat, and co-authors compare depressive symptoms during adolescence among Latinx Children of Immigrants, Latinx Children of Non-Immigrants, and non-Latinx White Children of Non-Immigrants from small towns in the United States. To learn more about this research and read the full paper, visit this link.

CSDE Affiliate Stipica Mudrazija (Health Systems and Population Health) and co-authors recently published a research article in the European Journal of Ageing titled, “The Hidden Crisis: Classifying unmet Healthcare Needs in European Older Adults during COVID-19.” In this study, Dr. Mudrazija and co-authors investigate the unmet healthcare needs of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the two waves of the SHARE Corona Survey (SCS) conducted in 2020 and 2021. To learn more about this research and read the full article, visit this link.

CSDE External Affiliate Daiki Hiramori (Hosei University) recently published a book chapter in the Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality titled, “Understanding Sexual Orientation Identity, Sexual/Romantic Attraction, and Sexual Behavior beyond Western Societies: The Case of Japan.” Dr. Hiramori discusses how important it is to examine the complex intersections of sexual orientation identity, sexual/romance attraction, and sexual behavior, however, most of the studies on these topics use data from Western countries that have particular histories of sexuality that limit the generalizability of the findings beyond Western societies. In this chapter, Dr. Hiramori and his co-author Dr. Saori Kamano describe the dimensions of sexuality in Japan, where historically no religious authority has condemned same-sex behavior and legal prohibitions against same-sex relations existed for only a decade in the late nineteenth century. To learn more about this study and read the full chapter, visit this link.

Sponsor: Social Sciences Research Council

Program: Economic Research Rescue Fund

https://www.ssrc.org/programs/economic-research-rescue-fund/

Award amount: $25K to $250K, with most awards under $50K

Sponsor deadline: Rolling; funds are limited – grantseekers should apply as soon as possible

Program Description: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is dramatically reducing its vital support for scientific research. Principal Investigators who were conducting or facilitating economic research under a grant terminated by NSF can now apply for rescue funds to mitigate disruptions of work that promises to provide significant societal benefits.

This spring workers from every center and institute at the National Institutes of Health wrote and signed an open letter to the leadership of NIH and HHS.  You can read about their letter here.

The CO2 Foundation is excited to announce its third funding opportunity: Reducing the Threats of Extreme Weather Events.

In addition to the gradual climate changes of the last sixty years, we have seen recent surges in extreme weather that suggest an abrupt climate shift. For example, the annual tally of big windstorms in the US went from a baseline rate of 1.2 per year before 2008 up to 19 events in 2023, an order of magnitude more. This threat has a different time scale than gradual global warming. We must now prepare for big troubles in the next decade.

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) is inviting original visualizations using CHR&R data to communicate the structural determinants of health, or the laws, policies, and power structures that drive health outcomes. We want to see how you use CHR&R (and other public data) to tell stories that make the forces that shape health visible.

We believe that working together amplifies impact. In this open call for data visualizations, we’re honoring the power of our connectedness — the reality that your eyes and experience create a unique perspective on the health story we share.

Description: A good rule of thumb in data wrangling and programming is: if you find yourself copying and pasting a block of code more than twice, it’s time to stop and think about a more efficient approach. This course will introduce functional programming and other techniques to reduce redundancy and enhance the computational efficiency of your R code. We will cover practical skills frequently used in data projects, such as manipulating multiple columns, writing anonymous functions, using map(), nesting dataframes within tibbles, and running multiple regressions and comparing them results simultaneously. Attendees are expected to have basic familiarity with data wrangling using dplyr in R.

• Instructor: Brian Leung, CSSCR Consultant
• Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
• Time: 11:00am – 12:20pm
• Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
• Register here.

Description: This workshop provides a brief, practical introduction to working in ATLAS.ti, by marrying the functionality of the program with the fundamentals of the qualitative methodology. This will include importing text documents, creating codes, memos and comments, and exploring thematic relationships through analysis. The course assumes no familiarity with Atlas.ti

• Instructor:  Baishakhi Basu, CSSCR Consultant
• Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
• Time: 3:00pm – 4:20pm
• Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
• Register here.

The deadline to submit to the Fall Data Science and AI Accelerator is now extended to August 14th. This program pairs eScience Institute data scientists with researchers from any field of study to work on focused, collaborative projects. Collaborations may center on analysis of an existing dataset to answer a specific research question, an implementation of software for processing or analyzing data, data visualization tools, or tools for data interpretation. We strongly recommend that anyone planning to submit a proposal for an Accelerator consult with one of our Data Scientists during their Office Hours for guidance and also check out the Accelerator FAQs on our website. Learn more here.

2025 Immigrant Integration Convening

September 14, 2025 01:00 PM (ET) – September 16, 2025 01:00 PM (ET)

Supporting Migrants and Refugees: Finding Hope in a Time of Peril

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) and Fordham University will host the 2025 Immigrant Integration Convening, Supporting Migrants and Refugees: Finding Hope in a Time of Peril. The 3 day convening will focus on the immigration challenges of today and how the Catholic community can support migrants and refugees to advance human dignity and the common good. Attendees will include Catholic policy experts, advocates, service providers, parishes, students, and others.

Register for tickets here

Pipeline Grants Competition

Organization: Russell Sage Foundation

Award amount: $50,000

Deadline: 10/1/2025

Description: This initiative will support early-career scholars and promote diversity in the social sciences, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Pipeline grantees are paired with mentors who offer advice on their projects and career development. The competition funds innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. We are particularly interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. Early-career faculty who have not previously received research grants (not counting a dissertation grant) or a visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply.

Berlin Demography Days 2025: Demography and Democracy

Save the date: 27 and 28 October 2025

The electoral successes of anti-democratic movements cannot be explained solely by the demographic or socio-economic characteristics of individual groups. More decisive are local perceptions of problems and narratives of loss in the context of demographic change. These manifest in a perceived political overload, blame and the supposed failure of ‘established’ politics.

Together with experts from academia, political foundations, and governments, we analyse these demographic trends and discuss practical solutions at the regional and local level.

Register here

The purpose of this Notice is to highlight interest in addressing the role of violence in health outcomes and integrating violence-related screening and interventions into health care settings. This Notice is to encourage intervention research focused on addressing exposure to violence – including but not limited to child maltreatment, intimate partner violence/teen dating violence, elder mistreatment, peer violence/bullying, and community violence – to improve individual-level health processes and outcomes. Read more here.

Discover Global Society (Springer Nature) is currently welcoming submissions of original research to the “The Permutations of “Caring”: On the Individual, Family, and Societies” Collection, Guest Edited by Prof. JosAnn Cutajar (University of Malta, Malta).

Discover Global Society was launched by Springer Nature in 2023 and indexed in SCOPUS (CiteScore 0.4 [2024]). Discover Global Society is a fully open-access journal, which means that its contents are freely available and can be used by a world audience.

If you are interested in preparing a manuscript for consideration at Discover Global Society as part of this Collection, submissions will be welcomed at any point up until 31 December 2025, but if you are unable to submit a manuscript before this date, please let us know as we may be able to be flexible. To submit your manuscript for consideration at Discover Global Society as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page.

Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles.

The Population Association of America (PAA) has updated the form used to collect details, on an ongoing basis, from members who have been adversely affected by actions taken by the Administration, including federal grant terminations and data restrictions. The revised form provides guidance and encourages individuals to share their stories, which will be featured in a regular newsletter designed to educate policymakers and the public about the consequences of these federal actions.

Please feel free to share this form with your colleagues.

Dewey Data is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including foot traffic, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation.

University of Washington faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and must register an individual account. Follow this link to learn about how to register.

The challenges of data access during federal administrative transitions can happen every four years. What follows are some resources that might be useful. We will continue to update this blog post with new information. If you have any links that could be helpful, please send csde@uw.edu your updated and helpful information. We know that what follows may not provide you with the exact data you need, so let us know what you need and what’s missing and we can try to find where it is located.

The research community is facing a period of rapid change and uncertainty in the federal funding landscape. The university is closely monitoring changes and their potential impacts to the UW research enterprise. Information on the Office of Research’s Guidance on Federal Administration Research Policy page is updated frequently. If you are a researcher and interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to PI Federal communications (you’ll need UWNETID). The Provost’s office is also maintaining a site for all Federal Policy Updates.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers, and through them can offer you or your colleagues the opportunity to have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, APC and PRB may be able to help. To learn how, visit their website and take a look at recent research policy briefs.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers and through them can offer you and your colleagues access to their preprint publishing platform. Research Scientists, Postdoctoral affiliates and faculty are invited to submit to the APCA Working Paper Series which gathers and disseminates original population science research papers. These working papers are authored or coauthored by scholars who are faculty or postdoctoral affiliates of the Association of Population Centers (APC) population centers.

The Bradley Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that honors the principles and example of its namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, by pursuing a mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. The foundation has a rolling proposal process around grants for its Constitutional Order and Informed Citizens initiatives. Projects should have budgets between $25,000 and $200,000.

We invite early career faculty affiliates to join our new mailing list, csde_earlycareer. Among other things, this is the way to find out info about our quarterly Early Career Affiliate happy hours, and you won’t want to miss those! These will be a great way to meet up with other junior scholars in a fun and casual atmosphere over snacks and drinks. Who counts as early career, you ask? Typically we mean folks who are pre-promotion (i.e. assistant professor or equivalent), but we're not strict! Join the list here (Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!)