When: Friday, October 31, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom

We are looking forward to hosting Sanyu Mojola from Princeton University on Friday, October 31 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. Follow this link to sign up for a 1:1 meeting with Dr. Mojola during their visit.

Washington, DC, the capital of the United States, has the nation’s largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nation’s worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS. These epidemics have disproportionately affected African Americans. Why and how does racial health inequality exist and persist? Starting from the city’s founding in the late 1700s and drawing on a range of sources—including archival material, life history interviews, and census, vital statistics, and disease surveillance data—this book illustrates how the physical, social, and policy design of the city contributes to the production and reproduction of disproportionate Black death.

On October 28, Will von Geldern (CSDE Trainee) will be presenting their research at the UW Data Science Seminar. The seminar will be held in IEB G109 from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PT. Von Geldern will present preliminary results from a project that uses computer vision and natural language processing to document tenant responses to eviction summonses and connect tenants’ response patterns to subsequent case outcomes.

CSDE Affiliate Avanti Adhia (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Epidemiology) recognized Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October) by highlighting how research can help us better understand domestic violence, find ways to prevent it, and support survivors. At the University of Washington, Adhia, co-authors and colleagues have been studying how laws and policies—including those in schools, workplaces, and legal systems—can go beyond short-term fixes and make a real difference.

CSDE Affiliate Raheem Chaudhry (Public Policy) is the recipient of the 2025 PhD Dissertation Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). Chaudhry’s dissertation is titled “Waiting for Tiebout: Essays on Policy, Place, and Opportunity.” The PhD Dissertation Award seeks to recognize emergent scholars in the field by presenting an award for the best PhD dissertation in public policy and management. Chaudhry will be honored at APPAM’s Fall Research Conference.

CSDE Affiliate Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences, Epidemiology) joined NPR Morning Edition to discuss cancer rates in Lebanon, which is experiencing the fastest increase in cancer incidence and mortality anywhere in the world. NPR interviewed Mokdad during his travels to Beirut to meet with the Lebanese Parliament and present results from a study Mokdad co-authored as a member of the GBD 2023 Cancer Collaborators. 

When: 10 – 11 am on October 29, 2025

Where: Raitt 223 and on Zoom

On October 29, CSDE’s Computational Demography Working Group will host Chris Soria (Department of Demography, UC Berkeley), who will present on “An Empirical Investigation into Large Language Models for Open-Ended Survey Categorization.”

Open-ended survey questions offer rich qualitative insights but remain underutilized due to the time-intensive manual coding required for analysis. This presentation examines whether large language models can accelerate this process while maintaining research rigor from a demographic and substantive social science perspective.

Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. Over the coming academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops in a remote format.

• Intro to R II: Working With Data
  • Date & Time: Thursday, Nov. 6 @ 10:00AM–11:30AM
  • Instructor: June Yang
• Intro to R III: Data Visualization
  • Date & Time: Thursday, Nov. 13 @ 10:00AM–11:30AM
  • Instructor: Jessica Godwin

Announcing CSDE’s Autumn 2025 Lightning Talks and Poster Session! Applications are currently open for graduate students to present their research and receive feedback at this event, and we would love to receive your submission! This is an excellent, low-stakes opportunity to practice your presentation skills, grow your network, and prepare for upcoming conferences. If you are interested, apply here.

Sponsor: Retirement Research Foundation (RRF)

Award amount: $150,000 (most awards average $100,000 to $200,000)

Number of applications UW can put forward: 1 per department. 

OSP deadline: 10/28/2025 is the 3-day deadline

Sponsor deadline: 11/1/2025 for LOI

Program description: The Retirement Research Foundation (RRF) funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers.

The UW Office of Research invites applications from UW researchers for the inaugural Research Impact Advocates cohort in 2025–26. This program will provide training, engagement opportunities, and community for up to 20 UW researchers interested in increasing their capacity to engage public audiences about their research findings and expertise. Learn more about the program and how to apply by the November 1 deadline.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the Department of Global Health and Public Health for Peace and Justice in Palestine invite you to join the second session in a series exploring Environmental Health in Palestine on November 5, 2025 at 10am PT with Dr. Amira Aker and Dr. Ahlam Abuawad. Register here.

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The Center for Disaster Resilient Communities (CDRC) is hosting a free, two-day in-person workshop on Monday, December, 8 and Tuesday, December 9, 2025, designed for UW researchers with little to no background in artificial intelligence (AI). This hands-on workshop will introduce practical ways to apply AI to disaster resilience research. Apply here.  

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The third Call for Letters of Interest (LOI) for a training opportunity at the Washington Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research (LHS E-STAR) Center. This third and final round of scholars will conduct research projects at Community Health Association of Spokane and HealthPoint. Learn more about the E-STAR Center on their website: Applications :: ACT Center (act-center.org)

We encourage you to share the instructions for the LOI with early career faculty and postdocs who may be interested in this exciting opportunity. 

The Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD) invites you to join the 18th edition of the Dutch Demography Day on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 in the Academy Building of Utrecht University (Domplein).

At the conference, the most recent findings in the field of population studies will be presented, including family and fertility, migrants and migration, health, mortality and longevity, population ageing, population growth and decline, and urbanization. The scientific programme comprises a Keynote Address, several rounds of parallel sessions and a poster session.

Award amount: $150,000 (Canadian)

OR internal deadline: 11/5/2025

UW OSP deadline: 11/20/2025

Sponsor deadline: 12/1/2025

Program description: NAPCEA is calling for proposals from organizations to support projects that will help North American communities implement circular economy initiatives and strategies to improve local well-being and the environment. The way resources are being extracted, used and then disposed of in the current linear economy model is putting pressure on natural systems.

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The conference will be held in hybrid format.

Migration is a highly debated yet divisive topic in today’s public and policy discourse. In low fertility societies, migration is the main driver of population change and is essential for maintaining a stable labour force. Although it is often presented in simplistic terms, migration is a complex phenomenon shaped by the interplay of multiple drivers and barriers.

The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families has just opened the application period for its fellowship program for early career investigators researching economic well-being or early care and education (ECE) among Hispanic children and families in the United States. The program will provide seed research funds and valuable mentoring experiences to early career investigators. Fellows will receive $7,000 for use in research and professional development activities.

The University of Washington Research and Engagement on Adaptation for Climate and Health (REACH) Center is accepting applications to the Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship until November 28. The Fellowship provides teams of fellows with $60,000 of funding and training to conduct an implementation science project to evaluate or improve the uptake of a climate and health-related project or program.

Fellows apply and participate as teams of 2-3 public health or healthcare practitioners and researchers.

The Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), is currently accepting applications to its 2026 program. The closing date is January 12, 2026 at midnight CET.

The program, which takes place from June to August, is designed for PhD students (ideally about 2 years prior to receiving their PhD) working on a topic compatible with ongoing research at IIASA and a wish to explore the policy implications of their work.

Award amount: $200,000

Sponsor deadline: 03/11/2026

Program description: The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes such as educational and labor market access and opportunities, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation.

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Award amount: $100,000

Sponsor deadline: 04/01/2026

Program description: The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in collaboration with the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures (AV) is pleased to announce its first annual grants competition for early-career scholars. Our goal is to cultivate a pipeline of researchers conducting causal research on the criminal justice system. 

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IPUMS HEALTH SURVEYS

IPUMS MEPS now offers data from the 2023 MEPS sample. This release includes 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files. New variables added with this release include information about COVID and Long COVID at the round level.

IPUMS CPS

The USDA, which sponsors the CPS Food Security supplement, recently indicated they will terminate data collection for the supplement.

If you have a data set that is really important for you and has valuable impact more generally, then consider telling your story to Essential Data U.S. (https://essentialdata.us/).  They are seeking to build a compendium of cases that convey compelling real-world examples of how federal data can benefit the American people and economy. Your story will help data users and advocates be more effective when engaging with lawmakers and federal agencies for continued resourcing of federal data programs.  

The Centre for Migration Studies at University of British Columbia has just posted materials from a September conference on Narrative and Computational Text Analysis for research on migration and citizenship. The materials are relevant to anyone who is relatively new to computation text analysis and curious to learn more. 

The Population Research Center at Portland State University, directed by CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Sharygin (Portland State University), has published a resource guide for finding federal data during the shutdown.  These sources include Census Reporter, Esri, PolicyMap, IPUMS, NHGIS, and the Data Rescue Project Portal.

The Mobility and Migration Modeling Intercomparison Project (3MIP) invites you to join a new initiative to advance the modeling of migration and mobility in the context of climate change.

Over the past decades, migration modeling capacity has expanded considerably, with diverse approaches including ABM, IAM, Gravity, Radiation, and others. Similar to how model intercomparison projects (MIPs) such as AgMIP and ISIMIP have strengthened agricultural and climate modeling, 3MIP aims to improve the robustness,

Social researchers are invited to join a global community of scholars, educators, and practitioners dedicated to advancing research and practice on work, family, and well-being. You can learn more about the WFRN at this link: https://wfrn.org/. Their upcoming conference will focus on caregiving across the life course. 

Dr. Melanie Martin is looking for a graduate student collaborator(s) to help with a year-long community-based participatory research project based in a local Lake City elementary school to study the impacts of culturally sustaining and asset-based pedagogical approaches in early education.

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.