When: Friday, November 7 at 12:30 pm

Where: Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom

One-on-one Meeting: Sign up here

We are looking forward to hosting Chia Liu from University of St. Andrews on Friday, November 7 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

Children’s socioemotional development is shaped not only by their families but also increasingly by digital devices that connect them to the wider world. In this talk, Chia Liu will present analyses on children's socioemotional health by social media consumption, with a focus on differences across ethnic groups and parenting styles. Using responses from both children and their parents in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, the study seeks to uncover the linkage between distinct parenting styles and child outcomes in a growingly digitalized childhood.

CSDE Trainee Alum Maryam Tanveer (Epidemiology), CSDE Affiliate Steve Mooney (Epidemiology), CSDE Affiliate Jeanie Santaularia Gomez (Epidemiology), and co-authors just published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology, titled, “Intimate partner violence Google searches before and after the Dobbs decision.” The authors use a novel infodemiology approach, leveraging online data to generate timely insights into IPV-related help-seeking behavior as a consequence of the Dobbs decision.

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CSDE Affiliate Jenna van Draanen (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing) marked National Overdose Awareness Month (October) by discussing how overdose research has evolved over time to recognize overdose as a social issue and the value of harm reduction. van Draanen highlighted the creation of READU (Research with Expert Advisors on Drug Use), a group made up of researchers, clinicians, and people with lived and living experience of substance use. READU is currently undertaking a study, Overdose Response Centering Inequity and Diversity, that looks at changes in emergency medical services (EMS) in King County, Washington.  The research team includes van Draanen, CSDE Affiliates Ohshue Gatanaga (Health Services), India Ornelas (Health Systems and Population Health), and Emily Williams (Health Services), as well as UW co-authors and community researchers.

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CSDE Affiliate Hyungmin Cha (Sociology) and a co-author just published an article in the Journal of Marriage and Family. Cha and his co-author analyze data from the 2000–2018 Health and Retirement Study to assess trends in the prevalence of spousal caregiving among both men and women. The authors observe no change in spousal caregiving rates among women over time, while the prevalence of male spousal caregivers rose from approximately 6% to 11% between 2002 and 2018. However, this increase is mostly reflected in secondary, instrumental, and low-intensity caregiving roles.

CSDE Affiliate Mia M. Bennett (Geography) recently published an article titled, “Utilizing Arctic infrastructure data for ecological restoration, just transitions, and protection of cultural heritage” in the journal Sustainable Earth Reviews.  Climate change is leading to much greater maritime access in the Arctic, creating both challenges and opportunities for infrastructure planning. Bennett and co-authors conducted an integrative review of key data sources on Arctic infrastructure. This approach includes cultural heritage alongside ecological criteria because “brownfield” redevelopment is a critical key to “greenfield” preservation, and planning a just transition requires attention to the historical and social contexts of past decision-making.

CSDE Affiliates Steve Mooney (Epidemiology), Ali Rowhani-Rahbar (Epidemiology), and Bradley H. Wagenaar (Global Health), along with co-authors Nicole Asa and Hiwot Y. Zewdie, published findings from a difference-in-difference analysis of the association between vacant lot redevelopment and violent/firearm violent crime in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). The study population was 254 vacant lots located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the exposure was redevelopment, defined as repurposing the vacant lot into a permanent structure (e.g., housing) between 2007 and 2023. The authors found a negative association between redevelopment and aggrevated assault, firearm aggrevated assault, and overall firearm violent crime.

CSDE Affiliate Michael Spencer (Ballmer Endowed Dean and Professor, Social Work) served as guest editor for a recent special issue of the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, titled “The Future of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Social Work: Challenges and Opportunities.” Spencer and co-editors introduce the special issue as an endeavor to create an intellectual space to imagine or re-imagine what the future of race, ethnicity and culture would look like and the opportunities they hold for social work practice, research, and education. The special edition includes thirteen articles that take different perspectives and foci, spanning the perspective of the Social Work Grand Challenges, issues related to knowledge production and education, and the unique challenges encountered by different communities nationally and globally.

When: November 5, 2025, 10 – 11 am

Where: Raitt 223 and on Zoom

On November 5, the CSDE Computational Demography Working Group will host Chaytan Inman (Seattle Stranger), who will present on “Studying Disinformation Narratives on Social Media with LLMs and Semantic Similarity.” Inman will be demonstrating the Twitter Narrative Analysis Dashboard developed for their graduate degree thesis. The tool is capable of tracing a short target narrative of natural language text across a dataset of tweets or other short form text.

When: November 6, 2005 12 - 1 pm 

Where: Raitt 223 and on Zoom

The CSDE Biomarker Working Group invites you to join their next meeting, on Thursday, November 6 from 12-1 pm in Raitt Hall 223 and on zoom. The BWG will evaluate Corti, a wearable device that claims to be able to continuously monitor biomarkers (cortisol, melatonin, and inflammatory markers) in sweat, and how it might (or might not) be useful in population health research. The group will focus the discussion on this article.

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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. 

• 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! CApplications 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. Apply here.

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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Join the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University on November 5, 2025 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm ET for a dialogue competing values, incentives, and worldviews around AI. Register to attend on zoom.

This conversation brings together Jason Crawford (Roots of Progress), Amba Kak (AI Now Institute), and Brian McGrail (Center for AI Safety Action Fund) to explore the fault lines and shared assumptions among three major schools of thought.

Join the UW Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science for the 2025 Fleagle Endowed Lecture featuring Steve J. Davis, Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford University. The lecture will be held in Kane Hall, Room 210 on November 6, 2025 from 7:00-8:30 PM.

Over the past decade, the focus of climate mitigation has shifted from incremental progress to achieving true net-zero emissions. This talk explores the hardest-to-abate sources of greenhouse gases.

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.

Join the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) for its annual Academic & Policy Symposium, “Witness to Hope: Promoting Just & Humane Migration Policies”, on Monday, November 17, 2025.

With anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies on the rise in the US and globally, how can evidence-based research help us understand and counter these narratives? Join leading scholars for a discussion on understanding the dynamics of anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as strategies to change public opinion and advance more humane policy responses.

IAPHS invites you to join How-To Tuesday, a new 45-minute webinar series designed to deliver clear, actionable guidance on topics that matter most to population health professionals. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your time management, navigate journal reviews, or set a research agenda, How-To Tuesday brings you the tools to thrive. Register here.

Upcoming Sessions Include:

• November 18 – “How to Define Your Research Agenda” with Jennifer Karas Montez
• December 2 – “How to Communicate Your Research to Non-Scientists”

Organization: North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA)

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. 

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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. More information can be found on our website.

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 Latino Center for Health (LCH) at the University of Washington invites applications to the LCH’s Small Grants Program, a $20,000 grant to fund research focused on Latinx health in Washington state. The theme for the 2026-2027 program is Immigrant Health in a Changing Policy and Practice Landscape. Applicants should include a partnership between a UW investigator and a community-based organization that serves Latinx individuals, families, or communities. Applications are due on December 15.

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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, 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.

Organization: Russell Sage Foundation

Award amount: $200,000

Sponsor deadline: 03/11/2026

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. (read more)

Organization: Russell Sage Foundation

Award amount: $100,000

Sponsor deadline: 04/01/2026

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.  (read more)

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. You can download the materials from the workshop here.

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, comparability, and usability of migration models.

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. Their upcoming conference will focus on caregiving across the life course. More about the 2026 conference can be found at this link.

CSDE Affiliate 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.