When: December 5, 2025 at 12:30 – 1:30 pm PT

Where: 221 Raitt Hall

Join us for the CSDE Autumn 2025 Lightning Talk & Poster Session! On December 7th at 12:30 pm, early career researchers will present their research posters and lightning talks.  While you learn from them, you can also enjoy refreshments and conversation with the authors and audience. We look forward to seeing you!

CSDE Trainee Tess Abrahamson-Richards (Social Work), former CSDE Trainee Elizabeth Pelletier, CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Romich (Social Work), and co-author Kilohana Haitsuka recently published an article titled, “Perinatal Wage Equity, Parental Leave Access, and Reproductive Justice Among American Indian and Alaska Native Working Mothers in Washington State,” in Social Service Review.  The authors used mixed methods and grounded their analysis in an Indigenous theoretical framework.

CSDE Affiliate Kemi M. Doll (Obstetrics & Gynecology) was quoted in Scientific American in coverage of a decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to remove the black box warning on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications for menopause. Estrogen-only therapies, however, will still carry labels that share the risk of endometrial or uterine cancer. Doll emphasized that people who have a uterus should be aware of the risks of these treatments.

CSDE Affiliate Marie Spiker (Epidemiology) was recently quoted in The Seattle Times emphasizing the strong evidence base on the negative health consequences of food insecurity. Spiker was interviewed for an article on how the federal government shutdown threw the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into uncertainty, leaving 930,000 people in Washington at risk of food insecurity. This feature was also highlighted in UW News. 

CSDE External Affiliate Butch de Castro (Seattle University) and CSDE Affiliate Teresa M Ward (Pediatrics), with primary author Natalie Rejto and co-authors Mayumi Willgerodt and Elaine Walsh, recently had an article published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research, titled “Nursing Work Schedules, Specialties, Sleep Hygiene, and the Impact on Sleep Health.” This research was part of Rejto’s PhD work and supervised by the other authors on the research team.

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.

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:

• December 2 – “How to Communicate Your Research to Non-Scientists”
• December 16 - "How to Increase Productivity: 7 Thoughts" 

The PAA Congressional Briefing on U.S. Birth Rate Trends has been rescheduled! Members in the DC area are welcome to join us on Wednesday, December 10, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 2075 Rayburn House Office Building for ice cream and engaging presentations about U.S. fertility trends and related policies. An expert panel of leading social scientists will discuss national and international birth rate trends and evidence on the effects of policy incentives.

The call for papers is now open for the upcoming conference “Kinship Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities,” which will take place on June 8-9, 2026 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. The event is organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities; MPIDR; NYU Abu Dhabi; Pennsylvania State University; and the National University of Singapore. Extended abstracts (maximum two pages, PDF) must be submitted via the conference website by January 12.

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.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications from qualified and highly motivated students for a Summer Research Visit.

The goal of the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance. 

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2026 conference theme is Novel Data Linkages and Innovative Life Course Research. Enriching population data through data linkage creates novel data sources that can shed light on life course processes. Linking across time allows for the examination of transitions and trajectories and linking to contextual information situates the experiences of individuals and populations in their environments. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract.

We are inviting you to submit contributions to the Special Collection of Demographic Research on the “De/Re-institutionalization of Asian Families“, organized by Lake Lui, Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, and Adam Ka-lok Cheung. Submissions to this collection are possible from November 1, 2025 until February 28, 2026. Please find more information on the collection’s description and goals as well as on submission procedures here.

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.  (read more)

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. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention.  (read more)

Are you preparing a renewal, resubmission, or upcoming NIH grant application? Resources are now available from an October 2025 virtual workshop by ICPSR designed to help you navigate the requirements of the NIH’s Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy.

The workshop slides cover the essential components of creating an effective DMS Plan and highlight the value of transparent data sharing. You’ll gain insights into the NIH’s data sharing policies, and learn how to de-identify and prepare both restricted- and public-use datafiles.

IPUMS USA

IPUMS USA has extended MET2023, which identifies 2023 metropolitan areas, to the 2012-2021 ACS/PRCS samples. A new variable, METPOP20, reports the 2020 population of 2023 metropolitan and micropolitan areas. We have also made several revisions, including capturing additional multigenerational households in MULTGEN and expanding the property tax and utility cost variables (PROPTX99, PROPINSR, COSTGAS, COSTFUEL,  COSTWATR) to ensure that IPUMS top codes match Census Bureau top codes.

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.

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.