We are looking forward to hosting Hyunju Kim (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington) on Friday, Nov. 6th in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, which reduced blood pressure and cholesterol in randomized, controlled feeding studies, is recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. However, assessing adherence to the DASH diet is challenging because self-reported diet is prone to measurement error and other systematic biases. Further, although short-term randomized feeding studies found that the DASH diet improves blood pressure and cholesterol, evidence on causal effects of the DASH diet on long-term health outcomes (e.g., incident coronary heart disease) is difficult to obtain. In this presentation, I discuss projects that used metabolomics and proteomics, technologies that allow simultaneous measurement of thousands of small molecules (metabolites) and proteins in biofluids, to discover objective biomarkers of the DASH diet. I also use plasma proteomics to support causal inference about long-term health benefits of the DASH diet.

The Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed rule changes to the 2030 Census that are extraordinary and unprecedented, requiring comment and feedback.  Those can be made until November 2 in the Federal Register where you can also read the full text of the proposed changes.  Comments can be made by both individuals and organizations.

The organizers of a study on responsible practices and AI use in scientific fields from Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) and Carnegie Mellon University are recruiting interview participants in various scientific fields including:

• applied sciences (agricultural science, computer science, environmental science, engineering, medicine)

• natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, meteorology, geology, astronomy)
• social sciences (psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, political science)

The Natural Hazards Center, with funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, has launched the Health and Extreme Weather Research Award Program to address gaps in knowledge about the health risks and consequences of wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, floods, extreme heat, and other extreme weather events. Findings from funded research will help communities across the United States understand and reduce health risks associated with extreme weather. 

Please join for a UW Data Science Seminar featuring UW Sociology PhD student and CSDE graduate trainee Todd Nobles on Tuesday, November 3rd from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PT. The seminar will be held in HCK 132.

Abstract: This talk shares preliminary results from work as part of the Puyallup Family Data Reclamation Project, which in collaboration with the Puyallup Tribal Historic Preservation Department, aims to digitize historical boarding school archival records and make them searchable and accessible to those researching their family history.

Health Policy Fellows

Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Award amount: Up to $195,000

Sponsor deadline: 11/03/2026

Description:

The RWJF Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation’s most comprehensive midcareer learning experience at the intersection of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C. Fellows participate in the policy process at the federal level and leverage that leadership experience to promote policies, practices, and systems changes that advance the health of the nation.

Description:  This workshop explores some of R’s useful tools for data transformation, management and exploration. It will introduce some key concepts and techniques for data wrangling primarily using the Tidyverse packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R.

• Instructor: Alireza Aminkhaki, CSSCR Consultant
• Date:  Wednesday, November 4, 2026
• Time: 10:30am – 11:50am
• Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
• Register here.

It can feel like whiplash. One day, the youth around you tell you they think the world is burning and they have no future; the next day, you face decision makers who question whether climate anxiety is even a problem.

It’s overwhelming and isolating. But you are not alone.

Join CSDE Affiliate Jessica Acolin, PhD, a licensed mental health counselor and UW affiliate faculty member, to see new statewide data on teen climate distress across California, Oregon, and Washington. Hear about a new regional collaborative aimed at advancing knowledge and solutions to support youth climate resilience. Most importantly, learn how you can get involved and shape the direction of this work.

The PAA Applied Demography Conference is back in-person in 2027! The organizers are excited to provide applied demographers with a unique opportunity to participate in a conference designed to showcase developments applied demography, receive feedback on work in progress, and strengthen professional and personal ties within the applied demography community. Save the date for February 17 – 18, 2027 in Washington, DC.

Submissions deadline: November 7, 2026

The Global Innovation Fund supports research that launches new projects, builds international networks, and lays the groundwork for future large-scale initiatives.

Seed Grants: Up to $5,000 for projects limited in scope or just beginning. This can be an opportunity for faculty who wish to add a global dimension to their research for the first time. Open to any discipline and geographic focus.  

Development Grants: Up to $15,000 for projects that have already established significant impact.

The countdown to the sixth UN World Data Forum has begun! Registration is now open for the biggest global gathering of data and statistics leaders, policymakers, innovators, researchers and development partners, taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 9–12 November 2026.

Panel—A Conversation with Queerdem* Europe

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 9am ET/2pm GMT/3pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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The University of Colorado Population Center, part of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, is pleased to announce the 2026 Reproductive Demography Workshop, November 11-13, 2026 in Boulder, Colorado and online. The workshop will provide training on reproductive demography (including conception, pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and birth).

Rising expressions of concern about fertility rates and the end of federal protections for abortion rights have increased interest in the study of abortion and fertility.

Organization Simons Foundation

Award amount Up 140,000€

OR internal deadline: 11/4/2026

Sponsor deadline: 11/12/2026

Description:

The New Gen initiative of the AXA Foundation for Human Progress are 2-year grants supporting promising early-career researchers to foster transformative, transdisciplinary research networks, at the intersection of multiple fields and societal actors. The support of the AXA Foundation should be transformative for the researchers and the advancement of their field.

Join the UW Office of Research on Tuesday, November 17 for the inaugural UW Shared Research Facilities & Resources Fair, an opportunity to discover the people, services, technology, and expertise that support research at the UW!

Faculty, researchers, trainees, facility staff, and campus partners are invited to explore shared research facilities, learn about available research support services, connect with potential collaborators, and discover new funding opportunities that help researchers access specialized facilities and services.

The UW EDGE Center (Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics, and Environment, a NIEHS P30 Center) intends to provide pilot funding (up to $40K) to members of the faculty of UW, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and/or the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. We encourage early career scientists to partner with faculty to apply. Pre-applications for environmental health sciences research are due November 19, 2026, invited full proposals are due January 12, 2027, and funding begins no sooner than April 2027.

Applications for the 2026-2027 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy awards are now open. The application date is December 1, 2026, including recommendation forms. Start your application now!

The amount of each award is $10,000, and twenty awards will be given. In addition, the Foundation offers two Special Awards: the Trustees’ Award for the most innovative project (an additional $3,000) and the Irving Louis Horowitz Award for the most outstanding project (an additional $5,000).

The Scholars-in-Residence Program offers both long-term and short-term fellowships designed to support and encourage top-quality research and writing on the history, politics, literature, and culture of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary exchange among scholars and writers in residence at the Schomburg Center. Awards can range from $3,000-$35,000. 

The NIH’s Development of Collaborative Research Facilities or Research-Resource Facilities program (PAR-26-106) supports the construction or modernization of shared-use research facilities that benefit broad research communities, through two tracks: the Biomedical Research Facilities (BRF) program, funding $2–8 million for facilities advancing basic, translational, clinical, or behavioral science research, and the HIV/AIDS Research Facilities (HRF) program, funding $2–4 million for facilities aligned with NIH Office of AIDS Research priorities. 

Organization: Society for Research in Child Development

Award amount: Up to $25,000

Sponsor deadline: 12/03/2026

Description:

The Victoria S. Levin Award aims is to foster early career success in achieving funding for research that is informed by developmental science to address concerns affecting the early foundations of children’s mental health. The Award will add measurably to Vicki’s dream of a society in which all children are protected from disabling mental health problems by getting the healthiest start in life.

CACHE will be at the GSA 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting, November 4 – 7 in National Harbor, MD, and is organizing a symposium “Pushing the Boundaries on Aging-Climate Topics and Methodologies”. To learn more about the GSA and to connect with leaders in aging and gerontology, find out more here. This year’s theme: “Reinforcing Resilience in Aging Science, Research and Education.”

Seminar—TBD with Dr. Byron Villacis

Tuesday, December 8, 2026 at 11:30am EST/4:30pm GMT/5:30pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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Award amount:  Up to $700,000

Description:

The Foundation primarily supports basic science, ideally with potential translational applications. Examples of current research areas supported include immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, microbiology and infectious diseases, stem cell biology, and neuroscience.

Research areas that will not be considered for support include Covid-19 related research projects (aims or sub-aims), Plant Biology Research, Oceanography, Space Exploration. and Global Warming related research.

Recognize a fellow demographer (or yourself!) who has contributed to the profession. Five awards will be presented at the PAA 2027 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington in April. Each award winner receives a check, plaque, and longstanding recognition to their innovative contributions to the field.

All nominees should exemplify the highest standards of professional conduct. See each webpage for individual nomination criteria and instructions. The deadline for nominations is Monday, December 14, 2026. 

Demographic Research invites contributions to the Special Collection on Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities in the journal Demographic Research, organized by Ashton Verdery, Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, and Elena Maria Pojman. Submissions to this collection are possible from June 15, 2026 until December 15, 2026. Please find more information on the collection’s description and goals as well as on submission procedures here.

Organization:  City University of New York

Award amount:  $1,000 -$3,000

Description:

The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) was founded in 1991 as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals and communities. 

Seminar—TBD with Dr. Christopher A. Julian

Thursday, January 7, 2027 at 10am EST/3pm GMT/4pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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Call for Papers for the Special Collection “Measuring Population Health in the Era of Climate Change” in Population Health Metrics: The collection focuses on how climate change is reshaping population health and on methodological and empirical advances to measure these impacts. Submissions due February 26, 2027.

Seminar—Examining transnational families: Cross-perspectives from administrative data and statistical surveys

Thursday, March 18, 2027 at 9am EST/1pm GMT/2pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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BMC Geriatrics is currently welcoming submissions of original research to a “War and aging” Collection. CSDE Affiliate Amy Hagopian is one of three Guest Editors for the Collection, with Rolf Kleber and Alice Aiken. If you’re interested in submitting a manuscript for the BMC Geriatrics Collection, submissions will be welcomed anytime until 30 April 2027.

The Collection welcomes original research addressing climate adaptation challenges across Africa, with particular interest in studies that provide credible scientific evidence, innovative analytical approaches, and practical solutions to support climate-resilient development. The Collection is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research involving climate science, earth observation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, socio-economic analysis, governance, indigenous knowledge, early warning systems, climate risk assessment, adaptation planning, nature-based solutions, and community-led approaches. 

Modernizing the Federal Statistical System is both urgent and achievable. Declining survey response rates, escalating costs, and increasing demands for granular, timely data have created pressure for innovation across statistical agencies. Specifically, this Article Collection will focus on the development of novel frames and estimation techniques, where novel frames include the rosters and source lists from which samples are drawn and associated approaches to data collection, and novel estimation techniques cover the emerging methodologies that may be applied to the resulting data.

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