EVENTS CALENDAR

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) are a collection of neurodegenerative conditions that can cause cognitive impairment and ultimately lead to the development of clinical dementia. These diseases pose a significant physical, emotional, and financial burden on individuals, families, and communities all around the world. Accelerating the development of effective strategies for preventing and treating […]

Pam Herd will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Pam Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Irene Bloemraad (Univ. of British Columbia) & Jenny Van Hook (Penn State Univ.) How do we nurture a creative, vibrant and skilled new generation of researchers? And how do we accomplish this while also plugging the “leaky” pipeline that sees a disproportionate number of women and people of color leave academia […]

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) presents significant challenges in prevention and treatment despite decades of research advancements. Innovative AI/ML approaches enable analysis of real-world data sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and longitudinal multimodal data to derive insights without the constraints of predefined selection criteria. Recent developments in integrative heterogeneous graph databases enable the synthesis of […]

Women’s empowerment, population dynamics, and socioeconomic development have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. However, attempts to reconcile these perspectives and apply a holistic view to the relationships among these concepts have been rare, and this lack of consensus limits the extent to which these concepts can be applied toward accomplishing global […]

Marissa Thompson is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of racial and socioeconomic inequality, with an emphasis on understanding the role of education in shaping disparate outcomes over the life-course. Marissa’s current research investigates, for example, parental preferences regarding school segregation, the causal effects of […]

Now in its fourth year, the SBE COVID Coordinating Center’s pilot project grants program addresses COVID-19's impact on health disparities and vulnerable populations, fosters new collaborations across research teams, and engages new researchers with the work of the consortium. In this session, three pilot project grant recipients will present findings from their projects related to […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Mark Henderson (Northeastern Univ) This project, initiated jointly with Cai Yong (UW PhD ’05) and Anthony Garnaut, aims to develop a new approach to analyzing spatial variations in the demographic impact of China’s Great Leap Forward (1958-61) using reliable georeferenced data. Building on the insights of anthropologist G. William Skinner, we […]

The National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats will host the fourth webinar in its series, Advancing Data Sharing to Strengthen One Health Effectiveness. One Health describes the interconnection between human, plant, animal, and environmental health. Applying a One Health approach requires collaboration at multiple levels to address complex challenges. Actors, such as government agencies, non-government and […]

The Committee on National Statistics is hosting a series of workshop sessions to discuss approaches to characterizing and communicating the quality of national statistics and statistical data. The U.S. Federal Statistical System produces statistics and data products that inform decision making at all levels of government as well as for businesses and individuals. In response […]

Sherry Glied, an economist, is Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. From 2010-2012, Glied served as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. She served as Senior Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1992-1993, […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Patrick Greiner (UW) Patrick is an environmental sociologist at the University of Washington. His research and teaching address questions at the intersection of structural inequality, development processes, and environmental change. His work engages scholarship in the fields of environmental sociology, environmental justice, climate justice, critical theories of race, energy transitions and […]