CDE welcomed four new postdocs: Guadalupe Aguilera of the Health Disparities Research Scholars program, Jane Seymour, who is conducting research at the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, directed by affiliate Jenny Higgins, and Laura E. T. Swan and Hoa Vu, both of whom are working with affiliate Tiffany Green in the population health sciences department. …
CDE is pleased to welcome its new director, Jenna Nobles, and associate director for training, Katherine Curtis! Nobles is a professor of sociology with affiliate appointments in population health sciences and obstetrics and gynecology. On campus, she is the training director for the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) and a member of the executive committee …
Congratulations to Sebastian Daza, Amelia Gibbons, Michael King, Julie Kirsch, Amrita Kulka, Isabel Pike, Jessica Polos, Ankit Rastogi, and Nathan Seltzer on the recent/upcoming successful defense of their dissertations! We wish them well on their new endeavors, and our next newsletter will include details of their exciting new positions. Also, we’d like to congratulate CDE …
CDE has developed a new cross-center collaborative effort – DemSemX – that will virtually bring together faculty and students from population research centers across 8 U.S. universities (Bowling Green, Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Texas, UCLA and UW-Madison) to enhance scholarly interaction and graduate training across institutions. These centers will join forces to bring you …
Deb Ehrenthal and Lonnie Berger received R01 funding from NICHD for their project on “Prenatal Opioid Exposure: Birth, Health, Socioeconomic, and Educational Outcomes of Mothers and Their Children.” The research team has assembled a database of ~800,000 live births (including ~350,000 Medicaid-covered live births) in Wisconsin from 2008-2018. This project will link this enormous database to …
Following UW-Madison’s move to fully remote work in mid-March due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus, CDE decided to hold its planned March 24th symposium on Census 2020 online – a first for CDE amidst our changing landscape. We were delighted that approximately 216 individuals from around the country (and a few from other …
In recent weeks, the COVID-19 outbreak has been the near-singular focus of the news media, and CDE affiliates have made their mark in the news cycle. Malia Jones typed a message for her family, friends, and colleagues with an overview of her thoughts on the outbreak as an epidemiologist in mid-March, just as the pandemic was …
Congratulations to CDE graduate student Esteban Quiñones (agricultural and applied economics), who completed his PhD last spring/summer. Quiñones’ research focused on poverty and the roles that households and government policies play in alleviating deprivation, with an emphasis on impacts of migration and gender. Quiñones has joined Mathematica Policy Research in Chicago, where he will contribute …
We are pleased that CDE’s Director, Marcy Carlson, has been elected vice president of the Population Association of America (PAA). PAA is the leading U.S. scientific, professional organization promoting research on population issues. She will begin serving on January 1, 2020. The main duties of the Vice President of PAA are to assist the PAA …
CDE is excited to welcome five new assistant professors to campus in fall 2019 who will expand the depth and breadth of our scholarship. Megan Bea joins UW’s School of Human Ecology after receiving a PhD in Sociology from Cornell University. Her research interests are in economic sociology, sociology of finance, social stratification, and financial …