March 8, 2022
Application period open for 2022 summer applied research fellowships
The Population Health Initiative is partnering with the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology for the fourth consecutive summer to offer the Population Health Applied Research Fellowship program. Applications for this summer’s cohort will be accepted until April 8, 2022 from undergraduate and graduate students across all UW schools and colleges on all three UW campuses.
This paid fellowship program will offer a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students training in data analysis techniques as well as in research and presentation skills while they develop a work product for an external partner.
For summer 2022, the external partner is the King County demographer and the King County’s Assessor’s Office. Students will learn how to estimate trends in household size and household characteristics across the county as they build on the work of previous fellows to explore how housing supply changes relate to changes in population and the distribution of renter-occupied and owner-occupied households of different sizes over this period of unprecedented growth. Ultimately, the team plans to develop a resource that allows for visualization of changes in the geographic distribution of population, household size and household size – alongside future growth projections – with the goal of providing important insights to King County policy makers.
Three graduate students and two undergraduate students will compose the fellowship team. They will be supervised by faculty and staff from the Population Health Initiative and the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology.