CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) co-authored an article in Current Environmental Health Reports, entitled “The Environment and Headache: a Narrative Review“. In this narrative review, authors summarize the peer-reviewed literature published between 2017 and 2022 that evaluated ambient environmental risk factors for primary headache disorders, which affect more than half of the population globally. Primary headache disorders include migraine, tension-type headache (TTH),

CSDE Affiliates Jane M. Simoni (Psychology) and Susan M. Graham (Medicine and Global Health) released research with colleagues in BMC Infectious Diseases, entitled “Key informant views on potential acceptability and feasibility of long-acting antiretroviral treatment for HIV in Kenya“. In 2020, 14% of diagnosed persons living with HIV (PLWH) in Kenya were not taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 19% of those on ART had unsuppressed viral loads.

CSDE Affiliate Melissa L. Martinson (Social Work) released an article with co-authors in SSM – Population Health, entitled “Gradients in low birthweight by maternal education: a comparative perspective“. Longstanding research has shown strong inequalities in low birthweight by household income. However, most such research has focused on Anglophone countries, while evidence emerging from other developed countries suggest a stronger role of education rather than incomes in creating inequalities at birth.

CSDE Affiliate Jing Xu (Anthropology) co-authored an article in Scientific Reports, entitled “Modeling children’s moral development in postwar Taiwan through naturalistic observations preserved in historical texts“. A core issue in the interdisciplinary study of human morality is its ontogeny in diverse cultures, but systematic, naturalistic data in specific cultural contexts are rare to find. This study conducts a novel analysis of 213 children’s socio-moral behavior in a historical,

CSDE Affiliate Gregory Bratman (College of the Environment) released research with colleagues in Plos One, entitled “Susceptibility to stress and nature exposure: Unveiling differential susceptibility to physical environments; a randomized controlled trial“. Emerging epidemiological evidence indicates nature exposure could be associated with greater health benefits among groups in lower versus higher socioeconomic positions. One possible mechanism underpinning this evidence is described by our framework: (susceptibility) adults in low socioeconomic positions face higher exposure to persistent psychosocial stressors in early life,

CSDE Affiliate Nicole Errett (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) released an article with co-authors in Natural Hazards, titled “Bridging underrepresented disaster scholars and national science foundation-funded resources“. The article was lead-authored by Cassandra Jean, a recent postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. The intentional inclusion of various perspectives is critical in disaster and hazard research to advance science and promote equitable resilience in a rapidly changing climate.

CSDE Affiliates Alison Drake (Global Health), Elizabeth Harrington (Obstetrics and Gynecology), and CSDE Trainee Aparna Seth (Global Health) co-authored an article in Plos One, entitled “Mobile solutions to Empower reproductive life planning for women living with HIV in Kenya (MWACh EMPOWER): Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial“. Women living with HIV (WLWH) face unique reproductive health (RH) barriers which increase their risks of unmet need for contraception,

CSDE Affiliate Avanti Adhia (Nursing) released an article with colleagues in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, entitled “Developing and implementing survivor-centred approaches for college student-athletes: perspectives from athletic department, Title IX, and campus advocacy personnel“. The article was lead-authored by Anna Bender, a postdoctoral scholar in UW’s School of Medicine, and senior-authored by Alice Ellyson in the Department of Pediatrics. Sexual violence (SV) is a persistent issue on US college campuses,

CSDE Affiliate Peter P. Vitaliano (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) published an article with co-authors in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, entitled “Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men“. There is evidence that unpaid caregiving can have negative effects on the mental health of female caregivers; however, evidence of impacts on male caregivers is limited. This study addressed this gap by using a prospective population study to examine associations between becoming a caregiver and depressive symptoms in 12,000 Australian men.

CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (Sociology, UC Riverside) published a brief research note in Communications in Applied Geometry, entitled “A Geometric Expression of Taylor’s Law“. In this brief research note, Swanson provides a geometric expression of Taylor’s Law, which is a widely observed empirical pattern that relates variance to the mean in sets of non-negative measurements via an approximate power function.