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CSDE Autumn 2025 Lightning Talk & Poster Session

When: December 5, 2025, 12:30 – 1:30pm PT

Where: 221 Raitt Hall

Please join us on December 5th for CSDE’s Fall 2025 Lightning Talk and Poster Session from 12:30 – 1:30 PST! The poster session and talk will take place in Raitt Hall Room 221 at the University of Washington. This event will feature presentations from Yicong Guo (Doctoral Student, Sociology), Theresa Hwee (Doctoral Student, Health Services, Health Systems, and Population Health), Hyunji Kim (Doctoral Candidate, Economics), Mark Nepf (Doctoral Student, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance), Ann Richey (Doctoral Student, Epidemiology), Edward Stuart (Doctoral Student, Anthropology), and organized by Mingze Li (Doctoral Student, Sociology). We will provide light snacks and refreshments. Please find more information on the event here!

 

Santaularia Gomez and Tanveer Publish Essay on Reproductive Autonomy Restrictions as Collective Violence

CSDE Affiliate Jeanie Santaularia Gomez  (Epidemiology), former CSDE Trainee Maryam Tanveer (Epidemiology) and co-authors recently penned an essay in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) arguing that policies that intentionally or unintentionally restrict reproductive autonomy constitute an act of violence. The essay explores 3 illustrative examples of how governmental power—through the passage of laws—can both support and constrain reproductive autonomy across the life course: sex education, abortion restrictions, and parental leave policies. For each, the authors explain how the consequent harms overlap with those resulting from more traditional overt forms of violence. By framing the loss of reproductive autonomy as a form of violence, the authors underscore its profound and far-reaching harms, demanding urgent recognition and response as a critical public health and human rights issue.

Williams Publishes Analysis of Stigmatized Language in Alcohol Use Disorder Diagnoses

CSDE Affiliate Emily C. Williams (Health Services) and co-authors, including first author and UW Health Services PhD Graduate Robert Ellis, just published an article on “Proportion of alcohol use disorder diagnoses in electronic health records documented with stigmatized descriptors: a comparison across race, ethnicity, and sex” in JAMIA Open. The researchers classified AUD descriptors in electronic health records used to diagnose AUD as “stigmatizing” or “highly stigmatizing.” Stigmatizing AUD descriptors were terms that carry negative connotations, imply blame, moral failing, or character flaws. Highly stigmatizing AUD descriptors were non-standard medical terms with strong negative connotations. Among 61,886 AUD diagnoses, stigmatizing descriptors were used in 89% and highly stigmatizing in 19% of diagnoses. Differences across intersectional subgroups were minimal.

Su and Her Mentee Examine Healthcare Inequality for NCDs in Malawi Using a Hierarchical Geospatial Modelling Approach

CSDE Affiliate Yanfang Su (Global Health) and her mentee, Dr. Sali Ahmed, recently published an article titled, “Examining healthcare inequality for non-communicable diseases in Malawi: a hierarchical geospatial modelling approach“ in BMJ Heath & Care Informatics. Su and coauthors developed a novel hierarchical geospatial framework to assess population coverage and accessibility of non-communicable diseases (NCD) services in Malawi using the 2019 Malawi Harmonized Health Facility Assessment Survey. They then identified underserved areas.  At least 24% of the population were not covered for any NCD conditions. Additionally, only 11.9% of the population lived in regions of high or very high accessibility to primary health clinics.  Su and the team have a series of papers on assessing population coverage of NCD services. Another example:

Elwood Authors Paper on Digital and Emplaced Struggles over Urban Homelessness

CSDE Affiliate Sarah Elwood (Geography) published a new article in Digital Geography and Society, titled, “Computational urbanisms & insurgent mediations of the city: Stop the Sweeps.” Elwood theorizes municipal systems of tent encampment removal as a form of administrative-algorithmic governance structured around the logics and practices of computation urbanism and trace their entanglements with liberal poverty governance. Through a close reading of the City of Seattle’s encampment removal system, Elwood shows how these overlapping logics enable a tightly integrated self-referential system of datafication, problematization and justification that overdetermines the removability of encampments and reaffirms property and propertied personhood as (the only) legitimate basis for claims to space and permanence.