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

Where: 221 Raitt Hall

Join us for the CSDE Autumn 2025 Lightning Talk & Poster Session! On December 5th, early career researchers will present their research posters and lightning talks. While you learn from them, you can also enjoy refreshments and conversation with the authors and audience. We look forward to seeing you!

Please join us for short talks and a poster session featuring research from our CSDE Trainees and Fellows.

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,

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,

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.

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,