CSDE Affiliates Nicole Eisenberg (Social Development Research Group; The Center for Communities That Care), Leo Morales (Latino Center for Health; General Internal Medicine), Griselda Martinez (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences), Katarina Guttmannova (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) and co-authors recently published an article titled, “A Window Into the Lives of Rural Latinx Young Adults: A Qualitative Study of Adult Roles and Transitions” in the Journal of Community Psychology.

Research by CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences) and CSDE Trainee Lauren Wilner on how the 2025 Los Angeles fires affected people’s health and how people navigated the health care system during an emergency was recently highlighted by UW Today. The underlying article was published in JAMA Health Forum. Casey, Wilner, and coauthors found that there were 8,032 excess outpatient respiratory visits and 3,375 excess virtual cardiovascular and respiratory visits,

CSDE Affiliate Gregory Bratman (Environmental and Forest Sciences) recently published an article titled, “Why Nature Contact is Good for Us” in Trends in Cognitive Science. Bratman and his co-author James Gross (Stanford) summarize evidence that nature contact has impacts on negative and positive affective functioning, and discuss recent insights into explanatory pathways, including emotion regulation, psychoneuroimmunology, microbiome, sleep, and physical activity. The authors propose that nature contact is linked to affective functioning via these five interacting pathways at a variety of levels and argue that these pathways are not mutually exclusive.

As the calendar year comes to a close and UW’s Autumn Quarter wraps up, all of us at CSDE’s offices are grateful to the broader CSDE community! Your good and impactful research, your scholarly generosity, and your curiosity and persistence in tackling tough empirical challenges has inspired and buoyed us during this turbulent year. We are grateful for all that you do and we are honored to continue to support your research programs.

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