CSDE Affiliate Jelani Ince provides important insight on the relationship between members of the Black LGBTQ+ population and church in the King 5 news story, “‘This is just who I am’ | One woman’s experience reconciling her faith, Blackness and sexuality.” Zhanea June, the person of interest in this story, details what it was like growing up in the South and being in a Black, Christian household while being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

CSDE Affiliate Gregory Bratman has collaborated with experts in the field of olfaction to create a conceptual framework for the consideration of how the smells of nature can affect human well-being via the olfactory pathway. Recently, Dr. Bratman joined the broadcast “Think Out Loud” with host Dave Miller on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The olfactory pathway has been understudied in the field of nature and health, and the sense of smell is also often undervalued in general in Western cultures (though increased attention has been brought to it since the COVID-19 pandemic).

CSDE Affiliate Clara Berridge was recently interviewed on BBC radio 4’s new show, “The Artificial Human.” In the segment, “The Artificial Human, Can AI Look After Me in Old Age?”, Dr. Berridge speaks about the disconnects between what elder care technology offers and what people say they want in terms of privacy, control, and regulation. Oftentimes, elder care technology is designed more for the caregiver in mind, rather than the person being monitored.

CSDE Affiliates Clara Berridge (Social Work) and Tracy Mroz (Rehabilitation Medicine) released an article with colleagues, led by Yuanjin Zhou (Social Welfare PhD ’21), now an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. The article is published in the The Gerontologist and titled “Care partners’ engagement in preventing falls for community-dwelling older people with dementia“.

CSDE Affiliates Jessica Jones-Smith (Health Systems and Population Health, Epidemiology), Melissa Knox (Economics), and CSDE Demographer Jessica Godwin released an article with co-authors in JAMA Network Open, titled “Sweetened Beverage Tax Implementation and Change in Body Mass Index Among Children in Seattle“. This study sought to evaluate the association between the Seattle sweetened beverage tax and change in body mass index (BMI) among children.

CSDE Affiliates Jennie Romich (Social Work), CSDE research scientist Sofia Ayala, CSDE Trainee Izzy Sederbaum (Public Policy & Governance), and colleague Santino Camacho (PhC, Social Work) were awarded a Population Health Initiative Tier 3 grant for a project, “Improving data to understand the well-being of small and excluded populations.” CSDE affiliates Scott Allard (Public Policy &

CSDE affiliates Zack Almquist (Sociology), Tyler McCormick (Sociology), Amy Hagopian (Health Systems and Population Health), and Juhne Yang (CSDE, eScience Institute) along with Paul Hebert (Health Systems and Population Health, VA Health Services) and KCRHA community members, received a Population Health Initiative Tier 3 grant to extend a novel method they introduced for counting unsheltered people experiencing homelessness through a social network (peer-referral) method, respondent-driven sampling (RDS),

CSDE Affiliate Samuel Jenness (Epidemiology, Emory University) authored research with colleagues in Epidemics, titled “Dynamic contact networks of residents of an urban jail in the era of SARS-CoV-2“. In custodial settings such as jails and prisons, infectious disease transmission is heightened by factors such as overcrowding and limited healthcare access. Specific features of social contact networks within these settings have not been sufficiently characterized, especially in the context of a large-scale respiratory infectious disease outbreak.

CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley (Epidemiology) and CSDE Affiliate Emily Godfrey (Family Medicine) released research with co-authors in JAMA Network Open, titled “Abortion Provision and Delays to Care in a Clinic Network in Washington State After Dobbs“. The Supreme Court decision Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs) overturned federal protections to abortion care and altered the reproductive health care landscape.

Zack W. Almquist, Associate Professor of Sociology and CSDE Training Core PI, was voted to be the chair-elect (Vice Chair) starting in Fall 2024 for the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s Caucus on Homelessness and will assume the role as the Chair for the APHA Caucus on Homelessness in Fall 2025. The APHA Caucus on Homelessness (Est. 1990) is designed to provide a forum for professionals working on homelessness and health issues.