CSDE Affiliate Erin McElroy (Geography) published a new book, entitled Silicon Valley Imperialism. Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies,

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.

CSDE Affiliate Gregg Colburn (Real Estate, UW) co-authored an editorial with Margot Kushel in The Hill, entitled “Affordable housing is the solution to homelessness, not criminalization“. Authors published the editorial in light of upcoming arguments in Grants Pass vs. Johnson, a U.S. Supreme Court Case which will determine whether local governments can make it a crime to live outside when adequate shelter is not available.

CSDE Trainee Hiwot Zewdie (Epidemiology) will co-lead a seminar series during spring quarter titled Global Built Environment and Health. This series is supported by the UW Office of Global Affairs with the goal of creating an intellectual hub focused on built environment and health across country contexts and foster new collaborations. Zewdie has published in journals like Annals of Epidemiology and the American Journal of Epidemiology. Her doctoral research examines urban environments and physical activity in Bogotá,

CSDE Affiliates Melissa Knox (Economics), Jessica Jones-Smith (Health Systems & Population Health, Epidemiology), Anirban Basu (Health Economics, Health Services), and CSDE Trainee Tom Lindman (Public Policy & Governance) co-authored an article in Pediatrics, titled “Universal Free School Meals Policy and Childhood Obesity“. The study was lead-authored by PhD student, Anna M. Localio (Health Systems & Population Health), senior-authored by Jones-Smith and funded by an R01 from NICHD.