CSDE Affiliate Ann Bostrom was part of a team that published, “Development of a companion questionnaire for ‘Did You Feel It?’: Assessing response in earthquakes where an earthquake early warning may have been received” in Earthquake Spectra. The goal of study is to develop a brief questionnaire, consistent with those already developed, as a supplement to the United States Geological Survey’s “Did You Feel It?” questionnaire that has provided earthquake intensities and information on behavioral response in earthquakes, both domestic and international, since 2004. Having the intensity level at each respondent’s location is essential for relating their perspectives and actions to the shaking they experienced. Understanding the intensity level of how earthquakes are felt by respondents is essential to relating their perspectives with actions to the shaking they experience. Congrats to Ann and colleagues on this paper and we highly recommend it for everyone’s reading list!

CSDE Affiliate Karin Martin co-authored a recent article, “Implicit Racial and Gender Bias About Handguns: A New Implicit Association Test” in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Utilizing a nationally representative survey sample, the researchers measured implicit and explicit racial bias about women and handguns.  The study addresses important perceptions and stereotypes about gun competence and victimization that vary based by race and gender.

CSDE External Affiliate Jennifer Laird and co-author Diana Hernandez have recently published a paper entitled “Surviving a Shut Off: U.S. Householders at Great Risk of Utility Disconnection and How They Cope” in American Behavioral Scientist. This article is the first known study to estimate household characteristics and coping behaviors associated with utility disconnections in the United States. Utilizing the Residential Energy Consumption Survey, the authors analyze the prevalence of disconnection notices, disconnection services, and related coping strategies, including forgoing necessities, maintaining an unhealthy home temperature, and receiving energy assistance. They show that nearly 15% of American households received disconnection notices and 3% experience service disconnections in a 2015 panel. The authors discuss implications for future research on material hardships, survival strategies, and the health impacts of poverty.

In a large collaboration CSDE Affiliates Melanie Martin, Monica Keith, Dan Eisenberg, and Eleanor Brindle (with many other co-authors) recently published a new research in Frontiers in Immunology . The paper entitled “SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody trajectories in mothers and infants over two months following maternal infection” was funded in part with CSDE seed grant money, with work conducted in CSDE Biodemography Lab. Results from the study support previous research demonstrating minimal risks to infants following maternal COVID-19 infection, including for breastfeeding infants.

CSDE Affiliate Emily Williams receives funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to explore patterns of unhealthy alcohol use and HIV prevention among a national VA cohort of gender and sexual minorities and other marginalized groups.  The project is titled Informing and promoting Shared decision-making for HIV prevention and Alcohol Reduction: Engaging diverse Veterans to refine and pilot a decision aid (SHARE Study) and will be done in collaboration with investigators at Yale University. The SHARE study will use mixed methods and co-design methodologies, guided by a Community Advisory Board, to examine PrEP initiation and persistence among patients with unhealthy alcohol use, including those from marginalized subgroups, and tailor and pilot a decision aid to foster shared decision-making to enhance uptake of PrEP concomitantly with provision of evidence-based alcohol-related care. Congratulations to Professor Williams!