This week CSDE will host Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, San Juanita García. Dr. García’s talk stems from a larger, forthcoming book, and centers the stress and mental health injuries Mexican-origin women experience associated with enduring legalized violence and navigating intersectional systems of oppression, a framework which she coins as Juana Crow.

You can register for the seminar HERE, and check out all the upcoming topics and register for future seminars on our website.

This seminar is co-sponsored with the Population Health Initiative.

The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences will host CSDE Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Economics Emma Riley this week. She will present her research on the adoption of mobile banking in Ghana in response to training and incentives to adopt, varying whether the treatment was provided to individuals or their microfinance group leader. You can read more about the talk HERE, and register via Zoom HERE.

CSDE Affiliate Ruanne Barnabas and a number of co-authors have a new article recently accepted in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The study presented is a longitudinal survey of contacts of COVID-19 patients, capturing daily nasal swabs and symptom diaries. The authors find that while adding symptom severity to COVID-19 self-assessments increases the specificity of symptom definitions, predictive power of these measures to shedding is low, highlighting the limitations of symptom self-assessment.

A new article in pre-print from CSDE Development Core Director Steven Goodreau and co-authors systematically compares the performance of two measurements for mean active degree, which serves to proxy network connectivity in HIV/STI epidemiology. The study compares measure performance for men who have sex with men, for whom these measures have not been comparatively evaluated.

In the last decade, there has been an increase in research that aims to parse heterogeneity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A recent study from CSDE Affiliate Brian Flaherty and co-authors tests heritability of latent class neuropsychological subtypes. The authors use a sample of school-age twins to explore these subtypes of ADHD symptoms. The authors find that these distinct neuropsychological profiles are associated with unique neurocognitive presentations, but are not strong candidate endophenotypes for ADHD diagnosis.