CSDE Trainee Courtney Allen with UW Sociology and CSDE Alum Kerry MacQuarrie and co-author Alison Gemmill recently published a cluster analysis of women’s reproductive and contraceptive experiences in Burundi. The paper describes patterns of pregnancy and contraceptive use by partitioning observed behaviors into six distinct groups. By identifying, naming, and highlighting the distinctions across these various clusters, the authors capture the variation in women’s needs for contraception and variation in preferences over their lifetime. Read the full article HERE.
Glass and Co-Authors Explore Vaccine Hesitancy Among Arab Americans in New Publication
CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass contributed to a recently published article in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities with a team of co-authors from the Advancing Arab American Health Network and Allies Research Group (PI: Nadia Abuelezam, Sc.D.). The piece — available in full HERE — uses responses from the Survey of Arab Health in America to describe trends and differences in vaccine hesitancy among Arab Americans. The authors find that over half of the participants reported an intention to be vaccinated, but that women and moderately religious individuals disproportionately comprised those who reported they were unlikely to receive the vaccine.
Bostrom and Co-Authors Publish International Comparison of Perceived Earthquake Risks
CSDE Affiliate Ann Bostrom and colleagues recently published an analysis of differences in perceived disaster risks across Sendai, Japan and Seattle, WA. The paper, available in full HERE, compares survey results across each of these communities and explores each community’s willingness to pay for Earthquake Early Warning systems, which represent a large public investment in disaster preparedness.
Curran and Colleagues Review Possibilities of Forest Restoration in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in New Publication
CSDE Director Sara Curran and co-authors recently published an Annual Review of Environment and Resources article on the state of knowledge about forest restoration (FR) as a climate mitigation strategy in low- and middle-income countries. Their review finds that while there may be possibilities for extensive mitigation through scaling up of FR, there are also significant and complicating mediating factors related to migration and livelihoods, as well as the ecological and silvicultural conditions, in those countries. The full article is available through open access.